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Cassette Box Set
DOWNLOAD SAMPLER
COMING 09/14/10
| | Jumping between mathy ballads, acoustic meanderings, minimalist experimentation, and post-rock-indie-epics, Joan Of Arc have exhibited a fearless artistry in their 14 years of existence. Contained in this collection are the 10 full-length albums from JOA, beginning with 1997's "Portable Model Of" (Jade Tree) and ending with 2009's "Flowers" (Polyvinyl). Over a decade of JOA material, released here in the formats of the people for both 1997 and 2009: Cassette and Digital. |
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The Giant Crushes You
Vinyl + MP3: $10 
COMING 08/24/10
| | Abner Trio have created an album that triangulates exactness, rawness and beauty. Nearly 3 years in the making, Abner Trio's second full length is hands-down the most accomplished documentation of their mathy, artsy, honest, and all-around original blend of indie-rock. |
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The Living Breathing Organ Summer
CD + MP3: $10
Vinyl + MP3: $12
Cassette + MP3: $8
MP3: $7
| | An eccentric orchestra of punk adrenaline, avant-garde mortar, and lucid epicurean nightmares... The Living Breathing Organ Summer exudes a no-fluff sound that is both consistently danceable and brazenly psychotic. |
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Wrap The Body
Vinyl + MP3: $10
MP3: $6
| | Never a force content to deliver obvious moves, the next release from the Racebannon juggernaut sees them joining forces with some friends and releasing...*gasp* a DJ-styled 12" release. Yes folks, Wrap the Body! |
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 | | Berry
Blue Sky, Raging Sun
Vinyl + MP3: $12
Cassette + MP3: $8
MP3: $7
| | Classic songwriting amidst Rubik's-Cube-structures - the music of Berry is a curious hybrid of meticulously detailed instrumentation and genuinely alluring pop. |
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Alternate Roots
MP3: $5
| | CJ Boyd's "Alternate Roots" is a live memory sketch of the meditative, expansive, and chamber-esque album "Aerial Roots". |
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Chroma Cannon
CD + MP3: $10
Vinyl + MP3: $12
Cassette + MP3: $8
MP3: $7
| | With a 30th century aesthetic, the sophomore album from Prizzy Prizzy Please rockets through hyperactive hits that hope to imbue melodic noise punk with the spirit of fourth-quarter pump-up jams by Van Halen and the E Street Band. |
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Jookabox / Kid Primitive Family
MP3: $5
| | The Jookabox / Kid Primitive Family split is an ethereal, percussive-heavy exercise in existential musical chairs. |
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Prizzy Prizzy Please
MP3: $7
| | Shout-along party anthems loaded with unbridled irreverence... The debut album from Prizzy Prizzy Please is loud, contagious laughter in the quiet mass of would-be artsy rock albums. |
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Aerial Roots
CD + MP3: $10
Vinyl + MP3: $12
MP3: $7
| | Aerial Roots, the latest from notoriously nomadic bass player C.J. Boyd, flows from singular,
meditative bass lines into explosive, layered, and hugely complex
walls of sound. CJ masterfully orchestrates waves of bass loops
coupled with Jazz-driven improvisational prowess. |
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 | | Stationary Odyssey
Sons of Boy
CD + MP3: $10
MP3: $7
| | Sons of Boy is an 8-track mini-opus of face-melting moments alongside crystalline spasms of beauty. A somewhat genre-less album, Sons of Boy rides an undefined line somewhere between instrumental post-rock, punk, ambient, prog and grind. |
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Dead Zone Boys
CD + MP3: $10
Vinyl + MP3: $12
MP3: $7
| | Dead Zone Boys, the third album from Jookabox is love story meets psychedelic zombie-musical. |
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 | | I Love You
Bell Ord Forrest
CD + MP3: $10
Cassette + MP3: $8
MP3: $7
| | Heady-polyrhythmic drone brought to you by a bedlam of post-apocalyptic pre-structuralists. This is music that begs the question, "Did you say your on Mescaline?" And demands the answer, "I did indeed. Very much so..." |
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Johnfriend EP
FREE DOWNLOAD
| | As an accompaniment to the 8-track mini-opus 'Sons of Boy', Stationary Odyssey offer this free digital EP featuring a new track from the album, a remix, a feedback-laden T-Rex cover, and an A Capella demo. |
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 | | Marmoset
Tea Tornado
CD + MP3: $10
MP3: $7
| | Soul music for future generations of hopeless kids huffing paint in the basement... |
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 | | Marmoset
Lemon Meringue Live
MP3: $5
| | On the eve of the release of Marmoset's fourth full-length album it seems appropriate to unleash this rare live recording. Tracked on a particularly drunken evening at Indianapolis historic Melody Inn - the Lemon Meringue Live EP is a raw, gritty portrait of Marmoset in their element. |
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Child Bite / Big Bear (7")
Vinyl + MP3: $4
MP3: $2
| | A split of monstrous proportions - Big Bear and Child Bite have joined together to inject post-punk prowess into this otherwise lifeless piece of translucent green vinyl. |
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Slight Fountain
CD + MP3: $10
MP3: $7
| | Touchingly naive bedroom lo-fi is displayed alongside disjointed arrangements, harsh chords, complex rhythms, strange orchestration and awkward melody. This is what the Magic Band would have sounded like if they were raised on Joan of Arc and Polvo, and had a singer that was void of any serious mental illness (though probably not the less serious kind). |
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Between Noise and The Indians
CD + MP3: $10
MP3: $7
| | This Bloomington, Indiana band of Mikes have combined grandiose riffs and complex arrangements into an anthemic rock album which lies somewhere in between high-brow prog and low-brow, PBR-soaked basement punk. |
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A Tempo! A Tempo!
