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Beloved Customers and Friends:

Hey there everybody, welcome to another update, full of drone and pop and everything in between (or at the same time). Lots of great stuff, including, among other things, both Boris and Bill Cosby (no, not together). Hope you all have had a pleasant fortnight since our last list, we've been keeping busy as usual round these parts, enjoying music new and old but certainly NOT enjoying the behavior of a couple of our computers. This week we had to have the hard drive replaced in the iMac that Cup and Michael use to deal with mailorder, which got us about two days behind in responding with mailorder related emails, we're sorry about that!! Considering we're already not entirely where we want to be in terms of response-time, that didn't help. Fortunately, at least we were able to catch the problem in that computer before any data was lost. Then, the same day that got fixed, Allan's personal laptop up and died. Thus this list is short a couple of reviews he'd written but not yet saved into our database here at work... hopefully they'll be recovered (or he'll rewrite them...) in time for our next list.
But we had fun this week too, on Wednesday ferinstance several AQ'ers having a blast at the Breeders show, while the same night a bunch of others of us here, along with AQ alums Kerry and Christine, went to the movies together, excited to see Harold And Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay!!! Which was pretty great, if you liked the first one (which we hope you did). Neil Patrick Harris on a unicorn, briliant.
Ok, enough about movies, on with the music!

Two Records Of The Week. One, a three-way split featuring two recent AQ faves and a related third party, it's Isengrind / Twinsistermoon / Natural Snow Buildings! The first proper cd release from this French duo, and each member's equally gorgeous solo project.

Our second RotW is a bit of a no-brainer, the long-awaited, eagerly-anticipated new album from Portishead! Yep, it's good.

And then let's have a look at the Highlights, as follow...

Acid Mothers Temple: Kawabata & Co.'s HEAVIEST trip yet, like SUNNO))) + Amon Duul... ??
Ilyas Ahmed: Long time aQ fave releases his first proper full length after the recent double disc reissue. More drone drenched free folk mystery...
Altar Shadows: Lithuanian black metal, weird and wonderful, heavy on the traditional Lithuanian Folk and the Speckledy Falcons!
Astral Social Club: Brand new 7" / cd-r combo from this former Vibrcathedral noisemaker, now exploring club music, albeit filtered through drugged out space rock!
Aidan Baker: A way sought after cd-r back in print one more time...
Baker / Buckareff / Nadja: Three way split from Nadja and the two members on their own. First we've heard from Buckareff and it's fantastic!
Barn Owl: Local boys keep getting better and better, darker and dronier.
Black Boned Angel & Nadja: It had to happen, but who would have thought it would sound like this?! Not at all what you might have imagined. And we love it!
Boris: their latest, Smile, domestic release with a bonus limited edition DVD and different art, mixes, etc.
Bulbs: free jazz and techno too on this post-Jryk release featuring the fellow from Ball Lightning.
Celestial Sea: Black metal dudes from Dormant and Caina team up for some blissy shimmery epic post rock.
Chop Shop: A new addition to the pantheon of noisemakers. Buzzy intense tape based experiments as good as any noise we've heard.
Cloudland Canyon: krautrockier than krautrock itself!!
Bill Cosby: no, not comedy. 1971 jazz funk with Cosby on keyboards that's pretty badass.
Cub x 3: a triple batch of reissued cuddlecore classics from our own Cup's old band Cub!
John Davis: Another disc of sublime drones and field recordings from this local dronelord.
Deadsea: Epic massive complex kick ass headbanging and hooky metal madness from these ex grinders...
Edu-K: 12" of bouncin' Baile funk!
Encomiast: A deeeeep dark ominous disc of glorious black drone.
Ex-Cocaine / Yellow Swans: The Yellow Swans maybe no more, but they have a handful of releases coming out before they're gone for good. Here they team up with fellow noisniks Ex-Cocaine.
Faust: A new live Faust record on Jussi from Circle's Ektro label!
Fear Falls Burning: One of our favorite drone guitarists teams up with drummers for the first time, and the results are spectacular.
Grey Daturas: return of our favorite down-under doom-bringers, their Neurot debut.
Hellhammer: limited deluxe 2cd or 3lp release of early '80s demos from black/death/sludge metal pioneers.
Terje Isungset: more unusual, beautiful music performed on instruments made of ICE!
Jaldaboath: a 3" cd-r of Meads Of Asphodel related metal weirdness.
Les Rallizes Denudes: repressed, one of the best available documents of the '70s Japanese psych legends.
Lugubrum: black metal from the Belgian Congo??!
Brendan Murray: one of our drone picks of the list.
Monopoly Child Star Searchers: Spencer from the Skaters' new project, confusing and confounding and tripped out and beautiful.
BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa: another drone essential this time 'round, beautifully packaged to boot.
Otesanek / Loss / Orthodox / Mournful Congregation: 4-way DOOOOOM summit, very few in stock.
Pyramids: Brand new double disc from this Texas band who blend black metal bliss and shoe gaze-y shimmer. Includes bonus discs with remixes by Jesu, Birchville, Blut Aus Nord, Plotkin and more...
The Reveries: A new record of all Willie Nelson covers from one of the strangest coolest bands from the only band who play with speakers in their mouths. Super unique, and super lovely.
Jack Rose: A brand new disc of neo Appalachia from one of the modern masters, includes the long out of print aRCHIVE release as a bonus disc!
The Shining Path: 7" and cd-r combo from this drone-y space rock duo, live and blown out, includes cool live video footage as well.
Nina Simone: the high priestess of soul, with her album, High Priestess of Soul, another oldie but a goodie.
Skitliv: Attila (Mayhem, Burial Chamber Trio, SUNNO)))) + Maniac (Mayhem) + Current 93... oh yes.
Skullfower: mayhem and chaos prevail on the harsh guitarscapes of Matthew Bower's new one!
Sun Kil Moon: Mark Kozelek's latest may just be his finest collection of songs yet!
Sun Ra: more spacey synth genius from Ra circa '77, the follow up to the great Disco 3000.
Taiga Remains: Root Strata reissues the limited 3" cdrs of one of our fave drone units on a real regular cd.
Tape: Hapna's expanded reissue of the delicate, abstract yet melodic soundworld known as Milieu.
Thor: live in '85, the he-man of Metal ROCKS insanely on this classic reissued by Circle's Ektro label!
V/A Nigeria Rock Special: third in the amazing series, full of funky '70s Afrodelic fuzz n' groove.
V/A Sacrifice At The Altar: tribute to true kvlt black metal act Von! feat. Black Vomit, Enbilulugugal, etc.
Von Himmel: metareverberant murky tripped out psych on cd-r from local krautrock lovin' groop.
White Hills / Gnod: our fave NYC drugdronepsychspace combo teams up with mystery UK outfit Gnod.

Plus other goodies including Alan Sparhawk's rockin' Retribution Gospel Choir, the Secret Chief's playing Masada with Zorn on board, a grime fix from Dizzee Rascal, a new issue of Wax Poetics, and lots more.

Also, we have tickets to give away to some cool shows at the Great American Music Hall.

First we have one pair of tickets to see Subtle, Facing New York and Clue to Kalo on Wed. May 7

Then we have two pairs of tickets to see The Fiery Furnaces  and Grand Ole Party, on Thurs. May 29th.

Just send an email to mailto:[email protected] - [email protected] with either FIERY FURNACES TIX or SUBTLE TIX as the subject. We'll pick the Subtle ticket winners right away since it's next week. The Fiery Furnaces you have a little more time. Both shows should be awesome!

Finally, there's a new episode of XLR8R TV up, which features Bradford Cox from Atlas Sound and Deerhunter shopping and hanging out at aQ!! Check it out here:
http://www.xlr8r.com/tv/57 - http://www.xlr8r.com/tv/57

That's it. Time for us to head home and get to bed. And time for you night owls to stay up all night reading this here list and listening to sound clips! Or maybe better to hit the hay and get up early and tackle it first thing in the morning. Either way, lots of good stuff to check out as always!

So let's get on with it! Enjoy!

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And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch!

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As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you.

And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html

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 ((+:+:+:+:+:+    New Arrivals #292
   ((+:+:+:+:+:+     May 16, 2008
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Beloved Customers and Friends:

Whew! If you live in San Francisco, we don't have to tell you it's been sunny and HOT here this week. Record breaking temperatures for this time of year, way up in the 90s. We're wilting as we write this. And the sun went down long ago! Of course, being SF, it'll probably get nice and cold and foggy again real soon. So we should try and enjoy this blast of summer-like weather while we can, though it did threaten to make Andee's computer at home overheat while he was trying to write reviews. He still got a bunch done though, as you will see...

Whatever it's like where you are, though, we hope you're in the mood for some cool new music. Drones, black metal, unblack metal, jazz, indie-rock, psych, doom, grunge, we got all that and more this list. Lots and lots of good stuff. So, let's get on with it...

'Cause we're a little crazy from the heat, there's three Records Of The Week this week!!!

First, the new one from Philip Jeck: a no brainer, maybe, since we love Jeck and his crackly, fuzzy turntable collages so much, but his new album is kinda different yet as amazing as ever.
The we have Group Doueh. This long out of print vinyl only Sublime Frequencies release, one of the best in the series, finally available on cd!!
And finally, 16-17: One of our favorite records EVER. The undisputed Gods of ultra extreme hardcore free jazz post punk whatthef**k! Remastered with new liner notes.

And of course LOADS of highlights:

Patrick Adams: anthology of disco jams from the master producer.
Oren Ambarchi: AQ-fave Aussie experimentalist drops a 7" on the Touch label.
Avarus: ltd. lp-only live release from these krautrockish Finns, freaky like German Oak!
Grant Beran: cd-r of lo-fi buzzy rhythmic tracks sourced from beat up old records and junky turntables.
Birchville Cat Motel: NZ dronemaster's latest LP, limited to 350, expensive, and worth it!
Bixobal: issue #3 of this cool little improv/experimental/krautrock/etc. 'zine, always recommended.
Black Mayonnaise: cd-r return of this band's blackend buzz and doomic dub, including Flaming Lips and Fipper covers!
Boris / Merzbow: Rock Dream now on ultra deluxe triple LP vinyl!! Incredible packaging AND bonus track.
Brown Jenkins: 2nd album of blurred buzzing black metal unlike any other.
Constantines: exellent irony-free anthemic indie rock record from these Canadian craftsmen.
Dead Man: Swedish hippy prog psych on the more melodic, gentle side of '70s stoner worship.
Death Cab For Cutie: the major label debut from these ol' indie rock faves makes us feel as good as they ever did!
Earles & Jensen: you can ALWAYS enjoy a good record of prank phone calls!
Expo '70 / Rahdunes: Expo's Earthy-throb vs. Rahdunes folky spacey drift on this split 12"!
Fear Falls Burning: the dronesters latest, now on vinyl, with bonus tracks.
Flaskavsae: another UNblack metal cd-r gem, grim and bizarre.
Maria Forde: one of our favorite local visual artists has a new issue of her 'zine, this time with cd-r hiphop mix!
Four Tet: ep with the most minimal and repetitive sound we've heard from Four Tet yet!
Dana Gillespie: rare orchestrated pop-psych treasure reissued, think Nancy Sinatra collaborating with The Free Design...
The Gossip: sweat inducing, spirit invigorating live set from the punk/soul sensations.
Bruce Haack: amazing unreleased 1978 album from the eccentric electronic pop composer, like an R-rated Electric Lucifer!!
Hatewave: early demos from the tUMULt mathdeathmetal recording artists, ever weirder back then!
Have A Nice Life: Sprawling double disc / book set of blissed out shoegaze metal doom gloom pop. Shoulda been ROTW!
Heatdeath: This Midwestern duo offers up two sides of dense intricate tangled math metal free jazz weirdness. Super limited.
High Mountain Tempel: Second disc of krautdrone mystery from this duo.
The Julie Mittens: Dutch improv free rock power trio! Hell yeah!
Kaleidoscope: Brand new issue of this awesome metal mag from the Circle Of Ouroborus dudes. Lots of aQ faves covered.
Byard Lancaster: Unreleased live set from this under appreciated jazz legedn, with extra tracks and liner notes!
Lento: Italian crushing post rock groove metal doomscapers first album and it's a doozy!
Matmos: A new record from aQ pals Matmos, no strange recordings here, only SYNTHESIZERS. And lots of em!
Menace Ruine: Early demo from this Canadian boy girl black metal bliss out duo.
Motorpsycho: Finally we're convinced! Kick ass and ultra catchy Norwegian indie rock outift makes a record we can't stop listening to!
Mudhoney: The godlike SUperfuzz Bigmuff gets reissued with a whole extra disc! And new liner notes, tons of photos and more more more.
Njiqahdda: A super limited double disc from this mysterious UNblack metal outfit. Comes with candles AND incense.
No Age: Finally a full length from these punky noise poppers!
Offerblod: Swedish UNblack metal, churning murky blown out muddy black genius!
Pale Hoarse: Spare stirring acoustic doom folk from this SF duo.
Pita: An all time noise classic, long out of print, finally get reissued!
The Puritan: Ex-Reverend Bizarre, lp only chunk of intense riffage, Killdozer goes doom? So awesome.
Ruins Of Beverast: A deluxe and pricey vinyl version of the most recent album. PREORDER NOW!!
Suishou No Fune: Sprawling double disc of Japanese downer drone-trance.
Tamagawa: Mysterious and beautiful dronemusick, packaged in a do it yourself mini replica of a stage lamp.
Tulus: The band that would be Khold, but then would be Tulus again. Awesome freaked out black metal brilliance.
Tunnels: More divine Portland dronebliss dreaminess.
Ufomammut: Brand new record from these druggy droney doomlords!
Up-Tight: First dvd ever from these Japanese psych masters!
Usputuspud: Our own Matt Rogers takes his harmonica out onto the dancefloor to create some spacey otherworldy 'disco'.
V/A Museum Of Future Sound Vol. 2: Skweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
V/A Radio Myanmar: Latest from Sublime Frequencies' series of intercepted radio broadcasts. This time the focus is on Myanmar.
V/A Dronevolk dvd: A gorgeous documentary about Ignatz, SIlvester Anfang, Bear Bones Lay Low and Kiss The Anus. Includes bonus MP3's!
Yoshi Wada: Gorgeous ceremonial like drones from this sound sculptor and visual artist.
Xexyz: The masters of NES-BM, Nintendo black metal, now on cd with bonus tracks and new artwork!
Yelle: Breezy synth electro for all your summer dancefloor needs.
Yoro Sidibe: The latest in he Yaala Yaala world music series. So moving and emotional and intense powerful and so so good.

And of course, much much more. Anthony Braxton on laptop and giant sax, folk-blues from Tetuzi Akiyama, a new Nachtmystium ep, the sheer '80sishness of Cut Copy, etc. etc. and etc.

And as we mentioned briefly above. We are listing the super deluxe double lp / 7" version of the most recent record from German black metallers Ruins Of Beverast. Tons of people have been emailing about it, and we will indeed be one of the only stores carrying it, BUT, because they are so expensive, and handmade, and of course because of the sh*tty dollar, and the outrageous shipping on these massive sets, the price is pretty high. SO if you want one you MUST preorder it. We will only order as many copies as we get actual preorders for. And we will take a $50 deposit, the rest payable when we ship. Check the review for all the details!

Krautrock fans, don't forget about the Cluster shows happening 'round California (LA, Big Sur, Santa Cruz, SF) next weekend, as well as a CLUSTER AQ INSTORE! Details at the bottom of this list.

Okay. We gotta get to bed. Must get some sleep. We have some BBQ-ing to do tomorrow, and some ping pong practice, since we've been challenged by Ritual coffee shop across the street! AND The Black Hole is playing tomorrow at the Castro Theater! Can't wait!

That's it. Dig in. And STAY COOL!

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And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch!

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As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you.

And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html

Greetings aQ faithful!

We are honored to announce a very very rare instore performance from spaced out electronic ambient krautrock pioneers:

CLUSTER!!!

Performing right here in our little ol' shop!!

It's on Monday, that's memorial day, the 26th of May. 5:00 pm.
Don't miss this, a rare chance to see these legends up close, personal and intimate!

They're playing a bunch of shows, Big Sur, Santa Cruz and at the Great American Music Hall here in SF. But this might be your only chance to sit on the floor, mere inches from the band, letting the sound wash over you, and most likely one of your only chances to say hi, shake hands and mingle with the band afterwards.

Not sure what they'll be playing, but for those new to Cluster and who are curious, here's our review of the reissue of their classic Zuckerzeit album:

Finally! We can't even begin to tell you how long we have been waiting to list this. Forever going in and out of print and when available it was always super expensive, Cluster's 1974 album Zuckerzeit has finally been given the proper and readily available reissue (Thanks Revisited!) it absolutely deserves. Probably our favorite Cluster album, it is most notably famous for helming their transition from concrete synth dronescapers to their more well known persona as crafters of pastorally cosmic electronica. Adding crisp and propulsive drum programming to their haunting synth melodies, Moebius and Roedelius split the composing duties with Moebius leaning to the more experimental while Roedelius provides the melodic sheen. Zuckerzeit hailed a new direction and focus in German music of the early seventies, with groups like Kraftwerk, and Neu moving through similar reshapes in sound. Obviously, Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin have spent some time absorbing this album. Timeless and classic, we cannot recommend this album enough!

And our review of their reissued Sowiesoso album:

This long awaited reissue of Cluster’s stellar 1976 recording, Sowiesoso (So Not So So) sees Roedelius and Moebius at their most collaborative and creative. Recorded after moving to the tiny village of Forst from West Berlin, the progressive evolution of Cluster’s solely improvised sound from free-form cavernous synth-scapes to percolating motorik pop had already been documented on their Zuckerzeit album from 1975. On Sowiesoso, that sound gets even more refined, with Moebius’s machinist currents of whirs and klangs jutting up against Roedelius’s serene Eastern pastoralism, resulting in a haunting mix of pensive ambient beauty that matches the idyllic countryside pictured on the front cover.
So Recommended!

Needless to say, this should be fantastic! Don't miss it!!
See you there!!

Lots of love from your devoted AQ staff

            -- Andee, Cup, Jim, Allan, Irwin, Scott, Lauren, Sally, Antaeus, Michael, Cameron, Frank and Jon

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Beloved Customers and Friends:

Apologies for the strangely formatted list we just sent out. You can read about our broken computer woes below, which is why we were trying to send the list remotely from the correct computer, but it went and jumbled it all up. Arggh. Well, really, you should be going to the website anyway, so you can see album covers and listen to sound samples, but in case you prefer the email version here you go. Should look normal. If not, we give up. We're going home and going to bed. Thanks as always. And again apologies for the double shot of New Arrivals...

Geeze! Seems almost like THIS week's list is falling on a Friday The 13th. Last list, when it was that unlucky day, we didn't have nearly so many mishaps... Firstly, about a week ago, poor Irwin hurt his back (don't ask him how he did it) and was told to stay off his feet, so he hasn't been at work since then and he's one of our review writing powerhouses. Then, in a freak accident, Andee's desktop computer got knocked over, and has been out of commission ever since (whoops). Fortunately it's gonna get fixed up ok, but in the meantime, he's had no computer here to work on and he's one of our other reviewing powerhouses. And has spent more time running from computer store to computer store than writing reviews. So all that slowed us up a bit, and thus there's "only" 72 items on the list... but we did actually get a few cool things back in stock that had been gone for a while, so that bulked it up a bit, look out for those.
Our Rastan arcade game is also out of order again... but that didn't really effect getting this list done.

Also, since Andee is without computer, much of his day to day stuff is temporarily inaccessible. So if you're waiting for an email, or have PayPal business or anything like that (you know, anything that requires a computer), please be patient, we'll have that computer back and up and running by the middle of next week (barring any more mishaps), and we'll get caught up and sorted out as quick as we can.

Another sad thing: we bid adieu to our beloved co-worker Lauren, whom you know if you ever shop here on Tuesday nights. She's been a loyal part-time AQ staffer for three years now, but finally came to the conclusion that working a double shift every week (she has another, full-time job as a speech pathologist) was a bit too much... we understand but are sorry to see her go.

On top of all that, 'cause of working late (as usual) on the list tonight, Andee and Allan and the rest of the Friday night crew missed seeing a rare freakin' Liquorball live show at the Hemlock (with special guest Steve Mackay, saxophonist of Stooges Funhouse fame!). Argh. We also missed ex-AQer Matt's band Wildildlife who came down from Seattle to play the Edinburgh Castle tonight too. Double argh. Oh well there's always stuff going on list nights it seems, like Candlemass who we missed last time. Something about Friday nights...

And since we sometimes like to give folks a glimpse of what really goes on around here, and what we're -really- listening to, once we finished writing reviews for the list, all we've been listening to is Polvo and Pitchblende!!!

It hasn't been all disasters here though, there's been lots of rad music coming in as usual, and in terms of extra-curricular activities, last weekend a couple of us went camping, and new AQ-er Jon's band Barn Owl played with Earth down at Brookdale lodge, and Antaeus' band Lazer Sword got to rock some sort of travelling party bus... good times.

Speaking of music, let's talk about this week's list, starting with the Records Of The Week... There's two of 'em, the latest ultra-o'd dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom offering from UK sublime sludge masters Moss, and a rad new Mary Ann Hobbs dubstep/grime comp too.

Also, there's a new release on Andee's tUMULt label, the long-awaited domestic debut from PYHA, in the works forever, the buzzingest black metal EVER maybe, made by a 12-year old Korean kid!!!! Really.

