from Paisely Montage
release date: Oct 29
Richie Records // TestosterTunes
distributed by Revolver/Midheaven

on tour:
10/12/13	Middle East (upstairs)	Cambridge	MA		w/ The Men, The Ukiah Drag
10/13/13	The Bug Jar	Rochester	NY		w/ The Men
10/14/13	The Loving Touch	Detroit	MI		w/ The Men
10/15/13	Kobo Live	Columbus	OH		w/ The Men, Pampers
10/16/13	The Bishop	Bloomington	IN		w/ The Men
10/17/13	The Cactus Club	Milwaukee	WI		w/ The Men
10/18/13	Logan Square Auditorium	Chicago	IL		w/ The Men, Fuzz, CCR Headcleaner
10/19/13	Club Cafe	Pittsburgh	PA		w/ The Men, Pampers
10/20/13	Horseshoe Tavern	Toronto		Canada	w/ The Men
10/21/13	Il Motore	Montreal		Canada	w/ The Men
10/22/13	Johnny Brenda's	Philadelphia	PA		w/ The Men
10/23/13	The Saint	Asbury Park	NJ		w/ The Men
11/5/13	Music Hall of Williamsburg	Brooklyn	NY		w/ The Men
11/16/13	The Ottobar	Baltimore	MD		w/ Wooden Shjips

PURLING HISS -- Gitar Damage Pt 1

EMILY ROBB
How To Moonwalk LP
PB008

How To Moonwalk is the brash n’ bold new one from Philadelphia-by-way-of-Maine-&-Montreal’s Emily Robb. With a formidable CV in the underground and sub-underground, Emily sits as the top contender for the east coast’s most  modestly masterful electric guitar abuser and this is the record to prove it. Though she served as top talent in efforts by Astute Palate, Storks, Louie Louie, & Lantern, How To Moonwalk marks Emily’s long-overdue, mucho-anticipated debut unencumbered release. And the album is, as they say, a motherfucker. Splattered across its eight or so tracks, How To Moonwalk shows a deep respect to the rock n’ roll form while refusing to be held back by a single one of its limitations. No vocals, no artifice, barely even a drum. It’s a totally fried, mutant offering that’ll entice the twisted seekers-- a sustained, distilled meditation on the unabashed revved up freedom of rock. Naturally, the folks here at Petty Bunco couldn’t be prouder to have our humble trademark of quality on it.

Recommended for fans of the reductive threads that run through Link Wray, Poison Ivy Rorschach, The Legendary Amp Tapes, and the Smashchords. 

Recorded summer 2020 at Emily’s Suddenly Studio in Philadelphia with help from Bill Nace.

How To Moonwalk

EMILY ROBB -- Live at Friendship Speedwell

HEAVENLY BODIES
Universal Resurrection LP
Petty Bunco 11

As any casual student of astronomy will tell you, the heavens move at their own pace. A certain slowness and deliberateness marks each tug and shove of any given celestial object. To push too hard is to upset creation’s harmony. Such a folly is at best unsettling; at worst, cataclysmic. Our vast unearthly soup swirls with a patience largely unknown to mere humans who burn out and rot in the blink of a lunar eclipse.

Heavenly Bodies, the slow-simmering trio from Philadelphia, seem to follow their namesake’s temporal sense as a goddamn mission statement. With Universal Resurrection (PB011), the inscrutable trio suggests a creeping theme, sets it free in zero-gravity, and dares the listener to outpace the patience of its black hole crawl. Best of luck to those who try, the rest of us await the only universal resurrection we deserve.

For fans of grounding issues, psychedelic discomfort, and patient anxiety.

Recorded 2020 at Jerry’s on Front by Heavenly Bodies, mastered by John Dawson.

