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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / New Faultlines "Ancient Sea" 7" (THE LAST DULC-I-TONE RELEASE)

« on: April 11, 2014, 05:31:33 PM »

Hi everyone-
Sorry I dropped off the planet. I am releasing one last record before I retire from the music biz completely and go to grad school to become a rock 'n' roll therapist.

It's by New Faultlines and it's really good.

I finally surrendered to the fact that I suck at mailorder, so Revolver should have these sometime in the next week, but if anyone wants some wholesale or wants a review copy, get in touch with me at manateeshapedbruise@gmail.com. Also, if you ever ordered anything from me and didn't get it, please get in touch as well.

I'll post a mailorder link as soon as I have one, but for now, here's a link to the a-side and a description. 
Ancient Sea: https://soundcloud.com/newfaultlines/ancient-sea

NEW FAULTLINES "Ancient Sea" 7"
Dulc-i-Tone Records
TT-015

A perfectly fitting final offering from Dulc-i-Tone's fine family of handmade and fucked-up pop treasures, New Faultlines are San Francisco's best garage-pop sleepers. Brilliantly home-recorded by brothers Luke and Zach Robbins, the band makes lazy pop melodies with languidly lovely harmonies like only brothers can make. Despite their garage-punk pedigree (Zach booked the former hub of SF sloppy garage punk, Pissed Off Pete's, and played alongside Traditional Fools members in the surf-punk band Sleepy Beach), New Faultlines take a much gentler angle, with a sound that more closely recalls LA's early-80s Paisley Underground and the reverbed-out pop of mid-80s England. The layered guitars and rolling bass of A-side "Ancient Seas" somehow channel both "Chronic Town"-era REM's Rickerbacker jangle and Felt's best atmospheric guitar work while still retaining a garage punch.
The fifteenth record in fifteen years from Dulc-i-Tone, New Faultlines' debut single represents the final installment from the label that brought you great and now-collectable records from The Aislers Set, The Mantles, Ganglians, Eat Skull, Six Organs of Admittance, The Ski Instructors, Art Museums, The Scrotum Poles and many more.
Stamped records, limited to 300.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Mantles wanna play a BBQ July 4th in New York

« on: June 26, 2013, 09:05:32 PM »

Hey everyone - I know you've all missed me for the past two years. Anyway, we are finally making out to the east coast and we have ONE day off right when we get there. Anyone having a BBQ or something? We want to entertain you.
Thanks
Matt

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Non-Music Shit / Hello Termbo, I'm in jail!

« on: January 13, 2012, 10:16:07 AM »

What's up Termbo? It's been what, six months? Did you miss me? Luckily now I have access to a computer here. It's dial-up, but I've got lots of time to kill so I'm pretty ok with it under the circumstances. They let me tweet from here too so all in all it's not so bad!

Apologies for starting this new dumb thread. I just wanted to say hello and respond to the other thread but it's locked, and my counselor keeps reiterating the importance and benefits of maintaining correspondence with friends on the outside.

Hope all is well everyone!

Best
Matt

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Cities / NYC Oct 5-12

« on: October 04, 2011, 09:41:37 AM »

Hi everyone-
Gotta get out of SF after a real shitty last few months so coming to visit New York with no specific plans. I really don't know what I'm gonna do with myself so if you know of cool stuff (it doesn't even have to be that cool actually) happening, I'm all ears.
Thanks
Matt

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / HORRID RED (Bunker/Edmund of Der TPK) first shows EVER - Davis/SF/LA

« on: June 15, 2011, 11:28:32 AM »

Posted this in Bay Area shows but wanna make sure people know these are happening...

First time EVER these guys have performed live. Yup, Bunker flew out from Germany. Closest we may ever get to a TPK show, so I wouldn't miss it if you have a chance.



Thursday Davis
Friday Hemlock
Saturday Catacombs (?)
Sunday LA Echo

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Scrotum Poles 'Revelation' and Art Museums 'S.H.O.P.P.I.N.G.' 7"s now available!

« on: April 25, 2011, 12:24:13 PM »

Hello good people-
After a myriad of snags and hoops, 'Revelation' is FINALLY here. I stepped it up on the Art Museums single (which looks and sounds fantastic!) so I could get them available at the same time. Finally also got dumb paypal buttons happening so it's not such a mess. Still have a handful of Scrotum Poles 'Auchmithie Forever' LPs, Mantles 'Bad Design' 7"s and a few other things around if you want to add to your order and save on shipping.

Still dealing with a serious family illness so apologies to anyone who has contacted me and hasn't gotten a response. I'll start sending out orders at the end of the week. Any wholesale folks who are expecting a response will get it in the next few days.

Only have automatic paypal shipping prices for U.S. orders. If you want to order from abroad, please email me (yakamashirecords@yahoo.com) and I'll weigh your order and get you exact shipping.



SCROTUM POLES "Revelation" 7" EP
(Dulc-i-Tone TT 013)
$6.00 plus shipping in the U.S.
Buy here: http://dulcitonerecords.com/fullcat.html#scrotcover

Finally! After Auchmithie Forever's treasures were unleashed last year, now here comes what you've all been waiting for: a complete reproduction of arguably THE best example of the pop side (or any side, really!) of the UK DIY post-punk era. Dundee's Smeg, Burt, Sid & Stripey originally released Revelation themselves in handmade, ill-fitting covers in 1980, and thirty-one years later it still deserves to be filed alongside '14th Floor', 'Spiral Scratch', and 'The Medium is Tedium'. With more hits on one single than most bands have across multiple albums, the five songs here perfectly encapsulate the excitement of the UK post-punk explosion from the perspective of a teenage record fanatic. From the raging proto-hardcore 'Radio Tay' and the untouchable bedroom powerpop of "Helicopter Honeymoon", to the gloomy 'Night Train' and the dreary pop classic "Pick the Cats Eyes Out", Revelation sounds almost like a clunky sampling of what was happening at the time but simultaeously outdoes the band's idols with its stripped-down purity and undeniably instant catchiness. Remastered and packaged in glossy glued sleeves, and including a repro of the orginal entertaining ditto-on-gold paper insert (complete with connect the dot games and 'Do the Scrote' dance instructions), it's worth the wait! First pressing of 500 copies.