And then a bunch o' highlights, from the super poppy to the super noisy:

Armanenschaft: raw primitive psychedelic winter black metal from ex-Rev. Bizarre doomster.
Ateleia & Benjamin Curtis: almost pop ambient entry in TOE's new experimental guitar ltd. 12" series.
Aufgehoben: abstract UK noise rockers lay waste to all on their new Holy Mountain album.
Benga: dubstep with a little extra electro from one of the best.
John Berbarian: two vinyl-only reissues of Middle Eastern oud action from '60s USA.
James Blackshaw: awesome new album from AQ fave UK fingerpicker.
Bones Of Seabirds: cd-r of free noise ambience a la Sunroof!
Child Readers: magical new disc from Jewelled Antler's Loren Chasse and Jason Honea.
Karen Dalton: long lost intimate and unearthly 1962 home recordings from this lovely folk lady.
Ishibashi Eiko & Tatsuya Yoshida: Ruins drummer in a new duo going way prog and classical!
Endless Blizzard: yes, it's a black metal band! and a good one.
Endless Dismal Moan: also endless, also black metal, this time a killer Japanese outfit.
Fen: definitely post-rock, maybe black metal too, and really really good.
Ferial Confine: reissue of '80s Andrew Chalk project bridging noise and drone.
Fifty Foot Hose: '60s SF psych classic, an old old AQ fave, reissued!
Fjordne: latest Dynamophone cd-r is like a Japanese cousin of Oval's Diskont.
Herbie Hancock, et. al.: Modern Jazz meets Jewish ritual on this reissued rare '68 side, Hear O Israel.
Harvey Milk: now on vinyl via Chunklet, Pleaser and Live Pleaser from the mighty HM.
Jim Haynes: gorgeous picture disc 12" from our own rusting, droning experimentalist Jim.
Judy Henske & Jerry Yester: baroque folk-pop pomp-rock experimental electronic weirdness from the '60s.
Thomas Leer: anthology of avant-garde techno-pop Robitussin robotics from '80s artiste.
Light Of Shipwreck: textural rhythmic 3" cd-r drone-jam follow up to Crucial Bliss release.
Lubomyr Melnyk: double cd-r blissout of "continuous" piano music from the master Melnyk.
Notwist: A brand new record from long time aQ faves, dreamy electronic pop brilliance.
Om: limited live vinyl-only document of mantric doom metal straight from the Holy Land.
The Osmonds: proto metal novelty "Crazy Horses" and more bubblegum '70s psych & pop on this 2-on-1 cd reissue from, yes, The Osmonds.
Pharaoh Overlord: back in print, this Circle side project's crucial NWOFHM headbanger, #4!
Redd Kross: One of the best records from one of the best bands ever. Reissued and available for a limited time!
Rogue Male: an '80s metal masterpiece that Andee and Allan would have liked to reissue!
Sigur Ros: A new record and a whole new sound.
Supergrass: UK powe pop combo are back, with a new harder sound and one of their best records yet!
V/A Asian Flashback: Part of the Tokyo Flashback series, but now with groups from Korea and China as well!
V/A IVG Vol 1: Another killer comp of French minimal/cold/new-wave and post-punk!
V/A Living is Hard: West African Music in Britain: Another amazing and haunting collection of lost African music from Honest Jons.
V/A Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump: A kick ass part two to one of the best African comps ever!
Peter Walker: A new record of Flamenco music from this master of the acoustic guitar.
Wrnlrd: More beautifully bizarre black metal from this mysterious Virginian. Vinyl only!
Michael Yonkers: Freaked out guitar noise from this outsider garage psych legend.

Also: archival Ya Ho Wha music from the Children Of The Sixth Root Race, a new issue of The Wire, Oxbow's Narcotic Story now on vinyl, another Sun Ra reissue, a charming (as always) new Jonathan Richman, new Silver Jews, a Low dvd documentary, and more!!

Other notes: be sure to tune in (live on the air, or live over the internets) to KUSF 90.3 FM this Sunday at 10:30am to hear Andee's last ever (at least for a while) "Battleflutes And Sideways Skulls" show. Hopefully you've been listening every week anyway, but if not this is your last chance, 'cause he's retiring from the radio DJ game. At least, until we finally get an AQ podcast thing happening. He'll probably play a lot of grunge on Sunday, seeing as he's headed to Seattle in a few weeks for the big Sub Pop 20th Anniversary celebration. Green River reunion! The Fluid reunion! Red Red Meat reunion! Beachwood Sparks reunion! Les Thugs! Seaweed! The Vaselines first EVER show in the US, TAD'S NEW BAND! We haven't seen Andee this excited for a show since, well, since forever...
And if anyone else is going and wants to hang out, or lives in Seattle and has some free time, drop us a line!

Also, if you go to http://klaustotheedge.blogspot.com/ - http://klaustotheedge.blogspot.com/ you'll find the fancy new blog for Allan and former AQ-er Alison's monthly prog/psych radio show on West Add Radio 93.7 FM, "Klaus To The Edge". The best way to listen is over the internet anyway, and rather than trying to dial it up every third Wednesday at 11pm, you might as well just check out the archived podcasts found here.

Hmmm... gotta find the time, maybe we'll get around to making an AQ blog... or even a discussion board! Soon! We promise.

Also, not to toot our own horn or anything, but not only did the SF Weekly recently vote us the best record store in SF (we're still blushing), in the new issue of Paste Magazine, we're included in the list of the 17 coolest record stores in the US! Wow! We're honored. Check it out here::
http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/7609/the_record_store - http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/7609/the_record_store

Also, Andee was interviewed for QRD webzine for an article on record stores, along with a bunch of other cool record folks.
The main story is here: http://www.silbermedia.com/qrd - www.silbermedia.com/qrd
And the link to Andee's interview is here:
http://www.silbermedia.com/qrd/archives/38aquarius.html - http://www.silbermedia.com/qrd/archives/38aquarius.html

Okay, it's already 2:30 and we're still putting the finishing touches on the list. Hopefully by the time you get this we'll be in bed and sound asleep. As always, thanks for reading.

Oh & everybody enjoy Pride weekend, whatever you're proud of!

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And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch!

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As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you.

And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html

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Beloved Customers and Friends:

Wow, has it really been two whole weeks since our last New Arrivals list?! Well, uh, no not quite. Instead of the usual fortnight, it's only been thirteen days, 'cause we're sending this list out on Thursday rather than Friday (or, to be precise, our usual early a.m. Saturday morning). Why? Partly 'cause the music we wanted to tell you about this time 'round was SO GOOD we just couldn't contain ourselves, of course... but also for a more practical (impractical?) reason.
As you might recall from list #295's intro, Andee here is all excited about attending the Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Fest up in Seattle and getting his grunge on. Well it was only on Tuesday of this week that he had the "horrible realization" that said festival was happenin' THIS coming weekend. He had his plane tickets and everything, but just hadn't really put 2 and 2 together on our calendar of when "list weeks" are. And to be fair, the rest of us sort of forgot as well. So, since Andee's pretty crucial to the whole New Arrivals list technical process, and since he's flying up to Seattle TONIGHT to party at the Space Needle, we decided we had better do the list a day (and then some) early. Whew. It was a close call, down to the wire, but we pulled it off. Andee probably wrote even more reviews than usual! And Allan's glad he didn't have to figure out all the list-computer-stuff on Friday by himself (the other option). So, you're not going crazy, it's not Saturday morning (or Monday morning, when some of you who get email at work probably see our lists) yet, it's Thursday evening!

All right. Records Of The Week are...

Burning Star Core: Second BSC record to receive ROTW honors, a gorgeous drifty droney krauty masterpiece of violin and more!
Fricara Pacchu: Gloriously distortion-drenched DIY 4-track instrumental rhythmic psychedelia from Finland. A unanimous store fave for sure!!

And, then, if the Pyha from last time wasn't enough, and the Varghkoghargasmal from the list before that,   there's -another- cd NEW ON tUMULt!!

Like A Kind Of Matador: Pummeling doom prog from the UK, huge riffs, pounding drums, fluttering flute, wheezing accordions, and angelic female vocals. Like Boris+Guapo+BardoPond.

Plus the usual plethora of HIGHLIGHTS...

AER: Latest in the ltd. edition Touch 7" series, field recording and drones from artist Jon Wozencroft.
Aidan Baker: Another disc from Mr. Baker, this time a gorgeous Necks-y jazzy drift. Excellent.
Robbie Basho: Amazing live archival release from the Takoma guitar soli legend.
Blarke Bayer / Black Widow: Slightly jazzy super low end drone experiment from Grey Dats related duo.
The Better Beatles: Believe it or not... outsider new/no wave Beatles 'tribute' from Nebraska, circa 1981.
Boris: Eagerly awaited vinyl version of their latest, Smile, on Southern Lord!
The Cool Kids: The '80s pop revival, hip hop version!
Toumani Diabate: Simply stunning sparse and majestic sounds from this super talented kora player!
DJ Scotch Egg: Another blast of freaky 8-bit jams from this purveyor of blown out video game gabber.
Eat Skull: The New Wave Of sh*tGAZE!
Eden Express: Summertime bliss from Holy Mountain, psych gets out of the forest and onto the beach.
Flying Lotus: Instrumental hiphop + spiritual Afro-jazz and psychedelic soul from Alice Coltrane's nephew.
Gilberto Gil: Essential Tropicalia reissue, Gil's best by far!
Grails: Way out of print psych covers cd now available on vinyl!
Health: Demented Dancefloor remixes of these aggro art punks.
Heavy Winged: Lp / cd combo of big droned out repetitive psych rock bliss rock heaviness.
Hercules And Love Affair: The new Disco sensation, featuring diva vocals from Antony (of & the Johsons).
Hisato Higuchi: Slo-mo melody and melancholia for solo guitar, both loud and noisy and spare and still.
Howlin' Magic: Blown out lo-fi, sci-fi psych guitar excess from this one man band!
Hum Of The Druid: An lp only release of massive churning lowend speaker damaging dronemusik.
Jasper TX: Brand new full length of dark droning beauty.
July: Deluxe reissue of this wonderful UK sixties psych-pop gem!
Ariel Kalma: Minimalist '70s sax-psych explorations reissued!
King Khan: Blazing garage rock with Stax soul mojo.
Koss: Japanese elemental pop ambient techno drone bliss n' glitch, so good.
Byard Lancaster: Lost jazz classic reissued. FLUTE FLUTE FLUTE! Wild and free and melodic and so great.
Leviathan: Long out of print lp, now available on cd! Wrest's ambient record!
Lightning Swords Of Death: Thrashing furious blackened buzz from LA.
Jean-Pierre Massiera x 2: Freaky French-Canadian psych and disco productions unearthed, LP only for now.
Melvins: NEW MELVINS!! Heavy and catchy and creepy as ever, classic rock for weirdos.
Mudhoney: 20 years on and these guys can still peel paint and kick your teeth in.
Nekrasov: Noise drenched black metal from the other side of the globe. SUper limited version while they last.
Ondo: Crushing black ambience and deep dark dronemusic on Paradigms.
Orient Express: An awesome Middle Eastern psych-pop gem!
Pelt: Another disc of deep sonorous minimalism and heart of the sun ur-drone.
Liz Phair: Legendary nineties indie rock classic reissued with extra tracks and a dvd documentary.
Pinch: Incredible double disc of groovy stuttery bass heavy dubstep.
Quiet Village: Dreamy sample heavy exotica, like Les Baxter meets DJ Shadow.
Rosetta: Possibly the heaviest and most complex and forward thinking of the metallic post rock crowd.
Rudimentary Peni: Legendary UK crust punks return with their first disc in 4 years!
Sebadoh: Bubble And Scrape, another Sebadoh classic gets the deluxe reissue treatment.
Simulacra: Deep dark blackened drones, super limited, gorgeous packaging.
Steinski: Massive collection of singles and rare tracks from this proto hip-hop legend.
Twink: More toy piano mania, playful and cute, fun and sunshiney, perfect for summer...
Urthona: Glorious shoegazing freeform rural-psych-noise-guitar-drone on Julian Cope's Head Heritage label!
Sir Victor Uwaifo: Another awesome disc of unearthed Nigerian music, this time from the Guitar-Boy Superstar.
V/A Basic Channel 2: Some of the most perfect techno EVER. Rare 12" tracks finally on cd!
V/A Eccentric Soul: Tragar & Note Labels: Another killer reissue on Numero Group!
Venetian Snares: Another disc of twisted rhythms and head spinning drill and bass madness.
VSS: One of the greatest records EVER finally reissued. Manic new wave post hardcore whatthef**k!
The Wandering Midget: Classic doom from Finland, with a totally over the top vocalist and KILLER riffs.
Wold: Moosejaw duo unveil they're latest and noisiest black metal masterpiece yet.
Woods Family Creeps: Fractured lo-fi pop genius!

