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Live from SS2

Monoshock, 7/14/12 Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco

Icky Boyfriends, 7/13/12 Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco

Wounded Lion, 7/13/12 Hemlock Tavern, San Francisco

SS2, Pt 2 Tonight!

Tonight: SS2 Pt w/ MONOSHOCK, The Lamps, Musk @ the Hemlock San Francisco
Tickets still available on line until 5:30 and at the door starting 9 pm

Monoshock - Tom Guido Philosophically Stoogely by S. S./ Sol Re Sol Records

SS2 This Weekend!

Friday night SS2 @ the Hemlock 7/13 Icky Boyfriends, Wounded Lion, Spray Paint. 7/14 Monoshock, Lamps, Musk. Tickets at http://ss-2.blogspot.com/

Spray Paint! New Single! New Tour!

Spray painted lines on a piece of cardboard is as simple as "art" can get. But you get to looking at it and you see contrasts, textures, spacing, and other things enhanced by a simple direct approach, things that get lost in a mess of images and muscular "creativity." This is the rule of less is more. Apply it to rock & roll and it is a rule that Austin's Spray Paint lives by. Following in the grand tradition of Wire, the Urinals, and the Icky Boyfriends, Spray Paint takes rock & roll and minimizes it to a few ungrandiose riff perfectly placed, catchy and energetic. Spray Paint puts all what is needed into a song and nothing more. It is an approach which made for a great debut single (on S.S. and sold out quickly) and an even better follow up.

Spray Paint's Spock Fingers b/w Pink Pus 7" is their second record and is even better than the first. Spock Fingers is riled up, punk energy in a wire-frame, wearing a spikey hat. Pink Pus is a mid tempo grumbling tumbler. Both songs are excellent and housed in a spray painted and stamped sleeve, in a limited run of 300 and on S.S. Records.  Order here!

Spray Paint - Spock Fingers (edit) by S. S./ Sol Re Sol Records
Spray Paint - Pink Pus (edit) by S. S./ Sol Re Sol Records




Spray Paint Western/Midwestern/Canada Summer tour 2012
FRI - JUL 6 -  AUSTIN  Beerland w/Foreign Mothers, John Wesley Coleman, Daniel Francis Doyle, The Vomettes
SAT - JUL 7 -  LAS CRUCES Trainyard w/King Tuff
SUN - JUL 8 - ARIZONA Tuscon  The District
MON - JUL 9 - SAN DIEGO Sodabar w/Shiva Trash, Bagdad
TUE - JUL10 - LOS ANGELES The Smell w/Deep Time, Dunes
WED - JUL 11 - SACRAMENTO Press Club w/ G. Green, Godspeed 209, Deep Time
THURS - JUL 12 - KDVS on air performance
FRI - JUL 13 - SAN FRANCISCO SS FEST Hemlock Tavern w/Wounded Lion, Icky Boyfriends
SAT - JUL 14 -  OAKLAND 1-2-3-4 Go! Records w/The Young (earlyish show. over in time to go watch day two of ss fest!)
SUN - JUL 15 - Drive Day
MON - JUL 16 - PORTLAND Slabtown
TUES - JUL 17 - VANCOUVER Zoo Zhop w/Shearing Pinx, B-Lines
WED - JUL 18 - SEATTLE Funhouse w/Stickers, Speedy Ortiz, Detective Agency
THURS - JUL 19 - SPOKANE Avenue Pizza
FRI - JUL 20 - MISSOULA The Lab w/Mordecai
SAT - JUL 21 - BUTTE  Hummingbird w/Mordecai
SUN - JUL 22 - Drive and Camp
MON - JUL 23 - FT. COLLINS Gnu Experience Gallery
TUES - JUL 24- KANSAS CITY House Show w/Meat Mist
WED - JUL 25 - OKC/ NORMAN, OK The Deli
THURS - JUL 26 - HOT SPRINGS, AR The Exchange
FRI - JUL 27 - DENTON  ??
SAT- JUL 28 - AUSTIN Red 7 w/Thousand Foot Whale Claw

SS2

Last year we did a four day music fiesta in celebration of S.S. Records' tenth anniversary. It went off very nicely and much fun was had by all. So we decided to do another shindig this year, a little scaled back, but with the same quality of bands from the S.S. Records family & friends, and in the town of San Francisco, California.


Friday, July 13
Icky Boyfriends
Wounded Lion
Spray Paint
at the Hemlock Tavern

Saturday, July 14
Monoshock
Lamps
Musk
at the Hemlock Tavern

Advanced tickets on sale now!
More information to come.

