Street date TBD. NON-RETURNABLE. Only available to INDIE stores. We Are Electric’ is the second single to be taken from the recently released ‘Entertainment’ album by Fischerspooner. A soaring slice of scintillating electro with super fried guitars and anthemic lyrics that make me think of Blade Runner. Possibly the standout track on an album full of super strong tunes, ‘We Are Electric’ comes with 3 amazing remixes. The lush radio friendly nu disco mix by Kitsune favourites Classixx reveals the pop heart of the song and makes us think of The Pet Shop Boys. Next up is an absolutely storming mix by Cursor Miner, this is so hot it’s likely to burn the hair off your head if heard at full volume. It’s extreme treated vocals recall moments from the first FS album but the beats are pure Miner madness. Lastly but by no means least we have Hot Chip at their most club friendly, it’s deceptive simplicity reveals an insidious dancefloor killer when played in the right context.
March 1 street date. Two interesting soundtrack albums from the 60s, written and performed by John Sebastian and The Lovin' Spoonful. In "What's Up Tiger Lily?", Woody Allen's debut film, the musicianship is well represented by instrumentals such as "Gray Prison Blues" and "Pow Revisited". Shortly thereafter, Sebastian composed the music for Francis Ford Coppola's second film, the Oscar nominated comedy "You're A Big Boy Now", and the Lovin’ Spoonful also played the music for this soundtrack, which included the hit "Darling Be Home Soon".
Feb. 8 street date. This set contains the LOVIN' SPOONFUL's fifth and sixth albums, both from 1967. 'You’re A Big Boy Now' was the soundtrack of one of Francis Ford Coppola's earliest films, which features the hit "Darling Be Home Soon" and was the band's last album with guitarist Zal Yanovsky. 'Everything Playing' was the band's last album with John Sebastian and features the hits "She Is Still A Mystery", "Six O’Clock" and "Money". This release also features three bonus tracks, and the booklet is fully annotated.
Nov. 25 street date. The Albert Hotel in NYC's Greenwich Village was a hotbed of artistic activity in the mid 60s. Its cheap
rates made it especially popular with struggling musicians, and the digs also served as a rehearsal hall for many of them. In this cramped space, two powerhouse bands often rehearsed in succession, the mighty Paul Butterfield Blues Band from Chicago and hometown heroes The Lovin’ Spoonful. As the two groups listened to each other play, a natural, musical cross-pollination occurred, especially between the guitarists Zal Yanovsky and Mike Bloomfield. Licks were traded, ideas were passed back and
forth and each string bender sparked their respective band on to greater heights. The results of this six-string exchange burst forth on the Spoonful's "Night Owl Blues". The song is paired here with "Alley Oop", the Spoonful's gritty, garage-like take on the Dallas Frazier song that was a big hit for the Hollywood Argyles a few years earlier. Recorded during sessions for the first
album, "Alley Oop" ultimately was not included. While "Night Owl Blues" did make it on to the debut, time constraints required a shorter edit. Now, Sundazed is happy to reach back and create a "single that never was". Not only do you get "Alley Oop" in all its Zal-ified glory, you also get the full, unedited version of "Night Owl Blues", featuring an extra 1:38 of harmonica honking madness!
February 18 street date. Non-returnable. MUSIC ON CD = Classic albums available again on CD. "The Lovin' Spoonful's fourth album, "Everything Playing', was made under trying circumstances. Musically, the Sgt. Pepper/Summer of Love era had made the Spoonful's good-time, jugband approach obsolete, and chief songwriter John Sebastian had to try to keep up. Personally, the group had suffered the disaster of a drug bust that resulted in the departure of lead guitarist Zal Yanovsky, who was replaced in August 1967 by Jerry Yester. Despite these problems, Sebastian was able to turn out a good album paced by its three Top 40 hits, "Six O'Clock," "She Is Still a Mystery," and the deceptively comic "Money," in which he castigated financial aspects of the music industry. Also excellent were "Boredom" and "Younger Generation," which Sebastian later would sing at Woodstock. When Sebastian wasn't at the mic, the singing could be mediocre, and the group was often all over the map in its attempt at musical sophistication, but the record was saved by Sebastian's writing and singing." - All Music Guide.
