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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / new 12XU stuff : SPRAY PAINT - 'Into The Country' LP, ROCKET 808 - s/t LP

« on: October 26, 2019, 12:16:26 PM »

Spray Paint - Into The Country (12XU 119-1)  LP

https://spraypaint12xu.bandcamp.com/track/alcohol-surface

'Into The Country' was recorded throughout the year of 2016 in-between touring/working and Cory & Chris moving to Mexico and Australia respectively. Basic tracks were recorded by longtime collaborator Ian Rundell in his studio and then messed with in our practice space at the Monofonus compound in Austin, TX. Chris did most of the heavy lifting. Cory did some of the drum machines, and George was fiddling with some electronic gadgets, with lyrics once again mined from the info wars comment section and various other stressful situations like airports and hospitals. 



This is the first proper Spray Paint LP since 2016's 'Feel The Clamps' (Goner). Since then collaborations with Protomartyr, Ben Wallers, Ben Mackie, and Dan Melchior have been released.



Though Spray Paint have no touring plans in the immediate future, the trio will reconvene in Austin this November to for multiple nights at Hotel Vegas as part of the Monofonus Press RIP weekend taking place at said venue and the M.P. compound, November 22-24 (other participants include The Rebel, Beech Creeps, Tashi Dorji, Sun Araw, Obnox, Claire Rousay, Ralph White, Brandy, Matchess and many others).




Rocket 808 - s/t (12XU 121-1)

https://rocket808.bandcamp.com/track/rocket-808

Following a late 2018 debut 7", 'Rocket 808' is the eponymous debut LP from John Schooley, a guitarist with an impressive resume in the American underground going back a couple of decades with bands including but not limited to the Revelators, the Hard Feelings, John Schooley's One Man Band and Meet Your Death. 

Combining the primitive analog drum machine of  Suicide with the snarl and twang ofLink Wray and Duane Eddy, Rocket 808 has created a unique aesthetic, mixing minimalist proto-punk noise and roots guitar into a new futurism, finally giving us the tomorrow with flying cars we were promised in 1950s EC Comics, Blade Runner, and back issues of Popular Mechanics. If Martin Rev had produced ZZ Top’s 'Eliminator', or if Ry Cooder’s score to "Streets of Fire" was instead heard on "Sid and Nancy", you’d have an idea of how Rocket 808 blurs the lines between guitar-heavy styles and eras using artificial percussion.
 
Just as The Cramps updated their 45 collection for a new generation, Rocket 808’s cover of Suicide's "Ghost Rider" exists alongside rockabilly classics like Ersel Hickey’s "Goin' Down That Road", while the band name conjures images of both Ike Turner’s supposedly “first rock n’ roll song”  "Rocket 808" and the Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer.. Orville Neely of OBN IIIs and Bad Sports provides live drums, and hotshot Mike Molnar of the Bellfuries adds guitar on a few songs alongside Rocket 808's Schooley.

get 'em at 12XU.bigcartel.com* or 12XUrecs.bandcamp.com.  Also available from Midheaven, Goner, Florida's Dying.

(* - 20% off with discount code TALLYHOSQUIRMBLOW at check out thru November 9)

OUT NOW : GOLDEN PELICANS - 'Grinding For Gruel' LP, USA/MEXICO - 'Matamoros' LP, DARK BLUE - 'Victory Is Rated; LP

next up :  XETAS - 'The Cypher' LP, new stuff from Borzoi, Chris Brokaw

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / GOLDEN PELICANS - Grinding For Gruel LP (12XU) June 6

« on: May 17, 2019, 01:05:57 PM »

Over the course of the last 8 years, Orlando’s GOLDEN PELICANS have made a compelling case for themselves as one of the planet’s most relentlessly malevolent ensembles, both live and on record. Thankfully, however, this is not an episode of “Hot Bench” and rather than finger-pointing and tearful recriminations, I’ll offer as evidence their succession of titles for the Total Punk and Goner labels with which the quartet of vocalist Erik Grincewicz, guitarist Scott Barnes, bassist Sammy Meneses and drummer Rich Evans have reached American punk’s apex in the 2 thousand teens more than once (like goalposts, the thing moves around a bit)



(photo by Nick Allam(

On the band’s 2019 entry, ‘Grinding For Gruel’, recorded by Ryan Bell of GG King / Predator, Grinewicz’ fatalism & Barnes’ not-nearly-heralded-enough virtuosity are captured with the sort of chromatic sheen that would’ve at one time been considered unthinkable (well, before electricity was invented, anyway). Is this the finest, most fully-realized Golden Pelicans release to date? Is rock D-E-A-D? Have you ever been hit in the head with a soft rock? YOU SURE DO POSE A LOT OF INTERESTING QUESTIONS.