And more more more.

Finally before we get to the list, there's a few special events n' things that we should mention, that locals ought to know about:

Our Pals MATMOS are doing a special live performance for Irwin's radio show "Sleeves on Hearts" tomorrow morning, Friday July 11th, at 11am. Tune into KUSF 90.3fm, or got to http://www.kusf.org - www.kusf.org to listen online. Also available at  itunes...radio..public...kusf
That's in anticipation of the show the next evening, KUSF & KFJC co-presenting MATMOS & WOBBLY at the Great American Music Hall, Saturday July 12th!

Also on Saturday, little girls will be rockin' the Bottom Of The Hill in the afternoon. Former AQ-er Sally has been volunteering to teach drums at the first ever  Bay Area Girls Rock Camp!! The girls learn their instruments in the mornings and then spend the afternoons in workshops and mostly practicing with their bands (they form the first day of camp) to write one original song that each band will perform on Saturday, July 12th, 3pm (doors at 2) at Bottom of the Hill! $10-$15 sliding scale. All ages (of course).
Here's some more info about the camp: http://www.bayareagirlsrockcamp.org/ - http://www.bayareagirlsrockcamp.org/
And here's a link to buy tickets to the show: http://www.bottomofthehill.com/calendar.html - http://www.bottomofthehill.com/calendar.html

And then next week, the Mission Creek Music Festival gets under way. Among the many cool shows, our own Jim Haynes will be performing at something called Collision, on Thursday, July 17th. Also appearing on the bill: Sokai Stilhed and darwinsbitch. it's at New Langton Arts, 1246 Folsom Street (between 8th and 9th streets). Doors at 7:30pm, performances at 8pm. $12-$15 sliding scale. For more information on this and other performances at the Mission Creek Music Festival: http://www.mcmf.org - http://www.mcmf.org

Also, later this month, get ready, HARVEY MILK is confirmed for an AQ instore performance!!!! Monday July 28th, at 6pm. Don't miss it. Guaranteed to be our heaviest instore ever... unless we convince them to perform acoustically, which would be rad too!! And also don't miss their show at the Great American Music Hall the night before, Sunday the 27th.

And finally, it's official, another Boredoms multiple drummer blow out. This one on the very mystical date of 8.8.08, with 88 drummers this time. Andee and Michael will be doing it again, as will a whole bunch of Bay Area drummers. And West Coasters rejoice! This time it's happening in L.A. More info soon. But as any of you who made it to the 7.7.07 blowout, it will be awesome!

Ok, that's about it. On with the list, and enjoy your Friday!!! Andee's off to the airport. And will be sure to report back on his weekend of grunge!

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And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch!

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As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you.

And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html

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Beloved Customers and Friends:

It used to be that we ended each New Arrivals list with a quote, something we found in a magazine (usually The Wire) or online or something. But also sometimes it was just something funny somebody around here happened to say. Well Andee just made an observation that struck us as good list-quote material, to wit: "The list would be a whole lot easier without pants." We think he meant, he'd like to be able to work on it from home... we think...

Anyway, here we are again with a new New Arrivals list! Yay. Let's get right to it, though Andee and Allan have two words for anyone who wonders what they did last weekend: CALIFORNIA EXTREME! They (along with Andee's lady friend Heather) made their first visit to the annual video arcade and pinball game expo in San Jose last Saturday, it was awesome!! We recommend checking it out next year. There were, like, 400 vintage games there, stuff we'd totally forgotten about or never ever before seen (including some one of a kind prototypes). Ok, ok, on with the list...

Three, count 'em, three Records Of The Week this week!

Quest For Blood: freaked out free jazz flute meets Japanese folk ritual and blasting black metal... Circle's label Ektro put it out, but Andee's jealous tUMULt didn't get to do it!
Pumice: the damaged distorted drone pop of NZ's Stefan Neville keeps getting better and better, this one blew us away.
Paavoharju: the fantastical fairytale forest-folk-pop of Finland's finest is simply delicious.

And a whole bunch of Highlights...

Absolut Null Punkt: Live electro-industrial improv on the edge of noise from two Japanese heavyweights.
Oren Ambarchi: The guitar drone experimentalist's entry in the Table of the Elements ltd. 12" series.
Banks Bailey / Darren Tate / Ian Holloway: Ltd. cd-r of droning crackling ambience from Tate and friends.
The Believer: The 2008 Music Issue including a US Black Metal forum and Souled American appreciation!!
Archie Bell & The Drells: Reissue of the rad 1968 album with funky hit "Tighten Up" and others.
Jorge Ben: A swell 1969 psychedelic samba album reissued.
Blevin Blectum: New solo disc of experimental electronica from ex-Blectum From Blechdom Blevin.
Blue Mountain: Long overdue reissue from this legendary No Depression band w/ bonus tracks!
The Bug: Kevin Martin's dancehall dubsteb juggernaut returns!
Continuum: Finally repressed, 1st time at AQ, volume 1 of this Fear Falls Burning/Bass Communion collab.
Daturah: More moody post-rock instrumentals from these Mogwai-ish, Godspeed-y Germans.
Dead Can Dance: The first (and our favorite) album from this classic 4AD act reissued!
Kevin Drumm: Hypnotic hellishness on 2 discs, wherein feedback disease dissolves into ambient prettiness.
Emeralds: Dense drone space synth bliss out from this Midwestern trio!
Expo '70 / Be Invisible Now!: Split cd-r from modern US and Italian krautdrone space rockers.
Ben Frost: A mind blowing record of dark metallic electronic brooding weirdness. Not new, but definitely a new favorite.
Futurians: Super limited lathe cut, of hiss soaked sludgey in-the-red garage stomp from New Zealand.
Gilberto Gil: Another amazing reissue from this Brazilian Tropicalia psych legend.
Gridlink: New band from Discordance Axis' Jon Chang. 11 songs. 12 minutes. Devastating metallic art grind nearly as good as the late great DA.
John Hill: Legendary lost spoken word spiritual free jazz space rock buried treasure. Extremely freaked outsider
I Shalt Become: First record in a decade from this Midwestern horde. Blissed out fuzzy gauzy blackened doom bliss. Grim but so pretty.
Khan: Spaced out 1972 prog reish, featuring future Gong-er Steve Hillage on guitar.
Krallice: Members of Orthrelm/Octis/Ocrilm, Behold... The Arctopus, and Bloody Panda get very black metal indeed.
Masonna: Second volume of super rare Japanese noise from the master!
Monolake: Remastered reissue of this ol' opiated Chain Reaction classic!
Motorspandex: 7" of bizarre Circle-related "New Wave Of Finnish Heavy Metal" action!
Nachtmystium: Pink Floyd meets black metal on the latest from Chicago psychedelic BM outfit.
Nadja x 2: A brand new release, and a past favorite now on vinyl. Massive metallic shoegaze bliss.
Njiqahdda: First actual cd release from these unblack masters. More fractured blackened doomdrone metal mesmer.
Orchestra Ethiopia - Ethiopiques 23: Latest in this kick ass series! 23 and not a bad one in the bunch.
Pantaleimon: Sparse delicate hazy folk remixes from this
Polaris: Most recent record from these UK math/post rockers. Channeling nineties,
Ragga Twins: Essential collection of tracks from these legendary ragga jungle pioneers.
Ravjunk: Double disc reissue of heavy Swedish underground progg-punk circa 1976-'77!
Dag Rosenqvist & Rutger Zuydervelt: Jasper TX and Machinefabriek together again. 'Nuff said!
Seconds In Formaldehyde: Gorgeous glimmering and shimmering guitar drones, recorded live, limited to 100 copies.
Sic Alps: Local noisepoppers cover Throbing Gristle on this one sided limited colored vinyl 7".
Skull Defekts: The Defekts go drone. And we mean dense black hole soul crushing buzzing drone. So great!Slough Feg: Finally on (limited ed.) vinyl, the San Fran majestic metal masters' Hardworlder opus!
Smorzando: Easily the best chunk of blown out depressive black metal weirdness so far this year!
Sparks: Brand new record from these art pop faves.
Studio: Better late that never for this 2007 release of cosmic disco instrumentals from the Swedish duo.
Stunt Rock: Incredible 10"/book, of utter despair and despondency, gorgeous and f**ked up and funny and depressing and super limited.
Svarte Greiner: More doom folk. A crazy limited cassette on Digitalis.
Torche: Recent aQ Record Of The Week now on vinyl. Deluxe diecut packaging, picture disc. Total mind blowing sludge pop genius!
Piero Umiliani: Killer collection of essential Italian soundtracks from this legendary composer.
Urfaust: The return of one of our favorite black metal band EVER. The songs of f**ked up fractured crooned blackened weirdness.
Mika Vainio: Gorgeous single of super minimal glitched and crackled dronescapes.
Dennis Wilson: Finally reissued, this lost lush pop classic from the Beach Boy least likely to... Tons of extras.
Wolf Eyes / Sickness: Incredible noise collab, not noisy as much as droney and dark and sinisterly menacing.

And more, more, more, including a new ish of The Wire, Atlas Sound now on vinyl, a lovely new Steel Pan release on EM, hairy hippie heaviness reissued from The Edgar Broughton Band, a new Neubauten, a reissue of Nick Lowe's first album, and ltd. 7" by Texan stoners Tia Caerra covering Lungfish! Among other goodies. Oh and also, among the reviews below, you'll find Allan delving deeply into Dynasty by Kiss....

Ok, before we get on with the list, a few extra items of news and suchlike.

You know how we did our list on a Thursday the other week when Andee had to go up to see the Sub Pop festival? Well we're gonna being doing the next list (#298) a few days early as well, fyi. Probably Wednesday, August 6th, instead of that Friday. That's because Andee is going to be in LA that day, 8/8/08 to drum in another Boredrum extravaganza! We mentioned it last time, right? AQ mailorder staffer Michael will also be a participant, as will Cup's special friend and I Am Spoonbender partner Dustin. So the AQ mailorder staff will be taking a little Boredoms vacation for a day or two, but we'll do our best to not have that slow anything up much. And if you're in L.A. be sure to come out for the show. It's at the La Brea Tar Pits! The Boredoms! Tar Pits! Woo Hoo!!!!

