MIJ REISSUE AVAILABLE FOR ORDER

Presenting the latest vinyl release from the Jackpot Records label (along with our friends ESP Disk): MIJ’s “Yodeling Astrologer”!

Yodeling Astrologer (aka: Color By The Number) could be considered an anomaly, a one-off or a miracle of circumstance in the history of psychedelic pop music. Mij, a.k.a. Jim Holmberg was discovered by ESP owners while playing in Washington Square Park in the summer of 1968. His style and persona mesmerized the label heads, and he explained to them a recent auto accident had fractured his skull but left him changed. He perceived sound, color and vision differently and he had funneled this new world of perception directly into his music.

All this was enough to warrant getting Mij into the studio to lay down a record of his rambly, cosmic folk songs. The entire album was recorded in three hours, first-takes and impromptu production intact, then pressed up and introduced to the world shortly thereafter.

To focus on the yodeling aspect of the Yodeling Astrologer would miss some of the depth of this album. Not just a hippie novelty act of the time, this is a truly thoughtful and somewhat frenzied document. Uneasy reverberations and soft echoes glide over Holmberg’s breezy songs, creating a consistent sonic environment as spontaneous as it is intriguing. Available on vinyl for the first time since an incredibly limited original pressing in 1969 on ESP Disk’.

Order here.

ALBUM OF THE MONTH

Well-known around Portland, these boys have been making waves on the local house show scene for awhile now. Don’t be fooled, though–they can certainly hold their own in front of a larger audience as they proved a few weeks ago at their album release show, playing to a sweatily packed Holocene.

With spookily harmonic vocals and a drum beat that subtly begs attention with smartly placed rim shots and bass drum, there’s a certain magic that happens. Try not to get chills as those first vocals on “Technicolor” kick it off…

HE IS COMING…

TOMORROW IS THE FREAKIN’ DAY.

JAY REATARD in his ONLY Portland performance this tour!

Live and in person for an instore performance at our downtown location, 203 SW 9th starting at 6 pm. Free and all ages.

No excuses. Shit is gonna get WILD.

THE REMAINS WITH THE NEW DAWN!

PORTLAND THURSDAY

More on the JANDEK front, the audio from his 2006 live show right here in Portland is now available for purchase as a 2-CD set, entitled “Portland Thursday”!

YOU CAME AND YOU GAVE WITHOUT TAKING…

So, Mandy Moore may not be praising Manilow but she has something to say about Jandek…

Mandy Moore Twitters about Jandek!

Mandy, come check us out. We’ll give you the scoop on Jandek. *WE* won’t send you away.

YOU CAN’T LOSE!

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NOW ON SALE THROUGH 9/12!

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EAGLE TWIN, “Unkindness of Crows”

CD $13.95

Behold the debut album from Eagle Twin! The riffs and music definitely have familiar reference points (Caspar Brotzmann Massaker,Earth, Sunn 0))), Melvins etc..) but are crafted in a way that stands miles beyond the others.

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JANDEK, “Six and Six”

LP $15.95

A Jackpot Records Release! Originally released in 1981. 9 songs drift by as a series of slight variations on several desolate, untuned acoustic guitar phrases. The meditative, steady music forms a dark backdrop for some of Jandek’s more vivid and poetic lyrical thoughts.

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YACHT, “See Mystery Lights”

CD $12.95

Yacht was formed in 2002 as Y.A.C.H.T., “Young Americans Challenging High Technology.” The group has released four albums to date. See Mystery Lights is their first full-length release for DFA Records.

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FRUIT BATS, “The Ruminant Band”

CD $11.95 / LP also available

Fruit Bats have never shied away from darkness, but more uncommon in this day and age, they’ve refused to shy away from light. Using bright melodies, defiantly major-key chord structures, natural imagery mixed with the occasional blazing insight and tender observation.

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NURSES, “Apple’s Acre”

CD $12.95 / LP also available

An encyclopedic list of musical influences and sound-alikes won’t necessarily cozy up your brain to the Nurses experience. Their compositions revel in the unexpected, and it creates music that’s endlessly fascinating.

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MONO, “Hymn To The Immortal Wind”

CD $12.95 / LP also available

Just in time for their 10-year anniversary, MONO return with their fifth studio album! The music is naturally majestic, with MONO’s trademark wall of noise crashing beautifully against the largest chamber orchestra the band has ever enlisted.

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PETE YORN, “Back & Forth”

CD $12.95

Yorn wrote all 10 songs on Back and Fourth and recorded the album in Omaha, NE, with producer Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley). Columbia’s co-chairman Rick Rubin helped guide the project from its earliest demo stages to final mastering.

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GOD HELP THE GIRL, “God Help The Girl”

CD $12.95 / LP also available

Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch’s solo debut chronicles the various muddles that young, attractive girls find themselves in.

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CLARK, “Totems Flare”

CD $14.95 / LP also available

Chris Clark returns with the much anticipated follow up to ‘Body Riddle’ & ‘Turning Dragon’! ‘Totems Flare. Will be sure to blow your mind, an album that his last EP ‘Growl’s Garden’ only hinted at, in terms of potential.