There are those who well might mutter “how many Golden Pelicans records am I supposed to own, anyway?” Would you ask the same of Tangerine Dream? Nana Mouskouri? Why don’t you say it to Nana Mouskouri’s face right now and see what happens.

http://www.12XU.bigcartel.com  first 100 on gold vinyl    20% off with discount code TALLYHOSQUIRMBLOW

http://goldenpelicans12xu.bandcamp.com/album/grinding-for-gruel

the recently released pile  :  USA/MEXICO - 'Matamoros' LP,  DARK BLUE - 'Victory Is Rated'
next :  new LP's from XETAS, SPRAY PAINT and ROCKET 808

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Gary Wrong Group - s/t 2XLP, Thigh Master 7", Borzoi 7", new Xetas LP

« on: March 25, 2017, 09:35:05 PM »

SHIPPING NOW :
Gary Wrong Group - s/t 2XLP
Thigh Master - "B.B.C." 7"
Borzoi - "Surrender The Farm" 7" EP

out April 14 (mail order shipping now)
Xetas - 'The Tower' LP

May  :
Obnox - 'Niggative Approach' LP

June :
USA/Mexico - 'Laredo' LP

20% off at 12XU.bigcartel.com on the new March & April titles when you enter code "STUPORKICKPARTY" at check out

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / 12XU : Stick Men With Ray Guns, DD Owen, The Gospel Truth

« on: September 15, 2016, 09:26:34 PM »

shipping now :



The Gospel Truth - Jealous Fires  (12XU 093-1)


out 9/30  :



DD Owen - s/t (12XU 091-1)


out 10/12 :





Stick Men With Ray Guns - Property Of Jesus Christ (Live, Houston, 1984) (12XU 079-1)
Stick Men With Ray Guns - 1000 Lives To Die (Live, Dallas, 1987)  (12XU 080-1)

later : Dark Blue - Start Of The World LP,  Gary Wrong Group - s/t 2XLP

http://www/12XU.bigcartel.com
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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / James Arthur's Manhunt - Digital Clubbing LP (12XU)

« on: May 27, 2016, 10:19:26 AM »

(out July 22 - mail order ships earlier)

James Arthur's Manhunt - 'Digital Clubbing'  (12XU 083-1)

soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/gerardcosloy/james-arthurs-manhunt-kill-zone

This album isn't centuries in the making. It just feels like it. In reality, the first full-length album from James Arthur's Manhunt since 2010's 'Manhunt' (Aarght!) is a crazed, yet shockingly coherent career highlight for a guy whose excursions into guitar chaos in a variety of guises/cities would've incapacitated lesser men. Or women. In fact, I think it has incapacitated lesser men and women, but enough about the audience.

For those who don't know, guitarist/vocalist James Arthur has marked his territory in places as far flung as Brisbane, Memphis, Denton, San Antonio and Austin, it's been in the Texas capitol where he's taken hard life-lessons-learned from tenures of varying length in such legendary outfits as The Necessary Evils, C.C. Riders, New Memphis Legs, The Reatards, A Fest Of Snakes, Fireworks and the Golden Boys...and ignored all of 'em, instead vomiting into the face of adulthood with a decidedly volatile red-white-and-boo-fucking-hoo take on what some people like to call "space rock". What would Hawkwind sound like if you owed them money (or they were locked out of the house?). Let's hope we never find out.

