Category: Digital Downloads
75OL-181 Jacob Haller ‘Time to Break Up the Band’ CD
75OL-181 Jacob Haller – Time to Break Up the Band CD
$10.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1. Time to Break Up the Band
2. Way Down in the Hole
3. Kitten Knitting Blues
4. A Fork in the Road
5. Waterbugs
6. Binders Full of Women
7. The Ballad of the Oregon Highway Department
8. Seven Years of Fat
9. Was the Moon Too Full?
10. gchat Blues
11. Barista Blues
12. Song Written in the Shower
13. Blue Yodel (T for T-Rex)
14. The Wreck of the Crash of the Easthill Mining Disaster
Jacob Haller has been a fixture of the Rhode Island music scene for the past ten years, and has been frequently featured in popular shows such as AS220’s Empire Revue and Common Fence Point Music’s annual Gathering of Fiddlers & Fishermen. For this, his third album, he has brought together some of his favorite musicians to record songs on topics such as: Satan, relationships, kittens, exploding whales, criminal activity, coffee, loneliness, and time travel. The result is an eclectic mix of songs that will entertain and confuse you.
Praise for ‘Time To Break Up The Band’:
“With ‘Time To Break Up The Band’, Jacob does one of the hardest things a songwriter can attempt, and he does it successfully: he takes forms that seem familiar and imposes completely his own unique sensibility. The resulting songs are full of wry stories that take unexpected turns; they’re truly original, and they do not disappoint.” — Ian Fitzgerald, singer-songwriter
“A refreshingly light-hearted take on Blues and Folk music. Time To Break Up The Band gives you a nod and wink to accompany the foot tapping that ensues.” — The Blues Record
“If you’re a fan of Jacob Haller for his witty clever approach to lyrics, “Time To Break Up The Band” will not disappoint!” — Heather Rose
“Jacob Haller’s next album, after this one, I predict will be called ‘Quitting My Day Job’. A talented cast of characters both in Jacob’s head and outside of it have put to record a friendly bit of listening. The only thing that bothers me about this release is that I didn’t think to write ‘Fork In The Road’, you win this round Mr. Haller!” — Sonny Roelle, the Sentimental Favorites
Praise for Jacob Haller:
“Jacob Haller does music as though he were the secret love-child of Warren Zevon and Burl Ives, and while this is impossible, I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t let that stop him. Nor should you let it stop you. Enjoy the music!” — Jeffrey Channing Wells, “Skin Horse” co-author
“Providence musician Jacob Haller is as unique as his lyrics are clever.” — Annie Messier, Providence Daily Dose, May 10, 2012
“No one spins a tale more uniquely than Jacob Haller.” — Chris Conti, The Providence Phoenix, November 15, 2011
“If B.B. King and Weird Al Yankovic had a child, well…they probably wouldn’t admit to it. But it would definitely be Jacob Haller!” — Eddie Delta, Co-Host of The Blues Record podcast
“Jacob Haller is not only a talented musician and songwriter, he’s also a talented songwriter and musician.” — Harper Johnson, Co-Host of The Blues Record podcast
Shifty Eye – In the Light EP
75OL-188 Shifty Eye – In the Light CD EP
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1. In the Light
2. YDHTG
3. Hot and Sour
4. Echo
Born on January 3rd, 2013 this two headed dragon crawled, fully formed, out of the Providence river; but instead of breathing fire and smoke, one head spews thick, crunchy guitar riffs and the other intense, thundering beats. The two moving together as one, melting the hearts and minds of each person fortunate to have crossed their path of destruction. The Providence, RI based rock duo have just released their debut EP, following in the minimalist footsteps of legendary two-piece rockers like the Flat Duo Jets, the White Stripes, and the Black Keys.
75OL-178 Monument Thief – Your Castle Comes Down
75OL-178 Monument Thief – Your Castle Comes Down CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1 A Scene
2 Every Time
3 King of Your Crown
4 Coming On Way Too Fast
5 Testing the Waves
6 Twisting the Constellations
7 Shadows Fall
8 All of Me
9 Again and Again
10 Endless Debut
11 Another Faded Song
12 With the Night
13 Just to be Wrong
Monument Thief was born from a love of British & American indie/alt rock circa ’89 – ’96 and the sound of fuzz pedals stacked on top of more fuzz pedals. Offering up a bevy of moody songs in mostly upbeat trappings, Your Castle Comes Down brings the shoe gazers and the star gazers together in an all out rock revelry
75OL-189 Nate Laban & Sam Hill – Self Titled CD
75OL-189 Nate Laban & Sam Hill – Self Titled CD
$8.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1 Hypnotherapy
2 Autumn on a Beach
3 Hometown Shame
4 Sinister
5 Shoot for Victory
6 Garbage Town
7 Pills
8 Good Life
9 Fat Camp
10 Tonight
11 Insufficient Funds Since 1975
Nate Laban & Sam Hill is the debut release from the band. It is an 11 song introduction. The songs are a collection of stories and characters from every day working class New Hampshire (from which they hail). There are songs about genuine alien abduction, teen struggle, real fat camps, as well as fat camps of the mind. In this record Nate takes on The Devil, which is Sam Hill and all the things he is able to conjure. What is to come, and the sound the future holds depends on the outcome of this battle. Listen carefully.
