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Owen: L'Ami du Peuple [7/2] *

CD / Polyvinyl / 2013-07-02

Tracks: I Got High; Blues to Black; Love Is Not Enough; Coffin Companions; Burial, The; Bad Blood; Who Cares?; Fever, A; Where Do I Begin?; Vivid Dreams
Artists: Owen

Chicago multi-instrumentalist Mike Kinsella has wowed fans for decades with both unique playing in any number of his bands (Joan of Arc, American Football, Owls, etc.) and his usually more evocative, ...continue...

Sonny & the Sunsets: Antenna to the Afterworld [Digipak] *

CD / Polyvinyl / 2013-06-11

Tracks: Dark Corners; Mutilator; Palmreader; Path of Orbit; Natural Acts; Girl on the Street; Death Scene; Primitive; Void; Earth Girl; Green Blood
Artists: Sonny & the Sunsets

Personnel: Sonny Smith (vocals, guitar, synthesizer); Tahlia Harbour (vocals, guitar); Kelley Stoltz (drums).

Audio Mixer: Drew Zajicek.

After taking a detour into country rock on their ...continue...

Saturday Looks Good to Me: One Kiss Ends It All [Digipak] *

CD / Polyvinyl / 2013-05-21

Tracks: One Kiss; Invisible Friend; Empty Beach; Negative Space; New City; Everpresent New Times Condition, The; Break In; Polar Bear; Are You Kissing Anyone?; Johnny; Sunglasses; Space Children
Artists: Saturday Looks Good to Me

Personnel: Fred Thomas (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, piano, keyboards, glockenspiel, electric bass, drums, percussion, programming); Carol Catherine (vocals, violin, hand claps); Amber Fe...continue...

Wampire: Curiosity [Digipak]

CD / Polyvinyl / 2013-05-14

Tracks: Hearse, The; Orchards; Spirit Forest; Giants; I Can't See Why; Outta Money; Trains; Snacks; Magic Light
Artists: Wampire

Audio Mixer: Jake Portrait.

Recording information: The cave.

The wink at the dark side in Wampire's name extends to the music on their debut album, Curiosity: the keyboards that dominate...continue...

Generationals: Heza [Digipak] *

CD / Polyvinyl / 2013-04-02

Tracks: Spinoza; Extra Free Year; Say When; You Got Me; Put a Light On; I Never Know; Awake; Kemal; I Used to Let You Get to Me; Durga II
Artists: Generationals

Personnel: Daniel Black (percussion).

Audio Mixer: Daniel Black.

Recording information: Bent Black, Washington D.C.; Dauphine Street House, Bywater, New Orleans; Public Hi-Fi, Austin; Wa...continue...

STRFKR: Miracle Mile [Digipak] *

CD / Polyvinyl / 2013-02-19

Tracks: While I'm Alive; Sazed; Malmö; Beach Monster; Isea; Yayaya; Fortune's Fool; Kahlil Gibran; Say to You; Atlantis; Leave It All Behind; I Don't Want to See; Last Words; Golden Light; Nite Rite
Artists: STRFKR

Audio Mixer: Sonny Diperri.

Recording information: King Size Studios.

Portland, Oregon indie electro act STRFKR started out as the song ideas of Josh Hodges, equal parts sweaty dance bea...continue...

Shugo Tokumaru: In Focus? [Digipak]

CD / Polyvinyl / 2013-01-22

Tracks: Circle; Katachi; Gamma; Decorate; Call; Mubyo; Poker; Ord Gate; Pah-Paka; Tightrope; Helictite (LeSeMoDe); Shirase; Micro Guitar Music; Down Down; Balloon
Artists: Shugo Tokumaru

Personnel: Shugo Tokumaru (vocals).

Audio Mixer: Shugo Tokumaru.

Photographer: Hideki Otsuka.

With each of his albums, Shugo Tokumaru slowly developed an ever more polished and de...continue...

Picastro: Whore Luck

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-10-22

Tracks: Hortur; Car Sleep; Friend of Mine; In the Weeds; All Erase; Ghosts; Towtruck; Stair Keeper; Albanis; Older Lover
Artists: Picastro

An album of somber reflection and uneasy resolve. "Exudes a sound seemingly tormented by sleep-deprivation, pain, and most pressingly - fear...Caught between Elliott Smith and...continue...