CD + MP3: $10
MP3: $7
| | Austria's Valina has a way of combining passages of sheer beauty with intense outbursts of abstract guitar noise into pure math-rock fury. On A Tempo! A Tempo! witness Valina's jaw-dropping musicianship sculpt amazingly technical, harmonious, and ultimately unclassifiable riff-heavy rock. |
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Assemble
CD + MP3: $10
Vinyl + MP3: $12
MP3: $7
| | With Assemble Hi Red Center have created an endearingly odd album - combining academic experimentation with an honest yet manic gleefulness that deftly nestles vibraphones and barbershop quartet harmonies with noisy guitars and highly controlled melodic breakdowns. |
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Future Stars and Small Wonders
CD + MP3: $10
MP3: $7
| | Bizzart's new earbook is a sprawling structure of heart break and the journey of being lost in love. Building upon his sonically adventurous sound-collage version of hip-hop, Bizzart has created his most subtle, introspective, and accessible record to date. |
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The Delicious The Delicious
CD + MP3: $10
MP3: $7
| | The Delicious' debut album combines a healthy helping of awkward honesty with plenty of wide-eyed, jazz-driven perplexity into joyous, spontaneous, spastic pop, free from over-thought composition and self-serious brooding. |
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A Waste of Time and Space
CD + MP3: $10
MP3: $7
| | Expanding in all directions, Man At Arms continues in their musical explorations of repetition, concision, dynamic shifts and stagnancy. Recommended for fans of The Minutemen's "Paranoid Time", Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" & Space Ghost Coast To Coast. |
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 | | Push-Pull / Prizzy Prizzy Please
PPPPPEP (7")
MP3: $4
| | With the PPPPPEP, Push-Pull (PP) and Prizzy Prizzy Please (PPP) join forces - offering a split 7" + MP3 of different yet equally unique perspectives on the punk rock. Rarely understood, but usually celebrated, these two bands carry with them an authentic, unashamed, informed yet undeniably Midwestern musical perspective that comes off sounding like prog-infused, crust-punk arena-rock. |
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 | | Various Artists
Joyful Noise 2009 Digital Sampler
FREE DOWNLOAD
| | With so many releases budding in late 08 / early 09 we at Joyful Noise thought it might be a good idea to put together a Digital Sampler showcasing our releases from November 08 into 2009. Enjoy free music from the entire roster. |
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 | | Grampall Jookabox
Ropechain
CD + MP3: $10
Vinyl + MP3: $12
MP3: $7
| | Ropechain braids holy fear, schizophrenic inspiration, baroque pop-references, and deep, mystical love into a formidable work likely to leave aficionados of "rock-n-roll 2" trapped in an obsessive cycle of listening and re-listening. |
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Record In Red
Vinyl + MP3: $10
| | Originally released in 2001 on CD by Secretly Canadian, this epic and eerily-addictive album is revered as a dark pop classic of the Midwest underground. Witness Marmoset's slow, syrupy, crackling sound as it builds relentlessly toward a final and impossible intensity that is known simply as Record in Red. |
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 | | Grampall Jookabox
Rill Bruh
FREE DOWNLOAD
| | For those comfortable with 1's and 0's, Rill Bruh will be the most convenient and cost-effective way to become familiar with the sound of ghetto-folkster, Grampall Jookabox. This free digital EP contains several remixes and out-takes from two or so years of musical development leading up to Grampall Jookabox's second album Ropechain. |
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 | | The Delicious
Postcard To My Sewing Circle
CD + MP3: $7
MP3: $5
| | Feast your ears upon The Delicious' complex, light-hearted, and freakishly disjointed blend of experimental indie-art-pop. Postcard To My Sewing Circle abounds with elegantly constructed, cerebral power-pop anthems. |
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Defunct Indiana
CD + MP3: $10
MP3: $7
| | Containing seventeen indie, experimental, and hardcore artists from Indiana's past, Defunct Indiana compiles some of the best music from all Indiana based, now-defunct bands. |
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Kibosh
CD + MP3: $10
MP3: $7
| | Powerfully regulated, densely organized wall-of-sound style metal and delirious, spasming, often sublime experimentation braiding together in an insane double helix of truly inspired rock music. |
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 | | Push-Pull
3
CD + MP3: $7
MP3: $4
| | Push-Pull probe areas untouched by The Wipers, King Crimson, Big Star, or Shellac - simultaneously offending, repelling, seducing, and violating the music snobs of our time. |
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 | | Child Bite
Gold Thriller
CD + MP3: $8
MP3: $5
| | Sophisticated noise-pop with enough time changes and feedback layering to please hipsters and experimental rockers alike. |
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I Like Friends
FREE DOWNLOAD
| | In honor of the release of Child Bite's magnificent second album, a FREE downloadable single has been made available. This is just a hint of what lies in store for you future Gold Thriller listeners. |