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MINUS 5, “Killingsworth”

CD $13.95

Scott McCaughey of Young Fresh Fellow fame returns with another fantastic Minus 5 release named after a Portland Street. Close to where the album was conceived and recorded. Features guests Peter Buck (of R.E.M.) and John Moen (of The Decemberists).

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OUT 8/18!

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PISSED JEANS, “King Of Jeans”

CD $11.95 / LP also available

Pissed Jeans have pushed further into the raw, minimal core of heavy rock music. King of Jeans is their formal and uneasy acceptance of adulthood, by way of one hell of a rock record.

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THE ACCUSED, “The Curse Of Martha Splatterhead”

CD $12.95

Seattle splatter rock kings released their first album on Southern Lord. Appropriately titled The Curse Of Martha Splatterhead, the release will mark their first full-length studio effort in four years.

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NOW OUT…

We’ve got over 2000 items posted online! Here’s a few to peek at:

Jay Reatard, “Watch Me Fall” (LP)
For his second studio album and proper Matador debut, Memphis prolific punk wunderkind Jay Reatard has moved beyond his roots and recorded an album chockful of irresistible melodies, the songs cascading with joyous hooks. He would not be Jay Reatard, however, if there wasn’t a certain aggro negativity, and the song titles and lyrics do much to undercut the pop sensibility: I’m Watching You, Hang Them All, Can’t Do It Anymore, Wounded, It Ain’t Gonna Save Me.

The Lemonheads, “Varshons” (LP)
Covers album that runs the gamut, from hardcore anthems like G.G. Allin’s “Layin’ Up with Linda” to Green Fuz’s “Green Fuz,” to the more classically dark “Waiting Around to Die” by Townes Van Zandt. Produced by Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers), Evan Dando’s burnished voice keeps it simple and lets the incredible playlist hold its own.

Patrick Wolf, “The Bachelor” (CD + LP)
Patrick Wolf’s fourth album was originally intended to be a double-disc set entitled Battle, recorded in Battle, Hastings. The two CDs were titled The Bachelor (an album documenting a time in his life where he was traveling excessively, battling with the world around him, his self, his desire and tackling depression and bachelorhood) and The Conqueror (an album documenting his current love affair and return to a place of happiness, compassion, stability, and domestic life). Patrick has since decided to release both discs separately, so as not to overload people with too much information at one time. The first to be released, The Bachelor features collaborations with Eliza Carthy, Thomas Bloch, Alec Empire, Matthew Herbert and Tilda Swinton.

Grizzly Bear, “Horn of Plenty” (LP)
For the first time, the full Horn of Plenty album (Grizzly Bear’s 2004 debut album, back when they were more cubs than bears…har har…) is available on 180gm black vinyl w/printed inner sleeve. Holy crap!

Horse Meat Disco, “S/T” (CD)
Following the label’s acclaimed ‘Disco Not Disco’ and ‘Disco Italia’ releases during 2008-9, Strut teams up with one of London’s leading disco collectives, Horse Meat Disco, for their hotly anticipated debut compilation release.

Bloody Panda, “Summon” (CD)
The follow-up to their acclaimed Pheromone, Summon takes the nightmare Bloody Panda first explored on their split LP with experimentalists Kayo Dot even further into the depths. The album is a disturbing, cinematic vision of terror and frightening depravity that lurks within the dark chambers of doom metal horror.

Amanda Blank, “I Love You” (CD + LP)
Blank is a member of a loose collective of musicians that includes Spank Rock, Santigold, and Diplo. She takes the influences of 90’s R&B, ’80s dance, indie, new wave and Brit pop and weaves them into her own double Dutch.

Pisces, “A Lovely Sight” (CD + LP)
In 1969, the Midwest was hurting for the hard stuff, but what it got was plenty of the White Album-enough to have Jim Krein, Paul DiVenti, and Linda Bruner recording through a glass onion all their own. The unsettling balance of their unissued LP combines homespun psych and secondhand studio trickery, resulting in a diverse, haunted rock headspace few coastal bands ever flew through, let alone over.

OMGOMGOMG!

If you’re a fan of Johnny Marr or The Cribs, you may have noticed a little tidbit over on Mr. Marr’s website as of late. We are super, super flattered to be chosen as the exclusive retailer in the States for their special release of “Ignore the Ignorant,” specially entitled “The Roses Edition.” The only other places carrying this limited release are on the other side of the pond, so we do not take this choosing as anything less than an honor.

“The Roses Edition” box set contains:

*The full CD album of “Ignore the Ignorant”

*A “Making of…” DVD Documentary

*A full live album recorded at The Ritz, Manchester February 5th and 6th, 2009

This special edition drops on September 7th, so no dawdling! PRE-ORDER NOW…once it’s gone, it’s gone! XO.

(Photo via.)

AH, MEMORIES…

DJ Thurston Moore at Jackpot Records:

DJ T. Moore surveys the possibilities of the collectible wall.

Jackpot Records owner Isaac Slusarenko with the DJ, perhaps putting in a request?

…And some nice video coverage from oregonlive.com!