BRIDEZ
Consisting of Will Ivy, Liza Thorn and Abe Pedroza, BRIDEZ hail from San Francisco and cite seagulls, the beach, poppies, drugs, teen angst and expensive everything as influences. Hobbies include: recording, writing songs, doing acid and shooting music videos. “Ideally we’ll shoot a music video for every song because they’re all hits,” says Thorn. With their trash brat lo-fi brew of fuzzed out noise pop, this duo will have you humming their melodies while rinsing off the grime in the shower.

[Fake Blood Jacket] – CD
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Currently: Seeking fame and fortune, and up next: US Tour

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LOTO BALL SHOW
Best description to date: ”Dark, muscular and intense hick garage blues racket with the relentless gusto of The Bad Seeds fucking Deanna, sharpened by the non-cliched post punk apocalyptic edge one finds in Public Image Ltd" (20 Jazz Funk Greats). Fronted by an unarguably brilliant artist/specimen, Loto Ball is best know for his work singing and performing for San Francisco Bay Area death-punk band The Phantom Limbs. In 2005, Loto called it quits with the Limbs, moved to Chicago and opened Reversible Eye, an art gallery/music venue. Also filling his time: collaborating on a 800 foot public mural (Bloomingdale Trail), working as personal shiatsu masseuse for Mayor Richard Daley, performing with puppets (Scary Toesies), working as an activist for disability rights and quality of life issues, as well playing trumpet for a 30-person marching band (Mucca Pazza). Um, yeah. Started in 2005, Loto Ball Show has now evolved into an energetic rock band that screams out much of the same ferocity as The Phantom Limbs while bringing in more variety in mood, more shifts in volume and pace, and more eclectic sounds. A driving key-board driven form of No-Wave post-punk with hints of jazz syncopation and Middle-Eastern scales.
 

[Levy on the Eyeway] – CD/LP
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Up next: Tour

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THE MOON UPTAIRS
The Moon Upstairs live in their clubhouse making music you either appreciate or will in years to come.  With uncanny aggressiveness, infectious pop hooks, haunting harmonies, and assorted baroque psychedelic sounds, The Moon Upstairs have proven they are kings of songsmanship and a "a real band, not some sort of theme park dress-up act," as Dream Magazine’s George Parsons put it. Guarding the Golden Apple, a varied collection of songs, takes you back to the days of orchestration and the carefully crafted song work of such bands as The Left Banke, George Harrison, Neil Young and Pink Floyd, while maintaining a deep sense personal identity. Equal parts beautiful and gritty, this classic psychedelic rock-pop masterpiece has introduced the multi-instrumentalist members of The Moon Upstairs to the world and we feel so lucky to be part.

[Guarding The Golden Apple] – CD/LP

What they’re up to now: Box cutting

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SILVER APPLES
Contrasting the flowery psychedelic rock music of the late-1960s, the New York City-based Silver Apples created an avant-garde sound based on an extensive drum kit (originally played by Dan Taylor) and a little more than a homemade synthesizer/oscillator, dubbed “The Simeon” after group founder and lead singer, Simeon Coxe III. Silver Apples were one of the first groups to employ electronic music techniques extensively within a rock idiom and have influenced countless bands, everyone from Suicide to Spacemen 3 to Atari Teenage Riot. After a mysterious hiatus, the forefather of psychedelic electronic experimentation has returned.

[I Don’t Know] – 7” Split featuring Coxe protégé One Cut Kill)
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Coming: A limited edition CD-R and a collaboration LP with [shhh…]

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WOMEN & CHILDREN
Having met around "the Ha-Ha” Scene in Paris, Women & Children are a musical collective that revolves around the song writing of Cheryl Serwa and Kevin Lasting. Members have included Olivier Robert, Jamie Moon, Mike Fellows and John Webster Johns. We don’t know much about them personally except they’re really pretty people and have a naughty childlike innocence that makes us uncomfortable. The music featured on this EP fuses elements of goth, dark folk, rock and sound experimentation. Think Opal splashed with the moody mournful blue toned vocals of a [insert cliché], machine playing and playful spooks.

[Women & Children EP] – 12”
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What they’re up to now: Currently breast feeding and writing new songs.

ALSO COMING IN 2008:

INT’L SHADES
Together Mark C (Live Skull, Spoiler) and Bob Bert (Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Knoxville Girls, Action Swingers, Bewitched & co-founder of BB Gun Magazine) equal our love forever. With psych post-punk elements, swirling guitars and driving drums, Mark C and Bob Bert are in top form creating a hazy fog of beautiful convoluted noise, recalling components of their past bands but from a new perspective. As founders of the music term that would later ironically be called "indie rock," file this release alongside your Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr., and Sonic Youth. Also featured on the album: Tim Flojahn (Two Dollar Guitar, Thurston Moore, Townes Van Sandt, Boredoms, Jad Fair & Cat Power) and Alexa Wilding.

[Luv & Terror] – CD/LP
Coming AUGUST 5 2008!

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