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 | | Grampall Jookabox
Scientific Cricket
CD + MP3: $10
MP3: $7
| | Enter the private, brightly infantile, electrically sanctified world of Grampall Jookabox's idiot-savant folk-rock. Complex choral crescendos, jungle drums, box-car lo-fi, and bubble-gum-acid-pop combine! |
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Florist Fired
Vinyl + MP3: $10
| | Somehow this band has managed to bottle into one album all of the aspects and pathos that have made them the critically acclaimed band we all love. From tumultuous clamor to addictive two-minute anthems to epic joyful dirges, Florist Fired has it all. |
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Physical Education
MP3: $4
| | Detroit's freak-wave outfit Child Bite meet up with noise-pop-rockers Stationary Odyssey for this lesson in Phys Ed. The music ranges from post-rocky Slint-ish ballads, to horn section no-wave freak outs. |
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Terror On The Hell Loop
FREE DOWNLOAD
| | A FREE downloadable EP from our favorite easy-listening noise-rockers, Stationary Odyssey. Terror on The Hell Loop features standard versions of two songs from the Head! Foot! and the Pink Axe album, as well as two remixes and one previously unreleased track. |
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Abner Trio / Man at Arms
CD + MP3: $10
MP3: $7
| | A split CD from two opposing rock forces. In their sophomore effort, Abner Trio has developed a more epic sound, recalling a late 70's early 80's folk-punk sub-genre that never actually existed. Man at Arms retaliates by orchestrating clever, half-crazed, noisy punk/math-rock critiques of late stage consumer capitalism. |
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Head! Foot! And The Pink Axe
CD + MP3: $10
MP3: $7
| | An intensely broad spectrum of sound and mood come with the music of Stationary Odyssey. Godspeed-esque guitar squeals meets electro-noise-pop in this new and strangely listenable blend of noise-rock. |
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 | | Melk The G6-49
Mene Mene Tekel Parsin
CD + MP3: $7
| | Mene mene tekel parsin captures the earliest stage in the evolution of Melk. With this recording we see the duo in their most introverted and uncompromising form. |
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Sham Duvet
CD + MP3: $10
| | Prog-math-metal rock-opera. LAFCADIO's wide array of influences (from King Crimson to Mike Patton; Melvins to The Mars Volta) fuse and recombine into a new-synthesis---like some kind of psycho-symphonic experimental cockrock-core. |
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Distant Thunder of The Sacred Force
CD + MP3: $10
| | Grind-folk/sleep-soaked/mystic-schizophrenic-post-monastic-trance-rock album of the year. Like a hybrid wedding of down-home bluesy strumming, and hyper-conceptual French postmodernism. |
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 | | Manners For Husbands
Sickly Love Sadness
FREE DOWNLOAD
| | The final installment from the future-legendary group available for FREE mp3 download. |
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 | | Various Artists
Strata - A Young Person's Guide To Experimental Music
OUT OF PRINT
| | An ambitious compilation of noise, electronic, hip-hop, free jazz, prog, and experimental music; featuring rare, new and unreleased tracks from both the Joyful Noise and Sounds Are Active rosters. |
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Cycles and Connections
CD + MP3: $10
| | If you enter one hypnagogic state of bodiless illumination this year it should be Receptor Sight's new album Cycles and Connections! The energy which permeates the universe will flow from your speakers. |
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Gogglesphere / The Nancy School (7")
OUT OF PRINT
| | Two Indianapolis gems here in one unexpected combination. This vinyl showcases the incredible talent and originality which, against all odds, is still alive and well in modern rock music. |
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Glossolalia
CD + MP3: $10
MP3: $7
| | The bass and drum duo have composed an album that comes off sounding like a Christian Marclay-ed Melvins 12" crossfaded with a Ruins cover of Music for Airports. |
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Babies In Hell...
OUT OF PRINT
| | For anyone who's too mature for 80's cock-rock, whose fed-up with death-metal, and is unable to dance or have sex while Don Caballero is blasting on the stereo--this album is a MUST-HAVE. |
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Melk The G6-49 / Manners For Husbands (7")
Vinyl + MP3: $4
| | Like the texts of medieval alchemists. Post-apocalyptic math rock which kind-of sounds like the collapse of a biblical city. |
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Melk The G6-49
CD + MP3: $10
| | If you could run an MRI on this album it would look like a brain in the grips of a religious seizure. The most common side-effects include headache, rapture, salvation, arrhythmic heartbeat, and total brain-death. |
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NOTE: A FREE, instant MP3 download is included with most purchases of CDs and vinyl. You can also order the old fashioned way by sending a nice letter and secure form of payment to: P.O. Box 20109, Indianapolis, IN 46220. |
