01.28.10
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Due to overwhelming demand, we have decided to open up the shop early for the new Mike Coykendall album "The Unbearable Being of Likeness". At only $11, it will be the best money you have spent this month! GET IT HERE and thanks for all the support, we truly mean it.
01.01.10
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Fists of Dayton! is officially out and totally kick ass. The soundtrack from a 1983 action movie that never got made (think Bronson in a remake of THEY LIVE) is now dusted off and spit-shined, ready for purchase via download only. Recorded with vintage synths and old broken drum machines via reel to reel, this music is a throwback to a much different and sadly brief cinematic world. Get yr 80's soundtrack ON!
12.20.09
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The new year brings two new releases - Mike Coykendall's The Unbearable Being of Likeness and Adderall Canyonly's Fists of Dayton! soundtrack. When the moment is right, the doors of the shop will open and your lives will be fulfilled. Until then, more eggnog!
09.28.09
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Oxykitten EP's have dropped! The 5 song "Unfluential" and 17 minute opus "Library of Condo" can be downloaded here.
Also - we have a whole slate of really cool music coming up that will most probably blow your head off - stay tuned!
08.05.09
Couple shows of note in PDX - Chores is having a party at Kelly's Olympian on August 28th for the World Premiere for the video of "Super Car", filmed by the esteemed Jeremy Bird - it looks freakin' awesome. And Mike Coykendall and our newest members Old Light are @ Mississippi Studios on August 20th - go see these shows and support some kickass music!
06.15.09
We are pleased as punch to announce that we will be pressing the new album by musician, recordist and all around awesome fellow Mike Coykendall in February. The album is called "The Unbearable Being of Likeness" and will blow your mind. More deets to follow!
04.24.09
Hey all - happy spring! Here are some quick updates:
Snowfields in the studio - album next spring, no working title yet.
Oxykitten has two releases for late fall, one of which will probably be free: a tour EP and a soundtrack.
Klyde Konnor is still planned, just on a slightly laid back schedule.
And a totally awesome suprise release that we are completely bubbly about!
Go buy the Chores album! Next time will be our distro! But til then, that is a good place to get it.
Now go smell the blossoms...
03.29.09
A little bit o' news for ya'll ~
The new Chores cd can be bought here!
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New store is in the works - and we have stickers!
03.11.09
So here are the dates for the Chores Mini tour - support our boys and girls, tell your friends, host a nice big party. All those things would be grand.
Stay tuned for the contest!
3.20.09 LIVE FRIDAYS! on KPSU 5pm, Portland, OR
3.20.09 The Astoria, Eugene, OR
3.21.09 The Java Lounge, Sacramento, CA
3.22.09 The Knockout, SF, CA
3.23.09 Monterey Live!, Monterey, CA
3.24.09 Mr.T's Bowl, LA, CA
3.26.09 Red Rock, Reno, NV
3.27.09 Downtown Eatery, Redding, CA
4.02.09 CD RELEASE @ ROTTURE!!!! PDX, OR w/ Church and Lesser Lewis & the Twigs
02.27.09
The street date for the next Chores album is Sept 1st! More info soon - here is a tiny, tiny cover to whet your appetite. The release party is at Rotture on April 2nd in PDX - bring it! More soon…
02.12.09
A eclectic little label of suprises and wee gems. You are a little early to the coming out party - check back in early spring 2009. We will be waiting for you.
toodles…
Here is a taste of the flav’
MIKE COYKENDALL
From the editors: At long last this fixture of the Northwest indie folk-pop
scene is striking out on his own, and his debut solo LP is a hypnotically
wise set. On "Hello
Hello Hello," Coykendall crosses his experience playing with the
Old Joe Clarks and producing M Ward, offering spooky psych-folk for
our inner space cowboy. Syd Barrett would be wowed. -download.com
"Miss this
one at your peril." -F5 Magazine
"Hello, Hello, Hello" deftly assembles an excellent collection
of songs in a cohesive and mesmerizing fashion." - The Oregonian
"He pushes the envelope of expectancy with this strikingly eerie collection
of songs" - Miles of Music
CHORES
"The band's first EP, "Life Is Hard," is a bruising, bluesy affair reminiscent of the bar-band intrigues of the Hold Steady and the sunburned punk of X. The interplay of Pierce's fuzzy rhythm guitar lines with Thomas' ringing lead work is wonderful enough on its own, but it is augmented in often surprising ways by the snakey work of bassist Eric Mellor." -the Oregonian
"Chores’ debut EP, Life is Hard, sounds kind of like a debut EP. For every promising harmony and inventive guitar twist, there’s a first-draft lyric or clichéd Rolling Stones-style lick. In some towns, Chores’ finer points—the instrumentation sounds great and Chores’ complete lack of pretension is downright charming—would be enough to make them the best pop outfit going, but here in Portland the band’s pop blends all to easily into the background. If Chores can perfect the balancing act between keeping its music fun and throwing a bit of lyrical-emotional substance into the mix, you’ll find me front and center." -the Willamette Week
OLD HEAT
Old Heat is from yadda yadda, playing yadda yadda, and very well at that. Cassingle this summer, in the meantime, they can be found here!
