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Music Shit / Re: first record store experience
« on: January 01, 2013, 12:54:01 AM »
ah ah, I remember that shop Laurent! there were huge posters of Cerronne everywhere

but here's mine


Cool shot!
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Music Shit / first record store experience
« on: December 30, 2012, 10:15:40 PM »
I had frequented a few record stores in Houston when I was little but not until I moved to Chicago for college did I really get to experience it full on.  The first time was when I went to Broadway Records right down from where I lived, just around the corner from Reckless Records.  This place was the size of a storage locker.  Tight assorted stacks of all genres in every nook and cranny.  A perfect spot for a Saturday mid afternoon. 

What was your first encounter?
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Moniker Records 2012

Yva Las Vegass - I was Born in a Place...  LP
Dan Melchior - Ghost in the Supermarket  12in
Hot & Cold - Border Area  LP
Stacian - Songs for Cadets  LP
ONO - Albino  LP
Kraus - Supreme Commander  LP
Lazy - Party City  7in

2013 in the works

J.T. IV - Cosmic Lightning (3rd press), Lazy - Obsession LP, The Hecks 7in, more...
 
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www.llazy.info
www.moniker-records.com

TUNEAGE:

http://lazy.bandcamp.com/

 [Description]
   
INFO STILL CREEPIN' ABOUT, STUFF SUBJECT TO CHANGE
GET IN TOUCH lazykband@gmail.com

1/4 Lawrence, KS Replay Lounge, Baby Ghosts
1/6 St Louis, MO APOP Records, The Funs, Black Panties, Animal Teeth
1/7 Indianapolis, IN TBA
1/8 Chicago IL Permanent Records, Twin Peaks
1/8 Chicago IL Burlington, The Hecks, Slushy
1/9 Milwaukee, WI Circle A, Fire Retarded
1/10 Detroit, MI Jumbo's, Frustrations
1/11 Buffalo, NY Buffalo Joe's, Armageddon
1/12 New York City, NY Park Side Lounge, What's Next?, Haribo, A Pleasure
1/13 New York City, NY WMFU 91.1 Live Radio Interview
1/13 New York City, NY Cake Shop, Call of the Wild, Lame Drivers
1/14 Arlington, VA CD Cellar
1/15 Columbus, OH The Summit
1/16 Nashville, TN The Owl Farm, Vacation Bible School
1/17 Atlanta, GA 543 Club, Ava Luna
1/18 Memphis, TN Buccaneer, Toxie, Modern Convenience
1/19 Tulsa, OK Soundpony

Merch
Party City 7 Moniker
Obsession + Remixes and Rarities Cassette
CD-R's
Buttons
Shirts
Stickers
Used Gum
Old Q Tips
Pieces of Silk
Floppy Discs
Socks with holes in the toes
Dark Chocolate mini bars
+ TBA!
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Solid Kraus review from Yellow Green Red.

Kraus - Supreme Commander LP (Moniker)
"That first Kraus LP got some rave reviews around my part of town, but its outrageous retail price (like $35?) kept me at bay. Guess I?ll have to hit an ATM, as Supreme Commander is a fantastic album that exceeds my already high expectations. Imagine that your favorite classic rock riffs were abducted from your favorite classic rock songs, probed by aliens, and eventually forced to act as b-movie props. ?Kraus? is the name of the person who makes all this music (save for ?Maryann??s drums on ?Flute? and ?Mono Lulu?), and he treats his sci-fi trips with the reverence they deserve. Parts remind me of the first couple Blues Control records, had Blues Control left any remote new-age signifiers behind and just smoked a lot of pot while watching one of those ?classic horror movies? DVD box-sets that Wal-Mart dumps in giant metal cages and sells for like $2.99 per box. I love when Kraus really shreds (see ?Guinea Coin Blues? in particular), making love to his guitar Randy Holden-style while pesky flying saucers circle his Marshall stack. Fans of King Blood and Human Eye that want to leave the rest of humanity behind need to search this one out pronto? it?s a record to be savored by humans and humanoids alike."
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Kraus kut is pretty cool. C. Heazlewood/Crude/Children's TV Workshop vibes.

