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Pixies Free Tickets Contest

Pixies Free Tickets Contest
(Read on and learn how.)


This Saturday, October 29th, Pixies will be taking the stage at the Palace Theater in Waterbury, CT to perform  their second album, “Doolittle”. Florida indie rockers, Surfer Blood will be opening up the show.


Manic Productions is co-promoting this show and was nice enough to give us a pair of tickets to give away! All you have to do is come down to the store & bring a Pixies album up to the counter. You don’t need to even buy it.  No purchase necessary! We only have one pair (2 for the first person to do this) so get here quick!

Speaking of Manic Productions, we recently did an interview with the brains behind that operation, Mark Nussbaum. We’re still putting that video together, but here is a sneak peek!

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21st Of October 2011 Update

21st Of October 2011 Update of New and Key Restocked Items
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s
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Airbird    “City Vs. Mountains / Rotating Cloud (/500)”
Beets, The    “Let The Poison Out. (+ D/L)”
Black Tusk    “Set The Dial (Ltd. Ed. Colored Vinyl)”
Blink-182 (Blink 182)    “Neighborhoods (Ltd. Ed. Blue & White Marble Color Vinyl + D/L)”
Cinema Red And Blue    “Cinema Red & Blue”
Citizens Patrol    “Citizens Patrol”
Comet Gain    “Howl Of The Lonely Crowd”
Comet Gain    “Broken Record Prayers (2xLP)”
Comet Gain    “Tigertown Pictures”
Crow, Rob (Of Pinback)    “He Thinks He’s People (+ D/L)”
Danava    “Hemisphere Of Shadows (/1,000)”
Deer Tick    “Divine Providence (+ D/L)”
Dirty Projectors + Bjork    “Mount Wittenberg Orca (180 Gram, 3D Lenticular Sleeve & Deluxe Insert + D/L)”
El Rego    “El Rego Et Ses Commandos (+ Bonus 45′ + D/L)”
Ferraro, James    “FARSIDEVIRTUAL (+ D/L)”
Forest Fire    “Staring At The X (+ D/L)”
Gauntlet Hair    “Gauntlet Hair (+ D/L)”
Gringo Star    “Count Yer Lucky Stars (Purple Vinyl + D/L)”
Happy Jawbone Family Band    “OK Midnight, You Win”
Harmonizer    “World Complete (Ltd. Ed. /500)”
Jesu    “Jesu (2xLP)”
Joy Division    “Autosuggestion”
Junius    “Reports From The Threshold Of Death (+ D/L)”
Landmines    “Commerce And Marx”
Latterman    “No Matter Where We Go..!”
Magnetic Fields, The    “Holiday (180 Gram Vinyl + D/L)”
Man Overboard     “Man Overboard”
Moholy-Nagy (Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Danny Grody, Trevor Montgomery)    “Like Mirage (+ D/L)”
Morrissey    “Reader Meet Author”
Na Hawa Doumbia    “La Grande Cantatrice Malienne (+ D/L)”
Oingo Boingo    “Marching In Time”
Perri, Sandro    “Impossible Spaces (180 Gram + Art Print Poster + D/L)”
Pioulard, Benoit Honore    “Benoit Honore Pioulard Plays Thelma”
Primus    “Green Naugahyde”
Psychic Ills    “Hazed Dream (+ D/L)”
Raconteurs, The    “Consolers Of The Lonely”
Red Hot Chili Peppers, The    “I’m With You (180 Gram)”
Roots Manuva    “4EVEREVOLUTION (Ltd. Ed. + D/L)”
Savaging Spires    “Savaging Spires”
Screaming Females    “Baby Teeth”
Screaming Females    “What If Someone Is Watching Their TV?”
Senders     “Lucidity/Lividity”
Sex Church    “Growing Over”
She & Him    “A Very She & Him Christmas: 12 Holiday Classics (Portion Of Proceeds Support 826 National; + D/L)”
Shoppers    “Silver Year”
Slow Death, The    “Born Ugly Got Worse”
Slowdive    “Hide Yer Eyes”
Sluggy Ranks    “Ghetto Youth”
Sluggy Ranks    “Nitty Gritty”
Snowing    “I Could Do Whatever I Wanted If I Wanted”
Surfer Blood    “Tarot Classics (+ D/L)”
This Is Hell    “Black Mass”
Total Abuse    “Prison Sweat”
Transit    “Listen & Forgive (Ltd. Ed. Colored Vinyl + D/L)”
Trapped Under Ice    “Big Kiss Goodnight”
Unlearn    “Unlearn”
Wilson, Gary    “Forgotten Lovers”
Wolves In The Throne Room    “Celestial Lineage (180 Gram Black Vinyl)”

