Category: N-S
Northern Lands – He Took a Dive
75OL-173 Northern Lands – He Took a Dive CD
$10.00 S&H Included
Track Listing
1. With Regards to Gregg Allman
2. Sydney
3. Home Free
4. Like the State or the Quarterback?
5. Gallows
6. Crumb
7. Lucky, Tonight
8. He Took a Dive
9. Burnside
Formed in the summer of 2011 as a backing band for singer Josh Cournoyer’s appearance at the WBRU Summer Concert Series, Northern Lands has since evolved into a full fledged rock and roll collaborative with Aaron Jaehnig (bass), Peter Hayden (lead guitar), and Joshua Wallace (drums) rounding out the lineup. In the past year they’ve played shows at New York’s Bowery Electric, TT The Bear’s Place,The Middle East in Cambridge, Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel sharing the stage with acts such as Kevin Devine and The Goddamn Band, Chris Conley (Saves The Day), I Am The Avalanche, Titus Andronicus, Turf War, and Joe Fletcher & The Wrong Reasons. Recorded at the Parlour in Pawtucket (a studio that Sub Pop’s Six Finger Satellite built in the 90’s) with producer Dan Sawyer (B. Dolan, Prayers For Atheists, Ask The Dead) and mastered by Keith Souza and Seth Manchester at Machines with Magnets (Brown Bird, Fang Island) . Joining the band for guest spots on the album is Roz Raskin (The Ricecakes). Northern Lands also recently teamed up with Revival Brewing to launch their own craft lager, Northern Lands Lager which is available regionally this summer to coincide with the launch of He Took A Dive. For Fans of: The Hold Steady, Lucero, Dinosaur Jr., The E Street Band
Stan Sobczak – Stanatron
75OL-167 Stan Sobczak – Stanatron CD
$6.00 S&H Included
Track Listing
1. Stan Has Been Sick
2. Stan Stopped By Tonight
3. Stan Has Been Sick II
4. Stan The Dank
5. Stan in F
6. Stan Flounders (free mp3 download)
7. Stan Intercepts
8. Stan’s Old Tricks
9. Stan Can’t Remember
10. Stan’s New Moog (links to video)
Stanatron contains 10 ambient, hypnotic, cinematic soundscapes for fans of Brian Eno, Harold Budd, prescription medications, or sleeping.
Message from Stan: I don’t like the sound of voices – either singing or talking on telephones. I wish there was a way to remove vocals from records. They must have a computer program that can do this. Stuff like ‘Revolver’ or ‘Around The World In A Day’ would be so much better without all the talking, which is what most singing is: talking. The instrumentals on this LP represent what I think the soundtrack of my day would be. Most of the songs are meant to evoke the downstairs part of the house, where I spend a lot of time; but a few are for the upstairs; at least two are for work.
Suicide Bill and the Liquors – Suicide Comes Alive
75OL-159 Suicide Bill and the Liquors – Suicide Comes Alive CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1 Bill’s Alternative Country
2 The Independent Man
3 What’s Up Nobody?
4 Real Problem
5 Onion Guy
6 W.O.N.E.N.E.
7 Fire Engine Red
8 Blind Girl
9 Biscuit City Bliss
10 River Friend
11 Nothing Makes Bill Happy
Want to know what 2 or 3 drunk folks usually endure at a Suicide Bill show? Want to know why the hell Bill won a singer/songwriter award in the Providence Phoenix? “Suicide Comes Alive!” answers all the big questions and raises a few new ones. Eleven new live and semi-alive songs featuring Bill and his guitar with backup shouts and percussion from The Liquors make up their 5th record. Bill’s brand of loud-acoustic/alt. rock has never been stronger than it is here. Three of the songs also feature great guitar and harmony-vocal work from the most elusive member of the Liquors, Ray Pruitt. Once again, Suicide and company make a record that sounds good cranked up in your car while you deliver stuff — probably pizza or newspapers. Have fun on your route.
Eric Ott and Nate Laban – Love Songs And Isolation
75OL-158 Eric Ott and Nate Laban – Love Songs And Isolation
$7.00 S&H Included
Track Listing:
- Balm
- Tim M. Grin
- Kill The Daylight
- Please Read
- Estranged
- Skipping Towards The Sun
Nate Laban is a songwriter born and raised in New Hampshire that has been writing, recording and performing for the last 20 years up and down the east coast of the U.S. Bands he has been in include, Brick House, The Frosting and skate punk band Wallos. Eric Ott has been playing in and around the region for 20 plus years himself and is a writer of critically acclaimed songs. Bands he has been involved with include The Bonnie Situation, Mercuryhat and his latest Eric and The Anxiety. Eric and Nate met at a party fellow songwriter Marty England had at his house in North Berwick, Maine a few years ago. They would meet up frequently for the next year or so and eventually it became a discussion between Eric and Nate to record something together and collaborate on a couple of songs. There was no pressure or time table adhered to and the recording took a year and a half to complete in Nate’s barn. The music itself has a good deal of 60’s pop rock influence, which is something they were striving for but not limiting themselves to. Themes range from soul suckers, failed one-sided relationships, lip balm, fresh new marriages to of course, isolation.
Sweet Love – Motor
75OL-151 Sweet Love – Motor
$10.00 S&H Included
Digital downloads and streaming are available here
Track Listing
- Sweet Love
- Black Hole
- Circuit Breaker
- Seen But Not Heard
- Dive
- Interstate
- The Circle
- The Long Road
Pouring out both melodic and atmospheric guitar riffs over driving bass and tight drum work, Sweet Love is fuzz-rock that will put you on a bus back to the days of 70’s stoner rock and beyond. The band’s debut album “Motor” is a tightly packed 35 minutes of heavy rock and roll with soulful lyrics culminating in head-banging hits. Barry Menard, Mark Roberge and John Hunter have been rocking Providence, RI together since 2010 and individually for over a decade. If you want to get your motor running, get some Sweet Love.
