***Darkside roots rock'n'rollers APPALACHIAN DEATH RIDE re-unleash their stellar Hobo's Cookbook album. A wonderful and very rocking collection of songs featuring the sonic guitar and scarred vocals of CHRIS BIESTER, drummer CHRIS DILLON's on-the-edge drumming, and multi-instrumentalist MIKE McGOVERN's banjo and accordion overtones.
CD $12.00
08/17/2004
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08/17/2004
***Three-plus years in the making, Log Almighty is by far Log's most confident and realized work. This release sees songwriter / guitar player Paul Nini (ex- Great Plains), brother Chris Nini (organ, piano), bassist Shirley Tobias, drummer Greg Bonnell (of Moviola, early American Music Club, and Mark Eitzel's previous band Naked Skinnies), and Keith Dimoff (guitar) moving toward organic and sophisticated rock. The addition of various keyboards, acoustic guitars, horns, strings, and special guests add new layers and textures to Log's well-crafted songs, and opens up a new chapter in this longrunning band's musical story. Ex-Great Plains and Moviola people
CD $12.00
08/17/2004
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08/17/2004
***Named after a variety of tree in their front yard as kids, Catalpa Boys showcases the off-center-yetforthright singing, songwriting, and playing talents of the brothers Housh — J.D.’s finger-picked, country blues and J.K.’s more wily, playful approach — on a variety of noisemakers, gitboxes, saws, and train whistles. Each has carved out time in other combos — J.D. in Columbus indie veterans Moviola, and J.K. in San Francisco’s Our Lady of the Highway, Nickel Beer Riot, and as a hired gun on different instruments in countless other Bay Area combos. Together these two brothers put a beautiful new twist on the agesold family musical tradition (Delmore Brothers, Carter Family), joining their voices and instruments in perfect, genetic harmony. Lebanon, Ohio, is landlocked in the Miami Valley north of Cincinnati, equal parts northern and southern, city and country, and it’s where the Housh clan grew up. The Housh boys trolled around these parts until they entered adulthood, when each went their separate ways. During once-a-year get-togethers, the wine flows, the instruments come out, and the songs (new and very old) fill the air. The two finally got together long enough to record some of those songs (which only their wives, parents and grandparents had heard) so that other folks could listen in on the brotherly love. • Debut release from brothers J.D. Housh (Moviola) and J.K. Housh (Our Lady of the Highway, Nickel Beer Riot) • Midwest and West Coast shows during spring and summer • Press campaign by Tag...
CD $12.00
05/04/2004
MP3 $0.00
05/04/2004
***Hailing from the heart of the Midwest, The Whiles (formerly known as Mrs. Children) eschew the punk rock and lo-fi sounds for which “Cowlumbus” has been more (in)famously known, in favor of a softer approach that reflects the sound of the seasons. Taking their cues from the spiritual side of their collective hearts (principal songwriter Joe Peppercorn is a professional organ player and Latin teacher) Colors of the Year touches on the gentler side of love and longing, with wonderful threepart harmonies, distant echoes of Nick Drake, Zombies and Eric Anderson, and neo-old-fangled sounds such as Belle and Sebastian, Ron Sexsmith and The Smiths — all meshed into their own wonderful noise. Self-produced with some engineering duties by Jon Chinn (New Bomb Turks), Colors of the Year is a great leap forward from their self-released EP Break Your Back, which garnered a mention in Rolling Stone’s “Ten Most Rocking College Towns” issue. Their demo at that time landed them on the cover of Columbus Alive and they have managed to create a fairly rabid following in the Midwest. The band formed in 1998 by high school classmates, but it wasn’t until brother Matt Peppercorn joined that Joe felt the musical strings loosen and made the epic leap into the breathtaking songwriter he now is — another voice of the Y generation — no props, no gimmicks, no screaming.
CD $12.00
05/04/2004
MP3 $0.00
05/04/2004
Over the past decade, Moviola have made six records (and split singles with everyone from The Handsome Family to Cobra Verde) in virtual anonymity in a self-built studio next to the plasma center off North High Street in Columbus, Ohio. Live appearances are rarer than hen’s teeth. An odd assortment of normal Joes from Amarillo to Amsterdam, record shop freaks, librarians who dig Kristofferson, and wayward fans of the Louvin Brothers and Spacemen 3 hold them close like a secret. And viva la difference: in this band everyone writes, everyone takes a turn singing lead. It’s a fiveheaded beast (with eleven kids between them), the result of which is a well-deep collective of dusty country-through-a-space-echo, folk-soul, and adult lullabies. East of Eager ratchets up the entire lot into a pure, uncluttered document of one of the finest bands you’re likely to hear, but, most likely, have never heard. The timeless sounds of soul, pop, country, bluegrass woven into a classic from an ever-evolving American band.
CD $12.00
03/30/2004
CD $12.00
01/08/2001
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01/08/2001
***After a variety of personnel changes and numerous releases (including a split seven-inch with SILVER SCOOTER released by Voice of the Sky), TIARA's first full-length has finally arrived. Led somewhat by ERIC ROTTMAYER (whose other recording project, METRONOME, with releases on Black Bean & Placenta Tape Club, Magic Eye and a number of Japanese labels, has moved some very gentle folks in Japan to open a record store bearing that very name), Tiara take the slow-building space between emotion and time and create unique sing-along guitar spook-outs. Their nice dual guitar/vocal interplay works like any conversation one has with oneself when trying to figure out what to say to that certain person who drives one crazy both ways: good and bad. Again Cast In was recorded at Workbook studios in Columbus by the band and Jon Chin during the very hot summer of 1999, and was mastered by Jeff Grahm, whose has previously worked with the New Bomb Turks, Jenny Mae, Cheater Slicks and Bizzy Bone from Bones, Thugs and Harmony.
CD $12.00
03/07/2000
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03/07/2000
*** Julia P (also known as Julia P Hershiemer) is a Dutch woman who happened to record one of the finest records of 1997 that nobody bought. Not too dissimilar from her Dutch bretheren Bette Serveert, Julia combines equal parts guitar-playing, wonderful songwriting and a very beautiful voice (how do those foreigners manage to sing without an accent?) to create simply, uh, wonderful songs. Did we say she's really quite wonderful? As all seven inches should be this is extremely limited, like a Tucker.
7" $5.00
07/20/1999
*** Caryn Palmier, Dave Holmes (Fall-Outs), Lisa Rickenberg (Inhalants) and Steve Malmin (Calabros) combine their talents to make up a sound that sounds more like garagewave than "new wave"or "garage." They are stuck in the middle there somewhere, their first 7" released on swell Super-Electro label a few years ago was one of our favorites of that particular year when it was released (whenever that whenever was.) These exclusive songs show their quite funny disdain for all things Make-Up and Nation Of Ulysses. GG Allin cover on the flip. Oh yeah they have an album on Super-Electro (which we also stock).
7" $4.00
07/20/1999
***These rural acidifiers have been stir-frying their unique brand of music since the mid-80's at such interstate rest areas as Okra, Atavistic and Sub Pop. You may now add Anyway to that list. Limited edition of 300.
7" $4.00
02/16/1999