That looks like a good reccomendation, especially Crude. Is his older stuff in the same vein?

Yeah, its def similar vein. 

Check out Lazy.  Great KC punk rock band.
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FULL STREAMS OF EACH RELEASE!

Lazy "Party City" -- http://lazy.bandcamp.com/  (LP out next year)

Kraus "Supreme Commander" --  http://monikerrecordsss.bandcamp.com/album/kraus-supreme-commander

ONO - "Albino" --  http://monikerrecordsss.bandcamp.com/album/ono-albino-2

Stacian "Songs For Cadets" -- http://monikerrecordsss.bandcamp.com/album/stacian-songs-for-cadets


Order info

www.moniker-records.com
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From Kraus:

"in a week there's going to be a Kraus live performance aired on WFMU. We taped it in our living room on Sunday the 14th, with me on guitar, Stefan Neville on drums and synthesizer, and Maryann on bass and percussion. It'll be on Brian Turner's show on Tuesday the 30th October between 3pm and 6pm EDT. Note: in New Zealand that's WEDNESDAY the 31st between 8am and 11am. Look here to find the correct time in other locations."

Tune in for it!
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OCTOBER RELEASES

LPs $14.99 // 7in $6.99

Link to purchase:  http://www.moniker-records.com/records.html
 
 
 k r a u s 

"s u p r e m e   c o m m a n d e r"



400 LP copies
Opague Grey

listen to the song "guinea coin blues" on soundcloud:
 
http://monikerrecordsss.bandcamp.com/album/kraus-supreme-commander
 

"Class is in session: if your world is one where Supreme Commander is a shoot-em-up video game, 'electronic music' is something perpetrated by sleazy guys in tracksuits and bling, and the only noteworthy sound ever to have emerged from New Zealand is the neutered yuppie-pop of Crowded House, Auckland's wildly inventive Kraus is sitting you down for some hardcore re-education.

The latest and strangest import from Oceania's exploding scene, Supreme Commander is a mind-fucking 36-minute filmstrip of Kraus' animatronic alternate-reality, where the deep-fuzzed guitars and modular electronics have minds and souls and personalities of their own, gurgling and stuttering, screaming and warbling and melting and hissing with total unpredictability. Like the underwater exotica of Raymond Scott, or the squishy 'visual sounds' of electronic?music pioneer Norman Mclaren, Kraus' singular vision refuses to moor to any particular time or place, dripping scuzz as it lurches lysergically from alien cockpit to opium den. Some seriously skewed and utterly unclassifiable shit from the onetime drummer of N.Z. space-punks the Futurians, this is the surprise jam of late 2012."


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 S T A C I A N   

"S o n g s   F o r   C a d e t s"


 
300 copies
Black vinyl

listen to the song "Orbit" on Soundcloud:
 
http://monikerrecordsss.bandcamp.com/album/stacian-songs-for-cadets


"Songs for Cadets is not a 37-minute barrage of Krauty, synth-drenched dance-pop from Milwaukee's scorching Stacian?it's actually a coded training-manual for intergalactic mercenaries, sent back in time from the year 2112. Life on earth has become unsustainable, and groups of young fighters have been enlisted by what's left of the global government to colonize Jupiter 6, a lush, earthlike planet out on the hostile fringes of the universe, populated by reptilian humanoids and robotic pterodactyls.

A 22nd-century Joan of Arc in dayglo armor, Stacian heads the sonic warfare division, wielding her synthesizer like a light saber in a life-or-death contest for control of the cosmic dancefloor. Crisp, relentless drumbeats and rocket-engine bass vie with the echoing cries of those weird, metallic birds as Stacian rallies her troops into action?mandatory listening for future cadets (literally)!"

