 Boxer Rebellion
Promises
Absentee/Ingrooves
ADDS 5/21/13
DIGITAL ONLY
London-based indie-rock quartet The Boxer Rebellion's album, Promises, is now available. The new album, produced in conjunction with notable producer Billy Bush, is the uplifting and cinematic follow-up to the band's critically-acclaimed The Cold Still. Fans who pre-ordered Promises instantly received a download of the album's first single, "Diamonds," a song The Boxer Rebellion will perform live on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on Friday, June 14. In addition to the release of the new album, the Promises North American tour will see the band's immense live show re-worked from the ground-up, starting in Montreal on May 21 and hitting numerous cities for the first time ever, including Edmonton, Calgary, and Pittsburgh. The band will also play Neptune, Seattle (6/2); Fillmore, San Francisco (6/5); Avalon, Los Angeles (6/7); Metro, Chicago (6/15); and Webster Hall, NYC (6/20). A complete list of tour dates is here (contact us for any opportunities). The Boxer Rebellion has also announced its largest UK headline show to date, a performance at the legendary venue The Forum on October 11. Tickets for the upcoming tour are now on sale.
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 Transplants
Come Around [Single]
Epitaph
ADDS 5/21/13
DIGITAL ONLY
Almost 2 years ago, Tim Armstrong, Travis Barker and Rob Aston found themselves back in the studio working on the third Transplants album. The band coined those sessions “Transplants Tuesday’s” with no real goal other than getting together and making music. The music that did come from those sessions, show a growth and maturity for the band, all while sticking to the distinct Transplants style represented on their 2 previous albums – 2002’s debut “Transplants” and 2005’s “Haunted Cities.” “When we started this band 13 years ago, we weren’t worried about who was going to like us. We still aren’t. “IN A WARZONE” is more raw and stripped down than our previous releases. In my opinion, it’s our best album.” Says Rob Aston. Rob further goes on to note: “It’s always been difficult to classify Transplants. At the end of the day, we’re a punk rock band. We make whatever type of music we want.” More info and video stream courtesy of KROQ: http://kroq.cbslocal.com/2013/04/09/transplants-debut-new-song-come-around-2/ On Tour with Rancid all summer! http://thetransplants.com/shows/ (contact us for opportunities) Download Single Here: More Info Here:
 Steph Barrak
Painted Face [SINGLE]
Self-Released
ADDS 5/21/13
DIGITAL ONLY
"Barrak mixes the heartfelt with the optimistic, for a palatable take on acoustic indie-pop." - Perry Eaton, Allston Pudding "This girl is one to keep an eye on!" - Jimmy Lloyd, The Jimmy Lloyd Songwriter Showcase on NBC "...never fails to draw "this should be in a movie" comments." - Jessy Bartlett, WTBU Watch the video for the single here: http://youtu.be/9k_khDgTigE
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 Mylets
Retcon
Sargent House
ADDS 5/14/13
DIGITAL ONLY
A collection of songs remixed and remastered from three previous EPs as well as all three glassroom session tracks as bonus’. Retcon marks Mylets’ debut release on Sargent House and serves as a precursor to the full length debut currently in the works and planned for release early next year. "LA’s own Mylets consists of Henry Kohen on vocals, Henry Kohen on guitar, and Henry Kohen on the sampling pad. The usual one-man-band thing can get tiresome, but Kohen nails it. His style of jittery, grungy, angsty rock is the kind of sound that he probably wouldn’t want any other musicians to ruin. Using delay pedals to loop guitar parts and sampled drums, he effortlessly creates a complete band right in front of your eyes. When I complimented him on his scream after his set, he replied “Yeah…it hurts,” the perfect self-depreciating response from a lone musician whose talent probably makes him as uncomfortable as it does proud." - LA Music Blog "Building fresh fabric layer by layer, Henry Kohen as Mylets births a syncopatic slow-moving beast with a thousand whirring parts. Kohen is both the architect and the conduit for every sound that you will hear on his new release, Retcon – released today. It’s no wonder Sargent House scooped him up before the crest of musical-pathfinding-as-a-business discovered the young man’s loop-based array of sound." - Spread (5 Stars)
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 Caroline Rose
America Religious
Self-Released
ADDS 5/14/13
DIGITAL ONLY
"…Each track seems to tackle a new topic and make even the most familiar themes feel fresh." - Paste Magazine America Religious is a 12-track collection of stories and poetry set against a gritty landscape of Roots-inspired Rock, Americana, Folk, Gospel, and Rhythm & Blues. Caroline Rose and partner Jer Coons cover all elements from production and recording to mixing and engineering, as well as playing nearly all the instruments themselves (lap steel, cello, organ, mandolin, and drums to name a few). The duo arranged and recorded America Religious at Coons’ Park Hill Studio in Burlington, Vermont. Rose’s songwriting stands on its own in the ground covered by the likes of Townes Van Zandt, Joni Mitchell, and John Prine. America Religious covers an array of topics ranging from current political issues to honest, sometimes heartbreaking self-realizations. The songs of America Religious reflect years of travel, happenstance meetings with strangers, and conversations with old friends and distant relatives. More than simply words set to music, they evoke feelings of familiar stories and long-forgotten memories.
