We’re 4! We’re going bowling!

We’re 4!  We’re going bowling!
Tomorrow, April 12th, 2011 marks our 4th year as an actual physical store.  Our sale starts, sure, but we’re going to celebrate at the end of the night by bowling.  BOWLING!  Arcade games, soft pretzels, soft drinks, hard surfaces, and hard drinks (and more).  
Starting at 8PM (when we close the shop) we’ll be at WALLINGFORD BOWL.  
It’s right off of Rte. 15 (near Sonic, BJs, and all that stuff up there).  
Address: 980 North Colony Road – Wallingford, CT 06492
Phone: (203) 949 – 1100 
Prices for Tuesday Night:
$3 Shoes & $4 Per Person Per Game
PRINT THIS COUPON OUT FOR A FREE GAME!
[DISCLAIMER: I DON’T THINK THEY DO KARAOKE ON TUES.]
The coupon in PDF form and more information can be found on their website here:
They close at 11PM and we plan on being there until then.  Hope to see many friendly faces too!  There’s a facebook event for the page here:
8PM-11PM Bowling Party!
Does anyone have a cool acrylic ball with a skull inside it that I can use?
Bonus points for anyone who comes dressed as a Big Lebowski character.

Reminder: Sale Starts Tuesday, Ends Sunday

Reminder: Sale Starts Tuesday, Ends Sunday
April 12, 2011 – April 17, 2011
20% Off Everything!
We’ve been working pretty hard to get our store as well stocked as possible.  The shelves are quite literally running out of space so there is definitely a good amount to choose from.   
 
We kick off the sale Tuesday.  Why Tuesday?  Well, because that is our exact anniversary date.  We opened our doors on April 12, 2007 (4 years ago).  We’re going to go bowling at closing too (8PM).  Please join us.  We’re going to Wallingford Bowl (they close at 11PM and we’ll definitely be there until then).  They’ve also got some arcade games, a snack bar (soft pretzels, soda, nachos, …) and a regular old bar (adult beverages). 
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday the sale continues during our normal store hours (12PM-8PM).  
Saturday is Record Store Day.  We’ll be open from 10AM-10PM on this day.  There are a ton of R.S.D. exclusive items we’ll be getting in.  A list of those will be posted by Friday.  Please check back if you’re wondering what we’re getting in.  Our goodie-bags for this day are coming together rather nicely.  There are a lot of different goodies and not every bag is going to be the same.  It will be completely luck of the draw about what you get.  They will be given to every customer until we run out of them.  Check out what you and your friends get and mix, match, trade and have fun with ’em!  As with previous years we’ll be having some end of the night festivities (HINT).  
 And then Sunday we conclude the sale during regular hours (12PM-6PM).  History has shown that plenty of great records will be here this day.  If you cannot make it until Sunday then it will be well worth it to come.  As with every week, deliveries will be coming throughout so our stock will continually be replenished and changing.  We’re excited!  I hope it’s contagious.