CHORES
Portland, Oregon's Chores is lively, loud, and opinionated. Blending heart-on-sleeve honesty, pissed-off political rhetoric, and occasionally heady language, Chores revels in the paradoxes of modern life with unabashed energy and unchecked confidence. Chores's first full-length album, the subtle politics of the Public Hammock, rocks hard and weird, infusing a uniquely arty sprawl with ramshackle energy that careens between genres while retaining the basic elements of rock, pop, and noise. The album hurtles like a pinball through 45 minutes of anger, whimsy, regret, and joy. Produced by Chores and recorded mostly by drummer Matthew White with the assistance of local luminaries Mike Coykendall (M. Ward, Blitzen Trapper) and Gus Elg of Pants Machine.
ALBUMS
the Snowfields
The Snowfields is the project of ex-alum 9 Volt Hammer member Dylan McConnell. Cascading walls of droning slide and vintage synths drive these instrumentals into a soft and hazy 70's sunset. Cinematic in nature, musically wide in breadth, The Snowfields is the sound of your twilight. EP in the spring.
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the snowfields
2008
BUY IT
KLYDE KONNOR
R.E.M meets Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd: midwest legends Klyde Konnor rocked all that was living, and then more. Featuring a younger Mike Coykendall & friends, we will be releasing a thick dose of Prairie-psych in compilation form this summer as well as a reissue of the double album masterpiece Hypnopotamus. Go to Myspace in the meantime.
Hypnopotamus
org. released 1990
SUMMER 2010
here is a good article about Klyde Konnor
and another!
OXYKITTEN
The brainchild of Bob Coctostin, middlewest mob-dance legend. Retro and ridiculous, these tracks feature analog synths, drum machines & vocoder - just like the way it used to be. Part new-wave, part lo-fi synth-pop and all original, Oxykitten is the sound of your next party.
ALBUMS
MIKE COYKENDALL
If you have heard of Portland's Mike Coykendall, you probably know him from his association with M.Ward, She & Him & Blitzen Trapper, the bands he has engineered, produced and performed with over recent years. It gets overlooked that he has a songwriting, performing, record-making history dating back to the mid 80's. Midwesterners might remember Kansas prairie-psych legends Klyde Konnor; americana fans might remember the seminal San Francisco group The Old Joe Clarks; and a lucky few will have copies of the 2005 underground classic Hello, Hello, Hello. The Unbearable Being of Likeness is another dose of the hi-lo-fi avant-pop, DIY-aesthetic first explored on Hello, Hello, Hello.
*A semi-exaustive discography of Mike Coykendall
Records: 1986 - 2010
(full length commercial releases, does not include EPs and Singles)
(many only released on Cassette, especially those before 1996)
1986 - Klyde Konnor - The Weaker the Stronger
1987 - Klyde Konnor - I Always Forget
1987 - The Tanglebrains - Wizard of Owlsley
1988 - Klyde Konnor - Wallpaper
1988 - The Tanglebrains - Concept from the Onset
1989 - The Tanglebrains - III-Dumb
1990 - Klyde Konnor - Hypnopatamus
1990 - Mike Coykendall - Sweet Times of a Flying Machine
1991 - The Tanglebrains - Cream of Conciencnous
1991 - Klyde Konnor - In Front of Some People (live)
1991 - Mike Coykendall - In the Wink of an Eye
1992 - Klyde Konnor - When Worlds Klyde
1993 - The Old Joe Clarks - Bobbing for Graverobbers
1994 - Klyde Konnor - Together Again / Yum Yums on the Bathroom Floor
1994 - The Old Joe Clarks - Voice of Rita Mae
1995 - The Old Joe Clarks - 'nother Round
1996 - The Old Joe Clarks - Town of Ten
1999 - The Old Joe Clarks - Metal Shed Blues
2002 - The Old Joe Clarks - November
2005 - Mike Coykendall - Hello Hello Hello
2010 - Mike Coykendall - The Unbearable Being of Likeness
ADDERALL CANYONLY
From Tecumseh, Penn. - a whole bunch of fuckups. True analog gems...
Fists of Dayton! is the soundtrack from a 1983 action movie that never got made (think Bronson in a remake of THEY LIVE). Recorded with vintage synths and old broken drum machines via reel to reel, this music is a throwback to a much different and sadly brief cinematic world. Get yr 80's soundtrack ON!
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Fists of Dayton!
BUY IT -
It Was A Dark And
Stoney Night
2010
Thanks!