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 The Mohawk Lodge
Damaged Goods
White Whale
ADDS 5/14/13
DIGITAL ONLY
The Mohawk Lodge are currently releasing their 4th album, Damaged Goods, in the US this May.. It’s their take on punk, and at 30 minutes even, is their rawest, shortest and visceral record to date. Previous records included their Smog-tinged Rare Birds-’04, Wildfires-’07 (featuring Dan Boeckner from Wolf Parade/Handsome Furs), and Crimes ‘10 (featuring Dan Mangan). A blurry mix of Springsteen, a teenage Swervedriver, a Repeater-era Fugazi and Neil Young circa Ragged Glory all come together in Damaged Goods, along with the raw, urgent atmosphere of early-nineties lo-fi rock and roll. This is the music of one man’s disjointed route on planet earth, and when focused into music, it becomes one cathartic, epic voyage. If you'd like to go to a show, request an interview or in-studio, etc. e-mail radio@piratepirate.com with your info. All tour dates are here: http://whitewhale.ca/label/artist/shows/
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 AM & Shawn Lee
La Musique Numérique
Park The Van
ADDS 5/7/13
DIGITAL ONLY
"...the ultimate Friday afternoon track." - Nylon "...one of the best contemporary acts on the planet" - Ryan's Smashing Life "AM & Shawn Lee totally killed this Joe Jackson cover." (track #12) - Death And Taxes "...together they have a knack for crafting evocative mini-masterpieces" - All Music (4.5/5 Stars) "...mixing up the decades with 80's digi-reggae, 70's soul, and haunting Casio keyboards." - Rolling Stone AM & Shawn Lee kick off their U.S. tour in Portland June 13th to bring us their second full length LP La Musique Numérique: a sun-filled, space funk masterwork with hints of disco, soul, and reggae blending early digital technology with decade blurring songwriting transporting listeners deeper into the sonic crates from which the music was born. However these out-sound influences aren't plugged into a computer program and spit out through modern day micro technology. The instruments are played, the vocals are sung and the songs are written, proving an even stronger connection to the past. Album lead off "Two Times" introduces a Sleng Teng Riddim influenced sex groove complete with unexpected synth jabs and smooth soulful vocals while a rendition of Joe Jackson's 1982 hit "Steppin' Out" sees the new wave classic taken deeper into the cosmos. La Musique Numerique's interstellar journey takes you in and out of faded memories of disco, funk, soul and reggae but never sets foot on any of these planets; never colonizes one style. It is, in effect, pure AM & Shawn Lee. If you'd like to go to a show, request an interview or in-studio, etc. e-mail radio@piratepirate.com with your info. All tour dates are here: http://www.amandshawnlee.tumblr.com
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 Teenage Bottlerocket
Freak Out!
