Beaujolais - Love At Thirty (Parasol Records)
CD $10.00 On Sale: $9.00
Listen: Friday The Thirteenth: The Loft • Birthday Card
New this week from Parasol Label Group: Beaujolais is Chicagoan J.A. Ziemba, former frontman for Wolfie and The Like Young. Love At Thirty is Beaujolais’ debut album, an album about personal cataclysm and catalyst, about being wounded and being healed. It also happens to be an incredible pop and garage-rock record, and in our opinion the best songs Joe has ever written. Conceptual. Personal. Monumental. Check out the Love At Thirty release page for a free mp3.

Studio – Yearbook 2 CD $16.25
Women – Self-Titled CD $13.50
Polar – Feedback CD+DVD $21.75
Earlimart – Hymn & Her CD $14.25
Meneguar – The In Hour LP $13.75
Farflung – A Wound In Eternity CD $11.00
Baby Woodrose – Blows Your Mind! [re-issue] CD $20.50

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Dead Man - Euphoria (Meteor City) CD $11.00
Listen: High Or Low • A Pinch Of Salt
Jim's Pick: Sweet, slowburn, psych-rock jams from shaggy Swedish troupe, the follow-up to their 2006 debut. Dead Man strike camp where the fallow folk-pop foothills meet psychedelia’s purple mountain majesties, finding common ground with contemporaries like Black Mountain and Elope. The throwback vibe borders on mellow – okay, narcotic – with pastoral undulations that will make tie-dyed Deadheads, Zepplin zealots, Iron Butterfly disciples and Floyd fanatics giddy as Syd. Turn on, tune in, drop something. [more detail]

Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum… (XL) CD $9.25
Listen: Gobbledigook • Inní mér syngur vitleysingur
Like the Notwist last week Sigur Ros have traveled a few light years closer to the terrestrial, with a dash of humanity leavening the otherworldliness, 'sunny' is the operative word here, outside a couple epic, glacial ballads. Their elemental folk still inhabits its own special cosmos, indeed. It's lovely. And the Animal Collective comparisons? Maybe "Gobbledigook", just a little bit? [more detail]

The Watson Twins – Fire Songs CD $15.00
Jay Reatard – Singles 06-07 CD+DVD $17.00
Hercules & Love Affair – Self-Titled CD $14.25
Be Your Own Pet – Get Damaged EP CD5 $4.25
The Grip Weeds – Infinite Soul: Best of… CD $12.25
Camper Van Beethoven - Popular Songs… CD $14.25
Liz Phair – Exile In Guyville [re-issue] CD+DVD $15.00

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Notwist – The Devil, You + Me (Domino) CD $11.50
Notwist – The Devil, You + Me (Domino) Deluxe CD $15.50
Listen: Where In The World
A more organic and acoustic endeavor and, dare-we-say-it, stronger? front-to-back than its celebrated predecessor, Neon Golden. A sweetly melancholy possession/exorcism that trades some of their trademark "Pick Up the Phone" despair for what sounds a lot like hopefulness; while still intimate and personal. Made by humans for other humans, which is nice. [more detail]

Endless Boogie – Focus Level (No Quarter) CD $13.00
Listen: Smoking Figs In The Yard • Bad River
First CD release from hairy NYC foursome; the name says it all. A devoutly unholy gumbo of grimy guitar jams referencing Canned Heat, Creedence, Blue Cheer, The Dead and Hawkwind; sprinkled with Beefheartian guttural utterances, woven into gnarly garage-psych grooves, where southern-fried spacerock climbs aboard thee motorik kozmische. Kick back, smoke figs, enjoy the boogie… Endlessly. [more detail]

Adem – Takes CD $12.50
Tilly & the Wall – O CD $11.50
Clouds – We Are Above You CD $12.50
Wolf Parade – At Mount Zoomer CD $12.50
Sebadoh – Bubble & Scrape [re-issue] CD $12.50
Bowerbirds – Hymns for a Dark Horse CD $11.50
Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea CD $13.00
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue [re-issue] DCD $28.50
My Brightest Diamond – A Thousand Shark's Teeth CD $11.50

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Jason & The Scorchers - Fervor/Lost & Found [re-issue] (Caroline)
CD $15.25 Listen: Absolutely Sweet Marie • White Lies
Saturday Shift: First CD on the player Saturday is the recent (2008) re-issue of Nashville rockers Jason & The Scorchers' 1983 debut EP and 1985 album, reprised with a hot new mastering job and original cover art. This country-rock awesomeness is considered Summer In A Bottle around these parts. In this case a square bottle, with a black label, as frequently hoisted by rock & rollers of that era. [more detail]

Wooden Shjips - Vol. 1 (Holy Mountain) CD $13.50
Listen: Shrinking Moon for You
Magnanimous Holy Mountain release of previously vinyl-only and mostly unavailable stupendousness from Left Coast, lo-fi, psych-o-naut messiahs. The only thing fuzzier than the epic, acid-fuzz-guitar-organ freakscapes within are these dudes’ shjort-term memories. OK, it is similar to the limited 2nd CD that came with initial copies of their debut full-length CD, but this official release tacks on tracks from The SOL (Summer Of Love) 45 as well. [more detail]

Blood Music - Don Quite (Make It Happen) CD $15.00
Listen: Eagles In The Water • Lovely Love
Jim's Pick: Album #2 from former First Floor Power dude Karl-Jonas Winqvist, the follow-up to Sing A Song Fighter!, his charming fizz-pop debut. Lithe, lilting pop led by voice and piano, for fans of the croony, orchestral, sampledic-pop sounds of Jens Lekman and Sufjan Stevens, sung in a voice imbued with child-like wonder and wild-eyed naiveté, cavorting baroquely with saucy synths, strings, horns and ebullient rhythms; the electric sound of joy, indeed. [more detail]