 
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AVAILABLE NEXT WEEKEND

O N O

"A l b i n o"
 


300 copies
White vinyl

listen to the song "Veil" on bandcamp:
 
http://monikerrecordsss.bandcamp.com/album/ono-albino-2

watch Model Bride music video from 1983:
 
http://youtu.be/6qVLlA37Kx0
 

"To non-locals, ONO's stunning Albino might have fallen from the sky, but to an enlightened and ever-growing bunch of Chicago heads the band is already full-on legend, and the release of their first recorded music since 1986 is a majorly epic landmark that needs no introduction. For the rest of y'all: ONO is a unit of transcendent noise-making now in its fourth decade. Both notorious and neglected in their early years, ONO's unholy bitches' brew of noisy snarl, avant-garde R&B, gospel-heavy blackness, queer sensibility and extravagant, performance-art theatrics (they once played a concert at Navy Pier in which singer travis was dragged through the audience in a steel cage, naked but for a jockstrap) was in a whole 'nuther galaxy from the macho Chicago punk scene that spawned them.

Reemerging in the late 00s with astonishing vehemence and an expansive, multi-generational lineup, they've been embraced by a more fertile and experimental Chicago scene, and are about to explode skulls internationally. travis has always referred to fellow-founder P. Michael ONO as the 'leader of the band,' but anchor might be more appropriate?P. Michael's groundswelling bass and nasty, insectoid beats are unquestionably the glue that binds the sprawling noise. But then there's travis, whose fierce brilliance carries echoes of punk prophets like Patti Smith, Iggy Pop and Gil Scott-Heron but is always pure, raging ONO. As for the rest of the band, check the sick, Beefheartian groove of Veil, or their revelatory cover of the Velvet Underground's All Tomorrow's Parties, which manages to excise much of the song's innate sentimentality while upping its sonic generosity, the wall-of-sound sprouting weeds and flowers in its cracks. ONO's original mission statement (1980) runs through this music more truly and deeply than ever, so to quote it in full and let it speak for itself: ONO1980// Experimental Performance, NOISE, and Industrial Poetry Performance Band; Exploring Gospel's Darkest Conflicts, Tragedies and Premises. Some deep-listening shit--beyond recommended!"


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L A Z Y

"P a r t y   C i t y"



300 copies
Black vinyl

listen to the song "Party City":

http://soundcloud.com/monikerrecords/lazy-party-city
 
"Lazy explode as a refreshingly direct ball of energy straight from the Heartland. These Kansas City collaborators play punk rock equal parts smart and gritty. Catchy, buzzing anthems evolve from jagged rhythmic chaos, as dark drones and found sound snippets populate percussive, gang-vocal boy/girl rave-ups.
 
On Moniker's first vinyl release from Lazy's 2012 "Obsession" sessions, Lazy capture punk that could come from anywhere -- "Party City, U.S.A." -- yet few match their immediate intensity. The group's art impulses and collages suggest that anything goes in the course of these brief, emphatic statements. Then there's that inspiring, trebly clatter, a grittiness that ensures this is as real as punk gets. Lazy smash it into a million pieces then tie it all back up, in three minutes or less."
 

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Moniker Records
P.O. Box 891287
Chicago, IL 60608


 
 
CONTACT: moniker.records@gmail.com

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Music Shit / Re: anticipated releases
« on: September 08, 2012, 06:58:36 PM »
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I'm digging this quite a bit, and I definitely see the Spacemen 3 vibe. I'm stuck trying to figure out what the hell this has to do with China.

They grew up in Beijing.  All the songs were recorded there.  The ones in Liupukang were recorded under ground literally stories below street level.

This is really cool.

Is there anything else out by this band???

This is it as far as vinyl.  Cassette releases by Night People, Rose Mansion Analog, and Maybe Mars.
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Is this being carried stateside?  Thanks.
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Music Shit / Re: are there any good current bands from Tulsa, OK?
« on: September 05, 2012, 05:44:08 PM »
Tulsa used to have cool funny bands names.  Illegitimate Sons Of Jackie O, Ancient Chinese Penises, The Kids Who Never Learned How To Color Inside The Lines...  Too bad those days are over. 
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Music Shit / Re: ONO - Avant Industrial Gospel Noise Post Punk
« on: August 30, 2012, 10:00:25 PM »
Old film from 1983.  "Model Bride" (never before seen music video).  Last footage shows travis with a machete and jockstrap running thru a section of O'Hare airport...!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qVLlA37Kx0&list=PL9EAAFC6D9546C638
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