Fat Wreck Chords
ADDS 5/7/13
DIGITAL ONLY
Road warriors Teenage Bottlerocket join Face to Face on a massive U.S. tour beginning April 24th in Reno, NV. The Laramie, WY punks continue supporting their latest offering, Freak Out! released in 2012 but at radio for the first time now! TBR are hitting just about every city in the U.S. and if you’re unlucky and can’t make a show, you can watch these blistering videos of the band performing in Montreal last year, where they’ll be revisiting on this tour as part of the Pouzza Fest! "Hey friends, we are busier than ever and really stoked! We just got done recording a song for the Tony Sly tribute at the Blasting Room, we are playing this year's Pouzza Fest in Montreal and if that's not enough excitement, we are hitting the road for 2 months with the one and only Face to Face! We are also working out tour dates for later in the year and it looks like we are going just about everywhere, so keep checking back with us as new shows are coming in all of the time! Come party with us!" - Teenage Bottlerocket If you'd like to go to a show, request an interview or in-studio, etc e-mail radio@piratepirate.com with your info. All tour dates are here: http://www.fatwreck.com/tour/single_artist/92 Download Full CLEAN & DIRTY Albums Here: More Info Here:
 Graham MacRae
Dundrearies
A man A plan A canal
ADDS 5/7/13
DIGITAL ONLY
“Take it slow,” Graham MacRae advises midway through his new album, Dundrearies. It’s a good piece of advice, and one that he follows. Taking a hand-made approach to everything from his songwriting to the album’s artwork (which he drew himself), MacRae has crafted a record of folky, thoughtful, singer-songwriter fare in the vein of Bill Callahan. Building on his 2008 self-titled debut’s introspective musings and acoustic finger-picking, Dundrearies treads similar territory with the addition of electric guitar, keyboards, and more, to create a layered, intimate sound. The dramas of everyday life are played out in narratively impressionistic songs about fizzled relationships (“Burst Her Bubble”) and the struggles that come with trying to move from one phase of life into another (“Game Changer”). MacRae delivers his thoughts on these and other themes in a plainspoken, tuneful style—tinged at times with country flair, on tracks like “The Papers.” Joined in the studio by David Newton (The Mighty Lemon Drops) and Lee LaDouceur (The Little Ones), MacRae rounds out his original songs’ melodies with gentle rhythms and caps the album on either end with rollicking barroom numbers. The meat of Dundrearies, though, is a downtempo contemplation of loneliness, disappointment, and how to live well. Pen and paper are never far from hand for MacRae, who spends as much time on his “elaborate doodlings” as he does creating songs. Indeed, Built to Spill appreciated MacRae’s drawings so much that they used them as press photos for their 2009 release, There Is No Enemy, and as cover art for their 2010 Record Store Day 7” release, “Water Sleepers.” MacRae plans to release a collection of his drawings within the next year. With his slow and steady approach and personal songwriting, MacRae has made a record in a classic style that’s instantly relatable to people looking for personal connection in an increasingly detached and fragmented world.
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 Pretty & Nice
Golden Rules for Golden People
Rory / Equal Vision
ADDS 4/30/13
DIGITAL ONLY
“Their love of late-70’s new wave (Squeeze, Elvis Costello, XTC) is still in full effect, as is the band’s way with an infectious hook.” - Brooklyn Vegan "...there's something about the way Boston trio Pretty & Nice re-imagine the playfully manic, barbed-wire sounds of Devo, XTC, and This Year's Model-era Elvis Costello..." - Pitchfork "...upbeat, quirky speaker thwappers that split the difference between the Shins and Of Montreal" - MTV Hive "The band buries post-punk hooks under feverish ranting and the trash-can clang of robotic electro... Riffs are spot-welded to jerky beats, and the whole sound hinges on a gleeful self- deconstruction." - The AV Club Pretty & Nice is comprised of Jeremy Mendicino (lead vocals/guitar/gadgets), Holden Lewis (lead vocals/guitar/keys), and Roger Lussier (bass/keys/horn). The band has toured and shared stages with the likes of The Get Up Kids, Miniature Tigers, The Thermals, Title Tracks (John Davis from Q and not U), and Built to Spill. The band has already announced several tour dates for 2013, including runs with Jukebox the Ghost, Northern Faces, and performed at SXSW. The band released their debut LP Pink & Blue in 2006 and followed up with an EP, Blue & Blue, the following year. In 2008, Pretty & Nice launched their critically acclaimed Get Young full-length album through Hardly Art, earning rave reviews and attention from the likes of Pitchfork, AV Club, MTV Hive, NPR's All Songs Considered, Interview Magazine and more.