All kidding aside, after one LP and a succession of singles for the In The Red, Goodbye Boozy, Perpetrator and Spacecase labels, James was somehow able to RECORD THE UNRECORDABLE. Under the technical supervision of Stuart Sikes (who as an actual Grammy Award (TM) winner really ought to know better), and bolstered by Texas conspirators including Bryan Schmitz (the Golden Boys), Orville Neeley (OBN III's, Bad Sports) and Sean Morales (Ichi Ni San Shi), 'Digital Clubbing' is the Manhunt record that accurately documents the total sickness that is your (better than) average live show of the band's, yet improbably brings it all into focus for brief enough flashes that it all hangs together as a very sticky, sweaty classic.

first 100 on white vinyl;  enter discount code "MIKEHUNT" for a special Termbo bargain bonzana.

http://www.12XU.bigcartel.com

12XU.net

coming :  Musk - Musk 2 : The Second Skumming LP,  Meet Your Death - s/t LP, Stickmen With Ray Guns - Property Of Jesus Christ LP (live in Houston, 1984),  Stickmen With Ray Guns - 1000 Lives To Die LP (live in Dallas, 1987), The Gospel Truth - Jealous Fires LP.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / 12XU : new OBN III's 7", Empty Markets LP, Civil Union LP

« on: May 04, 2016, 08:44:21 AM »

a few things I neglected to post :



OBN III's - "Rich Old White Men" b/w "On The Verge Of Collapse" 7" (12XU 090-7)

2 new post-'Worth A Lot Of Money' crushers showcasing the increasingly nutso guitar histrionics of Messrs Neeley and Triplett, w/ accompanying socio-policital insight and pseudo apocalyptic themes (warning : that's a real stretch designed to see if blogs will just cut and paste whatever they're sent without listening to the record).  black vinyl, no download code,  500 pressed, $6

https://soundcloud.com/gerardcosloy/obn-iiis-rich-old-white-men
https://soundcloud.com/gerardcosloy/obn-iiis-on-the-verge-of-collapse




EMPTY MARKETS - 'Stainless Steel' LP (12XU 086-1)  $14.50

Milwaukee-to-Austin transplant Drew Schmitz has made his presence felt in bands ranging from Brain Attack, Gremlins UK, Party Garbage and most recently as the 4th wheel in the long-running paragon-of-excellence that is The Hex Dispensers. All of those  contributions aside, the one project of Drew?s that probably most relevant to this discussion is Cruddy, whose 2011 12XU LP ?Negative World? was pretty goddamn special, and Schmitz? bleaker-than-bleak worldview (to say nothing of inventive guitar work) was an awfully big part of that.

Fast forward a few years and Schmitz? newly formed Empty Markets aren?t entirely removed from the vision of Cruddy (you?ve got the same fella yelling and playing guitar, no arguing that) but are we allowed to use the dreaded word PROGRESSION without morphing into Alan Parsons? Make no mistake, on ?Stainless Steel?, engineer Ian Rundell (fresh off recent knob-jobs for Spray Paint, The Rebel and Xetas) has captured the tumult, the agitation, and perhaps most importantly, the precision of Empty Markets in glorious fashion. If Cruddy was a grim snapshot of a hopeless future, Empty Markets is a Hasalbald-quality, full-scale portrait of a hopeless present.

includes download code, first 125 on clear vinyl, initial orders include a limited print from Port Au Prints.

https://soundcloud.com/gerardcosloy/empty-markets-rash-decision



Civil Union - Seasick, Lovedrunk LP  (Melted Ice Cream)  $14.00

Christchurch, New Zealand trio Civil Union's last international tour was a miserable series of break-?ins, near?accidents and existential dread. And fittingly! This is the band that sings ?Love Makes Slaves Of Us All?, an example of what kind of hopefulness you can expect within a country that?s undergoing a neoliberal makeover. And this is also the band whose bassist narrowly escaped an earthquake that levelled his home city. The misery is strong in these ones, as is common in their generation of NZ bands who?ll never afford a house: a bleak streak recently nicely summarised as the ?Antipodean Gothic?. Whether you intellectualise it or not, it?s plain to see that the chirp in this country has all gone dried up. And that?s what an LP like ?Seasick, Lovedrunk? is there to say, it in its idiosyncratic, twangy, bummed ?out way. (Which also happens to be the way of The Male Nurse or the Country Teasers, if you wanna go there.) In it, a testament to the cracks in the landscape ?? and people ?? of New Zealand. If you?re put off visiting by now, at least there?s still this album.

