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"The received wisdom (at least in America) goes that punk rock was invented in New York by the Ramones, who reconfigured Midwestern hard groove rock and '60s garage singles, into a formula that defined punk: short, fast, catchy, and unstoppable. But in some weird parallel universe, punk might have traced its roots to Rocket from the Tombs, a Cleveland band that lasted less than eight months (1974-75), and never made a studio recording. In those eight months they wrote songs that would become punk anthems: 'Ain't It Fun,' 'Sonic Reducer,' 'Final Solution,' '30 Seconds Over Tokyo,' 'Amphetamine, and they played them like there was no tomorrow. These men are ugly, old, and have not mellowed in any conceivable way. They've devoted their lives to raging against the boundaries, and they have been willing to pay the price." Includes mp3 download card.
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"Recorded in 2006 in Spain on a rooftop in Cordoba with Howe Gelb's Band Of Gypsies and virtuoso flamenco guitarist Raimundo Amador (who has also collaborated with Bjork and BB King), Alegrias is the latest excellent chapter in Gelb's lengthy discography. Many have tried to blend flamenco into their style and failed, but Gelb seems unable to stumble no matter what he tries his hand at. Here he manages to seamlessly sear together flamenco rhythms with echoes of his own Arizona desert...perhaps the common denominator being the fact that Spain and the American southwest are culturally (and musically) linked by so many hundreds of years of history. Mixed by the legendary John Parish (PJ Harvey), Alegrias sails effortlessly into uncharted seas."
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"Fire Fidelity brings you an LP featuring 24 of the best songs spanning the career of the legendary Jad Fair and his band Half Japanese plus a free download card good for over 100 of Jad's best songs! This Best Of compilation also includes liner notes written by Everett True, who tells us, 'I love him for his boundless enthusiasm and shy genius...maybe it's wrong to call Jad naive because he knows what he's doing, but he has a child-like wonderment that to me is at the core of most great music I can name. The Shaggs, Leadbelly, Jonathan Richman. He makes my feet want to move, and there's no higher compliment, I've seen Jad play concerts with a rolled-up newspaper and upturned wastebasket for rhythm, with just his voice for color. I've also seen Jad play stadiums in precisely the same fashion - with a band behind him, sure, but with the spirit intact - in front of crowds of over 15,000, in support to Nirvana on their final tour.' Released at the same time as Jad's new album, His Name Itself Is Music, Beautiful Songs (The Best Of The Best Of Jad Fair) is the perfect complement to a prolific and imaginative artist whose gifts keep on giving."
"Jad Fair is the godfather of minimalist monster art rock - a gentleman and a beast," -- Edwin Pouncey, The Wire.
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"Swerve, originally released in 1990, is another brilliant effort by Gelb,in 1990, is another brilliant effort by Gelb, this time joined by a variety of guest performers including Green on Red's Chris Cacavas, Juliana Hatfield, Steve Wynn and several members of Poi Dog Pondering." 180 gram vinyl.
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"This album, originally released in 1989, marked a turning point for the band, more improvisational and less structured than previous efforts, it features some of Howe's best songs. Includes 3 bonus tracks."
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"Giant Sand's third album, Storm, was originally released in 1988. It is now re-released on HQ vinyl on Fire Fidelity. Featuring the popular single 'Uneven Light Of Day' and a cover of Robbie Robertson's 'The Weight.'"
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Bue vinyl version, limited edition of 500 copies.
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Limited edition picture disc version. "2010 marks the 25th anniversary of Valley Of Rain -- the debut album by Giant Sand, the ever-shifting alternative rock band overseen by 'the Godfather of Alt. Country' Howe Gelb. With that in mind, the band are celebrating in the only way they know how: with a flurry of great music, including the release of this new Giant Sand record. This special edition is being released in a limited edition of 500 copies on picture disc. Says Howe Gelb of Blurry Blue Mountain: 'On this album, it happened that every session we were able to record came between workloads that rendered us at that point of sleeping and waking. Like the poppy fields in Wizard Of Oz, we went in and out of consciousness at various times during recording. This is not a bad thing. Nor does it make the record sound like we're asleep. It has the momentum of that place between sleep and being awake. And in that narrow slip of existence lies a landscape of reason that most of us hurry past in daily lives. This record is planted firmly there. Between the crystal clear focus of your day to day and the luxury of sweet fuzzy sleep, we welcome you to the blurry blue mountain.'"
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