8th of April 2011 Update

8th of April 2011 Update of New and Key Restocked Items
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s
______________________
Adams, Ryan    “29 (180 Gram)”
Adams, Ryan & The Cardinals    “Jacksonville City Nights (180 Gram + Bonus Tracks)”
Annihilation Time    “II (Valu Pak Series + 7″ = Cosmic Unconciousness)”
Blut Aus Nord    “M.O.R.T.”
Burial Year    “Pesitilence”
Callahan, Bill    “Apocalypse”
Can    “Out Of Reach (180 Gram)”
Clapz II Dogz / Soul Clap    “Clapz II Dogz EP (PIC)”
Cold Cave    “Cherish The Light Years (+ D/L)”
Cosmonauts    “Cosmonauts (/500)”
Craft Spells    “Idle Labor (+ D/L)”
Crowskin / Black Freighter    “Crowskin / Black Freighter”
Cute Lepers    “Adventure Time (+ D/L)”
DJ Shadow    “The 4-Track Era Limited Edition Vinyl: Best Of The Original Productions (1990-1992)”
Feelies, The    Here Before (180 Gram + D/L)”
Fields, Lee & The Expressions    “My World: Instrumentals”
Foo Fighters    “Wasting Light (45 RPM Ed.)”
Gable    “Cute Horse Cut”
Hendrix, Jimi    “South Saturn Delta (180 Gram Rare And Previously Unreleased Recordings)”
Iguanas, The (Iggy Pop’s First Band)    “The Iguanas”
Indian    “Guiltless (Ltd. Ed. Color)”
Ken Mode    “Venerable”
Kuti, Femi    “Africa For Africa”
Low    “C’Mon (+ D/L)”
MC5    “66 Breakout”
MC5    “Kick Out The Jams (2001 180 Gram Reissue)”
Meat Puppets    “Lollipop”
Mercyful Fate    “Melissa (180 Gram Reissue)”
Mirror Mirror    “FRKWYS V5”
Misfits    “I Turned Into A Martian (Unofficial)”
Mummies, The    “Play Their Own Records! “
Nachtmystium    “Instinct: Decay (180 Gram Ltd. Ed. Coloured Vinyl)”
One Am Radio, The    “Heaven Is Attached By A Slender Thread”
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, Le Tout-Puissant    “Cotonou Club”
Panda Bear    “Tomboy (Ltd. Ed. Clear DMM + D/L)”
Pioulard, Benoit    “Precis * Temper”
Pop, Iggy    “Nuggets (Compilation)”
Quintron    “Sucre Du Sauvage (+ D/L)”
Radio Birdman    “Zeno Beach (180 Gram)”
Rancid    “Let’s Go (PIC LP)”
Red Hot Chili Peppers    “Freaky Styley (Ltd. Ed. 180 Gram Reissue)”
Rosetta    “A Determinism Of Morality”
Ryder, Mitch    “Naked But Not Dead”
Ryder, Mitch    “Detroit With Mitch Ryder: Live At The Hill Auditorium April 1, 1972”
Ryder, Mitch    “How I Spent My Vacation”
Salome    “Terminal”
Schnitzler, Conrad    “Ballet Statique (M=Minimal)”
Shadows Of Knight, The    “Gloria”
Steppenwolf    “Their Great Hits”
Stooges    “Funhouse (PIC)”
Stooges    “Morgan Sound Studios Ypsilanti Michigan March 1973”
Stooges    “Funhouse (Gatefold)”
Stooges    The “Stooges (Gatefold)”
Stooges, Iggy & The    “10/6/73 Michigan Palace”
Stooges, Iggy & The    “Double Danger: Academy Of Music/Latin Casino – Live 1973”
Stooges, Iggy & The    “Open Up And Bleed! The Great Lost Stooges Album”
Stooges, The    “(Out-takes) Box Set (Unofficial) (/1000)”
Stooges, The    “The Stooges (PIC LP)”
Stooges, The    “Detroit Rehearsals Spring 1973”
Various Artists    “Motor City’s Burnin’ (MC5, Stooges…)”
Various Artists    “Motor City’s Burnin’ Vol. 2 (Iggy Pop & James Williamson, ? And The Mysterians…)”
Various Artists    “Princess Nicotine: Folk And Pop Sounds Of Myanmar (Burma) Vol. 1”
Victims    “A Dissident”
Vivian Girls    “Share The Joy (Deluxe Gatefold Ed. /2000 On Teal 180 Gram + D/L)”
Weedeater    “Jason… The Dragon”
Winter    “Into Darkness “
Xander Harris    “Urban Gothic”
Zomes    “Earth Grid”
Zyklon    “Disintegrate”

Electronic 12″s
______________________
Antiserum & Ill Esea & 12th Planet    “Zephyr / Purple & Gold”
Aphex Twin    “Selected Ambient Works 85-92”
Bashmore, Julio    “Batty Knee Dance / Ribble To Amazon”
Falty DL    “You Stand Uncertain”
Ikonika    “Edits”
SCB (Scuba)    Loss / (there)

10″s
______________________
Bouncing Souls    Complete Control Sessions
Earthlings?    Humalien
Husker Du    Metal Circus

7″s
______________________
Bodysnatchers
Buzz “Insanity”
Dirty Beaches “True Blue”
Just Urbain “Burning”
Moondogs “Heads I Win”
Starvation “Arm” (6″)
Sundials / Spraynard
Young Identities “Positive Thinking”

