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THRUSHES
Title: Sun Come Undone
Format: CD
Label: Birdnote
Street Date: 3/13/07 - Shipping Now!
Price: 7.49 Store / 6.49 Distro

Venerating Phil Spector as the patron saint of sonic emotion, their premise is strikingly simple. Rock music should be beautiful. Casey Harvey’s guitar work elevates grand canyon reverb to high art. More canvas than skeletal structure, its wall of sound is huge and enveloping. Giving form to these dreamscapes are Anna Conner’s simple, pretty vocal lines, which she colors with clean, clear guitar picking. Out of the sonic swirl, Rachel Tracy manages to distill a bass line somewhere between rock-steady groove and the root melody of a lullaby. Her parts construct a visible road map for Matt Davis to effortlessly meander through. With bells and shakers sitting on a table beside the hihat, his drumming is more orchestral than rock’n’roll and is peppered with beautiful triangle and xylophone melodies. On Sun Come Undone, their debut full length, Thrushes craft gorgeous noise pop and swirling dream rock. Opening with the cavernous drumming of “Aidan Quinn” into the revved-up, fuzzed out Jesus And Mary Chain-esque “Heartbeats,” and carried through the nods to Dead Can Dance in “Loyalty” and haunted claps of guitar thunder on “Ghost Train,” to the final feedback soaked fallout of “The Hardest Part,” this is the sound of blood on blood.

The Boston Phoenix named Thrushes 'Band Of The Week' Check it out and listen to an mp3 of 'Aidan Quinn' here: http://phoenixbandguide.com/artistprofile2.aspx?id=3206

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VARIOUS ARTISTS
Title: Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label
Format: CD
Label: Numero Group
Price: 11.89 USD

Short for 'Capital City Soul,' the Columbus Ohio Capsoul label's history spans only five short years throughout the 1970's. Founded by Bill Moss, a local singer and DJ at WVKO in Columbus, Capsoul released just a dozen 45's and one highly sought after LP resulting in a few regional hits. Numero 001 is a compilation of nineteen tracks spanning the label's all but forgotten history.

ANTENA
Title: Camino Del Sol
Format: CD
Label: Numero Group
Price: 9.99 USD

The best French-Belgian electro-samba record you've never heard. Antena's "Camino Del Sol" was first released in September 1982 as 5-song, 18-minute mini-LP on the elusive Brussels label, Les Disques Du Crepuscule.

Numero 002 contains re-mastered versions of the original "Camino Del Sol" tracks compiled along with the band's first EP, period B-sides, compilation tracks and two unreleased cuts.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Title: Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label
Format: CD
Label: Numero Group
Price: 11.89 USD

Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label takes a look at the underside of Chicago soul through twenty tracks of blistering R&B, sweet soul, and discofied funk. Hundreds of hours were spent researching, interviewing, re-mastering, and compiling the history of Bandit and the life of Arrow Brown. Unearthed in the process were two cassette tapes worth of acappella rehearsals that we've done our best to preserve in their lo-fi, in-the-red state. Numero 003 might be the deepest we'll ever dig. No map, no shovel, just a stack of 45's and a city of three million people.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Title: Yellow Pills: Prefill - A Powerful Pop CD
Format: 2xCD
Label: Numero Group
Price: 17.49 USD

In 1993 Jordan Oakes curated his initial Yellow Pills release, the first of a series collecting power pop essentials from 20/20, Dwight Twilley, The Rubinoos, The Plimsouls, and five dozen others. The series rapidly became the sonic rosetta stone for a newer generation of poppers who, sans the skinny ties, held true to the power pop manifesto of harmony, melody and ringing, rocking 6 and 12 string guitars.

Prefill is not so much a sequel, but as the name implies a prequel. The 33 tracks assembled here represent the least-heard, best examples of an era that felt nostalgic even the first time around.

FERN JONES
Title: The Glory Road
Format: CD
Label: Numero Group
Price: 9.99 USD

She sounded like Saturday night on a Sunday morning. Patsy on Jesus. Elvis without the pelvis. In the space of 20 years Fern Jones would perform in over 2000 tents and churches for nearly 50,000 people. She'd release two albums and a few impossibly rare 78s, and write one song that would be a classic on the gospel circuit for years to come.

Features not one, not two, but four members of Nashville's prestigous A-team fresh off June 1958 sessions with Elvis. Hank "Sugarfoot" Garland on guitar (Roy Orbison, Hank Williams, Everly Brothers), Floyd Cramer played piano (Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline), Joe Zinkan on bass (Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn), and the lovable Buddy Harman on drums (Willie Nelson).

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Title: Cult Cargo: Belize City Boil Up
Format: CD/2xLP
Label: Numero Group
Price: 11.89 USD/14.39 USD

Belizian’s call it Boil Up, and it’s anything but leftovers. Mix equal parts RandB, calypso, disco, funk, reggae, bruckdown, soul, folk, and whatever else can be found back on the bottom shelf of the musical pantry. Get ready to feast on passport stamped rhythms, second-deck cruise ship melodies, hotel pool calypso, soundtracks to movies not-yet-made, and anything else savory, or unsavory, enough to throw into the pot.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Title: Eccentric Soul: The Deep City Label
Format: CD
Label: Numero Group
Price: 11.89 USD

Possibly the most influential of all the 60s Miami soul label's, the Deep City sound not only changed the Metro-Dade area, but set the tone for disco powerhouse TK's impressive run in the 70s.

