The Minus 5 - Dear December - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

RECORD STORE DAY 2019 RELEASELIMITED TO 1,350 COPIES IN NORTH AMERICALess than three days after a doctor predicted he would never play music again, Scott McCaughey began writing his next album while still in the ICU, unable to speak coherently, his right side just waking from paralyzation. In November 2017, the Northwest underground stalwart suffered a stroke that nearly killed him and wiped his entire musical catalog (including The Minus 5, Young Fresh Fellows, R.E.M., and many more) from his memory. But instead of wallowing in misery, McCaughey channeled his omni-positive spirit and began to write down whatever incoherent thoughts crossed his mind. He turned those stream-of-consciousness notebook pages into his 13th full-length Minus 5 , Stroke Manor. The album is a capsule of weeks in a hospital bed and recovery back at his Portland home, where he recorded the album with significant contributions from Peter Buck, Joe Adragna, Jeff Tweedy, and more. The results are often head-scratching, tongue-tying spats of confusion, as the lyrics nudged him to experiment with voice-altering effects, to match the singular new outer-space characters he felt he was singing as.1. Plascent Folk 2. My Collection 3. Beacon From RKO 4. Bleach Boys & Beach Girls 5. My Master Bull 6. Beatles Forever (Little Red) 7. Message Of Mother 8. Well In Fact She Said 9. MRI 10. Pink Bag For Rip Torn 11. Scar Crow 12. Goodbye Braverman 13. Top Venom

Hard-hitting new collection succeeds the trio's rampaging 2019 In The Red Debut EP Death Buy! Proving once again that Inchpower trioInch isn't just a descriptive handle from the distant past but a louder-than-God 21st-Century reality, the devastating New York band Skull Practitioners bow Negative Stars, their first full-length album for In The Red Records.The eight-track collection is the second for Los Angeles-based trio-guitarist Jason Victor, bassist Kenneth Levine, and drummer Alex Baker-who collectively produced the record, with Ted Young engineering (and Baker handling engineering on vocal sessions).Brooklyn Vegan said, InchIf you dig early '80s L.A. dusty punk like Gun Club, X and Flesh Eaters, or the many works of Jon Spencer, you will want to check out these four ripping, ripped-up tracks.Inch Rock And Roll Globe described the music as InchGun Club fugues played by anxious Amphetamine Reptile Records ghosts deciding they'd prefer to continue to walk the earth.InchNegative Stars is the culmination of years of work in New York's clubs and studios. InchI don't like to say the date we started working together,Inch says Levine, Inchbut the second Bush was still president.InchAt the time, Victor had already established himself as the dazzling co-lead guitarist for Steve Wynn and the Miracle Three; when Wynn revived his '80s L.A. Paisley Underground consortium the Dream Syndicate in 2017, Victor took the guitar chair previously occupied by Karl Precoda and Paul Cutler. Baker had only recently arrived from Cincinnati.With their album finally complete and the pandemic lifting, Skull Practitioners have begun to take to the stage more regularly in 2022 they have played shows with Lydia Lunch, Live Skull, the Art Gray Noizz Quintet, and In the Red tag-mates the Wolfmanhattan Project (Kid Congo Powers, Mick Collins, and Bob Bert). They plan to get on the road in the ne

Featuring the prolific musicians Dave Ellis, Ron Lemke and, of course, Jonathan Simon, this relaxed album features some of those InchReally Good SongsInch. This work includes compositions by writers who defined the 20th century, including George Gershwin, Vincent Youmans, and Jerome Kern. You only need glance at their discographies to understand their talents.