Cover art and track listing for new Karl Hendricks Trio album revealed!

Later this summer, Pittsburgh’s The Karl Hendricks Trio will release their first album as a three piece since 2003′s “The Jerks Win Again” on Merge Records.

Entitled “The Adult Section,” this nine song record is the first output by one of the label’s favorite songwriters since 2007′s “The World Says” from The Karl Hendricks Rock Band.

Comedy Minus One will be pressing a limited edition run of beautiful lp + cd packages for this title, which will also be available on all digital platforms.

“The Adult Section” was recorded and mixed by Matt Schor at The War Room between November of last year and February of this year. It was then expertly mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering with photos and artwork by Corey LeChat.

Watch this space for news on a proper release date, a free download and preorder incentives.

In the time between, please review the track listing:

01 The Men’s Room At The Airport
02 The Adult Section
03 The Whole Fucking Thing
04 I Don’t Need A Hippie (To Tell Me How To Talk To My Cat)
05 After Four Beers
06 Running Like A Girl
07 Please Don’t
08 Dreams, Ha
09 Hold On, Cool Breeze

Comedy Minus One – News for October 2011.

Good people of the Internet,

Get off the couch! The first two Edsel reissues are out!

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Edsel digital reissues out today!

Today a pair of remastered records by the great Washington, DC band Edsel have been made available again through all major download services courtesy Comedy Minus One. Should you have an interest to listen/download/stream/etc, please follow one of the links below.

cmo017 – Edsel – The Everlasting Belt Co.
     iTunes : eMusic : Rhapsody : Amazon

cmo018 – Edsel – Detroit Folly
     iTunes : eMusic : Rhapsody : Amazon

Comedy Minus One – News for August 2011.

Good people of the Internet,

And we’re back. Hello once again after great silence from all of us at Comedy Minus One.

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Comedy Minus One to digitally reissue two Edsel albums in September.

On September 19, 2011 Comedy Minus One will make two albums by the excellent Washington, DC outfit Edsel available digitally for the first time.

Long out of print, these records have both been remastered by Joe Lambert at JLM Sound and will be accessible through all of your favorite digital providers.

In celebration of this event we’ve asked the members of Edsel to write up a pair of lengthy posts to provide you with more information on each release, from the history of both recordings to the stories behind some of these specific songs. Click away to learn more!

cmo017 – The Everlasting Belt Co.

cmo018 – Detroit Folly

Hopefully these new CMO titles will introduce one of the 1990s best bands to a new audience.

Edsel – “Detroit Folly”

Edsel’s “Detroit Folly” will be digitally reissued by Comedy Minus One on September 19, 2011. In celebration of this event we’ve asked the members of Edsel to provide you with more information on this release, from the history of its recording to stories behind some of these specific songs. For tales of “The Everlasting Belt Co.,” click here.

“Detroit Folly“ came out in 1994. It was the second of two albums we released on Grass Records. After some hilarious escapades attempting to keep things interesting, including playing naked and once only in tiger-striped Speedos, Nick was no longer drumming with us, so we recruited our friend John Dugan from Chisel to help.

In contrast to the more sprawling and studio-constructed atmosphere of “The Everlasting Belt Co.,“ this record was influenced by the desire to create something closer to our live show, which we felt was our greatest strength. The album that resulted is definitely the most unvarnished, sparse and intimate record we ever made, capturing us in a definable time and place.

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Edsel – “The Everlasting Belt Co.”

Edsel’s “The Everlasting Belt Co.” will be digitally reissued by Comedy Minus One on September 19, 2011. In celebration of this event we’ve asked the members of Edsel to provide you with more information on this release, from the history of its recording to stories behind some of these specific songs. For tales of “Detroit Folly,” click here.

“The Everlasting Belt Co.“ was made at an interesting time for us. We were far from the same band that recorded “Strange Loop“ (1992) a year earlier. We had a new bass player, a second guitarist and a musical curiosity that had grown considerably from our Gang of Four/Killing Joke/Wire origins.

I remember listening to early singles by Pale Saints, Swervedriver and, of course, My Bloody Valentine, trying to figure out how to incorporate their ideas into a framework that was still quite rooted in the DC hardcore we had grown up with. Bands like Th' Faith Healers and Moonshake were intriguing, too. Their use of rhythm and fractured melodies really appealed, taking ideas from Can and Public Image, but making them feel fresh. Our favorite late night driving record on tour was Laughing Stock by Talk Talk — its sparseness and dramatic landscape was something we aspired to. There was also Spiritualized's Lazer Guided Melodies, which, if we knew how, we probably would have just replicated with a few Fugazi guitar octaves tossed in to offset the spacey drone.

But that wasn't really us. We prized the earnestness of the DC aesthetic we’d grown up with and the undeniable American bluntness of how groups like Mission of Burma and Television put the art in their riffs. At the time there were other folks around who were leaning more heavily on the British imports and it all seemed either too precious or too much of a put-on. We wanted to have our own voice.

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Obits “No Fly List” video.

From the Sub Pop Lp/Cd “Moody, Standard & Poor”. Directed by Nick Sewell.

That’s a Candy Machine riff, right?

Karl Hendricks in the Echo Chamber.

“You’re A Bigger Jerk Than Me”

“Dreams Ha”

Two solo videos of Mr. Karl Hendricks recorded at the Childrens’ Museum of Pittsburgh by Draw Us Lines. Superbly shot and expertly recorded.

Obits illustrated in latest New Yorker.

Neat.

Two shows for the gentlemen of Obits in Brooklyn at Knitting Factory this Friday and Saturday night, the second date with Bottomless Pit!