(CZ pressing of 300, no d/l code)

also now in stock : wondrous third-party titles from Dan Melchior, Urochromes/Wizzard Sleeve, restocks on Obnox 'Wiglet' and 'Know America'

semi-recent : Dark Blue -"Vicious Romance" 7", Manateees - 'Croc N My Pocket', Exhaustion - 'Phased Out' 12", Don Howland - 'Life Is A Nightmare' LP

coming : Meet Your Death - s/t LP (Daniels/Schooley/Assi/Hammer), Musk  -' Musk 2 : The Second Scumming', The Gospel Truth - 'Jealous Fire' LP, Stickmen With Ray Guns - 'Property Of Jesus Christ' LP (live in Houston, 1984), Stickmen With Ray Guns - '1000 Lives To Die' LP (live in Dallas, 1987),  DD Owen LP, and the same James Arthur's Manhunt album I've been promising for way too long.

12XU.bigcartel.com

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / MANATEEES - Croc N My Pocket out now / 20% all 12XU stuff thru Monday

« on: November 27, 2015, 08:51:57 AM »

(20% everything at 12XU.bigcartel.com with checkout code "FUCKHUDSONS" thru monday at midnight ---25% off orders of $100 or more with code "FUCKHUDSONS2" --- including new Manateees, OBN III's, Don Howland, Exhaustion, Sweet Talk, Uniform, Shawn David McMillen, recent distributed titles from Obnox, Pierre & Bastien, Sick Thoughts, Spray Paint and loads more)



Manateees - Croc N My Pocket (12XU 085-1)

soundcloud :  https://soundcloud.com/gerardcosloy/manateees-stellar
                    https://soundcloud.com/gerardcosloy/manateees-witch

Rock out with your c(r)oc(k)snout ;  after a series of unbeatable records for Pelican Pow Wow, Goner, Tic Tac Totally and Ken Rock, could this hate spree be Abe White's crowning achievement?  Or is it merely a pit stop on the way to something considerably sicker?   Damned if I know, but we're running low on the croc colored versions.  Includes d/l card.   order from 12XU.bigcartel.com,  also available now or momentarily from Goner, Florida's Dying or Midheaven.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / New LP's from Don Howland, Sweet Talk, new 12" from Exhaustion

« on: October 02, 2015, 09:59:32 AM »

though they're shipping to stores soon, all of the below are in stock and available for mail order presently at 12XU.bigcartel.com. 
Enter promo code TALLYHOSQUIRMBLO for 20% any order between now and Tuesday the 6th :



Don Howland - Life Is A Nightmare (12XU 078-1)

Over the past 3 decades, Don Howland?s been a crucial figure whichever crossroads where Depression-era country blues and '76 punk intersect (occasionally obeying the rules of the road but often resulting in a musical wrecks the likes of which few witnesses can unsee/unhear). We could spend the next several hours cataloging the highlights of Howland?s respective tenures in the Gibson Brothers, Ego Summit, Wooden Tit, Bassholes and Burning Bus, or we can instead live in the present and engulf ourselves in Don's first solo album in some 13 years.  ?Life Is A Nightmare? is not simply yet another raw, misanthropic record by a not-entirely-happy elder statesperson revered in collector scum circles (though it is also ALL OF THOSE THINGS).  Includes a download card.



Sweet Talk - Double Perfect LP (12XU 077-1)

2nd all-hits album from the Austin 4some with pedigree including but not limited to Mind Spiders, Uptown Bums, Church Shoes and Jonly Bonly.  Meatier by far than their 2013 debut, first 150 are on orange vinyl (w/ d/l card).  RIYL : imagining who'd get a song on a straight-to-VOD remake of "Over The Edge" and who'd be on the outside looking in.





Exhaustion - "Phased Out" 12" EP (12XU 082-1)

On subterranean flight from the antipodes, Exhaustion scrape together this carry-on wedge of pulsing malfunction. A single-note wrassles with manual techno via heady doses of tabletop manipulation. Long-gone are the Les Rallizes nods and in strolls a hijacked Mr Walker ? after a bad day at work ? delivering cavalier prayers to end the race. But why end there? It?s all dust and low voltage glitter now.