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 Ten Foot Polecats
Undertow
Hillgrass Bluebilly
ADDS 4/30/13
DIGITAL ONLY
Neither hell nor high water could stop them. Boston-bred blues-stomp band Ten Foot Polecats are back with a new album, Undertow on Austin’s Hillgrass Bluebilly Records, out April 30th, 2013. Playing super-charged gutbucket tunes with a strong Mississippi sound, the trio formed five years and barnstormed around the country. Playing festivals like Deep Blues Festival helped spread the gospel to like-minded music lovers from coast to coast, earning them the kind of rabid fans that money can’t buy. Undertow is their third album, recorded at Vizzable Studios in Newton, MA and mastered by industry giant Toby Mountain. They’ll hit the road in April and May then head out on a summer tour with stops at Heavy Rebel Weekender, Muddy Roots and the Roots, Rock & Deep Blues Festival this summer, where; they’ll be joined by Jack Oblivian, Dale Watson, Red Simpson, Shooter Jennings and a slew of other keepers of the American music flame. They recorded Undertow with Richard “Rosy” Rosenblatt, former Tone-Cool Records honcho and accomplished harmonica player. Rousseau said “Rosy understands what our sound is about and we knew he could capture the live energy of the band.” Scheffler added “Having recorded with so many great artists, such as Susan Tedeschi, North Mississippi All-Stars, Hubert Sumlin, Rosy knows the importance of vibe over technical perfection.” Ten Foot Polecats will tour in May behind the album with Molly Gene One Whoaman Band as the Ten Foot Polecats Electroduo – which entails Jay singing and playing harp while Chilson plays guitar and keeping the rhythm on an electric porchboard made from a downed fence in his back yard. There will be a full band tour in July that takes the band through the Northeast, Southeast and Midwest. Since 2009, Ten Foot Polecats put thousands of miles on the van touring the US, playing with T-Model Ford, Wayne Hancock, Dexter Romweber, Scott H. Biram, Larry and His Flask, and other killer roots bands. Ten Foot Polecats are living proof that music saves us from mishaps and ruination, regardless of the source.
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Inside The Sun
Self-Released
ADDS 4/30/13
DIGITAL ONLY
SONEN, the Atlanta, GA electro-pop duo made up of Keith Evans and Holly Mullinax, make music you wouldn’t expect to come from a city known for Hip Hop and Garage Rock. Yet ATL has a rich underground music and art scene that is both inspiring and exciting, and it’s in that creative incubator that SONEN came to be. The group’s deeply resonant bass lines, vintage tinged strings and harmonious male-female vocals come together to form a seductive, compelling sound that will consume listeners entirely and leave them sweaty and satisfied. Following a 2010 EP release, SONEN shared the stage with artists such as Diplo, STRFKR, Flying Lotus, Dam Funk, and Casio Kids; developing a reputation for, as The Big Beat so astutely observed, “turning the kids into a sweaty mess.” When the time came for SONEN to create their debut full length, Inside the Sun, Creative Loafing’s “Best Electronic Band of Atlanta” took a multifaceted approach to the project. The duo set out to capture the excitement of their live performances (in 2012, the duo added drummer Noel Goff to the lineup to bring another layer of energy to their live show,) and combine that rapturous energy with a more intimate, alluring tone; hoping to not only compel listeners to dance, but to move them to feel. “Akin to Handsome Furs meets LCD Soundsystem meets Queens Of The Stone Age, their latest EP is an eight-song strong belter, running through sullen vocals and atmos- pheric synths, to murky basslines and three-dimensional beats that’ll get you dancing and taking shit easy from one song to the next.” - Indie Rock Café “One thing is for sure, Atlanta, GA based Sonen will keep your bodies moving all night with their electronica dance grooves all while applying the fundamentals of Rock & Roll to their get-down-and-boogy dance-rock sound....” - Listen Before You Buy “There’s a new wave revolution going on in Atlanta. This band, Sonen, along with a few others, are dragging it out into the light. “ - Boom Boom Chick “The beats thump in your chest and the warbling electronics aim to move the hips as well as the head...Through constant motion and densely layered instrumentation, the songs on Inside the Sun are immediately engaging while also taking their time to reveal all the little nuances that you begin to hear after repeated spins.” - Beats Per Minute