Michael Yonkers with the Blind Shake's "So Be"

Here's a video of "So Be," song from the album Period by Michael Yonkers with the Blind Shake. The footage is from a forth-coming documentary on their collaboration called Hey Hey What, by Colin Frangos.

Los Llamarada's Gone Gone Cold now available on vinyl!

“Things are ok here but this year there wasn’t a Christmas truce. In fact the city woke up on Dec 31 with the news of a dead topless woman hanging from a bridge in one of the main avenues...”

Thus begins one of the dozens of emails from Monterrey, Mexico’s Los Llamarada to S.S. Records during the recording of their third and final album, Gone Gone Cold. Since their first album on S.S., The Exploding Now!, Llamarada has made some of the most striking psychedelic punk of the last decade. In the spirit of Red Crayola and 13th Floor Elevators, Llamarada approach to psych is devoid of rules, trends, or convention. Like Mars, they feel their way through sound, finding songs in the playing. However, while The Exploding Now! and their second album, Take the Sky, reflect the band’s (then) excitement with their future and possibility, Gone Gone Cold looks at present day Mexico and its never-end Drug War.

On Gone Gone Cold, fans of Los Llamarada will hear their oft-noted claustrophobic no-fi sound, but the songs a less settled than before. Confusion trumps structure, until a riff or pulse builds in intensity and the song enters into panic. Or a song starts at a panicked pace and unravels into a single phrase. There still is the subverted surf-guitar and male/female chant/vocals, but the drums are stronger and keyboards more insistent – sounds desperate for a way out.

“They hanged some rival gang members from pedestrian bridges, some dead, some alive (those were shot). Other was hanged and burned. Those kind of things happened on broad daylight, and were seen by friends on their way home from work. The police usually keep a respectful distance and do nothing…The chief of security of one of the last remaining rock bars was also killed, a guy who we all knew and who had helped us in one way or another. He was shot along with two other guys, and the bodies were stolen. The bar closed after that and it has stayed that way. The owner fled to the USA, as some other people has done. So now there are almost no places to play.”

Some song titles: “He Was Killed,” “There is No Ending,” “All Gods Collapse,” “Inside the Fire.” The lyrics are just as much poetry as they are song lyrics – frustrated, enraged, and depressed, but also defiant. As much as Gone Gone Cold is Los Llamarada’s mirror of Mexico and their besieged hometown of Monterrey, it is also an assertion of noise over death and of art over war. Packaged in Stoughton “old style” tip-on sleeves, Los Llamarada’s Gone Gone Cold is the best psychedelic reaction to war since Red Crayola’s “War Sucks.”

“The latest news! The army is now searching houses at random. They ask for permission first; I don’t think anybody has said no. They don’t break or steal things... they just look around and ask questions. They haven’t been here yet, but I’ve already cleaned the house!”


Los Llamarada - Heaven of Glass by S. S./ Sol Re Sol Records

Order yours now!

Announcing Sol Re Sol Records

This week sees the first release from Sol Re Sol Records, the newest label in the S.S. family. Dedicated to international music, the first release is a reissue of the 1972 recordings of the Master Musicians of Jajouka by Joel Rubiner. For more on this legendary Moroccan group and the record check out the Sol Re Sol site.

KDVS Record Swap 10/30

SS will be selling records at the KDVS Record Swap Sunday, October 30th, 9am to ??? @ John Natsoulas Gallery, 521 First Street in Davis. Admission is free. Great used stuff, discounted SS titles & mailorder.

AWOTT Live on The Rebel Kind 10/25/11 11 pm

Russian experimental rock band Asian Women on the Telephone will be playing live on the radio Tuesday 10/25 11 pm - midnight courtesy of The Rebel Kind KDVS 90.3 FM  

New Arrivals - Upcoming Releases - Budget Rock

Got some new stuff in....Got some sounds to pass by you...Gotta tell you about a show or two!

So the Michael Yonkers/Blind Shake album and Los Llamarada's third album are now in the test press process. I should get them tomorrow and then when approved, hopefully I will have something for you by the end of the month. I am really excited with these two records. To me the represent the ying & yang of modern psych punk. Yonkers & the Blind Shake mix a Blue Cheer style blast with a Von Lmo spin. Llamarada comes from the school of Red Crayolla/13th Floor Elevators "there are no rules"/"find our way as we play" school of psychedelia. And unlike a lot of bands flogging the psych horse, both groupings have their own unique sounds. Here is a cut from Michael Yonkers/Blind Shake's "Period" LP and one from Los Llamarada's "Gone Gone Cold".