HEAVENLY BODIES -- Universal Resurrection (radio edit)

MORDECAI
Predicament
from Neil's Generator
RR//TT#38

on tour May 2014

MORDECAI -- Predicament

Good Lookin' Out by KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS
From The Hunchback EP on Richie Records // TestosterTunes
RR//TT#21
2009 & 2012

distributed by Revolver



Good Lookin Out by KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS

from the forthcoming album "Foremost & Fair" on Richie Records // TestosterTunes

release date April 28 2015

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HOME BLITZ -- "I'm That Key" (Foremost & Fair/ 2015)

SPACIN' -- Total Freedom
available Jan 15 2016
Richie Records // TestosterTunes #41
distributed by Revolver / Midheaven

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SPACIN -- "Over Uneasy" (Total Freedom / 2016)

available spring 2016 on Richie Records // TestosterTunes

Ned's Dreamcatcher

WATERY LOVE -- "Ned's Dreamcatcher" (2016)

from "Abstract Recipe", coming January 27 from Richie Records // TestosterTunes

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Mordecai 
Abstract Recipe 
RR//TT#51

Fourth full-length (the 3rd issued by Richie Records//TestosterTunes) from Mordecai of the great upper plains. It’s a no-frills rock (punk? garage? post-punk? indie rock? blech. it’s rock) album that oughta perk up the ears of those interested in things like thwarted freedom, advanced mathematics, the Blue Mask, bum notes, and staring at the wall. Though the band grows increasingly competent and confident with each release, these precocious MFers possess a flippant world-weariness typically reserved for no-accounts and has-beens at the beginning of their third marriage. 

Recall, if you can, the moment when you recognized life for what it is: a low-key drag, but one interesting enough to wake up for each morning. Mordecai huddled up in Montana with an electric guitar & some drums & a bass and they put that moment on a record and it’s called Abstract Recipe.

Abstract Recipe

MORDECAI -- "In A Hole" (Abstract Recipe/ 2017)

from "Steeple II" coming Jan 27 2017 on Richie Records // TestosterTunes

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Sparrow Steeple 
Steeple Two 
RR//TT#49

Lightly swirling wah. Is-it-wrong-or-is-it-right leads. Intermittent odd percussion flourishes. Songs about shrimp rolls to go. Loosey goosey warbling atmosphere turned to 10. 
This is the world of Sparrow Steeple, comprised of almost all of Philly's legendary Strapping Fieldhands fronted by noted visual artist Barry Goldberg. Beginning secretly in the last decade by Barry with SF mainmen Bob Malloy and drummer Jeff Werner, the band has now become a legit proposition, minus Bob but with SF guitar and bass Jacy Webster and Bob Dickie, keyboardist Dustin Burrows and record maniac Harmonica Dan. 
Just as Sir Isaac Newton postulated, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and Strapping Fieldhands fans will find familiar footing here. As for strangers to this weird realm, how about a Tommy Jay more enamored with Incredible String Band than Lou Reed? Confused? We are too.

Steeple Two

SPARROW STEEPLE -- "Domino Mary" (Steeple Two/ 2017)

from the album "M.F. II" available Jan 27, 2017 from Richie Records // TestosterTunes

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Mark Feehan is a guitarist. In the 80s he bummed Floridian punks in  Broken Talent. In the 90s he strangled strings and blew minds in Harry Pussy. Currently he is in post-no wave noiseniks Taiwan Housing Project. But these are mentioned merely as bio, as  these things- hell, even Mark's lone solo lp (2012's MF on Siltbreeze)- will give you ZERO preparation for the sounds lurking inside MF 2.  Moments of surprising acoustic beauty bookend perplexing electronic sound pools, buzzing almost-punk, Germanic vocal narration... It is safe to say this is the weirdest thing ever to appear on this label, and while we don't pretend to understand it half of it, we do know that we enjoy it. For those who welcome befuddlement and perplexity, we salute you! Hop on board.

