OUT NOW: PRIVATE ROOM and LATISHIA'S SKULL DRAWING LPs.

Get 'em while they're hot.

PRIVATE ROOM - Forever And Ever LP w/ download (LUNGS-084)

  Forever and Ever, the debut album from Pacific Northwest power-trio PRIVATE ROOM, is a terse and tense record. With its discordantly bent notes, shots of industrial clang, atonal noise washouts, and boneheaded punk, the album cultivates a forbidding atmosphere for the sardonic lyrics to comfortably reside. With stunning album art provided by Justin Gallego (DREAMDECAY),  the stark future-vision of PRIVATE ROOM is immediately apparent. Although a charred cynicism colors Forever and Ever,  the music itself elbows at the boundaries of whatever genre - punk, hardcore, noise-rock, or any micro-niche thereof -one might apply to it. It suggests that patterns, be they imposed from above or within, are binds to be broken. 

LATISHIA'S SKULL DRAWING - Romanticized 12" w/ download (LUNGS-083)

   Do any of these apply to you? 

•Constant irritability

•Significantly reduced interest or feeling no pleasure in all or most activities

•Significant weight loss when not dieting, weight gain, or decrease or increase in appetite

•Insomnia or increased desire to sleep

•Fatigue or loss of energy

•Feelings of worthlessness, or excessive or inappropriate guilt

•Trouble making decisions, or trouble thinking or concentrating

•Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide, or a suicide attempt

 If so, you are listening to the right record.

We put a big stack of cool ILR related things in the store too. 

Shop for them in the STORE STORE STORE

Have a pleasant day. If you're in Toronto this weekend come say hi. We will be there playing drums and hocking wares and being awake way too long for our own goodsssssssssssssssgoodnight.

2015 Top Ten plus however many more because I can do whatever I want.

The punks (and lesser types) never let me down when it comes to genre busting and general freekiness. There have been so many big things this year. Thankfully, a pigeon hole is not one of them. Life moves quick and changes even quicker so you have to pick your battles more carefully than ever. I suppose you could stumble through and be fine but the quality that comes with living that way is absurd and lacking. I choose the fringe. I choose passion. Even more, I choose the records that the passionate fringe produces.

Records are crazy expensive to make and to buy now but there is something magical about having that tangible artifact from your personal journey. Records rule okay? Buy them. But buy the good ones, the real ones, not those insipid Record Store Day reissues or major label avarice platters. Besides, with streaming and downloading being so easy, we don’t have spend all our dough building a huge vinyl collection just to hear our favorite tunes on a repeat basis.

Gathering new music these days can be like listening to that mystery mixtape the weird stranger kid leaves at the record shop randomly offering his accumulated tastes on anyone willing enough to listen. Hearing MARTIN DENNY’s ‘Misirlou’ next to JAMES GANG following JANKY and PATRICK FITZGERALD is not that uncommon any more. I fucking love that. I mean, it does take some curating but still the diversity these days is invigorating to say the least.

For me, music has always been about the energy and the vibe. Here is what got me this year:

L.O.T.I.O.N. - Digital Control And Man’s Obsolescence LP (Toxic State)
CONEHEADS - 14-Year Old High School PC-Fascist Hype Lords Rip Off Devo For The Sake Of Extorting $$$ From Helpless Impressionable Midwestern Internet Peoplepunks LP (International Players Club)
MAN IS THE BASTARD - The Lost M.I.T.B. Sessions LP (Deep Six)
DAWN OF HUMANS - Slurping At The Cosmos Spine LP (Toxic State)
MINNEAPOLIS URANIUM CLUB - Human Exploration LP (Fashionable Idiots)
ABYSS - Heretical Anatomy LP (20 Buck Spin)
SLEAFORD MODS - Key Markets LP (Harbinger Sound)
WARHEAD - s/t LP (540)
PRURIENT - Frozen Niagara Falls 3xLP (Profound Lore)
DESTRUCTION UNIT - Negative Feedback Resistor LP (Sacred Bones)
SPRAY PAINT - Punters On A Barge LP (Homeless)
NO TOLERANCE - You Walk Alone LP (Painkiller)
NO FORM - s/t LP (Reagent/Muscle Horse)
JUNKIE XL - Mad Max: Fury Road OST 2xLP (Mondo)
PROTOMARTYR - The Agent Intellect LP (Hardly Art)

FRAU - Mira 7” (Frau)
PUBLIC ASSAULT - No Way Out 7” (Foreign Legion)
MYSTIC INANE - Ode To Joy 7” (Negative Jazz) & Eggs Onna Plate 7” (Lumpy)
RAKTA EM TRANSE - s/t 7” (Nada Nada/Dama Da Noite)
IVY - A Cat’s Clause, No Dog’s Problem 7” (Katorga Works)
G.L.O.S.S. - Girls Living Outside Society’s Shit 7” (Total Negativity/Nervous Nelly)
GIBBOUS - Mortal Crust 7” (Lumpy)
C.C.T.V. - C.C.T.V. 7” (Lumpy)
AJAX - Priced 7” (Beach Impediment)
CONCEALED BLADE - Demo 2015 7" (Beach Impediment)
GAS CHAMBER - Stained Hand 7” (SPHC)
ANXIETY HAMMER - What Stands Between Us 7” (Curtain Fire)

COLLIN STRANGE - Recorded Live 10/31/14 CS (Existential Nihilism)
NASTI - Ex Static CS (Perennial)
LOCK - Demo 2015 CS (Lock)
LATISHA’S SKULL DRAWING - s/t CS (Cult Maternal)

Enjoy your year, it might be your last.   ❤ Jensen

LATISHA'S SKULL DRAWING is going on tour.

LATISHIA'S SKULL DRAWING

CATHOLIC SPIT TOUR 2015

10/16 PHILADELPHIA @ HONG KONG GARDEN w/ DISINTEREST

10/17 BROOKLYN @ ALPHAVILLE w/ D. UNIT, PAWNS, HOROSCOPE

10/18 PROVIDENCE @ AURORA (3PM MATINEE GIG) w/ DRONEZ, ACCIDENT

10/18 W MASS @ 13^TH FLOOR MUSIC LOUNGE w/ D. UNIT, PAEANS, PSYCHIC BLOOD

10/19 BOSTON @ O’BRIENS w/ D. UNIT, THE FURS, FAR CORNERS

10/20 MONTREAL @ BRASSERIE BEAUBIEN w/ LIGATURE, INVITES

10/21 OTTOWA @ THE DOMINION TAVERN w/ D.UNIT

10/22 TORONTO CHILLIN AT NDY

10/23 TORONTO NDY GIG @ THE GARRISON w/ D. UNIT, RODGER STELLA, YELLOW TEARS, FAKE PALMS, LIGATURE, MERCURY GIRLS

10/24 GRAND RAPIDS @ THE FIREHOUSE w/ RASH, PLAGUES, WHITE VAN

10/25 CHICAGO @ THE NEW ALBION HOUSE ON THE NORTHSIDE w/ THE MAKE-OVERS, FINAL GRIN

10/26 PITTSBURGH @ ROCK ROOM w/ ORDEN MUNDIAL, EEL, CONCEALED BLADE



ILR will be doing their LP at some point in the future too.