S.S. comrades Hank IV and LENZ are playing this year's Budget Rock, the last one ever, and not only are they playing the same show but my Siamese twin and I are dj-ing. Date on that fucker is Thursday Oct 20 at thee Parkside in San Francisco! Also at thee Parkside is the Budget Rock Record Swap, and, yup, I'll have boxes of records there. That one is Sunday Oct 23 at 1 pm.

Recent New Stuff 

Black Humor Love God-Love One Another LP  Malcolm Mooney & The Tenth Planet InCANtations LP
Rick Johnson Tin Cans, Squeems & Thudpies paperback book 
Television Personalities Wonder What It Was 7" 
Red Asphalt R/A 7"
Eat Skull Wild & Inside LP
Sound of Ruby From Under the Sands of the Desert 7"
Luk Haas Discography of Eastern European Punk Music 77-99 paperback book
Art Yard Allston 1981 7"

S.S. Bands of Note Live

WOUNDED LION W/ PRE TEEN AND LENZ
The Knockout, San Francisco
Sunday, August 14th 5:00PM

HANK IV W/ MIDNIGHT SNAXX
Benders, San Francisco
Friday, August 18th 10:00PM
(Hank IV will have their new 7" on S.S.)

Mailing list addess change

So someone or something hijacked the ss@s-srecords.com email address and people have been flooded with spam with that address on it. The emails aren't viruses or trojans, just annoying. The address harvested from other email accounts. Anyway, it sent a lot of my emails straight to spam filters so it is time to change things up. These mailings will now be sent out from the address of s.srecords @ yahoo . com If you want to keep getting these emails, please make sure that that address is not filtered out by whatever spam program you use.

I still will be using the old address for correspondence and will always have something in the subject line even if it is only "Hey".

Also the new catalog site is up and running at http://s-srecords.com/catalog If you have used it or tried to use it and have had any problems, please contact me. For those overseas ordering: I am still fine tuning the post for international orders. If the post seems high when you go to check out, don't give up! After I process the order, if the post charged exceeds what it cost me to ship, I will be refunding you $$$.

That is about it. Except: New album by John Wesley Coleman III is in!
---SS

Some used stuff

Plenty of great used stuff added Robert Charlebois, Earle Mankey, Modern Lovers, Mingus Cale/Riley, Scorps, Skids, Getz, more! Records added daily! http://bit.ly/qBXFb9

Nothing People Australian Tour August 2011

Fri August 12th / Format, Adelaide
Fabulous Diamonds (MELB) + Mondo Phase Band + Burnt Skulls

Tues August 16th / Step-Inn, Brisbane
Slug Guts + Blank Realm + Mondo Phase Band (ADL)

Fri August 19th / Dirty Shirlows, Sydney
+ Naked On The Vague + Mondo Phase Band (ADL) + Woolen Kits (MELB) 

Sat August 20th / Workers Club, Melbourne
+ Naked On The Vague (SYD) + Mondo Phase Band (ADL) + Free Choice Duo

FM-BX returns! The Dreams are great! Lots of stuff!

We got some more jackets in for a box of FM-BX Society Tape 001 LPs we had unsleeved so now there are more for sale! Probably our best received title of the year, great DIY from 1981!

Also got in the new Dreams LP on Killshaman and it is freaking great! So is the newest archival release by Doxa Sinistra on Enfant Terrible. Also on the electronic tip is Mudboy's "This is Folk Music" LP. Minimalism at its best. 

The newest Sublime Freqencies release is a great DVD/BOOK/CD by Olivia Wyatt called "Staring at the Sun," it is a film and document of a journey through Ethiopia and visits with 13 tribal groups. Stunning stuff the trailer is below. 

Any of this (and more) you can order at the S.S. catalog. Visit here!


Staring into the Sun from olivia wyatt on Vimeo.

New Stuff: New System

Hey there! S.S. has a new cart system & catalog up and running. There is much more stuff in it and it should be pretty easy to use. For international customers, post totals will now be given to you! Because this is a new systems, there might be some bugs. If there are, please contact me immediately!

We've got the new Weird Forest release: Mudboy's This is Folk Music LP. It is great stuff. Minimal, avant organ sounds. Also picked up restock of Love Cry Want, Starving Weirdos and others.

We've got copies of Cheater Slicks new release on Almost Ready on the way, as well as new Sublime Frequencies titles plus stuff on Honest Jon's.

LENZ and Hank IV recs should be reading in a couple weeks!

LENZ in SF

Catch LENZ with Apache at the Amnesia on Valencia in San Francisco, Friday June 4 @ 6:30 pm. LENZ debut single on S.S. in a few weeks.

SS10 Photos on MRR blog

Check them out!