Sick Pills – Sickening
75OL-184 Sick Pills – Sickening CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1. Wormfood
2. Nothing To Me
3. Get You Off My Mind
4. Evil In Your Eye
5. Summer’s Gone
6. Dead Teenager
7. If It’s Real
8. Growing Up
9. The Beach
10. He’s A Creep
11. I Wanna Be Adored
12. Without You
The debut album by Sick Pills recorded in the Fall of 2013 at Feedback Studios by Ron Poitras. 12 songs heavily influenced by 1980’s underground college rock. Sometimes noisy, sometimes poppy, and sometimes both! Influences include: Chameleons UK, Jesus and Mary Chain, Sonic Youth.
Deadlands – Faceless Angels
75OL-185 Deadlands – Faceless Angels CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1. Before You Were Born
2. Bottom Feeders
3. Libby Prison Blues
4. (I’m) Sinking In
5. Discotex
6. Fink
7. Cracks
8. Down for the Count
9. Sleeper in a Dream
10. Cold Cold Cold
2014 warms up with “Faceless Angels,” the latest from Cranston’s Deadlands. Murder/apocalypse blues that you can tap your toes to. A good chunk of the album was recorded live at Plan of a Boy. Hot guitars and cool dead dames, where no one is guilty and no one plays innocent (very well).
Mark Cutler – Dreamland
75OL-182 Mark Cutler – Dreamland CD
$10.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Mark Cutler’s new record Dreamland is a collection of songs recorded in a little room in his little house and features some guest appearances by his good friends Jim Berger, Rick Couto, Richard Reed and Bob Kirkman. It’s an intimate record that you might enjoy with headphones but feel free to blast the stereo. It’s also the first record he’s done since he quit his day job to pursue a life outside of the rat race. Dreamland features songs about every day life and every night life and the times in between.
Rhode Island guitar slinger/songwriter Mark Cutler’s latest release is called “Dreamland”. It’s an apt title for the followup to last year’s critically acclaimed and award winning “Sweet Pain” (both available from 75orLess, iTunes, etc.). Along with sparse touches of accompaniment from his excellent live band The Men of Great Courage, MC plays most of the instruments himself this time around. Recorded at his home studio- just down the hall from his bedroom- dreamlike qualities abound, in the title cut, in songs like “I’ll Play For You”, “Soul Flame” and “You’re Gonna Need My Help”, to name but four. Like the mixed memories and visions of wonderful recurring dreams you wish you’d have more often, instruments, lyrics, harmonies and riffs intermingle in ways both familiar and surprising. And, like a dream you can’t quite get out of your head all day, the rustic surrealism of this “Dreamland” will stay with you long after your ear buds are slipped into a pocket.- DR
CD is limited to 200 numbered, brown and white jackets with screen print design
Dan Baker – Pistol in my Pocket
75OL-183 Dan Baker – Pistol in my Pocket CD
$9.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1. Pistol in My Pocket
2. Threw Me Down the Well
3. Never Alone
4. What I’m Looking For
5. Up On the Roof
6. Down in the Canyon
7. One of Them
8. She’s Not Gonna Call
9. Coming Home
10. Not Gonna Say It
Dan Baker was living in Chelsea MA, during the recording of his new record. A small city on the outskirts of Boston, Baker describes the city as “A place littered with factories, oil tanks, and pot holes… surrounded by great heaps of salt and scrap metal”. The city of Chelsea, luckily for Baker, is also where 1867 Recording Studio is located. A former Masonic Temple. The studio boasts 60 foot vaulted ceilings and walls still equipped with their masonic images and moldings. The result is Dan Baker’s third record, “Pistol in my Pocket”. A record that finds Baker more matured and in command of his craft. Songs of betrayal and revenge, as well as songs of love-lost and love-regained. For fans of dark rural blues, Okkervil River, Magnolia Electric Co., Bob Dylan, and Leonard Cohen.
Six Star General – Hair Supply
75OL-180 Six Star General – Hair Supply CD
[sold out]
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1. Christopher Walken
2. I Don’t Know Where We’re Going (But I Know That It’s Not Good)
3. Trans Am Hands
4. Shaking Fists
5. I’m Expanding Slowly
6. Way Out of Control
7. Life in Vain
8. Breathe at Different Speeds
Hair Supply was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Plan of a Boy by Kraig Jordan in Providence, RI Dec 2012 – June 2013.
Dan Ulmschneider – drums, percussion
Kyle Jackson – guitars
Mark MacDougall – vocals, bass
also appearing
Stan Sobczak – moog synthesizer
Kraig Jordan – acoustic guitar
Tom Chace – piano
backing vocals by Jodie Treloar, Suicide Bill, Mark Cutler, Dan Ulmschneider
Artwork by William Schaff
All songs copyright Six Star General, except Life in Vain by Daniel Johnston.
The McGunks – Highlights for Lowlifes
75OL-177 The McGunks – Highlights for Lowlifes CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1. Halfway to Hell
2. Working on Another Hangover
3. Bad Decision
4. Beer and a Beating
5. Speaking of Crazy
6. Love Song
7. Dead to Me
8. One More Ride
9. The Devil Was Right
10. One for the Road
The McGunks are a drinking band with a playing problem. They play high energy rock and roll with a good dose of punk. Crack a beer and turn the volume to 10.