Exhaustion hail from Melbourne and this is their 3rd non-collaborative record (4th if you don't harbor any weird, irrational resentments against saxophonists). The trio of Duncan Blachford, Per Bystrom and Richard Stanley -- joined on this venture by Mark Barrage --- have logged time in ensembles including but not limited to Snawklor, Ooga Boogas, Witch Hats and Onyas. And now, YOU'VE BEEN BRIEFED

next up  : Manateees - 'Croc N My Pocket',  Dark Blue - "Vicious Romance" b/w "Delco" 7:

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / scattered 12XU artists smothered across the globe's stages

« on: October 02, 2015, 09:37:18 AM »

Blaxxx
October 16, Beerland, Austin TX (with Cheater Slicks, James Arthur's Manhunt, Meet Your Death, Pfisters)

Dark Blue

Nov 13th Cleveland, OH @ Now That?s Class *
Nov 14th Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen *
Nov 15th Pittsburgh, PA @ brillobox *
Nov 27th Montreal, QC @ Turbo Haus
Nov 28th Toronto, ON @ Smiling Buddha
Nov 29th Buffalo, NY @ The Studio At Waiting Room
* with The Gotobeds

Empty Markets
11/13 ? Beerland, Austin TX (with Snooty Garbagemen)

Flesh Lights
10/3- Hotel Vegas, Austin TX (with James Arthur?s Manhunt, Chicon, Mitch Fraizer?s Radiation, Nick Allison and more)
10/14 ? Beerland, Austin TX (with XETAS, False Idols, Space Battle)

The Gotobeds
10/15 ? Knitting Factory, Brooklyn NY (with Protomartyr, Strange Wilds and more)
10/16 ? Cake Shop, NYC (with Spray Paint, Turn To Crime, Tweens and more)
Nov 13th Cleveland, OH @ Now That?s Class *
Nov 14th Chicago, IL @ Beat Kitchen *
Nov 15th Pittsburgh, PA @ brillobox *
* - with Dark Blue

Don Howland
10/13 ? Lazy Diamond, Asheville NC (with Deaf Wish, Greg Cartwright)

James Arthur?s Manhunt
10/3 ? Hotel Vegas, Austin TX (w/ Flesh Lights, Chicon and more)
10/16- Beerland, Austin TX (with Cheater Slicks, Blaxxx, Meet Your Death, Pfisters)
10/17 ? The Sidewinder, Austin TX (with Deaf Wish, Coma In Algiers)

OBN III?s
10/30 ? The Sidewinder, Austin TX (with Coat Hangers, Nobunny)
11/6 ? Mohawk, Austin TX (with Fuzz, Mikal Cronin)
12/6 ? The Grand, Austin TX (with the Golden Pelicans, Spray Paint)

OBNOX

Oct 8 @ Now That?s Class Cleveland OH w/ Deaf Wish and Unholy Two)
Oct 10 Pierogi Mountain Fest @ Cafe Bobo/Summit Columbus OH (with M.O.T.O, Sex Tide and more)
Oct 19 @ Beachland Cleveland OH w/Dirty Ghosts
Oct 23 @ Auxiliary Arts, Chicago IL (with Nones, Heavy Times and Make Overs)
Oct 24 Turkey Fest @ Crystal Corner Madison WI (with Running, XETAS, The Hussy, Fire Retarded and more)
Oct 30 @ Vangelis Tavern, Saskatoon SK
Oct 31 @ The Palomino, Calgary AB
Nov 6 Pianos, NYC
Nov 7 Brighton Music Hall, Boston Hassle Fest (with Flipper/David Yow, ONO, Dan Melchior)

Shawn David McMillen
10/10 - Beerland, Austin TX (with Salad Boys, Que Pasa, Suspirians)
10/29 ? Cheer Up Charlie?s, Austin TX (with Peacers, Elisa Ambrogio, Quin Galavis)

Snooty Garbagemen
11/13 ? Beerland Austin TX (with Empty Markets)

Sweet Talk
10/10 ? Hotel Vegas, Austin TX (with Borzoi, Nameless Frames, False Idol)
10/16 ? End Of An Ear Records, Austin TX (6pm, free, all ages)
10/21 ? Cake Shop, NYC
10/22 ? Stonybrook University, Long Island NY
10/23 ? Tufts University, Medford MA
10/25 ? Willimantic Records, Windham CT
10/27 ? Alphaville, Brooklyn NY
10/29 ? Everybody Hits, Philadelphia PA
10/31 ? Spaghetti House, Kutztown PA