Electronic LPs & 12″s
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Daphni    “Cos Ber Zam – Ne Noya (Daphni Mix) / Yes, I Know / Jiao”
Four Tet    “Locked / Pyramid”
Korallreven    “As Young As Yesterday (Remixes By Girl Unit, The Final Fantasy & Panda Bear)”
Pillow Talk    “The Comeback EP”
Various Artists    “If This Is House I Want My Money Back: ZWEI EP02”

10″s
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Mr. Chop    Switched On (2×10″)
New Navy    (ULUWATU)
Protestant    Stalemate

7″s
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Agitator “Walls Closing In”
Alert “Find Your Way”
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Willow Garden”
Cornered “F&ck Off!”
Elvis Christ
Get Destroyed “Shut In”
Home Blitz “ATK”
Nuclear Sanda Claust
Picked Clean
Post Teens
Redgrave
Regents
Reivers “Schemata”
Swervedriver “Hitcher”

CDs
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9th Wonder “Wonder Years”
Adams, Ryan “Ashes + Fire”
Alvarius B “Blood Op…”
Coldplay “Mylo Xyloto”
Electro Quarterstaff “Aykroy…”
El Rego “El Rego…”
Hammers Of Misfortune “17th…”
Jonti “Twirligig”
Liles, Andrew “Flesh Creep… (6CD Box)”
M83 “Hurry Up We’re Dreaming”
Prurient “Time’s Arrow”
She & Him “A Very She & Him Christmas”
Skinny Puppy “Handover”
Trapped Under Ice “Big Kiss…”
Various Arists “Opika Pende… (4CD/Book)”
Various Artists “Bambara Mystic Soul”
Waits, Tom “Bad As Me (Deluxe 2CD/Book)”
Waits, Tom “Bad As Me (Regular Version)”
Wareika “Per Aspera”

Books
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Max G. Morton “There Must Be Some Kind Of Way Out Of Here: Sleep Vol. 1”
Anthony Pappalardo / Max G. Morton “Live… Suburbia: Is There Life After Youth”
Bryan Ray Turcotte / Christopher T. Miller “Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art Of The Punk Rock Movement (Punk Flyers, Posters, Set Lists, Fan Letters, Photos, ‘Zines)”

Review
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Dolphins Into The Future … On Seafaring Isolation LP
(Not Not Fun)
This is the kind of music that doesn’t abide by traditional “songwriting” – it’s better to just close your eyes and lose yourself in the freely flowing atmosphere. DITR is a project from Belgian composer Lieven Martens, who combines elegant, tranquil electronics with perpetual ocean ambience (chirping seabirds, barking sea lions, a creaking boat, clanging buoy bells and lots of crashing ocean waves are heard through most of this record.) The insert says that this LP is a tribute to Cetacean Nation founder John Cunningham Lilly M.D.’s “Seafaring Isolation” writings, which analyze “what happens when an isolated mind roams around the oceanic world by itself, only surrounded by this vast system of overwhelming natural elements.” Themes of unconscious thoughts and dreams are prevalent, particularly in “Lapse ~ Dream,” combining what sounds like nighttime swamp ambience with a woodwind instrument that sounds like it’s making bird calls. The overall experience is curiously soothing; a very palatable mix of not only electronic ambience, but also elements of trance and even new age. Personally, this is the kind of music I love to put on for a blissful chill-out.
[Reviewer: Mark]
Live Music

Live Music: Spraynard, Laugh It Off, MLK

Live Music: Spraynard, Laugh It Off, MLK


TONIGHT the 15th Of ROCKtober 2011


6:30PM-9:30PM 
Secret location:
meet at Redscroll Records (for directions)
(Yeah, it’s got an end time! You can make plans for after!)