Corm: Audio Flame Kit [Remaster]

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-10-22

Tracks: Then I Built My Own Violin; Architecture; Though I Speak in the Tongue of Men and Angels; Seven Days; Ten Thousand Leagues; Royal Air Force; Braid; Gospel Chariots; Slims; Call Me Ishmael; Leaves; In...
Artists: Corm

Best known as John Davis' band just prior to Q And Not U, Corm was a band from 1990 to 1997. Audio Flame Kit was...continue...
Corm: John Davis (vocals, guitar, drums); Robert Anthony (guitar); Scott Stenger (bass instrument); Alex Ficker.

Personnel: John Davis & the Georgia Sea Island Singers (vocals, guitar, drums); ...continue...

The Like Young: Last Secrets

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-10-22

Artists: The Like Young

The third album from this Chicago band contains thirteen songs clocking in at thirty-six minutes. "Amanda and Joe Ziemba are a married rock duo who'll...continue...
The Like Young: Amanda Ziemba, Joe Ziemba.

Personnel: Amanda Ziemba (vocals, drums).

Recording information: Chicago, IL.

Chicago duo the Like Young play smart pop with punk tenden...continue...

Cale Parks: To Swift Mars [Digipak]

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-10-22

Tracks: Eyes Won't Shut; Running Family; Knight Conversation; Crystal Air; One At a Time; We Can Feel It
Artists: Cale Parks

Personnel: Brian Jacobs (keyboards); Kendra Smalter (background vocals).

Audio Mixer: Brian Jacobs.

Recording information: Inner Ear.

Photographer: Shawn Brackbill....continue...

Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!: Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-10-22

Tracks: Overture; 2nd Gun; Trunk of My Car; Joe Jaxon; In Green; Fisticuffs; Echo Park; New Brad; Mostly on an Island; Around the Dream; Goodbye, Casio; By No Means; Firebombing London; Shouting Across the W...
Artists: Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!

Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!: Craig Allen Montoro (vocals, guitar); Mark David Duplass (vocals, keyboards); John Thomas Robinette III (vocals, drums).

Additional personnel: Andy Sharp (vocals)....continue...

The M's: Real Close Ones *

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-10-22

Tracks: Big Sound; Breakfast Score; Pigs Fly; Don't Be Late; Papers; Get Your Shit Together; Ultraviolent Men; Naked; Impossible View; Bros in Arms; Trying to Keep; Days in the Sun; How Could You?
Artists: The M's

M's 13 tracks for Real Close Ones show the Chicago noise pop quartet's talents. The M's formed in the summer of 2000 with singer/guitarist Josh...continue...
Personnel: Nate Lepine (alto saxophone, baritone saxophone).

Recording information: The Andersonville Salvation Icebox, Chicago, IL; Top Of The World, Chicago, IL.

Like Of Montreal, the ...continue...

Hail Social: Hail Social

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-10-22

Tracks: Hands Are Tied; Get in the Car; Come Out Tonight; Repetition; Track #1; More Time; Another Face; Feeling Is Wrong; No Title
Artists: Hail Social

Audio Mixer: Brian McTear.

Recording information: Cyclesound, Philadelphia, PA (2004); MinerStreet (2004).

Arranger: Dayve Hawk.

Hail Social songwriter Dayve Hawk originally inten...continue...

AM/FM: The Sky Is the New Ground [EP] *

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-10-22

Tracks: Every Start; Gone in Three; Mrs. Astronaut; All to Remember
Artists: AM/FM

Recording information: Poo-Pow Studio (2002).

Photographer: Michael Parsell.

Unknown Contributor Role: Brian Sokel.

The title of AM/FM's four-song EP The Sky Is the New Ground is ...continue...

Rainer Maria: Past Worn Searching

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-10-22

Tracks: Tin Foil; Half Past April; Viva Anger, Viva Hate; Always More Often; Sickbed; Never in Anger; New York, 1955; Homeopathy; Put Me to Sleep
Artists: Rainer Maria

Rainer Maria: C. DeMarrais, K. Fischer, W. Kuehn.

Recorded at Ghetto Love Recording, Chicago, Illinois.

Rainer Maria takes a unique approach to traditional emocore on Past Worn Searching...continue...

ZZZZ: Palm Reader

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-10-22

Artists: ZZZZ

ZZZZ: Ellen Bunch (electric piano); John Brady (bass instrument); Steve Sostak, Greg Sharp.

Personnel: Steve Sostak (vocals, saxophone); Greg Sharp (drums).

Audio Mixer: John Congleton....continue...

Decibully: Sing Out America [Digipak]

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-10-22

Artists: Decibully

Personnel: William Seidel (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, autoharp, string synthesizer, hand claps); Justin Klug (guitar, background vocals); Ryan Weber (electric guitar, lap steel guitar, ...continue...