CDs
______________________
Callahan, Bill “Apocalypse”
Crystal Stilts “In Love With Oblivion”
Falty DL “You Stand Uncertain”
Foo Fighters “Wasting Light”
Panda Bear “Tomboy”
Peralta, A. “Endless Planets”
Red Fang “Murder The Mountains”
Sons Of Seasons “Magnisphyricon”
Vintersorg “Jardpulus”
Vivian Girls “Share The Joy”

Reviews
____________________

Trust Candy Walls / Trinity 7″ 
(Sacred Bones Records)

Mastered at 45RPM, this thing is short so this review will be too.  Sweet melancholy jams with a couple extra saccharine synthesized lines.  Solid.
[Reviewer: Rick]

Vaccine Human Hatred  7” 

(Painkiller Records)

Vaccine offers up ten, fast & heavy hate-fueled straightedge powerviolence songs in just over four minutes. The opening track, “Your Life’s A Joke” takes a non sympathetic stance on drug users and perfectly captures the bands overall aggressive attitude. When I hear lines like, “DISGUSTING PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT / HAVE ANOTHER DRINK / BLOW ANOTHER LINE / LEARN TO FUCKING THINK / GROW A FUCKING SPINE”, I want to X up & run into somebody fist-first. In addition to being the bassist of this outfit, Will Killingworth also handled the recording duties at his studio, DEAD AIR. Will is a master of raw-sounding hardcore recordings. The band features members of FAILURES, GLUE, AMPERE, & RELICS.

FIRST PRESS: 621 TOTAL | 203 RED | 418 BLACK
SECOND PRESS: 522 BLACK (IDENTICAL TO FIRST)
THIRD PRESS: 292 BLACK (IDENTICAL TO FIRST)
[Reviewer: Josh]

Xander Harris Urban Gothic LP

(NNF223)

If you know me at all (I’m Rick) then you know I have an affinity for soundtracks and specifically the whole Italo-Disco HOrror variety of those (not really like American 80s films, but not necessarily not those either – catch me in the right mood).  Xander Harris (guise of a man from Texas) fills my hunger for exactly that niche.  This is actually titled as a soundtrack to an analogous horror movie with song titles to match the opening and closing credits and scenes in between.  There are moments when he vears towards EBM (samples laid in over them actually remind me of the better parts of Velvet Acid Christ [do yourself a favor and don’t research that]).  This one has actually been in my rotation for a while – he was gracious enough to send me out a CDr and tape late last year. I’m glad Not Not Fun got ahold of this and added some really nice packaging to the deal.  Looks good.  Sounds good.  
[Reviewer: Rick]

1st Of April 2011 Update (2 Reviews)

1st of April 2011 Update of New and Key Restocked Items
at Redscroll Records

REMINDER NOTE ABOUT SUNDAY APRIL 3: We will be closing at 5PM that day to help out with and attend the Dubey Family Benefit Show at Toad’s Place in New Haven.  Hope to see a bunch of you there too.