Unholy Two
10/2 - Marble Bar, Detroit MI
10/3 ? Rock Room, Pittsburgh PA (with Chiller)
10/7 ? Double Happiness, Columbus OH (with Deaf Wish, Fizzed)
10/8 ? Now That?s Class, Cleveland OH (with Obnox, Deaf Wish)

Uniform
10/21 ? Amsterdam @ OCCII w/ Zeni Geva
10/22 ? Berlin @ Bei Ruth w/ Prostitutes
10/23 ? Hamburg @ Hafenklang
10/24 ? Rotterdam @ Roodkapje
10/25 ? Antwerp @ Het Bos
10/26 ? London @ Shacklewell Arms
10/27 ? Nottingham @ The Chameleon
10/28 ? Cardiff @ Moon Club
10/29 ? Sheffield @ The Audacious Art Experiment
10/30 ? Paris @ La Mecanique Ondulatoire
10/31 ? Kortrijk @ De Kreun w/ Skull Defekts

XETAS

10/14 (WED) @ BEERLAND, Ausitn TX w/ Flesh Lights, False Idol, Space Battle)
10/15 (THURS) MCALLEN TX @ Yerberia Cultura w/ Super, TBA
10/16 (FRI) NEW ORLEANS LA @ Sisters In Christ
10/20 (TUES) BLOOMINGTON IN @ the Bishop
10/21 (WEDS) CHICAGO IL @ Archer Ballroom (with Landline, Melkbelly)
10/22 (THURS) MILWAUKEE WI @ High Dive (with Holy Shit)
10/23 (FRI) MADISON WI @ Turkeyfest (with Obnox, The Hussy, Fire Retarded and more)
10/26 (MON) OMAHA NE @ Oleavers w/ Digital Leather
10/27 (TUES) KANSAS CITY MO @ Blind Tiger
10/28 (WED) TULSA OK @ Soundpony

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / new OBN III's LP, 'Worth A Lot Of Money' (12XU)

« on: August 22, 2015, 11:00:08 AM »

(art by Mac Blackout)

the 4th OBN III's album (not counting a couple of live LP's) is out September 14 but mail order copies are shipping now.  Enter promo code "TALLYHOSQUIRMBLOW15" for 20% off between now and release day

http://12xu.bigcartel.com/product/obn-iii-s-worth-a-lot-of-money-12xu-084-1

OBN III's upcoming shows

9/8 - End Of An Ear Records, Austin TX (6pm)
9/10 - Deep South, Raleigh NC (Hopscotch Festival), with Morbids, Acid Chaperone, Shitty Boots
9/12 Metro Gallery, Baltimore MD
9/13 Middle East (Upstairs), Cambridge MA (with Far Corners)
9/15 Union Pool, Brooklyn NY (with Pampers, Honey)
9/16 Blue Skies Turn Black, Montreal Quebec
9/17 Spectra Sonic, Ottawa, Ontario
9/18 Smiling Buddha, Toronto Ontario
9/19 Now That?s Class, Cleveland OH (with Mr. California)
9/20 Cafe Bourbon, Columbus OH
9/21 PJ?s Lager House, Detroit MI
9/22 Empty Bottle, Chicago IL (with The Man)
9/23 Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City IA
9/24 Cactus Club, Milwaukee WI
9/25 Melody Inn, Indianapolis IN
9/26 Cafe Berlin, Columbia MO
9/27 Blind Tiger, Topeka KS
9/28 Opolis, Norman OK
9/29 Lola?s Saloon, Dallas TX

coming soon : Sweet Talk - Double Perfect LP, Manateees - Croc N My Pocket 12" EP, Exhaustion - Phased Out 12", Don Howland - Life Is A Nightmare LP

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / new stuff from 12XU : Uniform, Snooty Garbagemen, Shawn David McMillen

« on: June 13, 2015, 02:06:34 PM »

all of the below titles are available for mail order now at 12XU.bigcartel.com along with some recent arrivals from Negative Jazz (Mystic Inane), Spacecase (Dan Melchior), various Sick Thoughts titles, Ever/Never (Obnox - 'Know America') Monofonus Press' new 'We Jam By Condos' (with unreleased stuff from Breakout, Spray Paint, Empty Markets, Ghetto Ghouls and more)....