Of Montreal: Daughter of Cloud [Digipak]

CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-10-22

Tracks: Our Love Is Senile; Obviousatonicnuncio; Sails, Hermaphroditic; Steppin' Out; Hindlopp Stat; Partizan Terminus; Georgie's Lament; Jan Doesn't Like It; Feminine Effects; Tender Fax; Psychotic Feeling;...
Artists: Of Montreal

Audio Mixer: Kevin Barnes.

Athens, Georgia indie pop collective Of Montreal have changed costumes dramatically more than once. Centered around the always verbose songs of Kevin Barnes, their ea...continue...

31Knots: Polemics [EP]

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-09-25

Tracks: Sounding Out Uncertainty; Sedition's Wish; Vanish; Black Ship Auction; Endless Days
Artists: 31Knots

The Northwest math-rock trio's CD EP combines sophisticated arrangements and a prog rock sensibility, occasionally interrupted by bursts of hardcore guitar and eased along by angelic vocals and open-e...continue...

The Red Hot Valentines: Summer Fling

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-09-25

Tracks: Wait for Summer; This Heart of Mine; Pocket Full of Secrets; Fair Warning; Wishful Thinking; I Want To; Christine; Don't Bother; All You Get; One Last Kiss
Artists: The Red Hot Valentines

The Red Hot Valentines: Jeff Johnson, Tobin Kirk (vocals, guitar); David Gerkin (vocals, bass); Tyson Markley (Wurlitzer piano, synthesizer); Eric Humbert (drums).

Recorded at Pogo Studio, Cham...continue...

Cale Parks: Illuminated Manuscript

2 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-09-25

Tracks: Pretty Boring; Galaxy 8180; Tiny Theme; Halls of Avalon; I Am the Arm; Late Show; Wet Paint; Me at Home; Garden Is a Maze, The; Fearsome Opponent; Moccasin Bend; Beat Masheen
Artists: Cale Parks

Parks is best known as the classically trained drummer and percussionist for Aloha, Polyvinyl's most tenured band. This solo effort has an intimate but intricate...continue...
Additional personnel: Kylie Parks (vocals).

Cale Parks, the drummer for Ohio's post-rock outfit, Aloha, released the solo album ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT in 2006, a work in keeping with the experi...continue...

Audible: Sky Signal [Digipak]

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-09-25

Tracks: October Song; Sky Signal; From the Third Floor; Sunday Bell; We Were Wrong; Five Pirates; Chase the Kids Away; Motorcycle; Sound Makes a Circle; Finally Found
Artists: Audible

Audible: Mike Kennedy (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Kristine Muller (vocals, bass guitar); Jim Kehoe, Mary Garito, Steve Cawley.

Personnel: Michael Kennedy (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Mary Gari...continue...

Picastro: Metal Cares

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-09-25

Tracks: No Contest; Common Cold; Sharks; Dramaman; I Can't Fall Asleep; Skinnies; Raddy Daddy; Teeth and No Eyes; Ah Nyeh Nyeh; Blonde Fires
Artists: Picastro

Picastro: Zak Hanna (guitar); Rachel McBride (cello); Evan Clarke (pump organ, drums); Liz Hysen, Owen Pallett.

Personnel: Liz Hysen (vocals, guitar, violin, piano, glockenspiel); Jim McIntyre ...continue...

The M's: Future Women

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-09-25

Artists: The M's

This sophomore effort contains gorgeous, sweeping three-part harmonies recollecting fuzzed out 60's era Brit pop and 70's era T. Rex, cut and reformed with a...continue...
The M's: Josh Chiconne, Joey King, Steve Versaw, Robert Hicks.

Personnel: Nate Lepine (saxophone); Nick Broste (trombone); Gary Schepers (sousaphone).

Audio Mixer: Steve Versaw.

R...continue...

Paris, Texas: Action Fans Help Us! [EP]

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-09-25

Tracks: Action Fans Help Us!; Gemini; Your Death; One Hot Coma; Strike My Heart
Artists: Paris, Texas

Paris, Texas: Scott Sherpe (vocals); Nolan Treolo, Nick Zinkgraf (guitars); Matt Tennessen (bass); Sam Vinz (drms).

Paris, Texas: Scott Sherpe (vocals); Nolan Treolo, Nick Zinkgraf (guitar); Ma...continue...