THE ART MUSEUMS "S.H.O.P.P.I.N.G."/"Feel Like Dreams" 7"
(Dulc-i-Tone TT 014)
$6.00 plus shipping in the U.S.
Buy here: http://dulcitonerecords.com/fullcat.html#artmusshopping

The sleepy beauty of the Art Museums' debut album Rough Frame (Woodist) appeared seemingly out of nowhere, but their apparent off-the-cuff casualness and unpretentious brilliance come as the logical bubbling up of years absorbing the arcane musical corners of the 60s, 70s, and 80s - where utopian folk visions, pop-art obsessions, giddy punk and new wave sheen all make perfect sense. The few who have seen The Art Museums have been lucky to hear bits of their backlog of as-yet-unreleased songs,and now the first treasures are finally seeing sunlight: 'Feel Like Dreams' is a boyish reverie that soars along pre-prog Genesis-style keyboard chords above crisp drum machine cracks. It's all really unexpected and works like you wouldn't believe! And S.H.O.P.P.I.N.G? Well, without hyperbole, we can say that it is, to us, the most enjoyable one minute, forty-five seconds put on tape in a long, long time. The Style Council stripped of pomp and set to a thunderous low-end of rumbling electronic drums, 'S.H.O.P.P.I.N.G' is disposable in all the right ways, the perfect mod-pop soundtrack to your no-longer-dull walk down the street. REALLY! Beautiful full-color, heavy-duty glossy glued sleeves. First pressing of 500.



 

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / new Mantles single on SDZ

« on: March 09, 2011, 08:25:21 PM »

Not sure if SDZ dude posts here, but the single is out now in France. We'll have some at the UK/IRE shows and apparently some U.S. distros will have it soon, but it's available now from SDZ:



http://sdz.bigcartel.com/product/the-mantles-raspberry-thighs-7-sdz-012

I cut out all those raspberries. Shit took forever.

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Non-Music Shit / Getting tour records and shirts to England?

« on: March 02, 2011, 09:59:29 PM »

Ok friends - was gonna throw into a distributor consolidation but that fell through, so wondering... Better to risk bringing on plane (and not declaring) or  paying crazy shipping and tariffs?

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Music Shit / Mantles make a video, record a song.

« on: February 10, 2011, 10:22:59 AM »

Hey, outta nowhere a guy asked to make a video and we think it turned out pretty great.
Take a peek if it strikes your fancy: http://vimeo.com/19775259
Termbo factoid -- user: chico makes a brief but wholly crucial cameo around the 47 second mark.

Also just posted the a-side of the upcoming SDZ single, 'Raspberry Thighs'. Can't figure out how to link directly to the track but it's up on the band f-book page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Mantles/147297444375.

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Non-Music Shit / UK tour driver?

« on: February 01, 2011, 10:03:35 PM »

Hey!
Mantles & Nodzz tour is more or less all booked in mid march through uk & Ireland but we don't have a van/driver lined up (apparently usually a package deal there, yeah?).   It's really comin' up and thought I might be able to get a better lead through Termbo than just  relying on random dudes through the booker or whatnot. I'm sure we'd be able to find something, but a fun person would make things way more, um, fun.
It'll be seven of us I believe, maybe eight.
Any help greatly appreciated!
Thanks friends.

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Non-Music Shit / web help/Dreamweaver

« on: January 07, 2011, 05:13:13 PM »

I made my stupid ugly web site forever ago with Dreamweaver many years ago. It serves my purposes well, so I'd like to keep using DW, but it's an insanely old version that really needs updating. But I'm obviously not going to spend $350 on new software. I know there's ways to get around this but I don't know about shit like that. Can some nice web savvy person please help me?
Thanks

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Cities / Quick! Record stores in indianapolis!

« on: December 29, 2010, 11:26:24 AM »

Here for a gramps' funeral and have a few hours away from the family!

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Mantles baby tour next weekend - Sac, San Diego, CITY OF ANGELS.

« on: November 29, 2010, 11:26:09 AM »

Rare moves from home potatoes...

12/3 SAC @ the Hub w/ Wet Illustrated and Squidz

12/4 SAN DIEGO @ Tin Can Ale House which sounds like a real cool place, with mr. fucking funnyman, DEVON WILLIAMS.

12/5 LOS ANGELES @ Part Time Punks also with DEVON 'really like the music, LOVE the banter' WILLIAMS and Catwalk (not familiar but apparently on captcha'd trax)

Out yourself, Termbos.

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Non-Music Shit / Whet Bull, what's your take on...

« on: November 03, 2010, 02:56:22 PM »

Roz Chast?

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Mantles Mexican Summer record for less money

« on: September 29, 2010, 01:08:52 AM »

Ok, so after hearing people complain a bunch about the price (I'm staying out of it), I want to make sure that trusted Termbo enthusiasts & apologists can get it if they/you have previously balked at the price.   We've got some copies, so you can buy it from me if you like.
$15 ppd in the U.S., or $10 plus ACTUAL postage to anywhere else (just ask and I'll figure it out). Paypal orders,  questions, further complaints to yakamashirecords@yahoo.com.
Thanks
PS Scrotum Poles 'Revelation' repro 7" should be ready in a month - no preorders, those are silly!