Antennas – Lies CD5 $0.25
Sloan – Parallel Play CD $13.75
Pentemple – O))) Presents… CD $14.00
Dominique Leone – Self-Titled CD $14.50
My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges CD $13.00
Joan As Policewoman – To Survive CD $13.75
Radio Dept. – Freddie & the Trojan Horse CD5 $9.75

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Fleet Foxes - Self-Titled (Sub Pop) CD $12.50
Listen: White Winter Hymnal • Ragged Wood
Where their Sun Giant EP was pretty good, this new full-length is spectacular, leagues ahead in scope and rendering. A lovely rock-wilderness wrapped in choral/gospel/harmony grandeur, equal parts melancholy and evangelical rapture, psychedelic in the echoing spaces, this becomes the perfect soundtrack to summer twilight and beyond. Like My Morning Jacket and Band of Horses holed up with CSN&Y. [more detail]

Mark Kozelek - Nights of Passed Over (Caldo Verde)
Hardback BOOK+CD $48.00 ON SALE: $45.00
Now available in a comprehensive 2008 U.S. edition, this updated, hardback, 256-page, all-English edition includes Kozelek’s lyrics from his Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon/solo albums and compilations, set lists; plus a new preface by Mark. Packaged with an exclusive 12-song bonus CD entitled the Nights LP with live and rare recordings from the last decade or so, nine songs exclusive and previously unreleased. [tracklist, more detail]

Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Heartcore (The Leaf Label)
CD $15.25 Listen: I Can't Tell In His Eyes • Doubt/Hope
Jim's Pick: Cathartic proto-folk/cave-soul/meta-jazz with plenty of freak appeal, Wildbirds & Peacedrums are a bethrothed duo from Gothenburg, Sweden. Fans of Scout Niblett, PJ Harvey, Kate Bush, Diamanda Galas, and Fiery Furnaces chanteuse Eleanor’s oddest moments will find wild-eyed salvation in W&P’s revelatory art-rock minimalism. [more detail]

Shearwater - Rook CD $12.00
Jaguar Love – Self-Titled CD5 $4.00
The M's – Real Close Ones CD $12.00
Ed Harcourt – Beautiful Lie CD $15.00
Club 8 – Jesus Walk with Me CD5 $10.00
Accidental – There Were Wolves CD $13.00
Low – You May Need a Murderer DVD $15.75
Centro-matic/South San Gabriel – Dual Hawks DCD $16.25

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Awesome Color - Electric Aborigines (Ecstatic Peace)
CD $10.00 Listen: Eyes of Light • Burning
Saturday Shift: First CD on the player is the recent platter from badass Brooklyn scuzz-rockers, who have got [Made In Detroit] stamped somwehere on their gnarly chassis. Those searching for a full-frontal Stooges fetish, along with fans of The Ponys, Mudhoney and My Midnight Creeps, will find anthems aplenty. [more detail]

La Scala - The Harlequin (High Wheel) 45+CD5 $7.50
Listen: Parallel Lines
Turns out former Mother/Menthol mainman and Bowie-esque chameleon Balthazar de Ley leads Chicago's La Scala. Melodramatic, visceral pomp-rock intertwined with Euro folk, Gainsbourgian exotica and a smear of glammy cabaret mascara. So totally post-war, with an urgent new wave zing that Menthol fans will be ecstatic about. Four songs on 7” vinyl, CD adds a fifth song. [more detail]

22 Pistepirkko - (Well You Know) Stuff Is Like We Yeah!
(Bone Voyage) CD $15.00
Listen: Suburban Ladyland • Zombie
Jim's Pick: Since their humble beginnings in the mid-80s Finnish cult act 22-PP have bestowed upon us 12 full-length albums (including The Others) and an essential 2002 retrospective. With (WYK)SILWY! this quirky, veteran psych-pop trio deploy their awesome super-powers on behalf of song and songcraft; simple, but as always, skewed in the most compelling ways. Their sweetest and most beguiling album yet. [more detail]
Also available in limited DCD version.

Mogwai – Young Team [expanded re-issue] DCD $15.75
The Black Watch – Icing the Snow Queen CD $9.00
The Clientele – Last Night a Forest Grew CD5 $8.25
Spiritualized – Songs in A & E [regular] CD $12.25
DJ Spooky – Sound Unbound… CD+DVD $16.25
Midnight Juggernauts – Dystopia CD $14.25
The Lodger – Life Is Sweet CD $14.25

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Mudhoney - The Lucky Ones (Sub Pop) CD $12.50
Listen: I'm Now • And The Shimmering Light
Time has bent over backward for Mark Arm & crew and your summer drinking sessions will benefit mightily. Sounds like a sweaty, savvy garage band turned up to 12. No bells, no whistles, just four badass bros conjuring killer songs, gargantuan garage rock grooves and licks so lascivious you'll blush. [more detail] Meanwhile: celebrating band/label milestone, Superfuzz Bigmuff gets the deluxe re-issue treatment.

Mason Jennings - In the Ever (Brushfire) CD $15.00
ON SALE: $13.75 Listen: Fighter Girl • Soldier Boy
New album from Minneapolis songsmith gets us all swoony, but hell, we're still a little wobbly from 2006's Boneclouds. In the Ever is full of homey, folksy, pop-spirituals and homespun storytellin’, all sung in a voice of cozy camaraderie; as much Jonathan Richman as it is John Cunningham, backed by rootsy tunes that are as much about Leadbelly as they are Led Zeppelin. [more detail]

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