Fishage from the Volar/Single Screen Records 7".

BEATERS--Fishage

RATAS DEL VATICANO--Toda autoridad es una broma (que no me hace reir)

Davila 666's cover of "Hanging on the Telephone" by the Nerves from the Under the Covers Vol. 2: A Tribute to Paul Collins, Peter Case and Jack Lee LP/cassette.  VOLAR08/IHRNR007.

DAVILA 666--Hanging on the Telephone

Select tracks from Tropical Popsicle - Dawn of Delight LP, out in May on Volar on vinyl, already available digitally.  http://volarrecords.bigcartel.com/product/preorder-tropical-popsicle-dawn-of-delight-limited-color-vinyl

TROPICAL POPSICLE - Tethers

All 18 covers from the LP/cassette Under the Covers Vol. 2: A Tribute to Paul Collins, Peter Case and Jack Lee, available at www.volarrecords.blogspot.com.

B1--Tijuana Panthers--One Way Tic

Biography

In a world full of lies and deception, it’s important to live within the truth when it comes to what we tell ourselves. That’s what Poet Lies, the debut album by San Diego’s moondaddy, is all about.

Multi-instrumentalist and driving force behind the project Cara Potiker wrote the record as a means of grappling with difficulties she’s lived with for most of her life. An escapist at heart, Potiker’s manner of getting away during the early days of the pandemic, when no one could go anywhere, meant diving deep into songwriting as a coping mechanism. Yet in that process of solitude and introspection, Potiker discovered a few aspects of herself that she no longer wanted to keep buried, and it all unfolds within the notes of the tracks. The eleven songs that make up Poet Lies all comment on establishing a balance between working to resolve that which ails and being proud of the person those ailments helped shape—an interesting dichotomy that manifests itself in many ways.

When it comes to the structure and thematic approach on the new record, Potiker fervidly disperses and weaves different subjects throughout. Titles like “Odd Time,” “Angel,” and “Alone Again” may hint at a certain way they’re leaning, but they each manage to be broad in their personal specificity to instances in Potiker’s life and self. She likens the experience of writing and recording the album to that of an exorcism; it’s a release of the vice grip that love, addiction, obsessive tendencies, and self doubt have had on her which allows her to examine how those things have influenced how she has felt about herself while maneuvering through life.

Poet Lies is a reverb soaked, shimmering fever dream of a record that sonically pulls from influences ranging from 1970’s glam rock to 90’s shoegaze and trip hop. Featuring contributions from talented local musicians from Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas, it was recorded at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas by Manuel Calderon - aka El Cosmophonico - known for his production work on records by Animal Collective and Beach House, as well as his own band, Estereomance.

Poet Lies

LIMITED VINYL

11 Still

10 Fortune Teller

09 Surface Sounds

08 Alone Again

07 Hailey Moon

06 Silver Dust

05 Angel

04 Helicopter

03 Tug Of War

02 Odd Time

01 Lover's Eye

Debut album by San Diego post-punk act The Passengers. Limited color vinyl available.

released March 5, 2021

recorded/mixed by Alex Jacobelli at Sunsick Studios

mastered by Richard Hunter-Rivera

Adam Bixel - Guitar/Vocals
Chris McQueen - Synth/Backing Vocals
Matthew Donnert - Drums
Michael Hawkins - Guitar
Tyler Robertson - Bass

Under the Cruel Light

LIMITED PURPLE VINYL

The Passengers - The Passengers - Under The Cruel Light - 10 Unknown World

The Passengers - Under The Cruel Light - 09 Wages Of Fear

The Passengers - Under the Cruel Light - 08 Until The World Falls Apart

The Passengers - Under the Cruel Light - 07 No Time To Love

The Passengers - Under The Cruel Light - 06 Under The Cruel Light

The PaThe Passengers - Under The Cruel Light - 05 Lost Life

The PThe Passengers - Under The Cruel Light - 04 In Exile

The Passengers - Under The Cruel Light - 03 Strange Patterns

The Passengers - Under The Cruel Light - 02 A Burning Pride

The The Passengers - Under The Cruel Light - 01 The Plague

Flatworms - "Red Hot Sand" debut 7" EP. B-sides "Petulance" and "Sovereignty". 

Red Hot Sand

LIMITED COLOR VINYL

FLAT WORMS - Red Hot Sand (DEBUT 7")

Flat Worms - "Petulance", b-side on debut "Red Hot Sand" 7" on Volar. Limited red and gray vinyl at www.volarrecords.bandcamp.com. Tour late April w/ Susan.

LIM. COLOR VINYL

FLAT WORMS-Petulance (DEBUT Red Hot Sand 7")

LIM COLOR VINYL

Matt Lamkin (of The Soft Pack) - Where I'm Matt Debut Solo LP - 01 Here I Am

Drinking Flowers - "Nite Time." From their upcoming split lavendar 7" with Part Time (Cult Records/Mexican Summer) out 02/24.

Part Time/Drinking Flowers split 7"

Part Time/Drinking Flowers 7"

LIMITED LAVENDAR VINYL

DRINKING FLOWERS - Nite Time (from split 7" w/ Part Time)

Part Time - "Useless Information", a-side to the split 7" with Drinking Flowers on Volar Records. 500 lavender vinyl, 500 black.

PTDF7

PART TIME - Useless Information (split 7" w/ Drinking Flowers)

Tracy Bryant - "Parachute"/"Protect Your Head" 7" on limited clear vinyl. First release since Subterranean LP on Burger Records in 2016.

LIMITED CLEAR VINYL

Tracy Bryant - "Parachute"

Tropical Popsicle--"Universe of God Shadow," as seen in "Distant Shores: A Surf Odyssey to the Ends of the Earth," and also available on the forthcoming LP Dawn of Delight, available Feb. 2013 on Volar Records.

http://www.surfermag.com/videos/distant-shores/
tropicalpopsicle.bandcamp.com
www.volarrecords.blogspot.com

TROPICAL POPSICLE--Universe of God Shadow

"Gremlins Crawl" by Shannon and the Clams available August 17 on 7" on Volar Records along with the b-side, "White Rabbit".  volarrecords.bigcartel.com www.volarrecords.blogspot.com

Gremlins Crawl

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS--Gremlins Crawl

Shannon and the Clams--White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane cover), available as the b-side to the "Gremlins Crawl" 7" on Volar Records.  More info at www.volarrecords.blogspot.com, or buy the record directly at http://volarrecords.bigcartel.com/product/preorder-shannon-and-the-clams-gremlins-crawl-b-w-white-rabbit-7-limited-color.

BUY LIM. COLOR VINYL

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS--White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)

Eat Skull-"Where'd You Go" + "Medication Time" b/w "Jefferson Angel" 7" on Volar Records, their first release since 2010's "Don't Leave Me on the Speaker" 7" on Woodsist.  PREORDER limited color vinyl over at http://volarrecords.bigcartel.com/product/preorder-eat-skull-where-d-you-go-limited-color-7.

PREORDER COLOR VINYL

EAT SKULL--Where'd You Go

Beating (fka Beaters) - S/T debut LP on limited white vinyl.

BEATING S/T

LIMITED WHITE VINYL

BEATING - Lisp

BEATING - Forget Time

TEENAGE BURRITOS  - "Danya"/"Kamikaze" debut 7" after a s/t cassette on Burger Records.  Also available as part of the Strange Mutations Vol. 2 7" box set also ft. Cosmonauts, Lenz and Fine Steps.  LP due out later this year on Burger/Volar.

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