The singles on Willie Clark and Johnny Pearsall's Lloyd and Deep City label's are Florida's rarest of the rare, and we've collected the best of their four year run here. Includes Betty Wright and Paul Kelly's first sides, the can't-miss-but-did diva Helene Smith, obscure work by Frank Williams and the Rocketeers, as well as a previously unreleased acetate by the Moovers.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Title: Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies From The Canyon
Format: CD
Label: Numero Group
Price: 11.89 USD

By 1970 the folk revival was all but over. Gone were the days of “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” and “If I Had A Hammer.” Richard Farina was dead. Dylan plugged in. The sound that began in the hills and caught fire on the lower east side of Manhattan was now being reborn in the canyons of California.

The fruits of folk’s second renaissance are collected here. Wedged beneath the infrastructure of the music business, playing in coffee houses and at church picnics. Deeper than recent crit-revisionist darlings Linda Perhacs, Judee Sill, or Vashti Bunyan, Ladies From The Canyon takes a solid look at folk’s private and obscure underbelly.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Title: Eccentric Soul: The Big Mack Label
Format: CD
Label: Numero Group
Price: 11.89 USD

The fourth volume in our Eccentric Soul series examines the oil stained underside of the Motor City sound. There are no gold records, million dollar buyouts, or quaint museums at the end of the story, just a handful of four figure 45s, a box of photographs, and a condemned building. If Detroit was once an ocean of soul, the Big Mack label was certainly an island.

Big Mack lasted an incredible twenty years with out so much as a sniff of a hit. Dogged by lack of airplay, distribution, and a general lack of understanding of the music business, the label failed on almost every level except where it counted; the music. From soulful doo-wop to blistering garage funk, a left at sultry RandB and then a quick dodge into budget Hendrix wailing over a steel drum break, this disc is the epitome of Eccentric Soul.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Title: Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal
Format: CD/2xLP
Label: Numero Group
Price: 11.89 USD/14.39 USD

A collection of this nature can only exist in hindsight. “Gospel Funk” is a genre in the same way that deep soul or acid folk are, created by collectors and enthusiasts as a way to define a subsection of another genre. There aren't any labels, artists, or producers that focused strictly on funky gospel music; rather, there were a couple hundred groups that had a funkier number in their repertoire. The Numero Group has spent the last year scouring LPs and 45s for tracks that fit this bill, and have collected 18 standouts from this newly minted genre. The album is a mix of primitive choirs, spacious breaks, congas, elderly rappers impersonating the devil, cast recordings, thumping bass, and JB impressionists, all with a heavy slathering of gospel gravy.

VARIOUS ARTISTS
Title: Eccentric Soul: Mighty Mike Lenaburg
Format: CD
Label: Numero Group
Price: 11.89 USD

Our fifth stop on the Eccentric Soul train. A deep dig through the photo albums and tape libraries of Phoenix, Arizona's second family of soul. Released on a half dozen local and national labels throughout the 60s and 70s, Mike Lenaburg's productions represent that wrong side of the desert sound. A melange of Tejano psychedelia, flutey funk, horny soul, and fistfight doo-wop.

CATHERINE HOWE
Title: What A Beautiful Place
Format: CD
Label: Numero Group
Price: 9.99 USD

The first ever compact disc issue of Catherine Howe's brilliant debut album. Produced by legendary jazz pianist Bobby Scott, the album is a pastoral blend of English countryside folk and London orchestral pop, not unlike Bryter Layter or North Star Grassman And The Ravens. Originally released on Reflection Records in 1971, the much sought after album disappeared before ever hitting the racks. Booklet includes half a dozen unpublished photos and an anotated history of the album's brief existence. The fully remastered album includes an unearthed bonus track originally intended to be included on the album.

CALLA
Title: Strength In Numbers
Format: CD/LP
Label: Beggars Banquet
Price: 10.29 USD/8.09 USD

It's been over a year since the release of the band's Beggars Banquet debut, Collisions, and after touring extensively in support of the album, New York City based CALLA has returned with a brand new album that encompasses their signature experimental raw sound. This new album, entitled Strength In Numbers, was written and recorded while on tour abroad and in their hometowns where they had a chance to focus on their collections of field recordings. The group, which is comprised of Aurelio Valle, Wayne Magruder, and Peter Gannon, has continued to intrigue and satisfy their loyal fan base. They've created their own unique identity, and at the same time have been compared to Nick Cave and Low. A national tour will coincide with SXSW, along with subsequent touring in both major and secondary markets continuing through next summer. The marketing campaign will include a heavy online presence, radio, press, film/tv servicing, and instore play at retail and lifestyle accounts.

RJD2
Title: You Never Had It So Good
Format: 12"
Label: XL Recordings
Price: 3.19 USD

XL Recordings is very excited to be releasing the new Rjd2 record next month and to get all of you excited too we've got this hot 12", a Matador Direct exclusive. While Rj's new album has expanded his music into new realms you'll notice that this 12" shows that it is still grounded by the same fundamentals that have always driven his music. Get ready for a good time because really, you've never had it so good.