Speaking of Michael in mailorder, sadly we'll soon be saying adieu to him... he's moving with his girlfriend to Chicago. Andee will be returning to the mailorder desk for a while to help out, and Scott will be pitching in too, until we find a permanent replacement. It's been a blast working with Michael and we wish him luck out in Chicago, where he'll be working in public radio!

You local types, there's some stuff going on the next few days you might want to know about. First off, tomorrow, Saturday the 26th, Aquarius is co-presenting a screening of ANVIL: THE STORY OF ANVIL, a really awesome documentary film being shown as part of the Jewish Film Festival. It's at the Castro Theatre, 10pm. We might have mentioned it on this list a few months ago when Andee, Allan and Cup got a chance to see it at a private showing. It's all about the seminal Canadian speed metal band Anvil, still trying to make it big today years and years after their 15 minutes back in the '80s... but you don't have to be a fan of Anvil or even metal to enjoy it. It's brutally funny (in a Spinal Tap sort of way) and also brutally depressing (likewise... 'cause it's real). Anyone in a band, successful or otherwise, will be able to relate to stuff in this movie. But ultimately it's really a touching story of two friends, the two main dudes in Anvil, who fight all the time but really love each other like brothers. We give it hella thumbs up and recommend you see it!!
And yes, Anvil are Jewish, that's why it's in the festival.

AND, we have three pairs of tickets to give away. First three emails to arrive here with the subject ANVIL TIX!!!! will get a pair. Email your 'entry' to mailto:[email protected] - [email protected] . They're actual tickets too, so you'll have to come by the shop and pick them up. Be sure to include your name and email and phone number.

Oh and we almost forgot. Lipps and Robb From the band will be there in person along with the director for a Q&A after the film! Plus if you miss the SF screening, or just need to see it again, it'll be playing in the East Bay too. See the end of the list for more details.

And in case you had forgotten, this weekend is all about:

HARVEY MILK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Their first trip to the West coast EVER. Their first time playing in SF EVER! It's gonna be so amazing. DO NOT MISS IT!! You will regret it forever! Sunday night, at the Great American Music Hall!! With openers Wildildlife, newly relocated to Seattle but coming all the way down here to play this show!
AND, we have FIVE PAIRS OF TICKETS to give away! Since the show is this weekend, this will not be a random drawing. The first 5 emails with the subject HARVEY MILK TIX will each receive a pair of free tickets.
Sooooo, send your email to mailto:[email protected] - [email protected] . Subject line: HARVEY MILK TIX. Be sure to include your full name, your email and a telephone number just in case. First five win.

And as if ONE Harvey Milk show wasn't enough, they'll also be performing live, right here at aQuarius recOrds, Monday, at 5:00 pm. They'll be vying to steal the crown for loudest instore ever, held for nearly the last decade by Alec Empire. We have a feeling it will be no contest. So don't miss that either. Bring your earplugs, and apologies to our neighbors...

And more weekend stuff to do: former AQ staffer and forever awesome chick Sadie Shaw is having a photo show this weekend, exhibiting her glamor pics at The Knockout bar on Mission Street not far from aQ... but it's not just a photo show, it's also a Rock n Roll Dance Party... '60s soul and garage with performances by Ty Segall, DX the Funky Granpa, and a special live secret guest. That's at The Knockout, 3223 Mission St. (at 29th), starting at 8pm on Saturday, July 26th. $5 cover for the entertainment. We're sure it will be fun!

Also, if you get a chance, be sure an check out this Striborg primmer and interview our pal Roger put together:
http://www.musiquemachine.com/articles/articles_template.php?id=136 - http://www.musiquemachine.com/articles/articles_template.php?id=136

Finally, as many of you know, and as was mentioned above, I (Andee) was in Seattle a couple weekends back for the big Sub Pop 20th Anniversary celebration. It was a total blast. Saw Green River who are one of my all time favorite bands and completely destroyed. As did Mudhoney. Seaweed, The Fluid, Red Red Meat, Les Thugs, Eric's Trip, all amazing... There was barely a disappointment the whole weekend. It was WAY too hot, but thankfully there was shade, and that shade was often right over the pit! Also had a huge two story arcade right across the street from my hotel, got to meet Sub Pop head honcho Jon Poneman, wandered around Seattle, saw a comedy show with Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Eugene Mirman and Todd Phillips, got to meet up with our much missed former employee Matt, even managed to buy some records! HUGE thanks to the Sub Pop folks who made me feel at home, Dean, Dean, Chris, Jon and all the people I'm sure I'm forgetting. Will write up a much more detailed review of the trip and the shows once our blog is up and running. SOON! We promise.

Jeez that was a long intro. But c'mon, Boredoms, Anvil, Harvey Milk, Striborg, Sub Pop... Anyway, the intro is finally finished. And I know we say this everytime, but holy cow, there's just so much amazing music this week, guess it's best to just get to it...

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And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch!

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As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you.

And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html

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Beloved Customers and Friends:

Wow, weird. It's a Wednesday! We warned everybody last time, right? We're doing the list a few days early this week 'cause Andee's gotta be in LA on the usual list-Friday for the big Boredoms 8/8/08 Boredrum deal. He's playing in it (drummer number 67) like he did last year in Brooklyn. Since Allan doesn't like to do the list without Andee (in fact, probably couldn't do the list without Andee), we moved it up. But managed to review quite a few of the many rad cds, lps, etc. that have shown up here recently... more on those in a sec.

So, Andee's leaving tomorrow to drive down to LA, Cup's going along too 'cause her special friend and I Am Spoonbender bandmate Dustin is also playing at the LA event (he's drummer #63). And very recent AQ alum Michael is also gonna be there (drummer #21). They're definitely gonna have fun. Everybody else here wishes they coulda gone too. Since Andee and Cup will be away, Scott will be attending to your mailorder needs for the next few days.

In the week-and-a-half since the last list, things have been hopping. Of course, there were the Harvey Milk shows, hopefully the locals among you came out to see 'em, at the Great American, or The Stork, or here at AQ... Yep, the (1/4th of) Harvey Milk instore the monday before last was fantastic, thanks again to Creston for being such a good sport. He played solo, acoustically, doing a bunch of Harvey Milk numbers, a Leonard Cohen song or two, and finishing up with a charming version of "Three Is A Magic Number", a song we all know and love from Schoolhouse Rocks!! Believe it or not.

It was also cool to see our pal, former AQ staffer Matt, back in town with his band Wildildlife to open for Harvey Milk at the GAMH and Stork shows. We miss that guy.

The Anvil: The Story Of Anvil documentary at the Castro, co-sponsored by AQ, was also a rousing success. However, Allan was flummoxed afterwards, when on the way out the door, some fellow audience-member happened to ask him about the Anvil t-shirt ("Too Heavy For Whimps!") Allan was wearing. When Allan explained that he'd picked up the shirt at show Anvil had played in San Francisco about ten years ago, the guy looked confused and said, "But they're not a real band, are they?" Somehow this dude had watched the entire movie, AND seen the actual Anvil band members appear on stage in person afterwards for a Q&A, and was still under the mistaken impression that he'd been watching a fictional "mockumentary" a la Spinal Tap! Part of his confusion may have been that Anvil's drummer is coincidentally enough named Robb Reiner, and the band visits the actual Stonehenge while on tour... seeming Spinal Tap references those! But Allan eventually convinced the guy that Anvil is actually a real band. Anyway, such a good movie, look out for it to go on a national "tour" with Anvil playing live after the screenings, that's the plan!!

What else? Well pretty much everyone here saw the Dark Knight of course. And then there's music, right? We were listening to a lot of music... here's some of it...

THREE Records Of The Week, just like last time!! As follows:
Darkspace: Latest disc of blackened celestial genius, from this Swiss black metal trio, heavy and noisy, dense and weirdly psychedelic and completely overwhelming. Metal transformed into blown out frosty dronemusic, totally transcendent!
John Cale & Terry Riley: John Cale! Terry Riley! Together!! Free rock meets modern minimalism, experimental jazz meets baroque pop, and somehow it all sounds incredible... reissued cd version of this 1971 classic.
Corrupted: They're Japanese, they sing in Spanish, this is their debut, available again, and it still destroys all other slow and low ultra doooooooooooooooooom!

And then a plethora of Highlights, of course:

Abe Vigoda: Super charged angular punk a la fellow LA noisemakers No Age.
Acre: A single massive, epic, layered drone spread out over two sides of an lp.
Aemae / Arastoo: Two local artists team up for some gorgeous processed piano based modern minimalism.
Ajilvsga: Latest tape from these dirgey droners, featuring Brad from Digitalis. Super limited!
Alva Noto: Brand new disc of high concept robotic future funk, incredible collection of clipped skitter and thump. If only we were robots...
Ashtorath: Last release on NOTHingness, like some f**ked up droney avant horror movie soundtrack. Creepy and intense!
Bad Party: Grungy, crusty, snotty, new wave-y aggro garage stomp, Brainbombs meets Big Black meets the Stooges.
Aidan Baker x 2: TWO cd reissues of long out of print cd-r's. You do probably need to buy them. Again.
Bass Communion: Newest disc from this Porcupine Tree drone side project, equal part shimmering ambience, and crushing buzzing drone.
Bipolaroid: Long awaited 2nd album from this Floyd meets Hawkwind druggy pop psych act from New Orleans!
Bixobal: Newest issue of one of our favorite 'zines around!
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma / Paul Clipson: Ultra limited dvd-r featuring a reworked version of an out of print cd-r set to a gorgeous super 8 film.
Cold Sun: Legendary Texas psych gem finally reissued!
Dwellers Of The Twilight: Blazing buzzing furious black metal from France.
Empire Auriga: Super tripped out gloomy industrial blackend spaced out sort-of-metal. A huge favorite around here.
Lawrence English: Killer drone record, newest release on Touch from this long time aQ favorite.
Envy  / Jesu: Japanese split, a whole new direction for Envy, more blissed out eighties shoegaze from Jesu.
Exxasens: Awesome cd-r of super rocking mathy Spanish post rock.
The Fun Years: Turntables and baritone guitar, think Philip Jeck meets Nadja, blissed out moody and beautiful.
Ghast / Yoga: Killer split, Ghast from Canada, a sort of fractured doom, Yoga from Portland, a murky blurred blackened mystery.
Gilberto Gil: Another reissue, another Tropicalia classic available again.
Goldmund: Dark and delicate piano, intimate and so lovely.
Half Makeshift: Deep dark blackened drone drenched doomscapes from this one man band.
Heavy Winged: Super limited tour only cd-r of furious repetitive hypnotic far out modern psychrock.
Hum Of The Druid / Fire In The Head: Two bands, both sides thick and heavy and corrosive and noisy and awesome!
I Am Seamonster: Washed out gauzy buzzy drone music, a la Jeck or Fennesz. Limited to 100 copies and housed in a metal tin.
Ryoji Ikeda: The Japanese master of austere clinical minimalism returns. Another disc of incredible sounds that test the limits of human hearing.
Klabautamann: Mysterious convoluted melodic black metal featuring members of aQ faves Woburn House. Finally available again!
Koenjihyakkei: New DVD from this incredible prog combo, featuring Yoshida of the Ruins.
Late Young: Tantric new wavey, Swansy, Godfleshy, heavy and druggy and spacey.
Josh Lay: Drummer from Cadaver In Drag, makes on of the best noisedrone records we've heard in ages.
Lull & Beta Cloud: Mick Harris teams up with Beta Cloud for some seriously blackened deep ambience.
Machinefabriek: Super limited cd-r of surprisingly heavy live performances from this prolific crafter of drones.
Manbeard / Avarus: Finnish Forest Folk meets twisted folk cabaret from post Urdog outfit.
Meneguar: Spacey, folky, fractured modern indie pop that harkens back to the nineties heyday!
The ( ) Moppers: Minimal low end rhythmic explorations. Housed in super intense hand made collaged sleeves. WAY limited.
Nadja: Finally, the latest disc from this dynamic and prolific duo, another gorgeous slab of blissed out heaviness.
Nordvargr: Some of the most grim, abject black ambience ever from this ex-member of MZ412, with guest vocals from Leviathan's Wrest!
Omake & Johnson: f**ked up warbly damaged experimentalism from Matt Shoemaker and partner.
Padded Cell: Groovy, seventies style, sinister and stylish proggy funk from the UK.
Pantaleimon: Gorgeous, dreamy, breathtaking loveliness, a big aQ favorite.
Pillars Of Silence: Dreamy folky pop from right here in SF!
Pole: First three seminal albums of blissed out minimal techno dub, reissued all together, with bonus tracks.
Portal: Insane twisted and freakishly f**ked up death metal classic from down under now on vinyl!
Terry Riley: Archival release of live Terry Riley solo organ bliss, Shri Camel era.
Rogue Male: Second record from these Motorhead obsessed UK New Wave Of British Heavy Metallers.
Sic Alps: Latest from these local noise poppers, noisy and sunny and hook filled. Like The Hollies on Siltbreeze.
Sleepy Sun: Druggy bluesy psychedelia on 7" from Santa Cruz.
Tape: Beautiful swirling synthy dreaminess from this Swedish trio.
To Blacken The Pages: A fantastic collection of subtle guitar twang and smoldering black drone.
Today Is The Day: Long overdue reissue from these masters of super intense mathy metallic mayhem.
U.S. Christmas: Latest from Neurot Records, strangely named band that kick out the echoey psychedelic space rock jams.
V/A Ed Rec Vol. III: The dancefloor destroyer of the year!
V/A Resonant Embers: Excellent collection of modern minimal experimental music, featuring tons of aQ faves.
V/A Victrola Favorites: This former Record of the Week finally available again!!!!
V/A Well Hung: Killer collection of '70s Hungarian fuzzed out funk rock on Finders Keepers.
Velnias: Epic classic raw black metal from Chicago, with hints of doom, post, and math rock. Heavy and intense.
Ricardo Villalobos: Magma meets minimalist techno on this hypnotic 12"!
Wereju: A gorgeous disc of fuzzy drone music from this doom metal side project. Limited and housed in a cool metal tin.
Wormwood: Final farewell 7" from these North Western crusty metallic masters. Two killer songs, mind blowing packaging.
The Wounded Kings: Classic modern doom metal for fans of Witchcraft and Electric Wizard!
Zelienople: Super limited dvd-r, dreamy smoky post rock set to abstract film, gorgeous sounding, and fantastic looking.

And lots more. Including the second installment of Allan's Kiss reviews project (this time: Music From The Elder!).

Also, be sure to look at the special section we've put at the end of this week's list, that gives an inventory of all the goodies (books, box sets, etc.) we have behind/above the counter here at AQ... stuff that's easy to overlook in the store, being hard to see and half hidden sometimes.

If you want one of those just copy, cut and paste it into the comments section. The used items are obviously the only copies we have, but if we run out of one of the other things you were hoping to grab, we can most likely order you another!

Also, we're proud to co-present with KUSF, the return of the Dead C, performing live at the Great American Music Hall. Along with another aQ fave, Six Organs Of Admittance. It's not until October, but we figured we'd give you a good heads up, so you could plan accordingly.

it's October 16th. At the Great American Music Hall.
It's $20. Doors 7:30, Show 8. Another early one. Like the Harvey Milk show that loads of people almost missed cuz of the early showtime.
And once again, we have free tickets to give away, 3 pairs! All you have to do is email mailto:[email protected] - [email protected] with the subject DEAD C TIX. we'll pick three lucky winners at random. Good luck!

That's it, we gotta get to bed. Some of us have to drive to LA tomorrow. Enjoy the music. We'll have more for you in two short weeks....

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And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch!

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As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you.

And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html

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Beloved Customers and Friends:

Wow. List 300. Who woulda thunk? That's a lot of lists. We'll pat ourselves on the back later, when we're actually sending this out at 3am...  All we can think now is, thanks to anyone and everyone who's been reading our lists (and buying from us) for all these years and years. And those who maybe just recently discovered us, thanks for tuning in too! Onward to list 400! We did have some ideas for something different to do for this 300th list milestone... like trying to write 300 reviews this time... thank god we didn't do that! Eventually we did decide on a little something special, you'll have to read elsewhere further down in this week's list to find out what it's gonna be...

Our Record Of The Week this week is from an old reliable: the ever-wonderful Expo '70, whose latest 2nd 'real' cd (after many cd-rs) is a limited edition release on the Beta-Lactam label. For those of you, like, us, who looooove guitardrone spaceout krauty cosmic heaviness n' bliss, Expo '70's Black Ohms is of course a must-have. (And there's -another- Expo '70 related release just below, in the Highlights!)

Those Highlights...

Asbestoscape: One of the best (and only) metalgaze-meets-jungle albums of the year, can't believe it's just a self-released cd-r.
John Baker: Part two of this BBC Radiophonic Workshop composer's collected works.
Matt Bauer: A haunting song cycle from this folk troubadour.
Birchville Cat Motel: A triple cd-r of NZ drone overload genius, live! And limited.
Birushanah: Japanese band combining doomic heaviness with wyrd folk, like Corrupted meets Ghost!
The Black Angels: Super shoegazey druggy retro-psych-pop a la VU, Spacemen 3, and Wooden Shjips.
Black Boned Angel: Ultra limited tour only cd-r from these AQ fave NZ doomdroners!
Byetone: Raster-Noton electronica for Pan Sonic fans!
Crossface / Schnauzer: A split 7" featuring what sounds like Fozzy The Bear fronted scuzzy metallic hardcore (that's the Schnauzer side).
Crystal Stilts: Seductive stripped down psychedelic garagey post-punk from NYC.
Andrew Raffo Dewar: Weird avant jazz with droney flutes, fantastic!
Don Caballero: Thee instrumental mathrock masters 7th album - with some singing this time, too!
Duchess Says: Mathy, new wave-y riot grrl disco prog??! We love it.
Harry Pussy: Live and limited, a cd-r documenting the insanity of this seminal '90s noiserock band.
Hi-God People / Zond: Sludgey noise drenched garage stomp meets abstract damaged free folk.
High Mountain Tempel: Eastern tinged ur-drone ritual music from some lost land...
Matt Hill / Duane Pitre / Justin Wright (Expo '70): Guitardronebliss from Expo '70s JW and cohorts, solo and together.
Ian Holloway: A gorgeous disc of dronemusic from this new drone discovery.
Irr. App. (Ext.): A live record from one of our favorite surrealist dada rock explorers.
Isis: The fourth live vinyl volume, limited of course, from these postrock, metalcore heroes.
Kawabata Makoto & Michish*ta Shinsuke: A Japanese underground psych summit, from the leaders of AMT and LSD-march!
Neu! x 3: Three motorik krautrock essentials finally reissued again!!
Cian Nugent: Takoma-ish folk raga from this brilliant young Irish guitarist.
Omit: New double cd of skeletal drone and electronic rhythm from this NZ outsider experimental genius.
Oxbow: Vinyl-only live release from these unique, angsty artrockers, one side stripped-down and acoustic, the other with guest including members of SUNNO))) and Jesu!
Pram: These old faves at their most lust, vivid, and cinematic!
Q65: A collection of freakbeat psych from this incredible '60s Dutch band, who should be at least as well known as the Pretty Things, if not the Stones!
Replacements x 4: These old punk, pop faves reissued!
Rocket From The Crypt: Raw garage punk from these seminal San Diego rockers practice space demos!
Rodriguez: Fuzz-soul-psych from this Dylanesque Detroit singer/poet, a 1970 classic finally getting a deluxe domestic reissue!
Skaters: Super limited vinyl, recorded in Mexico, the floorcore psychsters most dim and eerie set yet.
Skin Horse: Mathy postrock slowcore ambience from these local heavies, self released limited cd-r edition.
Sleestak: Record number two from this now defunct Man Is The b*****d offshoot. They would transform into aQ faves Geronimo!!
Stone Harbour: A holy grail of homemade basement psychedelia, circa '74, finally reissued!
Terrorizer: The essential magazine of 'extreme' metal, which we'll be carrying regularly from now on, at last.
Tussle: SF's rhythmic post-punkers get extra cosmic and spacier on their latest.
V/A Cosmarama: Blow Your Cool 2: More awesome vintage prog-psych heaviness, compiled by Nick Saloman.
V/A Swinging Mademoiselles Deux: Another great collection of female fronted French pop treats from the past.
V/A Trogotronic: Heavy comp of bands like Geronimo using the latest in Trogotronic brand electronic noisemaking devices.
Jozef Van Wissem: Glacially glorious avantgarde Renaissance lute playing here.
Vulcans: Early '70s UK proggers made some amazing, sci-fi dub reggae, believe it or not!
Wildildlife: These AQ-pals are even crazier and heavier LIVE, as on this ltd. edition live-at-WFMU cd-r.

And loads more, as usual. Including, again, a Kiss album revisited. And a couple cool new Omni titles (Biff Rose and Hugo Montenegro). And some neat now-on-vinyl releases, a bunch of limited and out of print cd-r's, and, well yeah, lot lots more.

To wrap up, on the occasion of this, our 300th list, need it be said, we REALLY appreciate every dollar you spend here, instead of someplace else. Thank you, 'cause it's how we can keep doing what we love to do... and what you hopefully like us to be doing too. And please please help spread the word. Tell your friends about our shop, forward other music obsessives our list, we may not always be the fastest, but we might be the friendliest, and we're quite possibly the most passionate, at least we try to be. And we want to stick around as long as folks still want to buy records and cds, cuz we can't imagine a world without record stores.

We have lots of cool stuff coming up, soon we'll have some aQ blogs, a podcast, several long overdue upgrades to the aQ website, the first in a series of super kick ass, super limited custom artist designed aQ shirts, and a bunch more. Some big surprises too!!! Stay tuned...

Also, we're super excited to announce an upcoming instore, September 24th, NY's space rock, drone rock outronauts White Hills will be performing a special blissed out set, just for the instore, so be sure not to miss that, we'll send out an announcement closer to the date.