December 6 street date. During John Sebastian’s golden streak from 1965-1966, all seven of the Spoonful’s singles went top ten in the Billboard charts, an unprecedented achievement. Listening to these eighteen live TV recordings, the excitement they exude is contagious. The interview with Dick Clark does little to illuminate the band’s appeal, but then he was “trying to tell a stranger about rock’n’roll”.
EXCL. - With a history of stellar records, Spoon has topped themselves with Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, a thrilling album recorded throughout 2006. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga starts with Don’t Make Me A Target, a song that builds on Spoon’s familiar minimal rhythmic piano/guitar vamp popularized on earlier hits like Small Stakes or The Way We Get By. The album quickly moves into uncharted territory with the atmospheric The Ghost of You Lingers and moves through several different stylistic changes from the explosive (no pun intended) You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb to the wall-of-sound horns of radio single The Underdog. The Britt Daniel originals on Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga comprise his most heartfelt batch of songs since 2001’s Girls Can Tell. Spoon will be touring heavily in summer (Lollapalooza, Bonaroo, Sasquatch) and fall behind this release. Note that their previous album (Gimme Fiction MRG265) has sold almost 10,000 copies in Canada - and with their music all over the recent Will Farrell movie Stranger Than Fiction, their profile is very high in the indie rock world. Also note that the first CD pressing includes a ltd. ed. bonus disc with 22 minutes of extra music! As well, the vinyl edition includes a coupon for a free MP3 download of the album AND bonus disc. 10% deal until July 24th, 2007
Merge Records was started in the summer of 1989, by Laura Ballance & Mac McCaughan, the same summer they formed the band Superchunk in Chapel Hill, NC. The first couple releases were cassettes (remember those?), by WWAX and Bricks, followed by the first Superchunk (then known only as "Chunk") 7" single. The vinyl 7" was the format of choice for the first 3 years of the label, with cash borrowed from friends to finance projects (including singles from Erectus Monotone, Angels of Epistemology, and more Superchunk) and bedrooms serving as Merge HQ until 1992, when the first Merge full-length release, Tossing Seeds by Superchunk, was released on CD, LP, and cassette. With this release Merge also forged a relationship with Touch and Go Records of Chicago, who have done an admirable job manufacturing and distributing the bulk of Merge's full-length releases since then. Since '92 Merge moved from one charming-yet-run-down office to another until 2001, when we finally made the move from Chapel Hill down the road to a fine old building all our own in historic Downtown Durham, NC. In 2004 Merge Records is celebrating its 15th birthday, and while our roster has changed, rotated, permutated and expanded over the last 15 years, the quality we look for in records as fans is still there in the music we put out on Merge. Thanks for listening!