Spraynard (Square of Opp 32 / Asian Man ??)
West Chester PA’s pop punk sweethearts, playstation magazine gave their most recent video game themed album ‘funtitled’ 4.5/5 joysticks up so you know it’s the dankest. Under no circumstance should you miss this band.
http://www.ifyoumakeit.com/album/spraynard/funtitled/

Laugh It Off (Square of Opp 38 or 39 probably)
Hailing mostly from Philadelphia PA by way of the Lehigh Valley comes your new favorite poppy hardcore wrecking crew. They have been compared to early Saves The Day and other good sounding music. Ex members of Yo Man Go, Hypatia, Robot Attack, Government Satire, Audioheart, Paramedic….. I could keep going…. but i won’t. The most electrifying band in fun hardcore today. I LOVE THESE GUYS!!!
http://laughitoff.bandcamp.com/album/demo-summer-2011

Martin Luther & the Kings
Chaotic Lutheran indie rock from CT. Check out their demo you’ll see.
http://martinlutherking.bandcamp.com/album/demo

Music Review, Reviews, Update

14th Of October 2011 Update

14th of October 2011 Update of New and Key Restocked Items
at Redscroll Records

LPs & 12″s
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Afghan Wigs, The    “Gentlemen”
Blackshaw, James    “Holly EP”
Boots Electric (Jesse Hughes Of Eagles Of Death Metal)    “Honkey Kong”
Brain F    “Sleep Rough”
Chubby Wolf    “Turkey Decoy”
Class Actress    “Rapprocher (+ D/L)”
Coltrane, Alice    “Transfiguration Live (180 Gram Ltd. Ed.)”
Cormans, Thee    “Halloween Record (W/ Sound Effects)”
Devine, Kevin    “Between The Concrete & Clouds”
DMZ    “DMZ (180 Gram)”
Elitist    “Fear In A Handful Of Dust (+ D/L)”
Ettes, The    “Wicked Will”
Feist    “Metals (180 Gram + D/L)”
Fitz And The Tantrums    “Pickin Up The Pieces”
Friedberger, Matthew    “Death-In-Life”
Full Of Hell    “Roots Of Earth Are Consuming My Home”
Glass Candy    “Warm In The Winter / Beautiful Object”
Hollis, Mark (Of Talk Talk)    “Mark Hollis”
Hyun, Shin Joong    “Beautiful Rivers And Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound Of South Korea’s Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974 (2LP)”
Jovontaes    “Things Are Different Here”
Kunitaka, Sato    “Wandering Shadow Of Southern Streets: Blind Itinerant Musican From Amami Island”
Lewis, Jeffrey    “A Turn In The Dream-Songs”
Low Places    “Spiritual”
M83    “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (2x 180 Gram LP)”
Master Musicians Of Bukkake    “Totem Three (PICLP)”
Mellow Grave    “Smoke Filled The Room, We Slept”
Menahan Street Band    “Make The Road By Walking (+ D/L)”
Mpese Mpses Band / Canadoes Dance Band    “Mpese Theme (DrumTalk Remix) / Fine Woman (Sofrito Edit)”
My Brightest Diamond    “All Things Will Unwind (+ D/L)”
Native    “Wrestling Moves”
New Order    “Western Works Demos 9-7-80 (Unofficial)”
Night Birds    “The Other Side Of Darkness”
Parrish, Theo / Burnt Friedman    “Meets Mancingelani / Meets Zinja Hungwani”
Pharoahs    “Uhh Uhh / What ???”
Polyps, The    “Ants On The Golden Cone”
Psandwich    “Northren Psych”
Rangers    “Pan Am Stories”
RazorxFade    “RazorxFade”
Real Estate    “Days (180 Gram + D/L)”
Shiflet, Mike    “Sufferers”
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin    “Tape Club (2xLP 180 Gram + D/L)”
Sun Ra    “The Mike Huckaby Reel-To-Reel Edits Vol. 2 (Friendly Galaxy / Space Is The Place / To Nature’s God)”
Superheavy (Mick Jagger, Joss Stone, Damian Marley, Dave Stewart, A.R. Rahman)    “Superheavy”
Talk Talk    “Laughing Stock (BING074)”
TieDye    “Fisherman’s Bend (+ 2 Exclusive Remixes)”
Various Artists    “Disco Not Disco: Post Punk, Electro & Leftfield Disco Classics 1974-1986”
VHS Head    “Midnight Section”
VHS Head    “Trademark Ribbons Of Gold”
Weekend    “Red (+ D/L)”
Xeno & Oaklander    “Sets & Lights (+ D/L)”