LPs & 12″s
______________________
Aggrolites, The    “Rugged Road”
Amon Amarth    “Surtur Rising (PIC)”
Apache Dropout    “Apache Dropout (+ D/L)”
AppleHead    “Applehead De Applehead”
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti 2    “Doldrums (+ D/L Repress)”
Books, The    “Lost And Safe (2011 Remastered Deluxe Edition + D/L)”
Broken Bells    “Meyrin Fields EP (+ D/L)”
Buzzov*en    “Revelation: Sick Again (+ D/L)”
Coheed And Cambria    “The Second Stage Turbine Blad (Ltd. Ed. White Vinyl)”
Criminal Minds, The    “The Criminal Minds (T.C.M.)”
Dead Man’s Bones    “Dead Man’s Bones Featuring The Silverlake Conservatory Of Music Children’s Choir (+ D/L)”
Deep Sleep    “Turn Me Off”
Dew Scented     “Invocation (/500)”
Dropkick Murphys    “Going Out In Style (Deluxe Ed. 180 Gram + CD)”
Dub Spencer & Trance Hill    “The CLASHification Of Dub (/555)”
Eagles Of Death Metal    “Death By Sexy…”
Fiasco, Lupe    “Lasers “
Forever The Sickest Kids    “Forever The Sickest Kids”
Funkadelic    “Let’s Take It To The Stage (Reissue)”
Funkadelic    “Tales Of Kidd Funkadelic (Reissue)”
Government Warning    “No Moderation”
Guyana Punch Line    “Irritainment: Songs To Disturb The Comfortable, Songs To Comfort The Disturbed”
High Tension Wires    “Welcome New Machine (+ D/L)”
Homostupids    “Strawberry Orange Peach Banana”
Hot Water Music    “The New What Next”
Hurley, Michael, The Unholy Modal Rounders, Jeffrey Fredericks & The Clamtones    “Have Moicy! (180 Gram)”
Iceage    “New Brigade (Black Vinyl First Press /500)”
InnerPartySystem    “Never Be Content (Clear 2LP 180 Gram + D/L With Extras)”
Jaar, Nicolas    “A Time For Us / Mi Mujer”
Jesus And Mary Chain, The    “Send Me Away (Early Demos)”
Kills, The    “Blood Pressures (Ltd. Ed. Color + D/L)”
Lotus Eaters…    “Wurmwulv.”
Marijata    “This Is Marijata (Ghana – 1976)”
Maritime    “Human Hearts”
Master Musicians Of Bukkake    “Elogia De La Sombra (/1000)”
Mater Suspiria Vision    “Crack Witch”
Moon Duo    “Mazes (+ D/L)”
Mountain Goats, The    “All Eternals Deck (180 Gram + D/L)”
My Bloody Valentine    “Lost Tracks And Rare Cuts”
Naked On The Vague     “Twelve Dark Noons (+ D/L)”
Obits    “Moody, Standard And Poor (+ D/L)”
O’Brien, Conan & The Legally Prohibited Band    “Third Man Live 06-10-2010”
Owls    “Owls (Re-Issue + D/L)”
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart    “Belong (+ D/L)”
Peter Bjorn And John    “Gimme Some (+ D/L)”
Pixies    “Into The White: BBC Recordings From 1988 And 1989”
Prurient    “Rose Pillar (Book +11″ Record)”
Radiohead    “The King Of Limbs “
Rotten Sound    “Cursed”
Silversun Pickups    “Carnavas (Ltd. Ed. 2LP + 7″ + D/L)”
Silversun Pickups    “Pikul (Debut EP)”
Small Brown Bike    “Nail Yourself To The Ground”
Spaghetti, Eddie (Of Supersuckers)    “Sundowner (Ltd. Ed. + D/L)”
Sparklehorse    “Good Morning Spider (180 Gram + D/L)”
Stooges, Iggy And The    “Raw Power Live: In The Hands Of The Fans”
Those Darlins    “Screws Get Loose (+ D/L)”
Various Artists    “This Comp Kills Fascists Volume 2 (Lack Of Interest, Noisear, Despise You, Triac, Voetsek…)”
VYGR    “Hypersleep (+ D/L)”
Yorn, Pete    “MusicForTheMorningAfter (10th Anniversary Reissue 180 Gram 2LP)”

Electronic 12″s
______________________
Baobinga & Hyetal    “Anything For Now / Trouble”
Bibio    “Mind Bokeh (Deluxe Vinyl + D/L)”
Boddika    “You Tell Me / Breezin (#012)”
Cosmin TRG    “A Universal Crush (2×12″)”
Duffstep    “Getting To Sirius: Remix EP #3 (Falty DL…)”
Emalkay    “Fabrication / Massive”
Falty DL    “Mean Streets Part One (/500)”
Four Tet / Daphni (Caribou)    “Pinnacles / Ye Ye”
LOL    “LOL Part 2 / #LP002”
Lowtec    “Wonderkidd / Looser (#011)”
Modeselektor     “Monkey Flip (Feat. Nazizi & Abbas)”
Photek    “101 (Boddika Remix) / This City”
Scuba    “You Got Me / So You Think You’re Special”
Wagonchrist    “Tomorrow Wagon Christ (Ltd. Ed. + D/L)”

10″s
______________________
Mondo Generator    “III The EP (File Under: Queens Of The Stone Age)”
Gilmour, David (With David Bowie & Richard Wright)    “Arnold Layne (Dedicated To The Memory Of Syd Barrett)”