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 Tera Melos
X'ed Out
Sargent House
ADDS 4/23/13
DIGITAL ONLY
“There just aren’t a lot of bands exploring guitar textures this way any more, and Tera Melos definitely fill a void.” – Amoeba “It's obvious that Tera Melos have come a ways in reconciling their passion for mathy expansiveness with tightly coiled bursts of rock.” – Pitchfork Truly great art is that which can't be easily understood and dissected, but immediately resonates nonetheless. Tera Melos' new full length, X'ed Out is just that kind of adventure. The songs transcend in a way that makes you want to sit friends down to hear it, not only to share the experience, but perhaps in hopes that together you can create the world in which songs like this can be defined. It hits mental buttons and flicks internal switches that you never knew existed, while cleverly obscuring the technical precision for which the band has been known. It's remarkably multifaceted, incredibly catchy and perplexing to unravel exactly how it all works. "It's like visiting a friend who lives on the 14th floor of a building with no elevator, yet he has a grand piano in his apartment," explains bassist Nathan Latona. "How did he get it there? Was it carried up 14 flights of stairs, assembled on site or what? This record is the piano in the apartment with no elevator. We wanted to do all of the tricky stuff in a way that doesn't seem noticeable." X'ed Out is the culmination of an arc begun on Tera Melos' first proper full-length, Patagonian Rats (Sargent House, 2010) -- a supercollider of 60s pop hooks, Minutemen garage-prog, post-punk evisceration, wiry psychedelia and nearly everything else in-between. Here, the Sacramento based trio burns and simmers simultaneously while situated somewhere without benefit of location services. It's a nowhere land, X'ed Out of the grid, both inviting and daring. Join us.
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 Victory
Victory Is Music
Reserva Records
ADDS 4/23/13
DIGITAL ONLY
Victory's debut LP 'Victory is Music' will be out April 23rd and will only be available on limited edition clear blue vinyl and digitally via Reserva Records (Victory's own label). Victory is the music project of Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist Robert Fleming. 'Victory is Music' was recorded, produced and written by Robert Fleming in his bedroom and his makeshift recording studio using his DIY aesthetic. It features Joey Waronker (Atoms For Peace, Ultraista, Beck) on drums and was mixed and mastered by multiple-Grammy award winning engineer Chris Testa (Rick Rubin, Butch Vig).
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 Laura Cortese
Into The Dark
Self-Released
ADDS 4/23/13
DIGITAL ONLY
Last year we brought you Laura Courtese's album Pine as part of the outfit The Poison Oaks, now on the bold yet elegant new album "Into the Dark," Laura Cortese writes and plays with the vivid eloquence of an artist schooled in the rituals of folk music. "A fiddle-drenched Americana gem." - American Songwriter "Ambition often follows talent, and Laura Cortese has an embarrassment of both. Her open-armed approach to her art reveals a determination to spread the word about folk music and dance without watering down their distinctiveness." - John Wenzel~The Denver Post "Technically brilliant yet warmhearted fiddling - sprinkled with urbane splashes off cool jazz and hot pop." - Boston Globe
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 System and Station
System and Station
Latest Flame Records
ADDS 4/23/13
DIGITAL ONLY
System and Station unearth new ground with their latest self-titled release. Their 15 years pounding the pavement demonstrates that pushing beyond your limits pays off. This album is succinct, dynamic and demands attention. You can draw influences (everything from Fugazi to John Coltrane) about System and Station but they’re about compression and originality. From the colossal opener “Turned Guns” the spark is lit and the album burns until the epic closer “Fly us to the Moon”. Every hook, time signature and melody moves seamlessly throughout the forty minutes. Songs like “Fools”, “I met the Devil and the Devil was you” and “Occupied” glisten with three part harmonies and gargantuan guitar riffs. “Saturday Night Friends” is the showstopper with its heavy rock boogie; imagine Led Zeppelin as played by Stevie Wonder. This