Limited to 125 silkscreen copies
Six Star General – Splinter
75OL-149 Six Star General – Splinter
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital downloads with artwork are available here
Track Listing:
- Ungroovy Feeling
- Curved Nerves
- Theme for Renee Montagne
- Shave Your Beard Into the Shape of a Smile
- Triple EEE
- Gasoline (After the Explosion mix)
- There’s No Steak In Cake (Broken Mixer mix)
- Dollar Bill
- Often Returns
From Providence Phoenix March 2012:
Their eighth studio effort, Splinter, finds guitarist Kyle Jackson, drummer Dan Ulmschneider, and bassist/vocalist Mark MacDougall peaking hard through concise and potent bursts of stoner sludge. Alt-rock fossils still hooked on vintage Dinosaur Jr., Silkworm, and Archers of Loaf should dig deep into their back catalog. Splinter was recorded in five sessions over two months, a marathon by SSG standards. Credit producer and local veteran musician Kraig Jordan (also of the Masons), who’s Plan of a Boy studio has become the go-to recording spot for SSG. Layers of Kyle Jackson’s guitar work resonate across Splinter on cuts “Curved Nerves” and “Triple EEE”, and if you listen closely, you’ll hear Jordan yelling through a bullhorn with swirling echoes. 75orLess brethren Mark Cutler, Bill Keough (Galvanize), and Joe Traynor (Vertical Twin) conjure a garage rock choir on a few tracks, including the opener “Ungroovy Feeling,” and the band reworked two cuts from the previous EP.
The Sentimental Favorites – The Unrelenting Sentimental Favorites
75OL-146 The Sentimental Favorites – The Unrelenting Sentimental Favorites CD
$10.00 S&H Included
Digital downloads are available here
Track Listing:
- Hey Sonny (video)
- The Rebel
- Everybody’s Working
- To a Bully
- Providence, I’m Sorry
- Hang Up and Drive
- I Can Hear You
- Get That Thing Off Your Face
- Toilet
- Noam Chomsky
- Fuck All
- Man Stung
- Inanimate Object
- Here Comes the Baby
- B.B. McBobo
- Twenty Anymore
- Put the Plow Down
- Pony
- I Valet
- Don’t Work at Home
- The Jaguar
- Litterbugs
- The Phoenix
- Squeezing the River
- Baltimore
- I’m Just Lois
- Poopie
- Roelle Family Christmas
- That Cigarette
- No Song for Judy
- When I’m Gone
The Sentimental Favorites are a no nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is Providence RI duo of seasoned entertainers. On The Unrelenting Sentimental Favorites, their sophomore effort five years in the making, they have plenty to say and do so in 31 songs about work, life, growing old, death, family, what’s wrong with the world today and how that cigarette makes you look fat. The first 25 copies include a poster with lyrics.
Six Star General – Take Your Teeth Out
75OL-085 Six Star General – Take Your Teeth Out CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download with artwork available here
Track Listing
- Half Flat
- Paint Throw
- Landmine in a Landslide
- One Way Walkie Talkie
- Bermese Surname
- Bad Jokes For White Folks
- Metal Heart
- Jazzwad
- Blame Takes Names
- Thoughts In, Words Out
- High or Hard
Six Star General releases their fifth album of all new material and seventh album overall. Recorded over two days in November with Scott Rancourt (The Masons, The diePods) at Summing Point Studios in Newport, half of the album had been recorded back in August but the masters went missing. Rather than focus on retrieving on the lost recordings, the band decided to re-record all the songs. Eleven tracks, including one instrumental and a cover of Cat Power’s “Metal Heart”. Influences include The Minutemen, Naked Raygun and Dinosaur Jr.
Limited to 100 silkscreen copies on CD
Soma Nova – Self Titled
75OL-133 Soma Nova – Self Titled
$9.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing:
- All This Time
- Closer to the Closer
- 72 Stones
- Remember Me
- Point Me To Judith
- Hope’s Lament
- In This World
- Lonely Street
- Take a Look Around
Soma Nova was recorded and mixed at Summing Point, Newport, RI, in the second half of 2011. This collection of songs infuses psych-pop and folk rock, a cure-all remedy for whatever befalls you. Being compared to Bob Dylan’s Infidels is definitely a jump start in the right direction for Soma Nova’s debut.
The Blood Moons / Six Star General – Split 12″ Vinyl
75OL-135 The Blood Moons / Six Star General – Split 12″ Vinyl
$12.00 S&H Included
Track Listing
The Blood Moons “Self Titled” EP
- You Don’t Love Me Anymore
- Glassy Eyes
- What You Do To Me
- Goodbye
- Can’t Make You Mine
- You’re Alone
Six Star General “These Woods Smell Like Grape” EP
- Sonic Boom
- Manchester Divided
- Gasoline
- No Know No
- There’s No Steak in Cake
- Life’s a Gas
- Requiem for Danny
Vinyl is limited to 200 hand numbered copies. The jackets were screen printed by the bands at the 75orLess house, on 18 point brown 100% PCW recycled chipboard, using red and black inks. Includes digital download.
New Bedford, Massachusetts’ The Blood Moons newest batch of songs about love gone wrong, relationships gone wrong, lust gone wrong, goodbyes gone wrong, and taxidermied lovers!
Providence, RI’s Six Star General recorded their EP in the summer of 2011 at Plan of a Boy Studio in Providence with Kraig Jordan. Seven songs, over 22 minutes of music, including a cover of the T. Rex classic ‘Life’s a Gas’ with Jodie Treloar on vocals.