Electronic LPs & 12″s
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Abstraxion    “Jus Acid”
Age Of Love, The    “Remixes”
Agoria     “Speechless (Remixes Vol. 1) (Feat. Carl Craig & La Scalars)”
Analogue Cops, The (& Blawan & Ryan Elliot)    “Big Family E.P.”
Answer Code Request    “Subway Into”
Antiparallel    “01”
Artists Formerly Known As, The    “Speed Bomb – Skudge”
Auser, Roberto    “Lovemaker (Original) / Lovemaker (Moguh Edit)”
Barem    “After The Storm”
Bibio    “Toys”
Blue Daisy    “Sunday Gift (2LP + CD)”
BNJMN    “Second Kiss (Nightvision / Nightvision (Andy Stott Remix))”
Brunn, Benjamin    “Dust P. 1 (10″)”
Captain Planet    “The Ningane EP (Bastard Jazz Presents)”
Chromeo    “When The Night Falls (Feat. Solange Knowles)”
Com Truise    “Fairlight (45RPM)”
Dday One    “Loop Extension | Deluxe (Ltd. 2×180 Gram Vinyl)”
Driphouse    “SPECTRUM 008”
Emika    “Emika (Ltd. Ed. + D/L)”
Exaltics, The    “They Arrive”
Fear Ratio, The    “Morning Blues Plaid Remix / Guv Three Deadhand Mix”
Fengler, Marcel    “Sphinx EP”
Field, The    “Looping State Of Mind (+ CD)”
Glass Domain    “Fairy / Interlock”
Hackman    “More Than Ever / Nobody Minds”
Henning Baer    “Fierce Hundred EP”
Jordan, Dan    “Slamdunk / Michigan Flake”
Jupiter Tuning Centre & Boogie Arkestra    “Jupiter Tuning Centre & Boogie Arkestra EP”
Kan Kick (A.K.A. Kan Zulu)    “Rummage To Royalty”
KRTS    “Hold On”
L.A.M.    “Balance Of Terror”
Lando Kal    “Maneuver / Run It”
Las    “Power Surge / Power Surge (Desto Remix)”
Long Arm    “Organic”
Martyn    “Ghost People (Ltd. Ed. + D/L)”
Other People Place, The    “Sunday Night Live At The Laptop Café (Ft. Mystic Tribe A.I.)”
Pink Skull    “Psychic Welfare (+ D/L With Extras)”
Rashim, Abdulla    “Asayita”
Sabo & Zeb (Feat. Nappy G) / Nickodemus (Feat. Zeb)    “Afro Azucar / Gibraltar (Sabo & Zeb Remix)”
SBTRKT    “2020 (2×12″)”
Sistol / Pole    “The Synth Remixes”
TEETH    “Swarm Part One (10″)”
Tresher, Greg    “Lights From The Inside: The Remixes Pt. 1”
Tresher, Greg    “Lights From The Inside: The Remixes Pt. 2”
Tyson    “After You’re Gone”
Various Artists    “Brooklyn To The Balkans And Beyond”
Velo, Mary    “Methods – Original Mix / Random – Original Mix / Methods – Conforce Remix”
Yves De May    “Counting Triggers (2×12″)”

Hip-Hop 12″s & LPs
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Apollo Brown    “Clouds (Colored Vinyl)”
Evidence    “Cats & Dogs (Ltd. 2x Coloured Vinyl + D/L)”
Greneberg (Roc Marciano, The Alchemist + Oh No (Gangrene))    “Greneberg (PICLP)”
J-Live    “S.P.T.A.: Said Person Of That Ability (Pronounced Spitta)”
Strong Arm Steady    “In Search Of Stoney Jackson”

