Just wanted to get the word out for a couple last minute shows we’ve put together at the Pinhook for next week. This is that wonderful time of year when all our favorite DIY bands make the trek down to Gainesville, FL for No Idea Records’ The Fest. The Fest is a giant gathering of indie and punk bands from all over the country for one weekend every October. This festival celebrates the spirit of independent music and hosts hundreds of bands like Gaslight Anthem, Against Me!, Dillinger 4, Bouncing Souls, Avail, 7 Seconds, Torche, Fin Fang Foom, Colossus, Off With Their Heads, Defiance Ohio, Tiltwheel, etc, etc, etc. We were fortunate enough to snag a couple bands at the Pinhook next week as they make their way down south.

If you’re bored, if you’re curious, if you need a break from the everyday routine of life – this will definitely set your mind at ease. Carefree, feel-good indie, DIY music. The kind that’s cheerful and youthful enough to smear a smile across your sullen face. The type of shows that get you giddy with memories of those long-gone high school days.

So:

THE PINHOOK
117 W. Main St., Durham, NC.
Both Shows start at 9pm.
Both Shows cost 5 – 7 bucks.
18+.

Tues, 10/27

THE COPYRIGHTS (IL. arguably one of the best pop punk bands right now. members of Dear Landlord. like Off With Their Heads.)
PRETTY BOY THORSON (MN. our favorite brothers from the north. brash outlaw country rock. playing as a two piece!)
LAST YEAR’S MEN (NC. ex-Begin-Agains! this project is way more heavy on the fuzzed-out powerpop side of life!)

Wed, 10/28

LAURA STEVENSON & THE CANS (NY. member of Bomb the Music Industry gone anti folk! like Thao/Midtown Dickens!)
THE DOPAMINES (OH. solid Lookout! Records style pop punk. on local label – Cold Feet Records!)
LOST HANDS FOUND FINGERS (OH. Hot Water Music-influenced punk/rock)

Both these shows will start at 9pm so we can have them wrapped up by midnight. You’ll definitely be home in time to still catch lots of sleep before work or school the next morning!

Thanks for reading and I hope to see some people out!!
love, chaz.

Lots of good new stuff! There are a few things from last week on here, but it’s mostly stuff that just came into stock yesterday! The new Atlas Sound is great if you’re in the mood for some melodic, bliss-psych zone-out music!

7″s:

bonnie prince billy – stay (drag city)  NEW!
fergus & geronimo – blind muslim girl (tic tac totally)
ganglians – ganglians (captured tracks)  NEW!

CDs:

ancestors – of sound mind (teepee)
atlas sound – logos (kranky)  NEW!
avett brothers – i and love and you (american)
baroness – blue record (relapse)
bonnie prince billy – beware (drag city)
built to spill – there is no enemy (warner bros)
built to spill – there’s nothing wrong with love (up)
bill callahan – sometimes i wish we were an eagle (drag city)
camera obscura – let’s get out of this country (merge)
camera obscura – underachievers please try harder (merge)
caribou – andorra (merge)
cococoma – things are not alright (goner)  NEW!
converge – axe to fall (epitaph)  NEW!
death – …for the whole world to see (drag city)
the decemberists – hazards of love (capitol)
dinosaur jr – you’re living all over me (merge)
do make say think – other truths (constellation)  NEW!
drummer – feel good together (audio eagle)
drums – summertime! (twentyseven)
el perro del mar – love is not pop (control group)  NEW!
espers – III (drag city)  NEW!
fuck buttons – tarot sport (atp)  NEW!
hush arbors – yankee reality (ecstatic peace)
immortal – all shall fail (nuclear blast)
kings of convenience – declaration of dependence (astralwerks)  NEW!
lightning bolt – earthly delights (load)  NEW!
magnetic fields – 69 love songs, vol. 1 (merge)
matt & kim – grand (fader)
mission of burma – the sound the speed the light (matador)
van morrison – moondace (warner bros)
mountain goats – life of the world to come (4ad)
naam – naam (teepee)  NEW!
thee oh sees – dog poison (captured tracks)  NEW!
om – good is god (drag city)
jim o’rourke – the visitor (drag city)
place to bury strangers – exploding head (mute)
polvo – in prism (merge)
raveonettes – in and out of control (vice)
the spits – s/t #4 (recess)
telekinesis – s/t (merge)
the very best – warm hear of africa (green owl)
volcano suns – the bright orange years (merge)
white denim – fits (downtown)  NEW!
white rainbow – new clouds (kranky)  NEW!
wilco – wilco (nonesuch)

LPs:

almighty defenders – almighty defenders (vice)
arcade fire – funeral (merge)
atlas sound – logos (kranky)  NEW!
bonnie prince billy – beware (drag city)
bonnie prince billy – i see a darkness (drag city)
bonnie prince billy – master and everyone (drag city)
built to spill – there is no enemy (warner bros)  NEW!
christmas island – blackout summer (in the red)
cococoma – things are not alright (goner)  NEW!
dirtbombs – ultraglide in black (in the red)
espers – III (drag city)  NEW!
fresh & onlys – grey-eyed girls (woodsist)
fuck buttons – tarot sport (atp)  NEW!
abner jay – true story of abner jay (mississippi)
moon duo – killing time EP (sacred bones)  NEW!
thee oh sees – dog poison (captured tracks)  NEW!
om – good is god (drag city)
jim o’rourke – the visitor (drag city)
ty segall – lemons (goner)
tv ghost – cold fish (in the red)
vivian girls – everything goes wrong (in the red)
white rainbow – new clouds (kranky)  NEW!
woods – songs of shame (woodsist)

Quickie today!

7″s:

three mile pilot – planets/grey clouds  (NEW!!)

