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Final Pieces of Jay’s Shattered Record Club
From Jay Reatard’s Official Website
The final pieces of the Jay Reatard Shattered Club are in manufacture and will be ready to be shipped in 2-4 weeks.
We had promised an original 7″ exclusively for Shattered Club members. Two days before Jay passed away he recorded two songs at home: “You Get No Love” and “I Am Growing.” They were to be his final recordings. They have never been heard before now. We have pressed these songs onto a 7″ and it will be available only to you. It will not be for sale in any shops, not given to blogs for free download, and will not available digitally. Inside the 7″ you’ll find a personal note written by Jeffrey Novak.
We had promised a live 7″ exclusively for Shattered Club members. Instead we are sending you a full live album from an incredible set at the Golden Plains Festival in Australia in 2008. This is a full-length 14-song LP, again only for Shattered Club members.
We had promised a t-shirt exclusively for Shattered Club members. Nicholas Gazin, the artist who created the images for Jay’s final tour – The Shattered Records Tour – has painted a watercolor that we are printing on t-shirts. This will only be available to Shattered members.
Shattered Club members have also received Watch Me Fall on CD or LP, and MP3s ofWatch Me Fall, the 25-song Greatest Messes: The Shattered Club Edition, The Reatards’Teenage Hate, Jeffrey Novak’s “Home Sweet Home” and Hunx & His Punx’s “Teardrops On My Telephone.” We will also be sending MP3s of the final Shattered Records 7″ from Useless Eaters entitled “Hear/See.”
Expect more goodies at random in these packages, including test pressings, Shattered Tour t-shirts, and other items we have been saving up.
In 2011 there will be a full slate of Jay releases, including a feature-length documentary film, Reatards and Lost Sounds reissues, and a definitive greatest hits record.
Thursday is first anniversary of Jay’s passing.
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There is a link to buy a $75 subscription to the SRC and receive all of the above goodies, but it says there is no shipping to the US. Hopefully that was just an error or there will be eventually.
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NEW HUNX LP! “Too Young to Be in Love”
On March 29, KLYAM Fave Hunx and His Punx will be releasing their studio deubt Too Young to Be in Love on Hardly Art records. With the exception of the upcoming Black Lips LP, this record is the next big thing for me, I really can’t wait to hear it when it’s all ready to go. I’ve been a big fan of about half of the tracks based on their demos, so it should be a goodie. Speaking of which, here is the tracklist:
1) Lovers Lane
2) He’s Coming Back
3) Keep Away From Johnny
4) The Curse of Being Young
5) Too Young to Be in Love
6) If You’re Not Here (I Don’t Know Where You Are)
7) Bad Boy
8) Tonite Tonite
9) Can We Get Together?
10) Blow Me Away
New Glassjaw EP!!!
Release: January 1, 2011
Title: Our Color Green (The Singles)
Tracks:
1) All Good Junkies Go to Heaven
2) Jesus Glue
3) Natural Born Farmer
4) Stars
5) You Think You’re (John Fucking Lennon)
Label: No Fucking Label! Self-Released suckas!
For Glassjaw fans this is somewhat of a milestone. Their last major release was 2002’s Worship and Tribute, fans have been waiting for what feels like an eternity for the “new album.” Hopefully this is jus a precursor to a new LP. A review of this EP will be up soon.
Nobunny Tour Info!
Typically I only post tour information that is pertinent to the Boston area, but Nobunny is the man and his likeness is on the background of this webpage, so here y’all go:
1/1 – Chicago @ Empty Bottle w/ Hot Machines, Ramma Lamma, Spectras
2/2 – Olypmia, WA @ Northern*
2/3 – Vancouver BC @ Railway Club*
2/4 – Seattle, WA @ Funhouse*
2/5 – Portland, OR @ Slabtown*
2/9 – San Francisco, CA @ Knockout*
2/10 – Sacramento, CA @ The Hub*
2/11 – Los Angeles, CA @ 6th st Warehouse*
2/12 – San Diego, CA @ Till Two
2/13 – Tucson, AZ @ Solar Culture
2/15 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s
2/16 – Houston, TX @ Rudyards
2/17 – Denton, TX @ tba
2/18 – Tulsa, OK @ tba
2/25 -San Francisco, CA @ NoisePop
4/24 – Nobunny’s 10yr anniversary – 5 cities in one day!
Los Angeles, CA @ Playboy Mansion
Plus shows in Chicago, Tucson, Oakland, and New York
*with Dreamdate
May- full USA tour
Jonathan Richman @ Somerville Theatre In March
– Thursday, March 3
– On Sale Soon!
– Check website: http://feitheatres.com/somerville-theatre/events/
New Info. About Handsome Furs Third Studio LP
Spinner.com:
“We kind of realized after we made that ‘Face Control’ record that one of the strengths of the band that really separated it from Wolf Parade — and separated the two audiences — was there was more of a dance party vibe than sort of a cerebral rock vibe to the crowd [at] the shows,” he continued. “It was really cool to be able to have those things separate so I could enjoy them separately — I think we’re kind of going more in the sweaty, punk dance party vibe.”
Handsome Furs is currently touring eastern Europe, and so far have one North American date in Chicago already booked for 2011, they’ll play at Lincoln Hall January 15. According to Boeckner, the band’s new album will be out “late spring/ early summer” if everything goes as planned.”
Nobunny’s Raw Romance Coming To LP Courtesy Burger Records
Nobunny’s collection of old demos, alternative takes, and the like came out as Raw Romance in 2009 in cassette form. Flash forward to February 2011 and you will be able to buy that same collection of recordings, but in VINYL. Burger Records — one of KLYAM’s top record labels of the year (and in general)…more on this later — will be releasing it!
Bright Eyes – “Four Winds”
On Friday December 17 tickets go on sale for Bright Eyes on March 10 at the House of Blues, I bring this up for two reasons, one, I am a big Bright Eyes fan, but also for the past couple of years there have been rumors about Bright Eyes breaking up so Conor Oberst can concentrate on other projects. Will this be the final go around, maybe-maybe not, in any case I am hedging my bets and going, better to play it safe then miss out.
New Peter Bjorn and John Album Out March 2011!
Peter Bjorn and John are all done with their sixth studio album! It will be released on March 29th on StarTime International. According to member John Eriksson: “‘We originally planned to make a punk rock album, but listening to it now it’s definitely a pop rock album. But it sounds more punk rock when we play the songs live!’” This is surely departure from their electronically experimental (but very good) 2009 LP Living Thing.
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 