From the debut album It's Alive by Seattle "surf noir" band La Luz, out 10/15/13 on Hardly Art Records.

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"Big Big Blood" from La Luz's 2013 album "It's Alive"
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It's Alive

Big Big Blood

Taken from the album "Chorus." Out now on Slumberland Records.

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Philadelphia, PA’s Literature features Kevin Attics, Nathaniel Cardaci, Chris Schackerman, and Seth Whaland. Attics, who’d written for numerous music trades as a teen, met Cardaci and Whaland at the house venue they both operated in Austin, TX. Cardaci and Whaland each ran small imprint labels and, a million adventures later, the trio decided to form a band. Upon moving to Philadelphia the group befriended Schackerman who also joined the fold. 

In 2012, following a well-received single and a track on Gerard Cosloy’s “Casual Victim Pile II” compilation they released their debut album, "Arab Spring," which became a cult hit within the indiepop community. That album is sharp and immediate, almost mod-ish in its attack, but always tuneful and going for melody where it counts. They toured the US in support, and have performed with the likes of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Eternal Summers, Ted Leo, Sic Alps, White Fence, Gentlemen Jesse, Hospitality, and Brown Recluse. They also appeared on Terre T's Cherry Blossom Clinic.

In 2013 they released a follow-up 7”, “Tie Dye” and contributed a track to Esopus Magazine alongside artists like Jens Lekman and The Shins. They also played at that year’s NYC Popfest, which helped cement the buzz that was steadily growing amongst savvy pop fans. "Arab Spring" was treated to a re-mastered re-press, which followed the first pressing and quickly sold out.

Autumn of 2013 saw the band begin work on their second album, "Chorus," with lauded engineer Gary Olson (whose body of work includes records by Crystal Stilts, Mad Scene and The Beets) at his Marlborough Farms studio in Brooklyn, NY. As a beautiful autumn turned into one of the harshest winters in recent memory, Olson and the band began stretching out, enhancing the album with studio techniques dating back to the late 60s including true-tape flanging, sending vocals through Leslie speaker cabinets, and the same analog style of automatic double-tracking created at Abbey Road Studios.

The result is an album that is as immediate as it is timeless, full of effortlessly catchy and well-crafted tunes that echo pop legends like Smiths and Orange Juice. All of that time in the studio has resulted in a rich, considered sound that puts the band's arranging and playing front and center. "Chorus" is one of the most exciting pop records in years, and marks Literature at true contenders.

Tour dates:
Sept 05 - Bethlehem, PA - Nancy Run Fire Company w/Slow Warm Death
Sept 06 - Baltimore, MD - Holy Underground w/Expert Alterations
Sept 07 - Washington DC @ George Washington University
Sept 08 - Marietta, OH  @ Project Active Media
Sept 09 - Cleveland, OH @ Dag House w/Heart Attack Man, Sunmouth, Two Hand Fools
Sept 10 - Dayton, OH @ South Park Tavern
Sept 11 - Nashville, TN @ Betty's
Sept 12 - Athens, GA @ Hi Lo Lounge w/Gold-Bears & Deep State
Sept 13 - Savannah, GA @ The Bomb Shelter w/Gold-Bears
Sept 14 - Charlotte, NC @ Snug Harbor (early show)
Sept 15 - Philadelphia, PA - RECORD RELEASE SHOW @ Underground Arts w/The Drums & Beverly
Sept 16 - New Brunswick, NJ @ Paradise Lost
Sept 17 - Brooklyn, NY @ Death by Audio w/Expert Alterations, Gingerlys, Kissing Is A Crime
Sept 18 - New York, NY @ Cake Shop w/Grand Resort, Crazy Pills, Big Quiet
Sept 20 - NYC, NY - Bowery Ballroom w/The Drums & Beverly
Sept 21 - Albany, NY - Low Beat w/Neighborhood of Make Believe, Drgn King
Sept 22 - Cleveland, OH - Happy Dog w/Cheap Clone
Sept 24 - Grand Rapids, MI - Mulligan's Pub
Sept 25 - Chicago, IL - Quenchers
Sept 26 - Milwaukee, WI - Quarters w/ROM, Soul Low, Lost Spirit
Sept 28 - Omaha, NE - Sweatshop Gallery w/Nathan Ma & The Rosettes
Sept 30 - Boise, ID - The Crux
Oct 01 - Spokane, WA - The Bartlett w/Sebadoh
Oct 02 - Portland, OR - Foggy Notion
Oct 03 - Sacramento, CA - Witch Room w/Soft Science
Oct 04 - San Francisco, CA - Hemlock Tavern
Oct 05 - Los Angeles, CA - The Echo w/ The Shivas
Oct 06 - San Diego, CA - The Hideout
Oct 07 - Phoenix, AZ - Lost Leaf
Oct 09 - Oklahoma City, OK - Blue Note
Oct 10 - Tulsa, OK - Soundpony
Oct 11 - Denton, TX - Macaroni Island w/Fishboy
Oct 12 - Austin, TX - Hotel Vegas w/ Beth Israel


