Heavy Comforter 5: 'Joey and His Rapid Dogs!' LP (Pre Order)

William Johnson from legendary DIY bands Future Virgins, Sexy, Big Kitty, and Listening Skulls is Heavy Comforter. A new solo venture born in heart break and boredom due to the isolating year of 2020. "Joey and His Rapid Dogs" is the debut rock opera based around the halfway house outside of his dark room in Chattanooga, Tennessee with all songs and instruments by W.J.

This is just the first of more Heavy Comforter releases to come. Up next, also on Let's Pretend, will be an exclusive short-run cassette release titled "3." You sure as shit can expect more to follow from the prolific W.J. "Joey and his Rapid Dogs" is limited to just 200 vinyl 12" records.

All orders ship 04-23-2021

ZERO BOYS 'Hollywood' 10" available for Pre-Order, Out 02/26/2021

Zero Boys 'Hollywood' for the first time ever on vinyl, originally self released in 2014 on a small run of CD's. Limited to 300 10"s on orange vinyl with black splatter and black dust sleeves. Beautiful reworked full color art / layout by Zach Hobbs and in depth story about Terry Hollywood on the insert written by Eric Weddle. These will not be repressed so don't hit the snooze.

Hollywood is an album Terry wrote for himself over the years between 1987 into the mid-1990s. Terry is responsible for most of the Zero Boys’ Livin’ in the 80s EP (1980) and clearly highlights his juvenile and goofy humor. Terry was out of the band by 1985, but his energy loomed, making it known that access to his ideas was impossible to reach. The band reformed in 1999 for Y2K and that was the last time Terry played with the Zero Boys. Drummer Mark Cutsinger and singer Paul Mahern learned Terry’s Hollywood riffs to honor how Terry did it: rock and roll all the time.

R. Ring split 7" w/ Vacation available for Pre-Order

R. Ring “Likable”
Much like the lament of a once-loved but now neglected skate ramp in a back yard weathered by seasons year after year, R. Ring’s “Likeable” is the slow-motion introspective look at the self while life moves around in hyper speed. It admits its flaws and recognizes its imperfections and in fact owns them in the end boasting “I consider myself very likeable”.
The trio of voices, Mike Montgomery, Laura King and Kelley Deal are the lilting wheels that have skated this familiar ramp, which over the years has been their source of wisdom and respect, despite the many spills along the way.

Vacation - “White Nose Syndrome”
In a vacuum: sailing away from the Goldilocks-zone of yesteryear and into the cosmic unknown. Rock and Roll outfit Vacation return with a final visceral rocket boost of earthly familiarity before the long journey into the vacuum of the future. The first two minutes of the song are the engine bursts needed to exit the atmosphere and then the listener is left weightless and free in the vastness of space.
Lyrics for the song were provided by Dylan McCartney and were inspired by the band’s visit to the ancient tunnels of Mammoth Cave and the pandemic greatly affecting the bat population called White Nose Syndrome. “White Nose Syndrome was making all the bats meet their doom / leaving nothing but ant-eaters sniffin’ round the room”, recalls the frustrating reality of those who take more than they need while others are suffering.

all orders ship on 12/18/2020

PRE-Order PSYCHIC BAOS 'PIG SPHINX' LP ( Out December 11th)

LPR-196 Psychic Baos ‘Pg Sphinx’ LP

All Pre Orders ship December 11th 2020

Limited to 200 copies pressed on black vinyl w/ black dust sleeves and full color glue pocket jackets. Download codes included.

Psychic Baos started out in 2006 as a just for fun no rules recording project, looking to uncover the shiftiest sounds that had yet to be discovered. Through many experiments harnessing vibrations, public and private, time and circumstance drove it into being more of an actual living band. As the sands of life swirled around, they shaped us into the aural hot mess of damaged minds rock and roll band that we are today.

Pig Sphinx is a continuation of our original desires to explore outrageous sounds laced with rump moving beats, served hot with a sonic dirge side salad, resulting in what we hope to be a fantastic meal for you and those ears of yours, but why stop there? Don’t rule out putting the speaker directly on your stomach, and really feel our jams as well. Great for when you are sleepy and do not wish to be, this needle wrecking hopeful will keep your eyes wide and mind in tune with wild!

Hyper Tensions 'Evil Seeds' LP and Narrow Head '12th House Rock' TAPE now available for Pre-Order!

Hyper Tensions ‘ Evil Seeds’ now available for pre-order! (All orders ship on Friday September 4th)

Super limited to just 200 vinyl records pressed on black wax w/ black dust sleeves and beautiful full color glub pocket jackets.

NARROW HEAD ‘12TH HOUSE ROCK’ TAPE

Now available for PRE-ORDER, all orders ship mid October.

he Houston-based band’s latest entry is the distillation of the greatest moments in 90’s alternative and hard rock with a fresh set of ears, thirteen tracks of their signature brand of bludgeoning lullabies bursting at the seams with creative ideas, new directions and yes, massive, monolithic riffs. In between the sparkle and smash, open-hearted and emotionally naked songwriting showcases a core piece of the band’s identity– showcasing 12th House Rock as one of the best releases of 2020.

1st pressing is super Limited to 150 copies on cobalt blue tapes

Hyper Tensions new track and video

New Video and single all posted up off their new album ‘Evil Seeds’ set to come out on vinyl late summer.

Hyper Tensions are a raw rock and roll band from Indiana. Drawing influences from psychedelia, punk, and every dirty thing in between. Evil Seeds clocks in at just under 30 minutes. Dark songs about drugs, paranoia, and confusion. Recorded mostly live in a barn by Brett Siler (Stationary Odyssey, Plasticizer). Cover art by our guitar player Ryan Dunn.

