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

« on: April 28, 2014, 10:48:17 AM »

The New Faultlines single is now available for direct mailorder. Description below.
http://www.midheaven.com/item/ancient-seas-by-new-faultlines-7

I also brought listed the very last copies of The Scrotum Poles 7"s! For real, these are the last 10 copies.
The Art Museums 7" price has been lowered and I re-listed a few old releases.

All mailorder will be through Revolver/Midheaven, but if you would like any wholesale distro or review copies of New Faultlines, please contact me. Here's the link for the rest of the available Dulc-i-Tone releases:
http://www.midheaven.com/label/dulcitone

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NEW FAULTLINES "Ancient Sea" 7"
Dulc-i-Tone Records
TT-015
https://soundcloud.com/newfaultlines/ancient-sea

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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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 / Re: Mantles wanna play a BBQ July 4th in New York

« on: June 27, 2013, 03:21:34 PM »

Well keep us posted if anyone gets inspired! Feels like a wasted opportunity not to do anything on the 4th. Also we are not demanding assholes (I sort of am I guess).

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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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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / MANTLES / FRESH & ONLYS sorta last minute show next week.

« on: February 29, 2012, 05:35:40 PM »

Hey this just got announced. Early show at Makeout. 7-10.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: BAY AREA: Shows coming up

« on: January 28, 2012, 03:14:17 PM »

This show is tonight in Oakland. Early and cheap. Woolen Kits are from Australia and good. First Mantles show in many months.



Then in exactly two weeks another Mantles show in SF. Good times.

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

« on: January 28, 2012, 03:10:30 PM »

Hey folks-
I'm finally out, just in time for a few Mantles shows.
Here's one tonight:

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

« on: January 13, 2012, 06:38:21 PM »

jail is not that bad IMO

It's actually not all that bad honestly. Food is better than the stuff on planes when they actually still had food, pretty decent chess opponents, but Scrabble is missing hella pieces which drives me straight up the fucking wall. Out soon, gonna get the band back together for some comeback gigs. No one is going to believe how fucking jacked I am.

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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 / Re: NYC Oct 5-12

« on: October 07, 2011, 03:53:26 PM »

Erick, what's the name of the bar you work at?

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Cities / Re: NYC Oct 5-12

« on: October 05, 2011, 04:45:25 PM »

Where's the Outdoorsmen show? And what's Woman?

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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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Music Shit / Re: 7" at 33

« on: August 21, 2011, 12:38:37 PM »

Vinyl has an infinite amount of space

I totally LOL'd at this last night. Stoney moment.

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Cities / Re: San Francisco

« on: August 19, 2011, 09:07:14 PM »

James, lemme know when yr in town!

Also bummed to miss Liquor Store.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: West Memphis Three

« on: August 19, 2011, 09:05:55 PM »

It goes without saying but both parts 1 & 2 documentaries are some of the most intriguing and gripping docs out there. Sure they're super one-sided but goddamnit they are more edge-o-yr-seat than 99% of the narrative thrillers out there. (And same goes for Brother's Keeper by the way). I've watched them multiple times and still worth watching again despite it being 10+ years later.

It's definitely kind of satisfying to know that I really do think the films (and the support that followed) really had an effect. Sure, it's easy to make fun of Rollins' and others 'Free West Memphis Three' t-shirts, but I do think it's worth a little earnest applauding for those who continued to support the case well after the movies were on the tip of peoples' tongues. Some poor fuckup kids? They'd be fucked if their cases didn't get wide attention and continued legal funding. And this weird ruling only further supports this - to me it basically says that the court doesn't have to say, 'oh shit, sorry we fucked up', but with the weak evidence and with the disapproval of the wider outside world, this wasn't going to go away --- it's almost as if the court of public opinion actually trumped the actual court, and without there being a clearly defined area for that battle to operate, a grey area was exploited to everyones' benefit.

And yeah, it's worth noting that it's possible the kids did it. Sure, there are a bunch of alternate theories presented in the movie, but it wasn't clearly disproven either. The key is that one kid was the fucking town weirdo and the other was fucking retarded. So sorry to sound like man-in-the-sf-homo/liberal-bubble but that fucking thirty-years-behind town full of fundamentalist bigoted rednecks fell hook, line, & sinker for that idiot's uneducated views about pagan religion, heavy metal, and wearing weird clothes, and no amount of alternate theories presented would have made a shred of difference in that case. He was fucked from the get-go. So whether or not they did it, it was an obvious miscarriage of justice.  It's really unfortunate they got put away so long, but I think it's one of those things where it might have been an unfortunate-but-necessary example that had to exist in order to expose the dark side of our backyard.

On the brighter side, though those kids do have those convictions hanging over their heads, I don't think they'll have any problems getting some speaking gigs!