The Ivory Coast: Clouds

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-09-25

Tracks: Lake Placid 1986; Five Little Graves; Swope; Things a Sword Would Say; Sixty-Five Percent; Traveler; To My Brilliant Wigmaker; Daily Routine; Taking Up Serpents; There Will Be Clouds
Artists: The Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast: Jay Cox (vocals, guitar); Drew O'Doherty (guitar); Nick Hubben (synthesizers, bass); Scott Craggs (synthesizers); Mahmood Shaikh (drums).

Additional personnel: Vanessa Downing (voc...continue...

Decibully: City of Festivals

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-09-25

Tracks: On the Way to Your Hotel; Tables Turn; We Belong on Rooftops; My Lighter and Strings; Spiderbites; Tied to the Rhythm; Skipping Over Goodbye; Small Circles; Holy Angel Choir; Uncle Sam's Yard; Your L...
Artists: Decibully

Decibully: William Seidel (vocals, guitar, Fender Rhodes piano, percussion); Ryan Weber (guitar, lap steel, Wurlitzer piano, synthesizer, percussion); Eric Holliday (guitar, harmonica, background voca...continue...

Paris, Texas: So, You Think It's Hot Here?

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-09-25

Tracks: Cadillac of High Hair; Four Feet; Das Wolf; Silver; Heart Full of Napalm; Cemetary City; Driver, The; It Peterson; Goodbye; Rotten Apples
Artists: Paris, Texas

Paris, Texas: Scott Sharpe (vocals); Matt Mangan, Nick Zinkgraf (guitar); Matt Tennessen (bass); Sam Vinz (drums).

Recorded at Coney Island Studios, Madison, Wisconsin in June 1999....continue...

Architecture in Helsinki: That Beep [Maxi Single] [Single] [Digipak]

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-09-25

Tracks: That Beep; That Beep [Radioclit's French Mix] - (remix); That Beep [Radioclit's Swedish Mix] - (remix); That Beep [Haima's Mix] - (remix); That Beep [Kasper Vandergraff Mix] - (remix)
Artists: Architecture in Helsinki

Audio Mixer: Franc Tetaz.

Photographer: Warwick Baker.

After establishing a career as an eclectic indie collective capable of working in styles ranging from bossa nova to hardcore, Austr...continue...

Friction: Hours of Operation: Discography, 1991-1994

2 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-09-25

Tracks: Squelch; Twenty Second / Sundial; Terra Cotta; Rule of Elevens; September Issue; Bowl Cut; Cassyflies; Box Turtle; Subsequently; Makeshift Chimney, The; Semiotician; Compactor Room; Wish; Hybrid Mome...
Artists: Friction

Friction: Bob Nanna (vocals, drums); Andy Knudsen (guitar); Scott Broadhurst (bass).

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Hours of Operation: Discography 1991-1994 showcases the ea...continue...

Joan of Arc: Don't Mind Control [Digipak]

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-09-11

Tracks: Uwar; Guider; Privacy; Doug McComb Over, The; No More No Where; Kickstart; Friend in Common; Spit in Layers; Long Looks; Blanes Echo Blirds, Bless Echo Blouds; Oh Solo; Roots Dug into Dunes = Landsli...
Artists: Joan of Arc

Recording information: Brooklyn, NY (06/23/2009); CarterCo Studios, Chicago, IL (06/23/2009); Chicago, IL (06/23/2009); Hi-Toms Studio, Chicago, IL (06/23/2009); Iron Mountain, Chicago, IL (06/23/2009...continue...

Deerhoof: Breakup Song [Digipak]

CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-09-04

Tracks: Breakup Songs; There's That Grin; Bad Kids to the Front; Zero Seconds Pause; Mothball the Fleet; Flower; To Fly or Not to Fly; Trouble with Candyhands, The; We Do Parties; Mario's Flaming Whiskers II...
Artists: Deerhoof

Audio Mixers: Satomi Matsuzaki; Ed Rodriguez ; John Dieterich; Greg Saunier.

Photographers: Satomi Matsuzaki; Ed Rodriguez ; John Dieterich; Greg Saunier.

Breakup Song may be Deerhoof's ...continue...

Asobi Seksu: Hush

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-08-28

Tracks: Layers; Familiar Light; Sing Tomorrow's Praise; Gliss; Transparence; Risky and Pretty; In the Sky; Meh No Mae; Glacially; I Can't See; Me & Mary; Blind Little Rain
Artists: Asobi Seksu

Known for their captivating live shows, Hush captures that energy and transforms it into somethingnew - something different. Shimmering, dew-draped riffs and spiral staircase melodies...continue...
Personnel: James Hanna (vocals, guitar, synthesizer, bass guitar); Yuki Chikudate (vocals, organ, synthesizer); Gunnar Olsen, Gunnar Olsson (drums); Chris Zane, George Pagonis, Devon Maxwell (percussi...continue...