Pre-Order NOUN 'Picture Disc' 7" and Flesh Mother 'Perverse' LP!

All orders ship May 15th. Super limited to 300 vinyl records.

Noun is the solo musical project of Marissa Paternoster, the singer and lead guitarist of Screaming Females.  Since 2004, Noun has released a number of tapes, LPs, and singles featuring guest musicians.  This particular release features Joey Doubek, (Pinkwash, Downtown Boys, Speedy Ortiz) and Angela Boylan (Cheeky, Freezing Cold, Sleater-Kinney) on drums.  Recorded by Eric Bennett and Marissa Paternoster at Lakehouse Studios in Asbury Park, NJ.

All orders ship May 15th. Super limited to 200 vinyl records.

Flesh Mother hail from Cincinnati, Ohio and play a version of hardcore drenched in doom and stinking of the filth of southern sludge metal.Perverse is a dose of hostility filled with groove. Recorded by John Hoffman and Jerome Westerkamp of Vacation, it captures the dark vibe that they've been crafting for years in basements and crammed venues in the DIY world.

Laffing Gas ' it's a beautiful day in the gultch' CD's and WIG 'swell' TAPE!

Available!

Super limited 1st pressing, 100 CD’s in jeweled cases. TAPES are in the works and should be ready to ship in the next 6 weeks.

Bloomington, IN

Nearly four years after delivering a handful of demos along with a live tape then seemingly dropping off the radar release wise, Bloomington's LAFFING GAS swing back at any and all credulous hardcore punk enthusiasts who might have forgotten about them or thought they'd just run their course and faded into obscurity as so many tend to do. "It's a Beautiful Day in the Gulch" showcases 10 blazing tracks of classic Midwestern hardcore punk, the vibe of which is more in debt to the revolutionary aural offerings of the early Touch and Go and/or Version Sound labels or even Kick N' Punch Records as a slightly more modern reference than what the region has become synonymous with in more recent times. Layout by the band's guitarist Kora Puckett.

Limited to 100 TAPES pressed on opaque yellow shells

Chicago, IL

Big riffs, big leads and sometimes a Big Muff, WIG draws from multiple decades of postpunk consolidated in this 5 song golden nugget!

Constant Insult, the ceiling fans, ANXIOUS LIVING!

Though Constant Insult was formed in 2014 around the unquestionably good idea of writing songs that sound like the Rolling Stones combined with the Marked Men, “History in Shorthand” doesn’t sound much like that. Simply put, Constant Insult plays driving, dynamic, and well-written punk rock that's held firmly together by charm. Live, they're a controlled high-energy outburst, captured by Matt Castore in studio here on their first proper full-length album.

Sara Pette's percolating bass and Mike Wilson's frenetic-yet-tight pounding and rolling drums drive and ground the rhythm section somewhere between Chattanooga and the East Bay. Vocalists and guitarists Katie Thornton and Wil Olsen trade cathartic harmonies on songs about life choices, bad decisions, pain physical and existential, and the transcendence and confusion of human relationships. Many of the songs rest on a pleasant foundation, but the band spins their sound around dark melodies, fast tempos, a bit of noisiness, and the catchy choruses you desperately need. Following their rapid-fire 2015 self-titled EP, “History in Shorthand” continues in the same stylistic vein while expanding the boundaries of the band’s capabilities. You know – a few years worth of evolution, but no funny stuff. And importantly, they do it without ever exceeding the song length of three minutes and ten seconds.

PRESSING OF 300 ON BLACK WAX!

“Hailing from San Francisco, Yvan Kawecki (The Fleshies) and Sam Rezendes (Swanox) have been making music together since early 2017. Here on their debut release as The Ceiling Fans, they offer 8 songs of pop-synth revelry with a touch of rock ‘n roll.”

PRESSING OF 100 TAPES

One-off EP by this punk band from SG/US. Five tracks of dark garage/post-punk inspired by cemetery research, space debris and anxiety. Good structured, great songwriting and haunting melodies that are heavily influenced by bands such as Wipers, Mission of Burma or The Estranged.

Members of Constant Insult, Daily Ritual, SIAL, Lubricant, Abrasion and a bunch more.

PRESSING OF 100 TAPES.

PENNY LP OUT NOW

Penny is the premiere punk band of Avenue C in the Lower East Side, NYC.  A hard-hitting mix of eating chips and eating candy, Penny is part friends and part family.  Penny writes songs about the personal toll of the dystopian nightmare of human interactions in the new millennium. Penny was formed in 2018 from members of Fleaspoon, No One and the Somebodies, 2009, Rock Paper Stupid, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, and Fake Blood, and is featured on the Rivington Street Music Studios Wall of Fame.

  This is the debut record from Penny. “Untitled,” AKA “Self-Titled.” Give it a spin! 12 inches in 12 minutes. Fuzzy, fizzy, thumpy, and bumpy. ABC No Rio meets CBGBs and wakes up on the Tompkins Square Park playground. According to Brooklyn punk band HELLO NURSE, it “sounds like the Muppet band if they didn’t have to play for the Muppets.” Songs about dead friends and nice nights, apologies and yeah rights. For fans of Flipper, Bikini Kill, Limpwrist, The Raincoats, Fuzzzone, Hickey, 50 Million, and The Dog that Bites Everyone. The essence of decay is the icing on the cake. Throw us in the Fountain. We are one cent.

Limited to 200 unites