10″s
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Mr. Chop    “Switched On (2×10″)”
New Navy    “(ULUWATU)”
Protestant    “Stalemate”

7″s
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Carrying The Fire “Passed”
Children Of God “Coup De…”
Ding-Dongs “4 Song EP”
Tim Hecker “Dropped Pianos”
King Khan & BBQ Show “We Are The Reason”
Kurt Vile / Woods
Low Places
Real Estate “It’s Real”
Mark Sultan “Livin My Life”
Triac “Always Meant To”

CDs
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Alaric
Bjork “Biophilia”
Group Inerane “Guitars”
Antoni Maiovi “Battlestar Trans…”
Martyn “Ghost People”
Primus “Naugahyde”
Sandwell District “Sandwell District”
Various “Black Power And Liberation (Spoken Word 6xCD)”
Various “(Vol.1) Ranters, Reformers… (Spoken Word 6xCD)”
Various “(Vol.2) Ranters, Reformers… (Spoken Word 6xCD)”
Wilco “Whole Love (Deluxe)”

Reviews
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Björk Biophilia CD/LP
(Nonesuch)
All right, so let’s just go with the obvious question. I know it’s the obvious question because it’s the one I have heard already a good couple dozen times. “Is it better than the last few albums?” First of all, last few? Few? I think the amount of Bjork releases gets distorted because of the amount of time in between each – or maybe the Drawing Restraint soundtrack is being counted or all the singles?  I’m not sure really.  Secondly, Bjork is great and I’m totally biased.  I like Volta and I like Voltaic too (the live one consisting of songs from the former – maybe this is included in the “few.”). I like Medulla and I like Selma Songs (also a soundtrack and arguably not a proper Bjork album).  I absolutely love Vespertine and Homogenic and Post and Debut.  I even find the more folky solo things before those pretty endearing (let’s not even begin to discuss those though).  Biophilia is great.  My slanted prejudice view had me believing this before I heard one note, but each note I’ve heard (I’d say I’m on my 12th or so listen) since has been a reassurance of that thought. It’s great. There are fun breakcore/hard-tek elements which doubly draw me in.  The light strings and her voice make this a minimal journey at times and then the maximalist bursts of drums balance it.  Yes, it’s better than Volta.  I said it there.  There, I said it.  It’s got way more elements than I can begin to discuss here in my short review. Listen for yourself.  If you’re like me you already know you like it.  This is just some reassurance.  Oh, and the LP got pushed to a 24th of October release so we only have the CD right now. Oh and since this is fairly a non-review I’ll give you another heads up from my ears/guts – the TEETH 10″ that’s on this update is easily the most soothing disc to my inner bass fiend this week.
[Reviewer: Rick]

Exitmusic From Silence 12″

(Secretly Canadian)
There’s a great deal of emotive passion on this EP. Originally a duo consisting of Brooklyn-based couple Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church, the addition of drummer Dru Prentiss and electronic musician Nicholas Shelestak enhances their forceful, provocative electronic sound. There’s an epic, dream-like sound throughout, as if it were recorded in a vast marble palace by the ocean. This ethereal sound, complete with breathy, resonant vocals, is reminiscent of bands like Sigur Rós. The vocals sound incredibly mournful; Palladino delivers them in a way that sounds like crying out her message so the whole world can hear it. It will be interesting to see what this group experiments with in the future. They certainly know how to convey the theme of loss, and make sure the listener knows exactly how they feel.
[Reviewer: Mark]

RazorxFade RazorxFade LP

(Not Normal Tapes)
RazorxFade is a straightedge outfit from Chicago, IL. Midwest Wolfpack.These dudes play fast pissed off hardcore with just the right amount of squealing feedback and plenty of punch-anything-that-moves mosh parts. They’ve got an early Boston influence for sure, but if you like bands like Tear It Up, Cokebust or even Colin Of Arabia, you’ll probably dig this. Most bands coming out with this style shouldn’t put out more than a 7″ worth of material at a time (I feel this way about 75% of all hardcore). It gets old and boring fast, much better in little bursts. Not RXF, this 10 song LP is well written & structured and leaves me wanting more! I hope they make the trek to CT soon.
[Reviewer: Josh]

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