***Aitis Band is a combination of haunted houses and that’s what she said jokes. The trio’s funny, morbid, lyric-driven songs literally report on what she said and how scary it was. Since 2019 former Joan of Arc members Bobby Burg (Love of Everything) and Melina Ausikaitis continue their collaboration with the addition of visual artist/musician Ray Borchers. Aitis Band indulge their love of clubbing, teen girl-ness, and tragic figures, both real and imagined, with songs that range from wistful ballads to anthemic noise-fests. They hang in a purgatory between too much art school and just enough 80’s night. Ausikaitis’ vocals slide easily into a funereal bath water that Burg and Borchers slowly turn up to a boil.Since October 2019 Aitis Band has played throughout the US, sharing bills with Dry Cleaning, Circuit des Yeux, Black Dice, Parquet Courts, Jesus Lizard, No Age, Robert AA Lowe, Ryley Walker, Dustin Wong, Air Waves, Man on Man, and a midwest tour opening for American Football.The Band’s instrumentation is dueling Roland eg101 drum machines/keyboards and a MicroKorg. Controlling 3 keyboards at once, Ray uses weights to set drones while adding new notes with her hands and feet. Melina plays a stringless fake guitar with a contact mic through Earthquaker Devices effect pedals and sings. Bobby plays bass.
LP $21.95
10/10/2025
***Back in 2023, bassist Peter Kerlin (Sunwatchers, Chris Forsyth Solar Motel Band, Bent Arcana, Everloving) and drummer Rob Smith (Gray/Smith, Rhyton, Pigeons) ritualistically burnt their passports, ate the ashes, and began conspiring together under the guise of Animal, Surrender!Kerlin's spidery and melodious 8-string electric bass pushes the expected language of that instrument into terrain more often inhabited by lutes or pianos, and begs to interweave with a drummer like Smith who slyly punctuates, hisses, and propels against the grain. The duo's often wordless music is spun from threads of lost folksongs and polyrhythms into hypnotic, latticework compositions whose melodies and beats shift like cat's-cradles strung between their constantly moving hands.Their eponymous debut on Ernest Jennings Record Co. in 2024 found haunting covers of Nick Drake and Mike Wexler lurking amongst a tangle of lean, progressive originals, all crafted with the terse economy of post-rock, but reflecting a kaleidoscopic, pastoral vision in its eyes.Their new album, A Boot for Every Bane (2025 EJRC), builds upon the incantatory language of the first while inviting the talents and mercurial instincts of pipe organist Curt Sydnor (Greg Saunier, Yonatan Gat, Peni Candra Rini) into the magick circle.With new songs like "Misswanderer" and "Ruinous Realm," Kerlin's mesmerizing bass-lines lure us further down the group's sonic left-hand path into thickets of compound rhythm and organ swells, where the trio also resurrects and rewilds two old familiar American standards: the seductive and sub-tropical "Poinciana" made famous by Ahmad Jamal's trio, and the untraceable, frontier river-song "Shenandoah," known...
LP $21.95
09/26/2025
*** 2 covers of artists and friends who the band lost in the last year—Shellac (Albini) and Drive Like Jehu (Rick Froberg). First new rye recordings in almost 20 years. Every copy unique, handmade, numbered, letter pressed covers, etc.—this one is a huge labor of love, with our friends, for our friends. All profits go to Steve Albini’s Letters to Santa children’s charity."
7" $14.25
07/18/2025
***The ferries are legends Bob Weston, Chris Brokaw and Elisha Weisner (Shellac, Codeine, Come, Kahoots, The New Year, Mission of Burma, and so many more)—now three wild LPs deep and having toured with everyone from My Bloody Valentine to Mclusky. For their first 7” release, Limited to 500 copies, they’ve covered songs by cult hardcore heroes Strike Under and The Proletariat. Chris Brokaw: "I became obsessed with the song 'Context' after seeing the film "You Weren't There" in 2007 in Chicago. It was something of a fluke that I was even there. The film documents the Chicago punk scene from 1977-1985. There were about 800 people at the screening and several fights broke out in the crowd amongst old punk rivals! They had a show that night at the Empty Bottle, Strike Under played, and I instantly fell in love with their song 'Context’. At some point I suggested that the Ferries play this incredible lost classic and we started doing it live, which led to the idea of recording it as a single, but what for the other side? Toasting MVF's uneasy alliance of Massachusetts and Illinois we settled on The Proletariat, our unanimous favorite/standout from the otherwise heinous Boston hardcore scene. I'd always loved 'Decorations’. Apparently I picked both songs. You're lucky, they're both great!"
7" $13.50
02/28/2025
***Perennial is an art project: Mod pop, post-hardcore, 60s soul, ambient electronic music, midcentury design, abstract expressionism, French New Wave cinema; it’s all collage material for Perennial. The band—electric organist Chelsey Hahn, guitarist Chad Jewett and drummer Ceej Dioguardi—is equal parts manic basement show bombast and studio-as-instrument headphone listening. To see the New England three-piece in person is to experience a 20-minute burst of kinetic energy: dynamic, reckless, electrifying. To put on one of Perennial’s records is to spend almost the same amount of time with impeccably layered studio-as-instrument punk modernism. Art History, the band’s newest full-length album (out June 7 via Ernest Jenning Record Co.), finds Perennial further experimenting with their angular cut-and-glue aesthetic. An adventurous 20 minutes of impressionist punk energy, British Invasion guitar pop chic, and Mod-inflected rhythm and noise rave-ups, Art History is both Perennial’s most giddily accessible and most artistically daring record to date. Edition of 275 copies pressed on clear with black and green splatter vinyl.