And... don't forget about the big Halloween show, Corrupted, here for the first time in 11 years, all the way from Japan, along with Ludicra and Asunder. We have free tickets to give away. To be put in the running, just email mailto:[email protected] - [email protected] with the subject line CORRUPTED TIX. We'll draw names at random before the next list.

Finally, one of our all time favorite records, a 4 disc set in fact, which we've sold nearly 1000 copies of here at aQ, and which has been sadly out of print for ages, is available once again. THE CONET PROJECT, a collection of recordings of mysterious numbers stations broadcasts, has not been reissued, instead, it's now available as a free download here:
http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/ - http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/

Okay, that's it, enjoy the sounds, and again, thanks for sticking with us for 300 Lists! Here's to 300 more!!!

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And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch!

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As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you.

And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html

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Beloved Customers and Friends:

Greetings! Back again with yet another list, and we modestly think, it's a doozy. First off, anyone who was bummed that our last list didn't have much in the way of the good ol' black metal on it (nothin' but one measly live Gorgoroth disc, believe it or not) will find we made up for that with a whole lotta evil, blackened treats this time 'round, including two Deathspell Omega documents, a new Striborg, THREE Dead Reptile Shrines and more. Also, we've got three killer Records of the Week this time. And the usual slew of limited cd-rs and cassettes and vinyls and stuff. Well, we'll save our breath for the highlights section immediately below...

First, though, we'd better announce that we've got a cool event happenin' here at the store TOMORROW, local folks should come on down (well, you should come on down even if we weren't having an event) for the 3rd Annual KFJC Penny Pitch. What that means, one of our favorite radio stations, KFJC 98.7 is gonna be broadcasting all afternoon from the sidewalk outside of AQ!! It's the kickoff of their fundraising season. They did it here last year too and it was a blast. It's gonna be from 1pm to 6pm, with five KFJC DJs doing their shows, and tons of good food, giveaways and all sorts of other cool stuff. Should be super fun and festive.

Also, today was the deadline for entries to the special, 'hidden' contest we had on list #300. We're giving away a $100 gift certificate, and the winner is... Mr. Barney Grubbs! Congratulations, Barney. And thanks to everyone else, who read list #300 closely enough to enter. We'll be doing other giveaways and stuff on a more regular basis, we'll keep you posted.

And we have -another- set of contest winners to announce too: for the Corrupted ticket giveaway, our lucky winners are Eric Sculley, Daniel Taylor, Isaac Ontiveros! Congrats you three, see you at Slim's on Halloween, dooming out!!

Didn't win? Well, we've got another ticket giveaway this list, for the Peter Hammill show at the Great American Music Hall on September 30th. Just email to mailto:[email protected] - [email protected] with "Peter Hammill Ticket Contest" in the subject line, we'll pick winners next Friday the 26th. We'll be giving away 2 pairs of tickets to see this rare Stateside solo show from the leader of one of our favorite '70s British prog rock bands, Van Der Graaf Generator, so good luck.

Another show we should mention: AQ fave spacerockers White Hills from Brooklyn! Actually 2 shows. One a specially spaced-out, more mellow and ambient instore performance here at Aquarius on September 24th, that's next Wednesday, 6pm. The other, on Monday Sept. 29th, is at The Knockout bar on Mission Street. White Hills will be performing live n' loud, as part of the "Two Hours Of Krautrock II" video extravaganza being put on by WAR 93.7fm's Klaus To The Edge DJs - who are our Allan and former AQer Alison. We'll be screening a bunch of classic krautrock footage, high quality stuff from the likes of Lucifer's Friend, Can, Scorpions, Dies Irae, Seesselberg, Tangerine Dream, Kraan, Frumpy, and tons more. Please come check it out, it's gonna be rad! 10pm, $5, 3223 Mission St.

One more show you need to save the date for: the FRISCO FREAKOUT! Saturday, October 11th. An all-day, all-night "psychedelic dance party" featuring a who's who of underground California psych rock: Earthless, Crystal Antlers, Wooden Shjips, the Bad Trips, Sleepy Sun, Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound, Greg Ashley, Ascended Master, Art Lessing and the Flower Vote. Wow!
And it's all for a good cause, in benefit of Creativity Explored.
All ages, 2pm, $15, at Thee Parkside. Don't miss it!!
More info: http://www.myspace.com/friscofreakout - www.myspace.com/friscofreakout or http://www.friscofreakout.com - www.friscofreakout.com

Ok, better get on with the list, we've been breaking our backs to get it done early tonight, 'cause Andee and Allan and Cameron and and bunch of our friends all have tickets to see the big CARCASS reunion show this evening!!! Heck probably every metalhead in San Francisco will be there. We sure don't want to miss it. The best death metal / grind / gore band EVER! And none of us had ever gotten a chance to see 'em before, didn't think we ever would. We are CHUFFED. Tell you all about it next time.

So, those three Records Of The Week, they are...

Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffalo: Mind blowing reissue of this '70 Japanese psychedelic artifact. Intense African drumming meets jazz meets acid rock proto metal prog. Possibly the reissue of the year!
Darsombra: Second disc of brooding kraut flecked, spaced out blackened ambience, definitely for fans of Expo '70 and other dark droners...
Woven Hand: Latest disc of apocalyptic bluegrass gothic folk from David Eugene Edwards, formerly of 16 Horsepower. The heaviest WH yet!

And the many Highlights this list...

Acid Mothers Temple: Brand new studio album from this, the latest incarnation of the ever shifting Japanese rock collective.
Alps: Super limited vinyl version of the new album, Morricone twang meets krautrock groove meets new age shimmer.
Anduin: Souvenir's Young America frontman makes his own dark and dreamy harmonica flecked drone disc.
Arckanum: Brand new record of furious black metal from this Swedish legend, amazing production and new found groove...
Mulatu Astatke: Stellar reissue for Ethiopian groove fans!!
Hoyt Axton: UFOs, LSD, and country-folk, reissued from the guy that wrote "The Pusher".
John Baker: A vinyl collection of the best tracks from the two cd volumes of recordings from this BBC Radiophonic Workshop legend.
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer: Super limited two song 12" of nihilistic, doom drenched, black ambient anti-music.
Calexico: Latest from these cinematic desert rockers, reviewed by ANDEE'S MOM!!!!
Circle X: Amazing disc of fractured drum heavy, early eighties post punk, new (no) wave weirdness.
The Comas: Fuzz drenched kick ass pop, like Flaming Lips crossed with Elephant 6, but crunchier and heavier.
Common Eider, King Eider: Latest disc of ethereal folky drone from Rob Fisk, formerly of Deerhoof.
Conifer: New disc of gorgeous metallic post rock, from one of our favorites, featuring a guest vocal cameo by Oxbow's Eugene Robinson.
Edmond De Dyster: Second lp collecting the long lost unheard analog synthesizer recordings from this mysterious musical recluse.
Dead Reptile Shrine x 3: THREE new tapes from these freaky Finnish black metal weirdos, two reissues and a BRAND NEW ALBUM.
Deathspell Omega x 2: Long overdue reissues from these black metal legends, one disc of splits and comp tracks, one disc of totally unreleased material!
Diplo: Bumpin' mega mix from DJ Diplo with Santogold on board!!
Flying Lotus: Debut release of cosmic electronic hip hop from this bigtime aQ fave.
Giant Sand: The return of one of our favorite bands ever (Calexico were once the GS rhythm section), dark and languorous desert twang.
Godflesh: One of THE greatest extreme metal records ever, reissued on vinyl. Before Jesu, there was GODFLESH!
Growing: Latest from this duo, another fantastic collection of looped repetitive trance inducing space rock, but minus the rock!
Higuma: Super limited solo cd-r from one half of Barn Owl, a gorgeous collection of soft sweet vocals and smokey shimmery drones.
Inca Ore / Grouper: Long out of print tape, finally available on lp, a lovely collection of washed out gauzy ambient folkmusic.
Isolde: Ultra limited cd of super minimal drone / guitar music, featuring long time aQ fave Andrew Chalk. Amazing packaging!
Jabaldav: Single disc version of the now out of print double cd-r boxset, total Weakling worship! Twisted Black Flag-ed black metal.
Jacaszek: One of our new favorite drifting of to sleep records, somber, shimmery, minimal and lovely.
Vikki Jackman: Gorgeous gauzy abstract piano music, released on Andrew Chalk's label and of course incredibly limited.
Jesu: Finally on cd, the tracks from a recent vinyl only split, with two bonus remixes. More gorgeous washed out metallic bliss.
Khold: The black metal Nirvana? These blackenedmastersof buzz and groove return with a record that almost sounds way more punk than metal.
Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat: Brand new disc of apocalyptic folk, noisier and dronier and heavier and darker than previous releases.
Lascoviec: CD reissue of two long out of print demos from this SF black metal horde, fuzzy, and buzzy, and washed out weird!
Lucky Dragons: Head spinning disc of repetitive, looped, fractured beat flecked weirdness. Groovy, hypnotic, trippy, definitely hard to describe...
Machinefabriek & Stepehn Vitiello: Collaboration between these two soundmakers, both using atypical instrumentation. Dark and drone-y.
John Maus: This bizarre and warped outsider pop gem, finally available on vinyl.
Nathaniel Mayer: Kick ass disc of modern greasy, stoned retro garage rock, fronted by a genuine old school soul singer.
Metal Rouge: First proper cd release from this LA / NZ drone duo. Super limited, gorgeous packaging. Guitar and dulcimer and lots and lots of FX!
MIJ: Fantastic and far out ESP reissue from the Yodeling Astrologer. As weird and wonderful as you might imagine.
Milton Nascimento: One of the best psychedelic pop records ever from this legend.
Noism: Absolutely insane hyperspeed programmed beat, grinding metal mash-up, a million beats per minute, guitars chopped into fragments. WOW.
The North Sea: Two long tracks of thick corrosive drones from Digitalis head honcho. SUPER LIMITED cd-r.
Linda Perhacs: This legendary folk masterpiece, reissued again with extra tracks!
Peste Noire: Debut from these French black metal weirdos, heavy and pretty and seriously twisted. Features members of Alcest and Amesoeurs.
Pocahaunted: Drones and dubbed outbeats and wordless vocal shimmer from this dynamic female soft-noise duo.
Proscriptor: Latest solo disc from the drummer of Absu, tripped out eighties soundtrack music, and total Tangerine Dream / Goblin worship.
Rodriguez: Now on limited ed. vinyl, the reissue of 1970 Dylanesque fuzz soul psych reviewed last time on cd.
Sombres Forets: Disc number two from these Canadaian depressive black metal masters. Mournful, sorrowful, miserable, suicidal blackened beauty.
Starving Weirdos: Super limited tape from these Humboldt noisemakers, some serious skronky jazz mixed in with the usual drone drenched ambience.
Striborg: Newest and possibly weirdest release from long time aQ faves, rain forest black metal eccentric Sin-Nanna and his Striborg.
Teenage Jesus And The Jerks: Lydia Lunch and her seminal band get the deluxe reissue treatment.
Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family: Kick ass lo-fi '70s Afro fuzz rock reissue, maybe the best yet!
Thou: First album from these super heavy slow motion heaviness from these doomlords, blown out and brutal, feedback drenched tarpit sludge!
V/A Death Before Distemper Vol. 2: Rad DC Recordings disc of modern electro pop disco that sounds seriously vintage!
V/A Okkulte Stimmen Mediale Musik: WEIRD box set, recordings of ghosts and possessions and exorcisms and speaking in tongues and EVP, oh my!
Porter Wagoner: A kick ass reissue featuring two classics from this country legend.
Weed: Long overdue reissue of this 1971 stoner kraut  / prog classic.
Young Widows: Bass heavy, sweaty, filthy, bloody, groovy noise rock, like old Nirvana mixed with Jesus Lizard. Or something equally kick ass.