CDs:

bellini – the precious prize of gravity  (NEW!! first time on CD)
the black heart procession – six  (NEW!!)
califone – all my friends are funeral singers  (NEW!!)
girls – album
lake – let’s build a roof  (NEW!!)
mission of burma – the sound the speed the light  (NEW!!)
mum – sing along to songs you don’t know
oneida – rated o
the xx – xx
volcano choir – unmap

LPs:

karl blau – zebra  (NEW!!)
bon iver – for emma, forever ago
califone – all my friends are funeral singers  (NEW!!)
dinosaur jr – farm (2xLP)
roky erickson & the explosives – halloween (2xLP)
flat duo jets – introducing…
gories – i know you fine, but how you doin
gories – outta here
harlem – free drugs
lake – let’s build a roof  (NEW!!)
thee midnites – in thee midnite hour!!
mission of burma – the sound the speed the light  (NEW!!)
mountain goats – the life of the world to come  (NEW!!)
oblivians – soul food
oneida – rated o (3xLP!!)
jay reatard – watch me fall
kurt vile – childish prodigy  (NEW!!)
volcano choir – unmap

Hey all! Today was an enormous release day, so scour these lists here for anything you might be in search of! Since there was so much coming out, I got a lot of this stuff in very limited quantities. I’ll have restocks of various things coming in on Friday and next Tuesday in case I do run out of the heavy stuff. Thanks for reading! Hope everyone is well and enjoying this grey afternoon!

There’s an order from Secretly Canadian Distribution showing up tomorrow. That’ll have the new Califone (Dead Oceans), Lake (K Records), Black Heart Procession (Temporary Residence), Bellini (Temporary Residence) and Karl Blau (K Records) among lots of other stuff. So…more to come!

(NEW!) = Brand new release this week.
All these are available for mailorder too – email me!

7″s:

magic kids – hey boy (goner)
devon williams – sufferer (slumberland)
wizzard sleeve – mommy’s little baby (hozac)

CDs:

arcade fire – funeral (merge)
arcade fire – neon bible (merge)
arctic monkeys – humbug (domino)
lou barlow – goodnight unknown (merge)  (NEW!)
big pink – brief history of love (4ad)
blatz/filth – shit split (alternative tentacles)
built to spill – there is no enemy (warner bros) (NEW!)
christmas island – blackout summer (in the red) (NEW!)
the clean – mister pop (merge)
clientele – bonfires on the heath (merge) (NEW!)
dead man’s bones – dead man’s bones (anti)  (NEW!)
the dutchess & the duke – sunset/sunrise (hardly art)  (NEW!)
eddy current suppression ring – s/t (goner)
feist – reminder (interscope)
fresh & onlys – grey-eyed girls (woodsist)
gallows – grey britain (reprise)
gallows – orchestra of wolves (epitaph)
girls – album (true panther sounds)
godspeed you black emperor – yanqui uxo (constellation)
jack-o & the tennessee tearjerkers – disco outlaw (goner)
daniel johnston – is and always was (highwire)  (NEW!)
mission of burma – the sound the speed the light (matador)  (NEW!)
the mountain goats – the life of the world to come (4ad)  (NEW!)
noah & the whale – first days of spring (mercury)  (NEW!)
a place to bury strangers – exploding head (mute)  (NEW!)
polvo – in prism (merge)
queens of the stone age – songs for the deaf (interscope)
raveonettes – in and out of control (vice)  (NEW!)
santogold – santogold (lizard king)
ty segall – lemons (goner)
she & him – vol. 1 (merge)
sonic youth – the eternal (matador)
spoon – girls can tell (merge)
kurt vile – childish prodigy (matador)  (NEW!)
m. ward – hold time (merge)
m. ward – transfiguration of vincent (merge)
why? – eskimo snow (anticon)
yacht – see mystery lights (dfa)

LPs:

lou barlow – goodnight unknown (merge)  (NEW!)
boredoms – super roots 10 (thrill jockey)  (NEW!)
greg cartwright (of oblivians/reigning sound) – live at circle a (dusty medical)
clientele – bonfires on the heath (merge)  (NEW!)
david daniell & douglas mccombs – sycamore (thrill jockey)
the dutchess & the duke – sunset/sunrise (hardly art)  (NEW!)
eternal tapestry – palace of the night skies (three lobed)
fresh & onlys – grey-eyed girl (woodsist)
ganglians – ganglians (woodsist)
harlem – free drugs (female fantasy)
heavy winged – alive in my mouth (three lobed)
hunx & his punx – gay singles (true panther sounds)  (NEW!)
jack-o & the tennessee tearjerkers – disco outlaw (goner)
little claw – human taste (not not fun)
mantles – mantles (siltbreeze)
meth teeth – everything went wrong (woodsist)
mij – yodeling astrologer (jackpot)  (NEW!)
mission of burma – the sound the speed the light (matador)  (NEW!)
the mountain goats – the life of the world to come (4ad)  (NEW!)
thee oh sees – help (in the red)
pains of being pure at heart – higher than the stars 12″ (slumberland)
polvo – in prism (merge)
raveonettes – in and out of control (vice)  (NEW!)
jay reatard – matador singles ‘08 (matador)
jay reatard – watch me fall (matador)
jack rose – i do play rock & roll (three lobed)
sun araw – boat trip (woodsist)
tortoise – beacons of ancestorship (thrill jockey)
jason urick – husbands (thrill jockey)  (NEW!)
v/a – string of pearls (mississippi)
kurt vile – childish prodigy (matador)  (NEW!)
white hills – dead 12″ (thrill jockey)  (NEW!)
why? – eskimo snow (anticon)
yo la tengo – popular songs (matador)