EXCL. - With a history of stellar records, Spoon has topped themselves with Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, a thrilling album recorded throughout 2006. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga starts with Don’t Make Me A Target, a song that builds on Spoon’s familiar minimal rhythmic piano/guitar vamp popularized on earlier hits like Small Stakes or The Way We Get By. The album quickly moves into uncharted territory with the atmospheric The Ghost of You Lingers and moves through several different stylistic changes from the explosive (no pun intended) You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb to the wall-of-sound horns of radio single The Underdog. The Britt Daniel originals on Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga comprise his most heartfelt batch of songs since 2001’s Girls Can Tell. Spoon will be touring heavily in summer (Lollapalooza, Bonaroo, Sasquatch) and fall behind this release. Note that their previous album (Gimme Fiction MRG265) has sold almost 10,000 copies in Canada - and with their music all over the recent Will Farrell movie Stranger Than Fiction, their profile is very high in the indie rock world. Also note that the first CD pressing includes a ltd. ed. bonus disc with 22 minutes of extra music! As well, the vinyl edition includes a coupon for a free MP3 download of the album AND bonus disc. 10% deal until July 24th, 2007
Merge Records was started in the summer of 1989, by Laura Ballance & Mac McCaughan, the same summer they formed the band Superchunk in Chapel Hill, NC. The first couple releases were cassettes (remember those?), by WWAX and Bricks, followed by the first Superchunk (then known only as "Chunk") 7" single. The vinyl 7" was the format of choice for the first 3 years of the label, with cash borrowed from friends to finance projects (including singles from Erectus Monotone, Angels of Epistemology, and more Superchunk) and bedrooms serving as Merge HQ until 1992, when the first Merge full-length release, Tossing Seeds by Superchunk, was released on CD, LP, and cassette. With this release Merge also forged a relationship with Touch and Go Records of Chicago, who have done an admirable job manufacturing and distributing the bulk of Merge's full-length releases since then. Since '92 Merge moved from one charming-yet-run-down office to another until 2001, when we finally made the move from Chapel Hill down the road to a fine old building all our own in historic Downtown Durham, NC. In 2004 Merge Records is celebrating its 15th birthday, and while our roster has changed, rotated, permutated and expanded over the last 15 years, the quality we look for in records as fans is still there in the music we put out on Merge. Thanks for listening!
Please note new street date: August 29 - RECORD STORE DAY DROP. All the Weird Kids Up Front (More Best of Spoon) is a fan-selected companion piece to Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon. With a tracklist submitted by and voted on by fans, it features deep cuts from the Austin, TX band's 25-year history. Recent features and performances include PBS Newshour, The Howard Stern Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Pitchfork Live and more. Package includes obi strip and is limited to a run of 3,000 copies worldwide. “Spoon have long been one of the most reliably great rock bands to emerge from the early Aughts indie boom. Their secret weapon has always been their restraint — riffs that simmer but don’t boil, lyrics about cautious hope, air-tight production that plays up their musical economy. It’s what makes you want to hear more of them. It has led them to masterpieces like “The Way We Get By,” a piano-driven declaration of desperation, and the dusky title track of this compilation here, “Everything Hits at Once.” - Rolling Stone
July 24 street date. Spoon have confirmed their celebrated back catalog will be returning fully to print and become widely available worldwide for the first time on vinyl and CD in 2020 on Matador Records. The "Slay On Cue" series will see the reissue of the band's first eight records in original editions. Some of these albums haven't been available on vinyl or CD in years. Kicking off the reissue series are raucous debut album "Telephono" and the watershed "Soft Effects" EP, available individually on vinyl and CD for the first time since their original 1996-1997 small run on Matador. The opening salvo of major releases trace the fledgling rock heroes' mercurial evolution, from the raw sonics and jagged dynamics of "Telephono", to the sharp and sophisticated songwriting found on "Soft Effects", pointing towards the bright and adventurous future ahead with subsequent Spoon records.
July 24 street date. Spoon have confirmed their celebrated back catalog will be returning fully to print and become widely available worldwide for the first time on vinyl and CD in 2020 on Matador Records. The "Slay On Cue" series will see the reissue of the band's first eight records in original editions. Some of these albums haven't been available on vinyl or CD in years. Kicking off the reissue series are raucous debut album "Telephono" and the watershed "Soft Effects" EP, available individually on vinyl and CD for the first time since their original 1996-1997 small run on Matador. The opening salvo of major releases trace the fledgling rock heroes' mercurial evolution, from the raw sonics and jagged dynamics of "Telephono", to the sharp and sophisticated songwriting found on "Soft Effects", pointing towards the bright and adventurous future ahead with subsequent Spoon records.
July 24 street date. Spoon have confirmed their celebrated back catalog will be returning fully to print and become widely available worldwide for the first time on vinyl and CD in 2020 on Matador Records. The "Slay On Cue" series will see the reissue of the band's first eight records in original editions. Some of these albums haven't been available on vinyl or CD in years. Kicking off the reissue series are raucous debut album "Telephono" and the watershed "Soft Effects" EP, available individually on vinyl and CD for the first time since their original 1996-1997 small run on Matador. The opening salvo of major releases trace the fledgling rock heroes' mercurial evolution, from the raw sonics and jagged dynamics of "Telephono", to the sharp and sophisticated songwriting found on "Soft Effects", pointing towards the bright and adventurous future ahead with subsequent Spoon records.