Headlights: Remixes [Digipak]

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-08-28

Tracks: Cherry Tulips - (remix); Owl Eyes - (remix); Market Girl - (remix); School Boys - (remix); Towers - (remix); Everybody Needs a Fence to Lean On - (remix); So Much for the Afternoon - (remix); TV - (r...
Artists: Headlights

Headlights: John Owen, Eric Fein, Nicholas Sanborn, Tristan Wraight, Brett Sanderson.

Personnel: Jean Cook (violin); David Durst (piano).

Audio Remixers: Jason Caddell; Via Satellite; Bu...continue...

Aloha (Rock): Home Acres [Digipak]

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-08-28

Tracks: Building a Fire; Microviolence; Moonless March; Searchlight; Everything Goes My Way; White Wind; Cold Storage; Blackout; Waterwheel; I'm in Trouble; Runs
Artists: Aloha (Rock)

Audio Mixer: TJ Lipple.

Recording information: Alexandria, VA; Brooklyn, NY; Inner Ear Studios, Arlington, VA; Jamaica Plain, MA; Rochester, NY; Wellfleet, MA.

Thirteen years and going s...continue...

Love Is All: Two Thousand and Ten Injuries [Digipak] *

CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-08-28

Tracks: Bigger Bolder; Repetition; Never Now; Less Than Thrilled; Early Warnings; False Pretense; Birds Were Singing with All Their Might, The; Again, Again; Kungen; Side in a Bed, A; Dust; Take Your Time
Artists: Love Is All

Audio Mixer: Wyatt Cusick.

Recording information: Banana Flux.

Love Is All's first two albums (2006's Nine Times That Same Song and 2008's A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night) were thri...continue...

Asobi Seksu: Rewolf

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-08-28

Tracks: Breathe into Glass; Walk on the Moon; Meh No Mae; New Years; Blind Little Rain; Urusai Tori; Suzanne; Gliss; Familiar Light; Thursday
Artists: Asobi Seksu

Personnel: James Hanna (vocals, acoustic guitar); Yuki Chikudate (vocals, piano, toy piano, glockenspiel, percussion).

Audio Mixer: Billy Pavone.

Recording information: Olympic Studios, ...continue...

James Husband: A Parallax I [Digipak]

2 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-08-28

Tracks: Little Thrills; Grave in the Gravel, A; Gray Scale; Elephant Alibi; Take the Train!; No No Baby; While the Boys Went Down Under; Window; Waiting on Rayne; Driving Around; Darkestness, The; Great-Gran...
Artists: James Husband

Audio Mixer: Andy LeMaster.

Recording information: Athens, GA; Buena Vista, GA; Truckland Studio, Stockholm, Sweden; Up & Running Studio, Stockholm, Sweden; Various Homes, Athens, GA.

Ed...continue...

Headlights: Wildlife [Digipak]

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-08-28

Tracks: Telephones; Secrets; You and Eye; Get Going; Love Song for Buddy; I Don't Mind at All; Dead Ends; Wisconsin Beaches; We're All Animals; Teenage Wonder; Slow Down Town
Artists: Headlights

Personnel: John Owen (guitar, keyboards, glockenspiel); Cale Parks (percussion).

Headlights' third album, Wildlife, is at once their most immediate album and also their most reserved-sounding a...continue...

Loney Dear: Dear John

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-08-28

Tracks: Airport Surroundings; Everything Turns to You; I Was Only Going Out; Harsh Words; Under a Silent Sea; I Got Lost; Summers; Distant Lights; Harm/Slow; Violent; Dear John
Artists: Loney Dear

Loney Dear is the recording name for multi-instrumentalist and Swedish home-recording phenomEmil Svanangen. Recorded alone in Emil's tiny Stockholm studio apartment and in the comfort...continue...
Personnel: Malin Ståhlberg (vocals); Andrew Bird (violin); Oscar Svenningsson (trombone).

Photographer: Kate Gaughran.

Though not as endearingly weird or hooky as fellow countrymen ...continue...

