Mint Mile shows this weekend in Portland + Seattle! Joel R.L. Phelps on Bandcamp! PRF Distro additions!
cmo029 Mint Mile “In Season & Ripe” 12″
In stores!
Mint Mile’s “In Season & Ripe” 12″ is now available.
For those of you who download records from the internet:
iTunes : eMusic : Bandcamp : Amazon : Google Play
“In Season & Ripe” is the first record by Mint Mile.
There are four songs on the 12”.
Jeff Panall (Songs: Ohia) played the drums.
Andrew Cohen (Silkworm, Bottomless Pit) played acoustic guitar.
Howard Draper (Tre Orsi) played slide guitar and organ.
Matthew Barnhart (Tre Orsi) recorded the drums and did much of the mixing and mastering.
Tim Midyett (Silkworm, Bottomless Pit) played acoustic and electric baritone guitars, bass guitar, Moog, ARP, piano, and trumpet.
He also sang and recorded stuff besides the drums.
“In Season & Ripe” was made here and there with love to preserve and transmit: thought, feeling, impression, memory.
There are 537 copies of this record.
Comes with a download code. Do not worry.
Side A
Mountain Lion
Modern Day
Side B
Wound
Came Up In A Hive
Listen to the song “Modern Day” here. Order a copy here.
You can see Mint Mile THIS WEEKEND at the Sunset Tavern in Seattle on Saturday, September 26 and at Mississippi Studios in Seattle on Sunday, September 27.
Both bills also include Zebra Hunt and Joel R.L. Phelps & The Downer Trio.
cmo028 TV Colours “Purple Skies, Toxic River” Lp
Out now!
I’ve had a deep appreciation for music that has found its way to New Jersey from Australia for as long as I’ve known about punk rock, first discovering bands like The Eastern Dark, Exploding White Mice and The Celibate Rifles when I was in grade school.
Three decades later, contemporary albums by Ooga Boogas, Exhaustion and Native Cats traveled across continents to WPRB and were highlights of my 2013 radio shows.
Which leads us to TV Colours, a band cut from a similarly tremendous cloth. I likely would have never heard TV Colours were it not for a throwaway comment I made on-line under a friend’s exhaustive “Best of 2013” list. I said that the year was yet another great one for groups from Oz.
“This is a really good album by TV Colours from Canberra, which is like our Washington DC,” a stranger added plainly.
I pressed play on the link provided and by two songs in I knew I was listening to something special.
I would have loved “Purple Skies, Toxic River” when I first encountered Aussie punk and it is an album that still thrills me now. It is an LP for “the kids” and about “the kids,” capturing the electrifying, agonizing, alienating, turgid miasma of youth. I want to put it in the ears of every kid with tattered jeans and badges on their jackets to reassure them that it will take longer than they like but eventually it all will be fine.
Made by enigmatic perfectionist Bobby Kill, TV Colours’ debut was six years in the making. It is full of teenage anthems, overdriven guitars, and unrelenting drum machines trying to outrun the sirens.
“Purple Skies, Toxic River” saw previous release in Australia by Dream Damage and was pressed by the French label XVIII, where it received rave reviews, several of which are quoted below.
This issue courtesy Comedy Minus One is the first time it has been available in North America with any ease.
500 vinyl copies and digital downloads are obtainable through all popular providers.
Listen to the song “Lost Highway” here. Order a copy here. Watch a video for the song “The Neighborhood” here.
Alternately, here’s a list of places you can download this record:
iTunes : eMusic : Bandcamp : Rhapsody : Amazon : Google Play
My favorite record of 2013 is now your favorite album of this calendar year.
Let’s hit the freeway.
Jon Solomon
March 2015
Joel R.L. Phelps on Bandcamp!
Out of print physically for eons and never previously available digitally in most cases, the entire Joel R.L. Phelps discography is now on Bandcamp for high quality free streaming and reasonablly-priced downloading, including some rare recordings and difficult to find bonus tracks.
Customs : Tradition : Inland Empires : Blackbird : 3 : The Downer Trio : Warm Springs Night
This brings the total number of Comedy Minus One releases on our Bandcamp label page to 27, with more on the way.
Downloads are available in a variety of high quality audio options pulled from production masters, including FLAC, AAC and Ogg Vorbis.
If you notice any audio issues or typos on these new pages, please let us know.
PRF Distro additions!
Check out the latest PRF Distro re-stocks and new catalogue titles…
Conan Neutron & The Secret Friends – “The Enemy Of Everyone” Lp
Dama/Libra – “Claw” Lp
Eleventh Dream Day – “Eighth” Lp
Eleventh Dream Day – “Stalled Parade” Lp
Eleventh Dream Day – “Works For Tomorrow” Lp
Hungry Man – “Eater” Lp
Hurl – “Radishes” 45
The Karl Hendricks Trio – “A Gesture of Kindness” Lp
Lardo – “Gunmetal Eyes” Lp
Nervous Curtains – “Con” Lp
Taking Pictures – “2113” Cd (Japanese import)
These Estates – “The Dignity of Man” Lp
Plus 32 different old My Pal God Records releases!
Comedy Minus One has a Facebook page and a Twitter handle for those of you who dig such things. More frequent bursts of news can be found there or on the Comedy Minus One blog.
Stores and distributors are welcome to contact us about stocking these titles. Comedy Minus One is distributed directly in North America through Carrot Top, Matador Direct and Revolver.
Canadian, European and Australian distribution sought.
Thank you.
Jon Solomon
Comedy Minus One
comedyminusone.com