Plus a whole lot more, including an amazing and ridiculously comprehensive death metal book, the new issue of The Wire, the new Metallica (which we've rocked out to more than we'd like to admit), new David Grubbs, a John Darnielle novel about Black Sabbath's Master Of Reality, another fantastic Dr. Boogie collection, a new, poppy Negativland, a Ryoji Ikeda reissue, as well as the first review on the aQ list from Andee's Mom, hopefully not the last, and more more more...

Plus as we mentioned before, we have some blog action happening. One of them is up and running. Hopefully it will be a good place to check between lists for new arrivals, super limited stuff that wouldn't normally make it to the list, as well as other cool aQ stuff. Check it out here:
http://www.aquariusrecordsblog.blogspot.com - http://www.aquariusrecordsblog.blogspot.com

And if we can get it together, we might even get a second blog up and running, one that's less business, and more fun and weird, with random stuff, show reviews, ramblings, or whatever, then again, who knows, maybe we'll just cram the two together. But for now check the link above every few days, and you're bound to discover plenty of new and exciting music and stuff...

Okay, that should be it. Hopefully see you tomorrow at the KFJC Penny Pitch, or next week at the White Hills instore, or maybe....

...tonight at CARCASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, we gotta run, thanks as always, and as always, we hope you dig all these amazing new sounds...

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And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch!

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As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you. Plus it makes ordering almost effortless 'cause a single mouse click will pop an item directly into your shopping cart! No more trying to remember everything that you wanted to order after having read a hundred or so reviews!

And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html

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    o  o  o  o  o     October 03 2008       o  o  o  o  o

Beloved Customers and Friends:

Hey everybody! Thanks for tuning in to another edition of the Aquarius New Arrivals List. Thanks also to everyone who came down for the White Hills instore here last week, it was fun. So, it's about 11pm Friday as we write this intro, which isn't too bad. We lost about 90 minutes of review writing time (and/or enjoying our lives time) to watching the VP debate yesterday, and now it's nice to have all this great music that we're about to tell you about, to take our minds off that golly gosh darn... oh never mind...

We've got one of those shoo-in Records Of The Week this week, it's yet another Sublime Frequencies gem, this time the cd version of the record by Group Inerane from North Africa. Brain melting, heart wrenching, psychedelic "Tureg Guitar" jams. Very much recommended indeed!

Then, many many quite essential highlights...

Alter Echo and ERS-One Meet Dr. Israel: Limited, one sided, lowslung proto-dubstep 7".
Ancestors: Two super long, super heavy stoner psych jams here on this sludgey cd.
Antony & The Johnsons: New 5-song ep of ineffable magic from this striking singer.
APM: Manipulated field recordings from dronologists Chris Atkins, Colin Potter, and Phil Mouldycliff aka APM.
At The Head Of The Woods: Woodsy dronescapes from James Woodhead (Blood of the Black Owl, Elemental Chrysalis).
Austerity Program: Limited new Hydra Head 7" from this way cool metallic drum machine noise rock duo.
Barn Owl: Repressed and back in stock, but not for long, this LP from the SF dronefolk heavies featuring our own stoner Jon.
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer: Super limited new 7" slab of sickness from these purveyors of gloriously abject noise drone filth.
Brainbombs: Limited, live LP from these Swedish misanthropes. Burning Hell era scuzz.
Anne Briggs: Wonderful trad folk reissue from this British singer, circa 1971.
Bright Black Morning Light: Bask in the glow of this brand new set of sincere hippie hymnals.
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone: New ep of stripped down, dreamy often instrumental electro pop from our pal Owen.
Cave: Effects drenched hypno rock chaos on 7" + cd-r from this spaced out Chicago groop.
Cheval Sombre: Delicate druggy slowcore on 7" + cd-r from the same label responsible for the Cave above.
George Coleman: On vinyl from the Mississippi label, the legendary Bongo Joe & his 55 gallon oil drum!
Dead Reptile Shrine: The new album from these Finnish black metal freaks now on vinyl, a super deluxe ultra limited gatefold double 180 gram lp!
Deerhoof: Off kilter effortlessness, another album of quirky indie pop from these longtime faves.
Dungen: Lush arrangements of atmospheric psychedelia from these reliable, retro Swedes.
East Of Eden: 1969 album of exotic British psych-prog with Mingus-y jazz and Comus-y folk leanings.
Eater: Killer, catchy '77 British punk from this rad adolescent outfit, reissued, recommended!
Eldrig: Recent full length fave from these Northwestern black metallers, now on vinyl, hand screened and limited to only 100 copie!
Farflung: Latest, greatest album of spaced out glammed up stoner jams from LA's answer to Hawkwind.
Scott Goodwin: Limited edition drone cd-r from the guy behind Bonus.
Grails: Lots of surprises on this great new Grails, that sounds a bit like Neurosis covering Torch of the Mystics...
Grivf: Ooozing ambient-sludge cd-r, already out of print.
Harvey Milk x 2: Two of the all time greatest HEAVY records of all time, available on vinyl again for a VERY limited time.
Headdress: Finally on vinyl, this fine slab of frayed abstract psych-folk.
Ryoji Ikeda: Double cd soundtrack to arty film from our favorite Japanese electronic experimentalist.
Eero Johannes: SKWEEE! Debut full-length of bouncing c64 style electro-hop instrumentals from this Finnish lad, on Planet Mu.
Klangmutationen: On Utech, a cd of doomic guitar drone and free jazz freakouts from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia!
Kowloon Walled City: AmRepish heaviness from this SF sludge combo.
Krysmopompas: Punky German new/cold wave from the early '80s reissued on vinyl!
Miko: Super shoegazey dream pop from Japan.
Mogwai: Take another trip with this reliable post rock juggernaut.
Nadja: Utech reissues an out of print cd-r from this Canadian doomduo on cd.
Nagisa Ni Te: Latest and maybe loveliest from this Japanese psych bliss pop ensemble.
O Level: AKA, Teenage Film Stars. Another reissued testament to the pop genius of Ed Ball.
Jim O'Rourke: Touch 7" series installment from the multitalented Mr. O'Rourke.
James Pants: Electroboogienewwavediscoetc. from this happenin' Stones Throw DJ dude.
Phosphene River: Sequel to Jamnation, featuring the likes of Mammatus, Kawabata Makoto, White Hills, etc.... and spoken word.
Polk Miller: Fascinating pre-war gospel and musical theater reissued from really old '78s and wax cylinders...
Joe Preston And Daniel Menche: A surprisingly beautiful all vocal drone record from these two noiseniks. Includes films on the dualdisc's flipside.
Pretty & Nice: Totally catchy and kinetic power pop genius. Sparks meets the Cardiacs meets the New Pornographers meets Devo meets... POP RECORD OF THE YEAR?
Rollo Treadway: Gorgeous retro pop a la the Zombies / the Beach Boys, a concept record about a kidnapping featuring the former drummer from Laddio Bolocko! Or is THIS pop record of the year?
Sleestak: Post Man Is The b*****d, pre Geronimo, buzz drenched rhtyhmic post everything noise rock.
Sloan: Latest from these Canadian pop heroes and long time aQ faves.
Sol: Incredible melodic doom from Denmark.
SUNNO))): The doomdrone duo & friends live in a cathedral. Vinyl only. Ever. And of course limited.
The Tough Alliance: '80s influenced perfect pop pleasure.
Mika Vainio: AKA Ohm, one half of Pan Sonic turns out a disc of frozen electronica with a Pink Floyd cover!
Vivian Girls: Part garagey rock, part twee pop, these girls rule!
Yoshi Wada: 3rd reissue from EM documenting the dramatic drones of this Japanese artist, this one a 1985 album originally on FMP.
Scott Walker: Reissue of the album that came after Scott 4!

And of course, OF COURSE, much more. Including Romanian black metallers Negura Bunget's last album, now on vinyl. And a bunch of other now-on-vinyl treats too. And a new issue of Terrorizer. And a new Tindersticks. And not one but three Kiss reviews!!

All right then. Read on!

But, also, be sure to read our new blog, announced here last time. We've been blogging hard over the past two weeks, and wanted to mention that fact even though Andee can't stand the word "blog". Check it out here:
http://www.aquariusrecordsblog.blogspot.com - http://www.aquariusrecordsblog.blogspot.com
Leave some comments!

And here's some other news, we'll surely be blogging about shortly, but you can read it here first:

aQ pal Aaron from the band Iran, and his partner Audrey have been working for years on a documentary about black metal and it's finally done. And appropriately enough, the premier is on HALLOWEEN! So if you live in LA, don't miss it! Here's the details:

UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US

Oct. 31    7:45 pm
At the Arclight Theater 13 in Hollywood.
There will be a second screening, details TBA.
For tickets: http://www.afi.com/onscreen/afifest/2008/ - http://www.afi.com/onscreen/afifest/2008/
Corpsepaint optional.

Unfortunately we're gonna be seeing Corrupted on Halloween, their first SF show in ELEVEN YEARS!!!
And there are some other cool shows and happenings for local folks, including the return of the DEAD CHANNELS film festival we're co-presenting. See the end of the list for more on all that stuff.
And that should be about it. Enjoy the list. And your weekend!

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And as always, thanks for reading the list, passing it on to all your friends who love weird music, shopping at our store, turning -us- on to all sort of great stuff, and helping us spread the word and get all this great music to the people who love it. YOU!! And as always, please realize that we work really hard on the list, so if you find out about stuff through us, please try to buy your records from us. That way we can keep on doing what we do, and we'll always be here with our ears to the ground, and with cds full of metalcore pitbulls, death metal parrots, gamelan playing elephants, recordings of glaciers cracking, ice melting, zamboni's, life support systems, drag races, audience applause, and of course self flagellating Norwegian dwarves, moaning telephone wires, recorded exorcisms, acapella straight edge metalcore, high school battles of the bands, movie theater organ music, Christian psychedelic folk, Bhangra Black Sabbath as well as all the metal, indie rock, electronica, punk rock, reggae, dub, sixties psych, krautrock, classic rock, country and anything else your heart may desire. So thanks. A bunch!

---------------------------------------------------------------

As usual, we recommend that instead of reading this email, you click here right now -- http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html -- to read the New Arrivals list online where you can SEE COVER ART and HEAR SOUNDCLIPS we prepared for you. Plus it makes ordering almost effortless 'cause a single mouse click will pop an item directly into your shopping cart! No more trying to remember everything that you wanted to order after having read a hundred or so reviews!

And don't forget to give our nifty AQ 'radio' thing a try, all the New Arrivals clips in one handy stream: http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html - http://aquariusrecords.org/streaming.html