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

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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