Stick To Your Guns – “Better Ash Than Dust”
We have an even larger RECORD OF THE WEEK blog than last week so get your eyes prepared to feast on some killer vinyl!!
STICK TO YOUR GUNS is from Southern California and have solidified themselves as modern metalcore/hardcore pioneers over the last 10 years with their trademark sound. Currently out on tour in support of their latest EP, ‘Better Ash Than Dust’, this is the band’s debut album on PURE NOISE RECORDS! Better hope you’re not already too late to grab one of those tri-colored versions or the super sick splattered AsideBside record!
BAND NAME: Stick To Your Guns (Website / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram)
LABEL NAME: Pure Noise Records
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WINK BURCHAM is an old soul with a song craft that belies his age. With a genuine reverence to the past, this Tulsa, OK artist has a knack for writing witty, heartfelt lyrics that immediately pull the listener into his stories. The music easily slips between old-fashioned country, grass-roots folk, and Piedmont-style blues and is an important part of the New Tulsa Sound movement. Check out his third full length, ‘Cleveland Summer Nights” out now on HORTON RECORDS!
BAND NAME: WINK BURCHAM (Website / Facebook / Instagram)
LABEL NAME: HORTON RECORDS (Website / Twitter / Instagram)
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Australian recording artist KATIE DEY’S ‘nightmare pop’ weaves through gorgeous and unexpected soundscapes – at times weirdly off-putting, at others beautiful and ethereal – all anchored by a hypnotic sense of melody. Following her 2015 release, the new ‘Flood Network’ further explores the beauty in chaos and even destruction. Shape-shifting interludes realign the listener’s perspective between immersive sonic environments where melody and lyrics could mean anything, everything and nothing all at once. Get that beautiful AsideBside version over at JOY VOID if you still can!
BAND NAME: Katie Dey (Facebook / Twitter)
LABEL NAME: Joy Void
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Defined by perpetual motion and dedicated to personal freedom, TURNSTILE is back with 3 new songs! Always more appeal than demand, more liberation than limitation, TURNSTILE extend their hand in 2016 with ‘Move Thru Me’. With 6 different variations, POP WIG RECORDS went all in, hit them up for more info!
BAND NAME: Turnstile
LABEL NAME: Pop Wig
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THE CRYPT is proud to present the long out of print classic 1993 debut album “Malicious” from Switzerland’s brutal thrash metal act CAUSTIC! CAUSTIC varied their style for a unique approach, guaranteed to satisfy all fans of extreme metal. It is an unusual and independent world of brilliant murderous riffs filled with wonderful calm moments. Also included is the band’s amazing 1992 self titled EP.
BAND NAME: CAUSTIC
LABEL NAME: The Crypt (Website / Facebook)
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EAST RIVER RECORDS has been active for ten years. They release old-time music reissues and modern bands playing old time music. Many of their records include or feature legendary musician/ artist Robert Crumb who also draws all their covers. “Ever Felt The Pain?” is the first solo album from EAST RIVER STRING BAND co-founder John Heneghan featuring special guest musicians Robert Crumb, Don Flemons, Eli Smith & Jackson Lynch, Pat Conte and Eden Brower. The most powerful record produced by the East River crew to date, it includes deep country blues guitar tracks as well as traditional country blazers. It also has one of the greatest covers ever rendered by none other than Robert Crumb. The LP comes with colored vinyl and a 24” X 24” poster insert of the cover!
BAND NAME: John Heneghan & His Henpecked Husbands
LABEL NAME: East River Records (Website / Facebook)
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THE CRYPT brings you INDESTRUCTIBLE NOISE COMMAND’s crushing sophomore release “The Visitor”! This LP is designed after the original 1988 Giant Records CD release, taking elements from the original layout with attention to detail, even down to the logo and typeface for a touch of nostalgia. Also included are brand new liner notes from original band members Erik Barath, Dennis Gergely and Tony Fabrizi as well as old flyers and rare, unpublished classic band photos!
BAND NAME: INDESTRUCTIBLE NOISE COMMAND (Website / Facebook)
LABEL NAME: The Crypt (Website / Facebook)
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Twenty-five years after forming a band based on t-shirts they made before ever picking up their instruments, Calgary’s CHIXDIGGIT! still sounds like catchy summer tunes blasting from car windows. Specializing in three-minute songs that stick in your head for the next three weeks, CHIXDIGGIT! has always been more riff than raff. In spite of nearly three decades of a fluid band line-up anchored by singer/guitarist KJ Jansen, their enthusiastic brand of post-punk pop is neither faded nor jaded. Heading out on a full Canadian tour this fall, FAT WRECK CHORDS is your connect for the good stuff!
BAND NAME: Chixdiggit
LABEL NAME: Fat Wreck Chords (Website / Webstore)
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For the first time on vinyl, the crushing debut album from the cult Swedish death metal act MORPHEUS, featuring past and present members from such Swedish legends as Excruciate, Necrophobic, Egypt, Carbonized, Dismember, Exhumed and Nifelheim! Having long been out of print for 21 years and fetching outrageous prices online, THE CRYPT is proud to offer this amazing piece of history once again, featuring the original cover artwork, lyrics, new liner notes and classic band photos!
BAND NAME: MORPHEUS
LABEL NAME: The Crypt (Website / Facebook)
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Initially leaning on a more psych-metal sound with the self-released “Plague House” EP under their original moniker Leatherdaddy, MERSO is now moving into somber, more conceptual territory inspired by the proggy work of King Crimson and Yes, as well as the metaphorical underpinnings of Alan Moore’s groundbreaking run writing Swamp Thing. The new album ties all that together into a sound that transcends. GOOD TO DIE RECORDS brings you ‘Red World’ just in time for MERSO’s west coast tour starting in October.
BAND NAME: Merso (Website / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram)
LABEL NAME: Good to Die Records (Website / Facebook)
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LIZARD POLICE are four weirdos from Tulsa, Oklahoma who bonded over 90’s alt-rock, midwestern-emo and heavy metal before touring several years together and blasting a ton of Thin Lizzy in the van. The second installment of their egotistical full length hyper-sigil trilogy. Coming at you from LITTLE MAFIA RECORDS, check out KIZARD POLICE on tour beginning in November (where there are rumors the band will play in full drag in Missouri).
BAND NAME: Lizard Police (Bandcamp / Facebook / Instagram)
LABEL NAME: Little Mafia Records
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Have fun this weekend!!