Literature - The English Softhearts

Cast of Characters:
Single Use & Recycled -- @user-995867230 -- Bill — acousitc rhythm and lead guitar and composition
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Warwick fretless four-string bass
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken -- drums and percussion
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – synth strings
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — acoustic rhythm guitar, production, mix, and mastering
The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl — vocals and lyrics

This song started as an idea Bill came up with on his acoustic guitar. Having found each other on the Cloud and enjoying each other's music, Josh and Bill decided to do a collab. Bill is a real deal guitarist, who's as prolific as he is skilled. Of course, Josh invited Eclectic Collective to the party, too.
  Shortly after doing so, he laid down a bass part to Bill's skeleton withi his four string fretless bass. Ken followed suit, and after a back and forth, completed the rhythms secion. JJ dug in next, adding the thrilling strings that highlight the high points of the melody. 
  There wasn't a whole lot of room for everyone on this, though, as Bill had the guitar parts nailed down tight. However, after sitting on the shelf for about half a year, Carl came along and added the missing piece with his raucuos vocals. Stephen also fattened up the sound a bit with his acoustic rhythm guitar.  
  Once it was in the can, we asked Stephen to work his production, mix, and mastering magic on it, too, which he came through with, as always.
  This brilliant song almost didn't see the light of day. It sat for what felt like forever, until we decided to revive it. This will not be the last collab we do with Bill, though, who was generous in not only sharing his music with us, but allowing us to do whatever we wanted with it, too. We hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it.  

Original lyrics by The Beautiful Dark:

Shifty shire
Ah, redistrict rot
Dividing a country for power by plot
Gerry's meandering
Not thinking of sane
What colourful friends can stop red rain?

With freedom waning
Conversation is paused
A few rich men failing
With solidarity cause
Shift the shire!
At minority we've baulked
That mind inconvenient
New red lines are chalked

State turf wars are on
Ah, redistrict rot
Dividing a country for power by plot
For the rights of the white man
We missing those slaves
So legislate oppression
That skin 'aint red way

Shire (Eclectic Collective with Single Use & Recycled)

The first single from The Jim Mitchells' debut EP 'Planet Absorbed' to be released early 2016 by Third Eye Stimuli Records.
Watch the Official video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nWrsY6ISn8

The Jim Mitchells - "Planet Absorbed"

From the compilation album "Radiating Light: Orchid Tapes & Friends" out August 12th.

Pre-order: http://shop.orchidtapes.com/product/radiating-light-compilation-12

R.L. Kelly - Mad

Those eyes could tell what the others could not
Looking over the sky again
where a ghost once fell with the blood that shot
for the angel of arms for the dead

So What Do You Think Of Space?

The Coathangers 'The Devil You Know'
Out March 8th, 2019 via Suicide Squeeze Records.

The Devil You Know

Step Back

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Mailorder Vinyl / Tape

NOVA ONE - violet dreams

From their DEBUT LP on Empty Cellar Records. 

Cool Ghouls - Grace

JONATHAN RADO // LAW AND ORDER LP (WOODSIST070)

September 2013

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So What Do You Think Of Space?

The Dandelion