New Releases July 19th
New stuff coming out the week of July 19th or recently or recent restocks - you get the idea:
311 - Universal Pulse - LP -
Agents of Abhorrence/Extortion - Split - 7inch - reissued
Alasdair Roberts - Dighty Burn - 7inch - w/ DVD
Alkaline Trio - Damnesia - LP - vinyl of new acoustic album
Ariel Pink - Worn Copy - LP - reissue
Avichi - Devil's Fractal - CD -
Babe Rainbow - Endless Path - LP -
Beirut - Gulag Orkestra - LP - back in stock
Black Swans/Ed Askew - split - 7inch -
Bloodloss - Lost My Head For Drink - LP - reissue
Bobb Trimble - Crippled Dog Band - LP - reissue
Borden, Ferraro, Godin, Halo & Lopatin - Frkwys Vol. 7 - LP -
Brian Eno - Drums Between - CD -
Brian Eno - Drums Between - LP -
Brilliant Colors - Again & Again - CD - vinyl out in a couple weeks
CHLLNGR - Haven - LP -
Carol Kleyn - Love Has Made Me Stronger - LP -
Chris Forster - Family Trees - CD - M. Ward bandmember - produced by M. Ward featuring M. Ward
City of Ships - Minor World - CD -
Clap - Have You Reached Yet? - LP - reissue
Coldplay - Every Teardrop... - 7inch - new import 7"
Com Truise - Galactic Melt - LP -
Crisis of Conformity - Fist fight - 7inch - joke band from SNL skit w/Dave Grohl turns real!
Crystal Antlers - Two-Way Mirror - CD - new album by Atlanta band
Crystal Antlers - Two-Way Mirror - LP - new album by Atlanta band
Cyborg - S/T - 7inch - members of Weekend Nachos
Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks F-ck Off - 7inch - back in stock
EDM (Early Day Miners) - Night People - CD -
EDM (Early Day Miners) - Night People - LP -
Early Graves - Goner - LP -
Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs - LP -
Eric Copeland - Whorehouse Blues - 7inch -
Eternal Tapestry & Sun Araw - Night Gallery - CD -
Eternal Tapestry & Sun Araw - Night Gallery - LP -
Extortion - Sick - LP -
Eyehategod - Take As Needed For Pain - LP - repressed
Face To Face - Laugh Now - LP - now on vinyl
Floating Action - Desert Etiquette - CD - Asheville band newest CD - finally out!
Ford & Lopatin - Channel Pressue - LP -
Future Islands - Before the Bridge - 7inch - new single
GG King - Esoteric Love - LP - Carbonas dude- back in stock
Gold Bears - Are You Falling In Love? - CD -
Gold Bears - Are You Falling In Love? - LP -
Grandaddy - Sophtware Slump - LP - reissue
Grandaddy - Sumday - LP - reissue
Grandaddy - Under the Western.... - LP - reissue
Guitar Wolf - Spacebattleshiplove - LP -
Holy Ghost - S/T - LP - 2xLP now out on vinyl
Hussy - Cement Tomb Mind Control - LP -
Incubus - If not Now When - LP -
Jim O'Rourke & Christoph Heemann - Plastic Palace People - CD -
Joanna Newsom - What We Have Known - LP - new one-sided 12"
Junior Kimbrough - Do The Rump - LP - reissue
Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Ranch - LP - reissue
Kyuss - Wretch - LP - reissue
Lost Sounds - Blac Static - CD - reissue of Jay Reatard band
Lost Sounds - Blac Static - LP - reissue of Jay Reatard band
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music - LP - 2xLP deluxe reissue. You like NNNNNOOOOOOIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEE?
Milk Maid - Yucca - CD -
Milk Maid - Yucca - LP -
Milk Music - Beyond Living - LP -
Misantropic - Insomnia - LP -
Mooney Suzuki - People Get Ready - LP - repressed
No Comment - Downside - 7inch - reissue
Obliteration - Nekropsalms - LP -
Oren Ambarchi & Jim O'Rourke - Indeed - LP -
PG. 99 - Document 8 - LP - repressed
Pearl Jam - Vs/Vitalogy/Live Box - LP -
Pictureplane - Physical - CD -
Portugal The Man - Church Mouth - LP - reissue
Portugal The Man - In The Mountain... - LP - reissue
Portugal The Man - It's Complicated - LP - reissue
Portugal The Man - Waiter You Volture - LP - reissue
Prurient - Bermuda Drain - LP -
Puerto Rico Flowers - 7 - LP - new album by Clockcleaner guy
Ramones - Leave Home - LP - 180 gram reissue
Ramones - Road To Ruin - LP - 180 gram reissue
Ramones - Rocket To Russia - LP - 180 gram reissue
Ramones - S/T - LP - 180 gram reissue
Singer - Mindreading - LP -
Slum Village - Fantastic Vol.1 - LP - reissue on vinyl!