album showcases System and Station is a sum of its parts. RFK Heise (Vocals, Guitar) is the primary songwriter and arranger but the execution is purely System and Station. The thunderous rhythm section of Adam Schultz (Bass) and Bryan Fairfield (Drums) is honed on the album in the form of an unstoppable train. Josh Vasby (Guitar, Vocals) weaves in and out of the arrangements with colors and shades of light and dark as well as shining vocal harmonies with RFK. Larry Crane (Elliott Smith, She and Him, Decemberists) is again on board as engineer and co producer. Lucky for us the long road System and Station has travelled is paved with albums like these. Preview the album here: http://noisetrade.com/systemandstation/system-and-station
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 The Knife
Shaking The Habitual
Mute
ADDS 4/16/13
DIGITAL ONLY
"... Shaking the Habitual is, inarguably, an achievement. It is the Knife's most political, ambitious, accomplished album, but in a strange way it also feels like its most personal: It provides a glimpse into the desires, intellectual enthusiasms and (unsurprisingly dense) reading list guiding one of music's most shadowy duos...." “We didn’t plan to make another album Started to improvise letting go by entering the work process with an open and inquiring mindset, the record turned in to something completely different than it would have been if the end goal had been a finished album all along Once you stop caring about rules.” The Knife have released a short film 'The Interview'. Created in conjunction with Marit Östberg who directed the “Full of Fire” video, it goes some way to explain their intentions and thought processes behind their startling new album Shaking The Habitual, released this week to wide critical acclaim.
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 Bad Rabbits
Doin’ It [SINGLE]
ADDS 4/16/13
DIGITAL ONLY
Bad Rabbits Premiere “Doin’ It” Video on Vibe.com Set To Make Their National TV Debut May 17th on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Joining Kendrick Lamar and Steve Aoki for Karmaloop’s Verge Campus Tour in April & Performing at Boston Calling Music Festival on May 25th (tour dates here, ask us about tickets/interviews/etc!). Debut Album ‘American Love’ Out May 14th Preview the "Doin' It" single here: Vice’s Noisey or MTV Buzzworthy! “Go see Bad Rabbits. Just do it. Thank us later.” – Billboard “Bad Rabbits are the coolest band in Boston. They sound like a 25-year-old Bobby Brown fronting the Cars and Mission of Burma at the same time.” – Boston Herald “The Boston quintet treads a fine line between sexy R&B swag, rock 'n' roll soul, and alternative metal crunch. In a day and age where everybody is derivative of something else, Bad Rabbits stand alone. That's why they could very well change the game for good.” – ArtistDirect Download Clean & Dirty versions of the single here: More Info Here:
 Sink Tapes
Super Happy [SINGLE]
Mint 400 Records
ADDS 4/16/13
DIGITAL ONLY
There are very few things that can be called timeless. In music, and genres in particular, the word timeless isn’t used very often. The industry is consumed by an ever-expanding roster of bands looking to create the next new sound and digital technologies flooding out traditional methods. Most music produced today is far from timeless. But, every now and then you come across a group that is influenced by those select few bands that made the cut and produced something truly lasting. The New Brunswick-based alternative indie rock group, Sink Tapes, is one of them. Taking inspiration from bands such as The Velvet Underground, Television, and The Replacements, it doesn’t take long to hear the classic undertones in Sink Tapes’ music. Melodic, crisp tracks flow effortlessly, with touches of early ‘90s alt-rock and late ‘70s pop sensibility. Modern rock elements anchor the group’s sound and give their music a defining characteristic as not something repeated, but something innovative. As the newest addition to the Mint 400 Records roster from out of the basement scene of New Brunswick, NJ comes a band wise beyond their years and we hope you enjoy them as much as we do. "Like an extended audio drug trip, their sound is alternately blissful, sleepy and mildly disorienting. Their commitment to this potent aesthetic finds them effectively eschewing traditional pop songcraft in favor of mood." - Jason Kundrath | Pop Break "well constructed songs that will definitely secure them a place in the future of indie." - ListenBeforeYouBuy.net "With noisy, atmospheric guitars and vocals, Sink Tapes take distortion and mix it with a kind of Jersey cool that transcends the decades." - Buzzbin Magazine Download Single Here: More Info Here:
