For FREE!

There are a couple of subscription series currently available that I thought some of the RS constituency might be interested in.

First, the Social Music Record + Tape Club series is produced by the fine folks of Yeti magazine & includes among others, Sir Richard Bishop, Liz Harris + Ilyas Ahmed Duo , Abner Jay, Woven Bones & Ty Segall. $99 for the LP’s, $49 for the cassettes. Both come with high rez downloads as well. The first batch has already gone out but you can still get ’em if you act fast.

The second is the newly founded Grapefruit Records Club. Which is “a subscription-only record club founded by Simon Joyner and Ben Goldberg to release exclusive and limited, vinyl-only LPs by dedicated artists, both known and yet-to-be-known. The only qualification required for artist participation is that both Ben and Simon love the music. Annual subscriptions include four quarterly released full-length LPs and a deluxe, hard-shell box to house the series of records that make up that year’s roster of artists. The artists on Grapefruit are on loan and ever-changing so no subscription cycle will ever be the same.” Only $90 for their subscription which includes our pal Richard Youngs.

All pre-orders have been sent out. Should show up at distributors in December.

Obit here.

“Don’t worry, I’m fine, I think :-) but remember we are all only temporary curators of our present bodies, which will all decay, sooner or later. In a hundred years or so ALL the humans currently alive will have died. I take great comfort in knowing, with certainty, that thing that makes us special, able to enrich our own lives and those of others, will not cease when our bodies do, but will be just starting and new (and hopefully even better) adventure… If we don’t get to meet in this Life, maybe in the next you can buy me a beer! ,-)”

-Peter ‘Sleazy’ Christopherson

November 16th – Boston PA’s Lounge w/ MV & EE & THE BODY
November 17th – Providence AS220 w/ THE BODY & Arcing
November 18th – Brooklyn Issue Project Room w/ Tom Carter, Loren Connors
November 19th – Philadelphia The Rotunda w/ Loren Connors & Steve Gunn (FREE!)
November 20th – Cincinatti Art Damage Lodge w/ Pete Fosco

RV Paintings have dropped a brand new mind-bomb on the great Helen Scarsdale Agency.
‘Samoa Highway’ sees brothers Brian & Jon getting a bit more cosmic and blown out than their previous CD we did here on RS, with lots of thick guitar swells and tumbling drums to get lost in..
edition of 500 copies, so don’t sleep.
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My new record ‘Love is a Stream’ is out now on Type records.
You can listen & order it over at the Type site.

Also, Students Of Decay have copies of the Paul Clipson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma DVD  ‘Within Mirrors’  for sale here.
“This volume collects several of the out of print DVD-R releases that Jefre has released on the Root Strata imprint over the past few years, including “Two Suns,” “Corridors,” “The Phantom Harp,” “The Light and its Perfections,”  and “Constellations, along with two new works, the eponymous film and “The Sphinx on the Seine” on professional DVDs with menu design by C. Spencer Yeh and artwork by Jefre. Clips from films may be seen here.”