July 24 street date. Spoon have confirmed their celebrated back catalog will be returning fully to print and become widely available worldwide for the first time on vinyl and CD in 2020 on Matador Records. The "Slay On Cue" series will see the reissue of the band's first eight records in original editions. Some of these albums haven't been available on vinyl or CD in years. Kicking off the reissue series are raucous debut album "Telephono" and the watershed "Soft Effects" EP, available individually on vinyl and CD for the first time since their original 1996-1997 small run on Matador. The opening salvo of major releases trace the fledgling rock heroes' mercurial evolution, from the raw sonics and jagged dynamics of "Telephono", to the sharp and sophisticated songwriting found on "Soft Effects", pointing towards the bright and adventurous future ahead with subsequent Spoon records.
August 14 street date. Spoon have confirmed their celebrated back catalog will be returning fully to print and become widely available worldwide for the first time on vinyl and CD in 2020 on Matador Records. The Slay On Cue series will see the reissue of the band's early records in original editions, encompassing classic albums Telephono (1996), Soft Effects EP (1996), A Series Of Sneaks (1998), Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill The Moonlight (2002) and Transference (2010). "Some of these albums haven't been available on vinyl or CD in years, and in some places they never actually came out", says frontman Britt Daniel.
August 14 street date. Spoon have confirmed their celebrated back catalog will be returning fully to print and become widely available worldwide for the first time on vinyl and CD in 2020 on Matador Records. The Slay On Cue series will see the reissue of the band's early records in original editions, encompassing classic albums Telephono (1996), Soft Effects EP (1996), A Series Of Sneaks (1998), Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill The Moonlight (2002) and Transference (2010). "Some of these albums haven't been available on vinyl or CD in years, and in some places they never actually came out", says frontman Britt Daniel.
August 14 street date. Spoon have confirmed their celebrated back catalog will be returning fully to print and become widely available worldwide for the first time on vinyl and CD in 2020 on Matador Records. The Slay On Cue series will see the reissue of the band's early records in original editions, encompassing classic albums Telephono (1996), Soft Effects EP (1996), A Series Of Sneaks (1998), Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill The Moonlight (2002) and Transference (2010). "Some of these albums haven't been available on vinyl or CD in years, and in some places they never actually came out", says frontman Britt Daniel.
August 14 street date. Spoon have confirmed their celebrated back catalog will be returning fully to print and become widely available worldwide for the first time on vinyl and CD in 2020 on Matador Records. The Slay On Cue series will see the reissue of the band's early records in original editions, encompassing classic albums Telephono (1996), Soft Effects EP (1996), A Series Of Sneaks (1998), Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill The Moonlight (2002) and Transference (2010). "Some of these albums haven't been available on vinyl or CD in years, and in some places they never actually came out", says frontman Britt Daniel.
August 14 street date. Spoon have confirmed their celebrated back catalog will be returning fully to print and become widely available worldwide for the first time on vinyl and CD in 2020 on Matador Records. The Slay On Cue series will see the reissue of the band's early records in original editions, encompassing classic albums Telephono (1996), Soft Effects EP (1996), A Series Of Sneaks (1998), Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill The Moonlight (2002) and Transference (2010). "Some of these albums haven't been available on vinyl or CD in years, and in some places they never actually came out", says frontman Britt Daniel.
August 14 street date. Spoon have confirmed their celebrated back catalog will be returning fully to print and become widely available worldwide for the first time on vinyl and CD in 2020 on Matador Records. The Slay On Cue series will see the reissue of the band's early records in original editions, encompassing classic albums Telephono (1996), Soft Effects EP (1996), A Series Of Sneaks (1998), Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill The Moonlight (2002) and Transference (2010). "Some of these albums haven't been available on vinyl or CD in years, and in some places they never actually came out", says frontman Britt Daniel.