7″s
______________________
Cripple Bastards / Looking For An Answer (6″)
Barricade
Coke Bust “Degredation”
Cold Stare “Fight Back”
Dow Jones & The Industrials “Can’t Stand… (Reissue)”
Ergs “Thrash”
Okkervil River “Wake And Be Fine…”
One Reason / Defiance, OH
Outlast “Take Control”
Poison Planet “Undermine…”
Shai Hulud “A Profound…”
Slobs “Look Busy…”
Supercluster “Paris Effect”
Swamp Thing
Sweet Tooth “Japanese Void”
Trust “Candy Walls”
Uzi Rash “Saw”

CDs
______________________
Adams, Ryan & The Cardinals “III/IV”
Darkthrone “Total Death (2CD Reissue)”
Death “The Sound Of Perserverance (3CD Deluxe Reissue)”
Destruction “Day Of Reckoning”
Eat Sugar “Levantense!”
Forced Reality “Unheard”
Nadja “Sky Burial”
Pains Of Being Pure At Heart “Belong”
Radiohead “King Of Limbs”
Rotten Sound “Cursed”
Tape “Revelationes”
Tesseract “One”
Twin Shadow “Forget”
Various Artists “Tanzania & Zanzibar V3”

Zine
______________________
Go For Broke #2

Reviews (2 Quick Ones By Rick)
_______________________________

Iceage New Brigade LP
(DAIS020 /500 First Press on black vinyl – Second Press on not-black vinyl is already in the works.)
Originally released by Escho in Copenhagen this pressing by Dais includes two tracks not on that release.  They are good.  Honestly, all of these songs are great.  “Broken Bone” might have the catchiest hook of them all though I would never do myself the disservice of just playing that one track on repeat.  This whole record was on repeat for me for a few days upon first getting ahold of it.  It’s rock and roll in a minimal style with a dark slant.  It actually reminds me a bit of These New Puritans if they were to strip away all the excess. I’m going to throw this on right now – again.

Mater Suspiria Vision Crack Witch LP

(LT021 /300 on black vinyl & /200 on white vinyl)
Have you heard the whispers of witch house?  Have you already written it off as a flash in the pan?  Is the genre’s name too irksome for you to bother with?  Mater Suspiria Vision have been the most prolific band within this genre. Among the great bands with that label they might be the only that fully embraces it and does not work against it like some rebellious angsty tween-ager telling off their folk’s or teachers. “You can’t label me.  I’m a square peg and you’re trying to fit me in a round hole!”  Corny analogy, but you get it.  Slow down.  I wish this record was mastered at 45RPM so I could slow it down even further.  It is some serious mysticism.  Italian horror movie, reverb, delay, repeat, sample loving sounds from the depths.  (Aquarius Records did quite a comprehensive review here: http://www.aquariusrecords.org/.)

Dubey Family Benefit Show (RSR Early Close Sunday at 5PM)

Dubey Family Benefit Show
On Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
6PM, $10 Minimum Donation
Toad’s Place
(300 York St., New Haven, CT)
We (Redscroll Records) will be closing at 5PM 
in order to help out and attend.
This past Thursday’s tragic events have brought a rather large network of people together in support of a family that could use some right now.  (Check the link and all the links within to read up on the situation.)

Advanced tickets are available online through Etix’s cooperation with Manic Productions (generously done with no service charges). 
We (REDSCROLL) will be open early at 8AM tomorrow (Thursday) to sell tickets for those who do not have credit cards (cash only).  We have been allotted 50 tickets. We will keep you updated if availability becomes an issue (let’s hope we do sell them out!).
At this event there will be further fund-raising efforts.  Little Vegan Monsters is bringing some baked goods.  A friend is setting up a donation music distro (music donated to sell).  Prints made by Ben Sears are being made of the house dog, Ruby.
[I deliberately chopped this to preserve the integrity of the finished product; looking much more impressive in person.]
There is also a shirt design being screened:
I’m betting there will be more as well.
And, just so it is completely clear (though the ever-present assumption would be correct) all proceeds from all of these sales are going directly to the Dubey Family.
If you cannot attend and would like to help out Mitch’s sister Lauren is collecting via paypal (Lauren.Dubey@Gmail.com).
Spread the word to everyone you know.

UNDERGROUND MUSIC & CULTURE