Pele: A Scuttled Bender in a Watery Closet [Digipak] *

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-08-28

Tracks: Blue Cecil; Apiary; Positive Woman; Women Lifting Men; Realize It; Gauzebloze; Gas The Nutsy; Five Years In Four Minutes [Remix for Sangatsu] - (remix); Drop Attack; Banana Pudding [Remix for Salvo B...
Artists: Pele

"A Scuttled Bender in a Watery Closet is a celebration of the seven years, 13 releases, experimentation, and insanity known as Pele. Featuring over two...continue...
Photographers: Mark Dawursk; Pat Graham.

A SCUTTLED BENDER IN A WATERY CLOSET is a comprehensive collection of underappreciated and often hard to find gems from the now defunct instrumental pos...continue...

Cale Parks: Sparklace [Digipak]

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-08-28

Tracks: Intro (New Castle); Every Week Ends; Train Lady; Early On; Age of Reform; This Morning; Two Haunt Me; Long Time in the Air, A; Some Sew, Some Find; Outro (New York)
Artists: Cale Parks

Personnel: Kendra Smalter (vocals).

Audio Mixers: Cale Parks; TJ Lipple.

Aloha/White Williams drummer/percussionist Cale Parks filled his 2006 solo debut Illuminated Manuscript with enou...continue...

Aloha (Rock): That's Your Fire

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-08-28

Tracks: Last Night I Dreamt You Slept Beside Me; Ferocious Love; Don't Sleep; Liberty; There, There; Hundred Stories, A; Herding East; Saint Lorraine; With the Lights Out, We Sing; Sky High
Artists: Aloha (Rock)

Aloha: Tony Cavallario (vocals, guitar); Matthew Gengler (accordion, bass, background vocals); Eric Koltnow (piano, synthesizer, vibraphone, drums, guiro, triangle); Cale Parks (piano, drums, timbales...continue...

American Football: American Football [Single]

CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-08-07

Tracks: One With the Tambourine, The; Letters and Packages; Five Silent Miles
Artists: American Football

American Football: Mike Kinsella (vocals, guitar, bass); Steve Holmes (guitar); Steve Lamos (trumpet, drums, percussion).

Personnel: Mike Kinsella (vocals, guitar); Steve Holmes (guitar); Steve...continue...

Stagnant Pools: Temporary Room [Digipak]

CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-08-07

Tracks: Illusions; Dead Sailor; Jumpsuit; Solitude; Temporary Room; Stun; Consistency; Dreaming of You; Frozen; Maze of Graves; Alternate Ending; Waveland
Artists: Stagnant Pools

Stagnant Pools is the work of two college-age brothers from Indianapolis, Indiana. Bryan and Douglass Enas took a couple of Joy Division records, the first Strokes CD, a few Ride singles, and a nasty-...continue...

Mates of State: My Solo Project

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-07-17

Tracks: Names; Proofs; What I Could Stand For; La'hov; Nice Things That Look Good; Control Group, A; Throw Down; I Have Space; Everyone Needs an Editor; Tan/Black; Ride Again; More in Me
Artists: Mates of State

When the husband and wife duo Mates of State named their first album MY SOLO PROJECT, it got at the essence of their unique symbiosis, both romantic and musical. The album introduces listeners to Kori...continue...

Rainer Maria: A Better Version of Me

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-07-17

Tracks: Artificial Light; Thought I Was; Ceremony; Seven Sisters, The; Save My Skin; Contents of Lincoln's Pockets, The; Atropine; Spit and Fire; Hell and High Water
Artists: Rainer Maria

Rainer Maria: Kyle Fischer (vocals, guitar); Caithlin De Marrais (vocals, bass); William Kuehn (drums).

Recorded at Smart Studios, Madison, Wisconsin in September 2000.

Personnel: Rainer...continue...

Aloha (Rock): Light Works

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-07-17

Artists: Aloha (Rock)

Issued by the respected Polyvinyl label, LIGHT WORKS finds the decidedly non-Hawaiian indie-rock act Aloha offering up another bright, atmospheric set of experimental pop. Fronted by singer/guitarist ...continue...

Aloha (Rock): Sugar

1 CD / Polyvinyl / 2012-07-17

Tracks: Fractures, Pt. 1; They See Rocks; Let Your Head Hang Low; Balling Phase; It Won't Be Long; Protest Song; Thieves All Around Us; Dissolving; I Wish No Chains Upon You; We Get Down
Artists: Aloha (Rock)

Aloha: Tony Cavallario (vocals, guitar, piano); Cale Parks (piano, synthesizer, drums, percussion); Eric Koltnow (synthesizer, vibraphone, drums, percussion); Matthew Gengler (bass).

Recording ...continue...