September 11 street date. Spoon have confirmed their celebrated back catalog will be returning fully to print and become widely available worldwide for the first time on vinyl and CD in 2020 on Matador Records. The Slay On Cue series will see the reissue of the band's early records in original editions, encompassing classic albums Telephono (1996), Soft Effects EP (1996), A Series Of Sneaks (1998), Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill The Moonlight (2002) and Transference (2010). "Some of these albums haven't been available on vinyl or CD in years, and in some places they never actually came out", says frontman Britt Daniel.
September 11 street date. Spoon have confirmed their celebrated back catalog will be returning fully to print and become widely available worldwide for the first time on vinyl and CD in 2020 on Matador Records. The Slay On Cue series will see the reissue of the band's early records in original editions, encompassing classic albums Telephono (1996), Soft Effects EP (1996), A Series Of Sneaks (1998), Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill The Moonlight (2002) and Transference (2010). "Some of these albums haven't been available on vinyl or CD in years, and in some places they never actually came out", says frontman Britt Daniel.
December 11 street date. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Spoon classic, Merge will release a deluxe limited-edition version of Gimme Fiction on double-LP (180g) and double-CD. The reissue contains the album remastered by Howie Weinberg from the original tapes, a second disc with 12 previously unreleased demos from the era, nine additional bonus tracks via digital download, and a fullcolor book containing photos and an extensive oral history of the making of the album. The deluxe LP package will also include a 24” x 36” poster. Gimme Fiction dragged the sonic pointillism of Kill the Moonlight further into dub-influenced weirdness as the increasingly confident Spoon went crazy in the studio, experimenting with everything from warped hip-hop samples to horse whinnies. How all this directionless Dylan worship and psychedelic goofing resulted in an album as sharply realized as Gimme Fiction is a testament solely to Spoon’s self-assurance and tastefulness (and some hard work, and a bit of luck, etc.). Whatever digging or strange alchemy had to go into it, they only produced more gold. Gimme Fiction deserves special recognition because it’s the album where Spoon—backed into a corner—took some crazy leaps, all of them forward. It’s a “departure point” for a band that, lucky for us, has never made a real departure. And when it came time for a reissue, we knew it deserved a lasting place on vinyl, right alongside every other indispensable record in Spoon’s discography.
Merge Records was started in the summer of 1989, by Laura Ballance & Mac McCaughan, the same summer they formed the band Superchunk in Chapel Hill, NC. The first couple releases were cassettes (remember those?), by WWAX and Bricks, followed by the first Superchunk (then known only as "Chunk") 7" single. The vinyl 7" was the format of choice for the first 3 years of the label, with cash borrowed from friends to finance projects (including singles from Erectus Monotone, Angels of Epistemology, and more Superchunk) and bedrooms serving as Merge HQ until 1992, when the first Merge full-length release, Tossing Seeds by Superchunk, was released on CD, LP, and cassette. With this release Merge also forged a relationship with Touch and Go Records of Chicago, who have done an admirable job manufacturing and distributing the bulk of Merge's full-length releases since then. Since '92 Merge moved from one charming-yet-run-down office to another until 2001, when we finally made the move from Chapel Hill down the road to a fine old building all our own in historic Downtown Durham, NC. In 2004 Merge Records is celebrating its 15th birthday, and while our roster has changed, rotated, permutated and expanded over the last 15 years, the quality we look for in records as fans is still there in the music we put out on Merge. Thanks for listening!
March 26 street date. Spoon's classic "Gimme Fiction" pressed onto limited red and white vinyl. Recorded throughout 2004 at Jim Eno's Public Hifi studio in Austin with the production help of Mike McCarthy (...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead), "Gimme Fiction", Spoon's fifth full-length, is the sound of a band who, having long since found their own voice, were making the catchiest, most confident rock'n'roll of any group on the planet. Though there are still echoes of some of Britt Daniel's influences, "Gimme Fiction" is a sprawling, exhilarating, filler-free album of keenly focused artistic vision and ambition. Features the hit single "I Turn My Camera On," as well as other tracks included on the recent greatest hits "Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon". Nothing short of a dizzying, soulful masterpiece, easily the most expansive work in their career.