Uniform - Perfect World LP (12XU 076-1)

full length debut from the NY duo of Michael Berdan (Drunkdriver, Veins, York Factory Complaint) and Ben Greenberg (Hubble, Pygmy Shrews, The Men).   

soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/gerardcosloy/uniform-perfect-world-1

on tour :
June, 13  Strong Hold, San Diego CA (with Ceremony, Tony Molina)
June, 14  The Rebel Lounge, Phoenix AZ (with Ceremony, Tony Molina)
June, 15  Club Congress, Tucson AZ (with Ceremony, Tony Molina)
June, 16  Tricky Falls, El Paso TX (with Ceremony, Tony Molina)
June, 17  Red 7, Austin TX (with Ceremony, Tony Molina, Radioactivity)
Thursday, June, 18  Sons of Hermann, Dallas TX (with Ceremony, Tony Molina, Radioactivity)
Friday, June, 19  Walters, Houston TX (with Ceremony, Tony Molina)
Thursday, June 25, The Eldritch, Providence RI (with Winter Line)
Saturday, June 26, Trans Pecos, Flushing NY (with Unholy Two, Rectal Hygienics)
July 1, Bowery Ballroom, NYC NY (w/Ceremony, Tony Molina, Pity Sex)
July 23, Now That's Class, Cleveland OH
July 24, Club Rectum, Chicago IL (with Rectal Hygienics)
August 15, Berskertown II, The Observatory, Santa Ana, CA



Snooty Garbagemen  - s/t LP (12XU 075-1)

You might be familiar with guitarist Tom Triplett from such groups including but not limited to The Real Energy, No Talk, Hammatsu Tom & the Kroger Sushi River Band and the Homopolice.  In more recent times, perhaps you've stood, jaw agape, stunned by Tom's performances and recordings with OBN III's or BLAXXX. Now, in the rich tradition of Ron Wood's 'Now I've Got My Own Album To Do' (albeit having zero in common musically), Tom brings us SNOOTY GARBAGEMEN, ably accompanied by Josh Wolff (of Secret Prostitutes, Crime Wave, Lysol S.S.) infamy

(initial quantities on translucent green vinyl still remain)

soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/gerardcosloy/snooty-garbagemen-you-and-ernie



Shawn David McMillen - 'On The Clock With JJ & Mitch' LP (12XU 070-1)

"I took to the sound of this record immediately - grubby psych blues zilch that calls to mind the off-speed amphetamine melt of the first Mad River long player, or Sugar Creek?s Please Tell A Friend engulfing my skips while crouched outside an Episcopal church basement window. Both those bands messed with space but good, but fuck it?that was a hundred years ago.  On The Clock With Mitch & JJ ain?t no throwback homage to anything but personalized jungle rot from a trio of lone star greaser whizballs who know the taste. Everything about this record, from the collaged clock cover to the dogs barking on ?Two Sparrows? at album?s end speaks to time out of mind and the intimacy of players not rushing to get anywhere fast, together."

"If you asked me in 1996 what would float, in all likelihood I would?ve pulled out a round piece of aluminum from Ash Castles On The Ghost Coast, Shawn David McMillen?s collab with Volcanic Tongue bon vivantress Heather Leigh Murray, which played in my head all throughout that year and into the next. He?s unfurled much in the way of robust primitive thunderclap ever since, but what a thrill all the same to trip over his vision quest yet again, as if he?s an old friend you hadn?t seen ? or heard ? in years." - Fuckin' Record Reviews

soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/gerardcosloy/shawn-david-mcmillen-like-a-lilly

coming :  Exhaustion - 'Phased Out' 12" EP,  new stuff from Don Howland, Manateees, OBN III's, Dark Blue, Sweet Talk, Empty Markets.

12XU.net

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / pile of new 12XU titles : Blaxxx 12" EP, Xetas LP, Chris Brokaw 2XLP

« on: March 01, 2015, 07:52:48 PM »

Blaxxx - 'For No Apparent Reason'  12" EP (12XU 072-1)

Bim (Obnox) + Orville (OBN III's, Bad Sports) + Tom (OBN III's, The Energy, Snooty Garbagemen) = BLAXXX

https://soundcloud.com/gerardcosloy/blaxxx-let-me-hold-your-hand



Xetas - 'The Redeemer' LP (12XU 073-1)

https://soundcloud.com/gerardcosloy/xetas-the-king



Chris Brokaw - 'The Periscope Twins 2XLP (12XU 065-1)

https://soundcloud.com/gerardcosloy/chris-brokaw-skating-under-glass-living-like-a-king