 Alkaline Trio
My Shame Is True
Epitaph
ADDS 4/9/13
DIGITAL ONLY
Cult punk rock heroes, Alkaline Trio return with My Shame Is True, their most dynamic album to date. Recorded with Bill Stevenson of punk legends The Descendents and Black Flag and with Jason Livermore at the producers’ Blasting Room Studios in Colorado, My Shame Is True pushes the band into new musical terrain while embracing their classic Trio sound. The album contains 40 minutes of passionate punk-filled rock that showcases guitarist/vocalist Matt Skiba, bassist/vocalist Dan Andriano and drummer Derek Grant at their absolute best. "We're very proud of it,” says Matt Skiba. “Once we got in the studio, the songs really took on a shape of their own.” From the album’s first melodic opener “She Lied To The FBI” to the first single, “ I Wanna Be A Warhol” the Trio waste no time setting the tone for their energetic, hook-filled, eighth studio album. For the first time ever on an Alkaline Trio record, My Shame Is True finds a guest appearance from Rise Against’s Tim Mcllarth on rousing punk rock anthem, “I , Pessimist”, while songs like “I’m Only Here to Disappoint” and album closer, “Till Death Do Is Part” remind fans of classic Trio, with stellar song-writing and catchy choruses. Determined to never make the same record twice, Alkaline Trio have preserved the most electric elements of their collaborative songwriting abilities while pushing ahead creatively and as a band. With multiple world tours, numerous chart successes, and over fifteen years under their belt, the dark punk trio have cemented their legacy with My Shame Is True. "It's never been about being rich or famous,” continues Skiba. “We always wanted to have the band be our career… to have that longevity… that should be the goal. We are going to do it until it stops being fun. If it ever feels like a job, why would you be involved in the arts at all? We have the right chemistry as a band and with crowds, big or small. We have community within a community.” Alkaline Trio first emerged from Chicago in 1996 and has since released eight full length studio albums Goddamnit, Maybe I'll Catch Fire, From Here To Infirmary, Good Mourning, Crimson, Agony & Irony, This Addiction and Damnesia. Alkaline Trio Release Fiery, Confessional 'My Shame Is True' - Billboard
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 Skaters
I Wanna Dance (7")
Warner
ADDS 2/26/13
DIGITAL ONLY
Warner Bros. Records is pleased to announce that it has signed buzzed-about New York City-based rock band SKATERS to its roster. Their smart, dynamic sound blends their disparate new wave, punk and hip-hop influences into their own modern indie hybrid. Their live shows and independently released EP has already earned them attention from The New York Times, Vice/Noisey, BlackBook, Interview, Paste, as well as airplay on BBC Radio 1 in the U.K. and Triple J Radio in Australia. SKATERS were formed in early 2012 after singer Michael Ian Cummings and Noah Rubin spent a year trading demos back and forth from Los Angeles to London with guitarist Joshua Hubbard. A few months later, the three met in a Chinatown loft to created their own art zine, YONKS, and record their debut EP, Schemers, which was given away for free on the band’s website and drew immediate critical praise: "SKATERS play dark garage rock featuring Michael Ian Cummings's energetic front-and-center vocals." — The New Yorker "SKATERS are taking the NYC music scene by storm." — Vice / Noisey "Punchy, power chord-laden romps with sing-along choruses are elevated to anthems with generous reverb." — The Deli Magazine "The trio met in New York to record an EP of sturdy, electrifying punk that draws from the energy of today's young musicians yet remains connected to the traditional Boston and NYC scenes." — Filter "Skaters are about to explode." — Blackbook SKATERS debut full-length will be released by Warner Bros. Records this summer. In the meantime, the band will release their first 7-inch single on April 9th, which will feature tracks “I Wanna Dance (But I Don’t Know How)” and “Armed.” Check out the band when they perform at SXSW in Austin, Texas, this March and stay tuned for SKATERS’ first headlining tour to kick off in April. More details to be announced soon.
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