DeeCRACKS – Heart-Shaped Flexi Vinyl
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Just in time for the Valentine’s Day holiday, PIRATES PRESS RECORDS and DEECRACKS present this heart-shaped flexi for all to enjoy! From the band’s upcoming album “Sonic Delusions”, this custom shaped PVC flexi will be placed in every mail order and available at select stores while supplies last!
BAND NAME: DEECRACKS (Facebook / Twitter / Instagram / Bandcamp)
LABEL NAME: Pirates Press Records
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YOUNG JESUS, an indie rock quartet from Los Angeles, looks to communicate the tensions between proximity and distance, chaos and order. On their upcoming self titled record, the band focuses on seemingly small moments in everyday life: phone calls with Mom, landscapes along the highway, crows in a tree. Yet with time these strange intimacies add up to a life. A life full of anxiety, confusion, sadness, joy, boredom, and ultimately wonder. Preorder now at SADDLE CREEK!!
BAND NAME: Young Jesus (Facebook / Bandcamp / Twitter / Instagram)
LABEL NAME: Saddle Creek
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Nearly three years since their last full-length release, the Nordic heavy noise rockers in BARREN WOMB return with “Old Money / New Lows”, a jarring, mid-tempo dirge in 8 movements that sees the band further evolving into an animal all of its own. BARREN WOMB is currently on tour in Europe, but you can get your copy, including that sick picture disc version on ‘Ultra Clear’ vinyl, from SPARTAN RECORDS!

BAND NAME: Barren Womb (Website / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram)
LABEL NAME: Spartan Records
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“One”, the first ERIK PHILLIPS album since changing his name from CAT BE DAMNED, was recorded over the course of two years. In that time, ERIK graduated from college, paid for Ableton, got verified on Twitter, started working as a substitute teacher, lost verification on Twitter, and wrote songs while driving back to Fredericksburg to work a job as a roadside sign spinner on the weekends. It’s unclear to what degree each of these factors impacted “One”, but it’s Erik’s softest sound so far, as well as their densest. Available now on JOY VOID…

BAND NAME: Erik Phillips
LABEL NAME: Joy Void
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LOS TEMPESTADES is an independent Mexican rock band which was created in 2013, by Francisco Cravioto, who invited his blood brother and some other life brothers to join and give life to this honest music project. “Fieras” (Wild beasts) is an album based on those feelings that live inside us and around us but we usually don’t see nor consider. Is that wild fight between what it is, and what it should be. LOS TEMPESTADES will be touring around CDMX//Mexico City and the whole Mexican territory supporting “Fieras” !
BAND NAME: Los Tempestades (Website / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram)
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KING BUFFALO is a psychedelic trio in the classic format, whose expansive and thunderous music is a powerful concoction of heavy psych, blues, and stoner rock. Texturally rich and oozing with psychedelic goodness, yet honed and driving in the next blink of an eye. Their efforts coupled with their impressive live show, quickly gained them an international audience. Their first time releasing “Repeater” on vinyl, this special edition has a silkscreened B side, the ‘Black’ versions long sold out, you can still get a copy of the ‘Milky Clear’ version if you hurry, or catch them on their upcoming West Coast and European tours!

BAND NAME: King Buffalo (Website / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram)
LABEL NAME: Self released in North America. Stickman Records in Europe
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The doom bell tolls roughly every four years for Indiana’s APOSTLE OF SOLITUDE. Formed in 2004 by former The Gates Of Slumber drummer Chuck Brown, the band followed their 2008 “Sincerest Misery” debut with “Last Sunrise” in 2010, then, in between two splits and a demo, released “Of Woe And Wounds” in 2014, which also served as their first album for Italy’s CRUZ DEL SUR MUSIC. Just in time, APOSTLE OF SOLITUDE greets the legions of doom in early 2018 with their fourth studio album, “From Gold To Ash”!

BAND NAME: APOSTLE OF SOLITUDE
LABEL NAME: CRUZ DEL SUR MUSIC
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