Blaxxx + Xetas in stock now ;  Brokaw 2XLP starts shipping Wednesday.

order here : 12XU.bigcartel.com

(if you previously ordered the Obnox 'Boogalou Reed' LP direct, email info@12XU.net for a 20% discount on the Blaxxx 12")

coming soon : Shawn David McMillen - 'On The Clock With JJ & Mitch' LP,  Uniform - 'Perfect World' LP,  Snooty Garbagemen - s/t LP

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / OBNOX - Boogalou Reed LP (12XU 071-1), January 27

« on: January 06, 2015, 09:44:51 PM »

OBNOX - Boogalou Reed (12XU 071-1)

Riddle me this: who on Earth makes 15 top notch records in 5 years and stays as obscure as Obnox monarch Bim Thomas? Not that there's been no love at all?now that the man seemingly spent as much of 2014 on tour as off, and dropped blazetastic videos for "Red I" and "Molecule/How to Rob," the spotlight is widening, and not just from the usual indie/undie blogs?the Washington-by-god-POST has seen fit to recognize the 'Nox's bulletproof alloy of Cleveland-by-god-Ohio's two sturdiest musical ores: punk rock and soul.

And maybe that right there's why fame, Grammys and fat cash haven't come a-knockin'?'Noxmusik is some potent, real, RAW shit, and the new drop, Boogalou Reed, isn't going to win over any Future Islands fans to the cause. And that is what it is, but Thomas' songwriting chops keep getting better and better. Boogalou Reed is home to soul satisfying gospel-psych like "I Climbed a Mountain," skillet-to-the-face noise freakouts like "Proto-Pipe," taut rockers like "Raven Slaughter Culture" and "All Hail the Deejay." 'Nox's tunes just keep turning out SO DAMN GOOD, and if more people can't hear that through the fuzzgrind, that's really just too bad for them. But there's no way rock 'n' roll this persuasive stays a secret forever. - Ron Kretsch

soundcloud "Slaughter Culture": https://soundcloud.com/gerardcosloy/obnox-slaughter-culture

order here : 12XU.bigcartel.com

Special Termbo Discount (20% off) before 1/27 : type promo code TALLYHOSQUIRMBLOW

coming soon : Chris Brokaw - 'The Periscope Twins' 2XLP, Shawn David McMillen - 'On The Clock With JJ & Mitch' LP, XETAS - 'The Redeemer' LP, Blaxxx - 'For No Apparent Reason' 12" EP, Uniform - 'Perfect World' 12" EP

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Flesh Lights - 'Free Yourself' LP (12XU 069-1), November 4

« on: October 25, 2014, 04:35:21 PM »

LP # 2 from Austin's FLESH LIGHTS comes out a week from Tuesday, though mail orders are already shipping.  First 150 on yellow vinyl.

http://http://12xu.bigcartel.com/product/flesh-lights-free-yourself-lp-12xu-069-1

soundcloudy : https://soundcloud.com/gerardcosloy/flesh-lights-just-about-due

dist/wholesale inquiries : info@12XU.net

other recent stuff : www.12XU.bigcartel.com

coming soon : Chris Brokaw - 'The Periscope Twins' 2XLP

2015 :  Shawn David McMillen - 'On The Clock With JJ & Mitch' LP, XETAS debut LP,  Obnox - 'Boogalou Reed' LP, Blaxxx - 'For No Apparent Reason' 12" EP

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / new 12XU stuff : The Gotobeds LP, XETAS 7", Jonly Bonly LP

« on: August 15, 2014, 10:29:05 PM »

12XU.bigcartel.com



THE GOTOBEDS - Poor People Are Revolting LP (12XU 066-1)      in stores 9/2, mail order shipping now.  First 150 on gold.



XETAS - "The Silence" b/w "The Knife"  7" (12XU 068-7),  in stores 9/2, mail order shipping now.  First 100 on white.



JONLY BONLY - Put Together LP (12XU 064-1),   in stores 9/9

up next : John Schooley & Walter Daniels - Dead Mall Blues LP,  Flesh Lights - Free Yourself LP,  Chris Brokaw - The Periscope Twins 2XLP