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M.F. II

MARK FEEHAN -- "Papillon" (M.F.II/2017)

from the album "M.F. II" available Jan 27, 2017 from Richie Records // TestosterTunes

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Mark Feehan is a guitarist. In the 80s he bummed Floridian punks in  Broken Talent. In the 90s he strangled strings and blew minds in Harry Pussy. Currently he is in post-no wave noiseniks Taiwan Housing Project. But these are mentioned merely as bio, as  these things- hell, even Mark's lone solo lp (2012's MF on Siltbreeze)- will give you ZERO preparation for the sounds lurking inside MF 2.  Moments of surprising acoustic beauty bookend perplexing electronic sound pools, buzzing almost-punk, Germanic vocal narration... It is safe to say this is the weirdest thing ever to appear on this label, and while we don't pretend to understand it half of it, we do know that we enjoy it. For those who welcome befuddlement and perplexity, we salute you! Hop on board.

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distributed by Revolver/Midheaven
https://midheaven.com/item/mf-ii-by-feehan-mark

MARK FEEHAN -- "Sports" (M.F. II/2017)

MORDECAI -- "Morning Fog" (Abstract Recipe/ 2017)

from Total Freedom (2016)

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Total Freedom

SPACIN' -- "Human Condition" (Total Freedom/ 2016)

from the Richie Records Summer Singles Series, coming out Summer 2017

Live in Philadelphia:
Thursday July 27
@ Kung Fu Necktie
w/ Writhing Squares & Hothead

DAVID KENNETH NANCE - Amethyst (Fucked)

RR//TT#32
SPACIN'
Deep Thuds
2012

Recorded by SPACIN'
Mastered by Mark Trewella at Full Circle

distributed by Revolver

Sunshine, No Shoes by SPACIN' from Deep Thuds

SPACIN'
Deep Thuds
RR//TT#32

Recorded by SPACIN'
Mastered by Mark Trewella at Full Circle Mastering

distributed by Revolver

Empty Mind by SPACIN' from Deep Thuds

Recorded & Mixed by SPACIN'
Mastered by Mark Trewella @ Full Circle

available from midheaven.com, iTunes, & from the RR//TT SuperStore
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Oh, Man by SPACIN' from Deep Thuds

KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS
The Hunchback (live)
The Hunchback EP (2009/2012)
bonus track included with vinyl purchase

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this track is available only as a bonus download included with vinyl purchase

recorded live at the Earl in Atlanta, August 7 2011. Thanks to Henry Owings.

Mastered by Mark Trewella @ Full Circle

The Hunchback (live) by KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS

KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS
Freak Train (live w/ Bradford Cox)
The Hunchback EP (2009/2012)

**bonus track included with vinyl purchase**

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Freak Train (live w/ Bradford Cox) by KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS

HOAGIE JUNGLE -- Bobby's Down

STRAPPING FIELDHANDS
Impossible To Say
release date: Sep 18

Back in the rough n' tumble days (& nights) of the 1990's, you'd be hard pressed to find a single slobbering indie-rock drunkard who wasn't a Fieldhands fan.  From the tremendous early Siltbreeze singles to the magnificent Omphalos full-lengths, the galaxy and beyond were charmed by their wayward off-kilter pre/post-skiffle, pre/post-psychedelic, and pre/post-punk avant pop.  Bob Malloy crafted swaying bizarre stories & fables in a fake British accent as convincing as a perfectly fitting Toupée. But aside from 2002's unsung and virtually unheard Third Kingdom, all has been seemingly quiet in Fieldhands land.  But aha! They've only been slumbering, laying in wait writing and recording.
Which brings us here.  Two brand new songs.  One is a lively and scrappy, yet wistful anthem, perfect for hoisting a pint with the lads.  The other is a tender Ray Davies-ian ballad about a bearded lady.  Hey, you're the one who asked!  We are pleased to present them in an edition of 350 copies, an unknown quantity in the hand-painted Hesske edition available only from the band or from Richie Records // TestosterTunes.

STRAPPING FIELDHANDS -- Impossible To Say

WATERY LOVE
"Sick People" (orig. by Breakdown)
from a single to be released in 2013 on In The Red Records

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