LP $23.75
06/14/2024
***Animal, Surrender! is Peter Kerlin (Sunwatchers and Chris Forsyth & Solar Motel Band) and drummer Rob Smith (Grey/Smith, Rhyton, Pigeons, D. Charles Spear). Kerlin leads the duo through a set of bass-driven compositions and interpretations, incorporating spare electronics through a post-rock/weird-folk trance with intricate and sometimes blasted interplay between the rhythm section. The project’s title refers to the ambiguous creatureliness of the human animal: How in trying to kill the animal within we eradicated all wildness on the planet; How in our never-ending evasion of any discomfort we guaranteed the destruction of all that sustains us. It's about other things too, like falling outs among friends and how even if it's the end it's not the end.
LP $21.95
05/31/2024
***HIGH DISCIPLE was formed in late 2015, after CHRIS DALY (JETS TO BRAZIL, TEXAS IS THE REASON, 108) elocated his growing family from Brooklyn to the suburbs of Northeastern New Jersey. With a bit of distance from playing music (and a healthy affinity for Jamaican dub and reggae music), he decided to forge a new musical path in that vein. After connecting with solo artist and producer LARRY DIGIOVANNI (DUB FOR LIGHT), the pair soon discovered a shared history in the hardcore scene, as well as a deep appreciation for both Bad Brains, The Grateful Dead, and some deep dub and classic rock influences. Adrian Sherwood's production, namely on the Primal Scream dub remix album Echo Dek, as well as The Verve's first couple records, also served as a musical road map as to where they wanted to travel. The duo started with free-form jam sessions, and soon enough, songs started coming together with a natural, effortless flow. They recorded a 3-song demo in the fall of 2015, and soon after brought guitarist SCOTT SAINT HILAIRE—a seasoned guitarist rooted in surf, dub, and hardcore music—into the fold. This allowed the band to add more dimension to their then studio-driven sound, and to adapt it into a live setting. Now solidified as a 3-piece, the music started coming at a brisk pace. The band self-recorded and produced their debut album at a comfortable, relaxed pace in their own Vibration Sound Studio space throughout 2017, with DiGiovanni at the controls.
LP $17.75
06/01/2018
***In the high desert hills of Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico, just outside of Taos, there's a cabin set amidst the sage and piñon. The cabin’s current occupants are ANNE CUNNINGHAM and DAVE LERNER—also known as the folk duo TRUMMORS. Dave, known to some for his years of work with TED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS, plays guitar and sings. Anne, who has a PhD in Comparative Literature, sings and plays harmonium. With a revolving cast of musicians, the two songwriters have forged a lush sound that has been called "raga country, country as inner voyage.” Fittingly, their new album, Headlands draws inspiration from enduring archetypes of the American west. Songs of rambling misadventure and fleeting freedom are shot through with the occasional bracing dose of reality. Sonically, the record traffics in easy '70s rural grooves, dusky sunset drones, and sweet close-harmony vocals. Headlands was recorded and mixed by JARVIS TAVENIERE (Woods, Real Estate), and produced by KEVIN BARKER (Vetiver, Fruit Bats), whose b-bender telecaster accompanies every track. Additional musicians include DAN HORNE (Cass McCombs, Circles Around the Sun) on pedal steel, KYLE FORESTER (Crystal Stilts, Woods) on piano and saxophone, with CHAD LAIRD & STEVE MCGUIRL (Prince Rupert’s Drops) on bass and drums, respectively. (STREET DATE - 5/12/2017)
LP $20.95
05/12/2017
***TITLE TRACKS is a trio from Washington, D.C. that features guitarist/singer and songwriter JOHN DAVIS (GEORGIE JAMES, Q AND NOT U, PAINT BRANCH), bassist MICHAEL COTTERMAN (THE LOVED ONES, KID DYNAMITE, DAVE HAUSE) and drummer ELMER SHARP (ROOFWALKERS). Title Tracks’ new album, Long Dream is its third, all of which have been released by The Ernest Jenning Record Co. Title Tracks’ first two albums, It Was Easy (2010) and In Blank (2011), came in quick succession and were followed with significant touring through the United States and Europe, including shows with the likes of Ted Leo, Pretty and Nice, Tommy Keene, The Paul Collins Beat, and many others. The five year gap between In Blank and Long Dream was due to a variety of life changes that emerged for different band members (babies, a new drummer, new careers, other bands), all of which find their way into the words and atmosphere of Long Dream. Finding time between parenting duties, graduate school classes, and a new career as a Performing Arts archivist at the University of Maryland, Davis wrote the 10 songs on Long Dream during late hours alone at the band’s practice space. Whether it’s the hurtling sprint of “I Don’t Need To Know,” the arpeggiated atmospherics of “Empty Heavens,” or the urgent power pop of “Low Cool,” nearly every song on the album refers to dreams in their many forms—lucid, feverish, aspirational, broken, or realized. Borne out of a brief period of major changes (and sleep deprivation), it became...
LP $15.00
11/18/2016