Sole & Skyrider Band - Hello Cruel World - CD -
Spazz/Brutal Truth - split - 7inch - reissued
Spindrift - Classic Soundtracks - LP - now on vinyl
Steve Earle - I'll Never Get... - LP - now on vinyl
T. Rex - Zip Gun - CD - reissue
T. Rex - Zip Gun - LP - reissue
Telescopes - Taste - LP - reissue
They Might Be Giants - Join Us - CD -
Toubab Krewe - TK2 - CD - Asheville folks new album
Tyler Jon Tyler - s/t - LP -
VA - This is Berkley Not West Bay - 7inch - reissue of classic 7" w/ AFI, Dead & Gone, Screw 32, etc
Wax Museums - Eye Times - LP -
Wilco - I Might/I Love My Label - 7inch - new 7" by everyone's favorite Chicago band
Woods - Find Them Empty - 7inch - new single
Dexter Romweber In-Store July 27th!
Dexter Romweber will be playing an in-store appearance at Lunchbox on Wednesday, July 27th at 6:00 PM. He'll also be playing that night at Snug Harbor with The Lesser Pauls & Erika Blatnik.
Brace yourself: IS THAT YOU IN THE BLUE?,
the ferocious brand new record from
the incomparable DEX ROMWEBER DUO
will be taking off JULY 26th on CD & LP!
After their mighty 2009 Bloodshot debut, Ruins of Berlin,
siblings Dex & Sara Romweber are back with a brand-new
set of smokin'-hot interstellar songs on
Is that You in the Blue?
Running the gamut from the four-to-the-floor
pure garage rock fury of "Jungle Drums", to the swaying
samba-gone-exotica of "Brazil," Is That You In The Blue?
reiterates, yet again, why no less than JACK WHITE
called DEX ROMWEBER "one of the best kept secrets in
the rock n' roll underground!"
A Video About the Shop
Foo Fighters presale tickets
Foo Fighters are playing Charlotte on 11/8 with Social Distortion. Presale tickets are available now until 10PM 7/14.
Jeff the Brotherhood Giveaway
Sale!
ALL USED CDs & DVDs BUY 2 GET 1 FREE for the rest of June!
Buy Early Get Now - Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
Pre-order the new FUCKED UP 2xLP and get to listen NOW and get the LP and poster and 4 exclusive 7" singles - only available with this pre-order!!!! Package: Log in is mandatory at buyearlygetnow.com. After logging in they get: - MP3s of the 5 non-album, character introduction songs immediately upon login - download of the album May 10-13th broken into 4 parts - album (2xLP or CD), poster and MP3s of record store day David's Town album on street date (visit store to pick up album and log in again to website for David's Town mp3s) June 7th - four 7"es including 8 non-album, character introduction songs (visit store a second time to pick up) June 28th Cost to you: CD + 4x7"es: $31.99 2xLP + 4x7"es: $39.99 The Story: Fucked Up have the most perfect name for any band in rock history. In two words it bluntly states the truth that lies at the heart of the white noise maelstrom - things are different from what you expect.
Right from the start this Toronto band has been pushing musical and conceptual boundaries. Forming ostensibly as a punk band, they swiftly took on hardcore and twisted it into their own version, with a psychedelic edge, unexpected instrumentation like flute and keyboards, and songs stretched to perverse lengths.
They initially released a series of impossible to find 7” singles, all with related artwork that sometimes landed them in trouble, and sometimes looked like they came from the late 60s, when minds were melting with possibilities. There were also albums that continued this theme, each one more bold and adventurous.
Meanwhile, the band’s gigs took on legendary status. Frontman Damian Abraham's nude stage dives and blood-strewn face were becoming a lunatic motif for a take on the hardcore genre that constantly upended assumptions: lyrics about plants and rebirth, moneys to charities for battered women. All the time, there was a sense of a narrative, and even in their loudest moments there was a deep intelligence to their music.
The narrative itself has come to full fruition on their new album, the 78-minute David Comes To Life rock opera, an album set to a play.
In the punk wars the rock opera was held up as the ultimate example of decadent capitalist-pig rock, the kind of opulent, navel-gazing fodder of faded rock dictators clinging onto power by their filthy fingernails and their tediously long records. It breaks the strict rules of punk and is precisely the reason why Fucked Up have presented this mammoth work.
Their whole history has been mashing ferocious but highly thought-out music with brilliant concepts and Situationist philosophy. They have now made their ultimate statement, tying up all the loose ends and question marks in this sprawling, yet consistently brilliant album.
In anyone else’s hands, David Comes To Life might be a disaster, but Fucked Up are in a different lineage – the concept album, after all, was invented by the Kinks or the Pretty Things and even the Who’s huffing-and-puffing Tommy and Hawkwind’s Space Ritual. You could even include some of the Crass albums as concept albums if you really thought about it – darkly powerful works that let you enter a parallel universe.
Though no less monumental, it is far more melodic than their breakthrough The Chemistry of Common Life. There are more female vocals, which work in perfect contrast to Abraham's highly effective wounded bull growl. The band sound tighter and with more space for the flourishes and imaginative songwriting that entwine their love of fey British indie pop with heavy riffing, and some genuinely twisted turns. Perhaps most grippingly, the triple-guitar interplay between Mike Haliechuk, Josh Zucker and Ben Cook has risen to symphonic levels. They channel musicians from Angus Young, Pete Townshend and Liam Gallagher to Bob Stinson and Lyle Preslar with ease and grace.
The result is better than Sham's That's Life, less desperate than SF Sorrow, a finer cultural self reference than Arthur and Village Green, a better tribute to plants than Dopesmoker, and more a unmixable album than Loveless. But you can hear all these musical touchstones in David's multi-layered melodic filigree.