March 26 street date. Spoon's classic "Gimme Fiction" pressed onto limited red and white vinyl. Recorded throughout 2004 at Jim Eno's Public Hifi studio in Austin with the production help of Mike McCarthy (...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead), "Gimme Fiction", Spoon's fifth full-length, is the sound of a band who, having long since found their own voice, were making the catchiest, most confident rock'n'roll of any group on the planet. Though there are still echoes of some of Britt Daniel's influences, "Gimme Fiction" is a sprawling, exhilarating, filler-free album of keenly focused artistic vision and ambition. Features the hit single "I Turn My Camera On," as well as other tracks included on the recent greatest hits "Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon". Nothing short of a dizzying, soulful masterpiece, easily the most expansive work in their career.
March 26 street date. Spoon's classic "Gimme Fiction" pressed onto limited red and white vinyl. Recorded throughout 2004 at Jim Eno's Public Hifi studio in Austin with the production help of Mike McCarthy (...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead), "Gimme Fiction", Spoon's fifth full-length, is the sound of a band who, having long since found their own voice, were making the catchiest, most confident rock'n'roll of any group on the planet. Though there are still echoes of some of Britt Daniel's influences, "Gimme Fiction" is a sprawling, exhilarating, filler-free album of keenly focused artistic vision and ambition. Features the hit single "I Turn My Camera On," as well as other tracks included on the recent greatest hits "Everything Hits At Once: The Best of Spoon". Nothing short of a dizzying, soulful masterpiece, easily the most expansive work in their career.
March 17 street date. ‘Hot Thoughts’ is Spoon's 9th studio album from, available world wide from Matador Records. ’Hot Thoughts’’ is the bravest, most sonically inventive work of Spoon’s career. With all due respect to earlier efforts that have made the quintet both critically acclaimed and a commercial contender, preconceptions about this band are about to be obliterated. Co-produced by Spoon and Dave Fridmann and reunited with Matador (third time’s the charm), with the crackling, incandescent, multi-dimensional backdrop conjured on ‘Hot Thoughts’, the lines between accessible and experimental become non-factors for once and all. It’s pop as high art, delivered with total confidence and focus. The album is being presented on standard black vinyl and a limited edition indie exclusive red vinyl pressing, both with MP3 download.
March 17 street date. ‘Hot Thoughts’ is Spoon's 9th studio album from, available world wide from Matador Records. ’Hot Thoughts’’ is the bravest, most sonically inventive work of Spoon’s career. With all due respect to earlier efforts that have made the quintet both critically acclaimed and a commercial contender, preconceptions about this band are about to be obliterated. Co-produced by Spoon and Dave Fridmann and reunited with Matador (third time’s the charm), with the crackling, incandescent, multi-dimensional backdrop conjured on ‘Hot Thoughts’, the lines between accessible and experimental become non-factors for once and all. It’s pop as high art, delivered with total confidence and focus.
March 17 street date. ‘Hot Thoughts’ is Spoon's 9th studio album from, available world wide from Matador Records. ’Hot Thoughts’’ is the bravest, most sonically inventive work of Spoon’s career. With all due respect to earlier efforts that have made the quintet both critically acclaimed and a commercial contender, preconceptions about this band are about to be obliterated. Co-produced by Spoon and Dave Fridmann and reunited with Matador (third time’s the charm), with the crackling, incandescent, multi-dimensional backdrop conjured on ‘Hot Thoughts’, the lines between accessible and experimental become non-factors for once and all. It’s pop as high art, delivered with total confidence and focus. The album is being presented on standard black vinyl and a limited edition indie exclusive red vinyl pressing, both with MP3 download.
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