Tsarlag’s Way
May 20, 2013
Next month sees Providence perennial Russian Tsarlag return to the LP format with a fresh set of rare spore specimens and blind alley atmospherics, “Gagged In Boonesville,” along with an 8-panel micro-zine of rotten amoeba portraitures in the inimitable Gonzales fashion. Limited copies come on chaos-colored vinyl. Scope the sonic samples and cryptic shower scene video below.
ALSO: June sees Herr Tsarlag setting forth on a bi-coastal United States tour alongside Eastern Seaboard esoteric confrontationists Humanbeast. Please email if you’re interested in assisting! Dates are below:
6.4 PROVIDENCE – DUNGEON C (HUMANBEAST RECORD RELEASE SHOW) w/ANGELS IN AMERICA, SHV
6.5 MONTREAL
6.6 TORONTO – DOUBLE DOUBLE LAND
6.7 DETROIT/CLEVELAND
6.8 CHICAGO – SITUATIONS w/ANDY ORTMANN, BOMB BANKS
6.9 MILWAUKEE
6.10 MINNEAPOLIS – HOUSE OF ROCK AND ROLL SCIENCE w/MAR HABRINE, PROSTATE
6.11 IOWA CITY
6.12 ST. LOUIS – APOP w/LARVA, GHOST ICE
6.13 KANSAS CITY
6.14 DENVER – RHINOCEROPOLIS
6.17 VANCOUVER
6.18 OLYMPIA – THEE SOURCE OV FAWNATION
6.19 PORTLAND – MULTIPLEX
6.21 SACRAMENTO – w/SCREATURES
6.22 OAKLAND – THE CHURCH
6.23 SAN FRANCISCO – THE LAB – DIVISION OF LABOR FEST
6.24 LOS ANGELES – TBA
6.25 LOS ANGELES – MATA w/PEDESTRIAN DEPOSIT, UNMANNED
6.27 PHOENIX – TRUNKSPACE
6.28 EL PASO
6.29 AUSTIN – BABYASPIRINDVD
6.30 NEW ORLEANS
7.1 CHATTANOOGA – HUMAN CONDUCT RECORDS
7.2 ASHEVILLE – APOTHECARY
7.3 CARRBORO – QUANTUM INSTABILITY w/MARK VAN FLEET, BAD NEWS
7.4 BALTIMORE – THE BANK
7.5 NEW YORK CITY – JANE PAIN
Duck To The Future
May 8, 2013
After years on the OOP list, Ducktails’ classic ’09 debut comes back around for a rare repress. Re-live the golden age! Available in the NNF Shop – and at the D-Tails merch table – while supplies last.
ALSO: some long-awaited SILK tablets have come down from on high.
L.A.’s best band, Pharaohs, follow a killer EP on the E.S.P. Institute label with a rich, ruling 8-song full-length, packed with all their live staples! Don’t miss out.
And Detroit warehouse dreamer Coyote Clean Up finally issues a proper full-length as well and it is a shimmering monorail ride straight to the heart. Sink into it.
Jonas Brotherhood
April 29, 2013
Herr J Reinhardt’s “Mask Of The Maker” LP has dwindled to the final half-box, but a collection of remixes is in production – and in the meantime he’s sculpted this Friday Night Android Friends mastermix for Impose Magazine. Freejack in and enjoy.
Wreckord Store Day
April 19, 2013
To celebrate America’s National Vinyl Holiday, Record Store Day, we are staging the following situation:
WITH EVERY LP YOU PURCHASE, YOU GET 1 LP FREE
So, buy 2 LPs, get 2 FREE. Buy 3, get 3, etc. Offer also applies to CDs!! Just use the Paypal cart and mention in the ‘NOTES’ section what your bonus items are.
NOTE: Offer only valid on Saturday April 20th from 12:01 AM to 11:59 PM. Enjoy! Better yet, go to a fine physical record store in your locale and treat yourself to some music!
Spring Makers
April 9, 2013
Pleased to formally announce the physical arrival of a trio of esteemed and anticipated recordings to the NNF Storage Shed:
1) JONAS REINHARDT “MASK OF THE MAKER” CD/LP
shredding, cosmic, and easily the peak JR statement to date. and, for a limited time, pick up a copy of his “MUSIC FOR THE TACTILE DOME” LP for only $5 if you purchase the new one! email (notnotfunrecords@gmail) to arrange! enjoy Ben Shearn’s radical meta-closing-credits VIDEO for the record’s final track if you haven’t already…
2) XANDER HARRIS “THE NEW DARK AGE OF LOVE” CD/LP
Austin’s premiere Buffy occultist returns to the recorded realm after a prolonged absence. utterly worth the wait. this title is streamable NOW for those who prefer to hear before buying.
3) MOON WHEEL “S/T” CS
international wayfarer currently stationed in Berlin dazzles with kosmische laboratory experiments on this exceptional debut. have about 11 copies left.
samples for all are on the NNF S-Cloud page, as per usual, and are purchasable in the NNF Shoppe. wholesale orderers please email first!!
T.N.D.A.O.L.
March 26, 2013
Texan machinist Xander Harris’ long-awaited sophomore full-length drops next week, stream it now for early portal access to The New Dark Age Of Love.
MOCA Loca
March 19, 2013
For art-inclined Southern Californians, there is now a well curated independent music division of the Museum Of Contemporary Art which includes a number of NNF and 100% Silk titles (as you can see from the photo), many of them out of print, alongside numerous other DIY music propagators.
Also, week before last Sneaky Snake’s own enigma, DJ Egroeg, hosted NNFer BB for a afterhours vinyl session of international classics on his weekly KCHUNG broadcast, CDS Digest. Sift at yr leisure.
Sounds & Visions
March 8, 2013
TGIF & all that. Some recent developments, ideal for weekend lazing and listening:
NUMBER ONE
All $1-and-under bargain vinyl mix from the Afterhours shadow society, for their forthcoming KCHUNG mixtape. Final copies of their Sleepwalker 12″ available in the SHOP.
NUMBER TWO
Deranged Texas John Waters acid trip modern-dance swirly-whirl invisi-people fantasia vid by Melissa Cha for “Night Fortress,” the lead cut from Xander Harris’ forthcoming sophomore full-length.
NUMBER THREE
Speaking of Xander Harris, in addition to playing the Official Not Not Fun Showcase at SXSW Friday March 15th he’ll also be playing our sick house party show Thursday March 14th, alongside Maria Minerva, Holy Balm, Ducktails, Rites Wild, Vinyl Williams, White Poppy, Weyes Blood, and Samantha Glass. Peruse the flyer and event page for further details:
NUMBER FOUR
Creeped out “Confrontations” remix by Giallo Disco mastermind Antoni Maiovvi. Umberto’s still on tour all over Europe – currently, Spain. Check dates HERE.
South By South What
March 6, 2013
After a year sabbatical we’re returning to Austin for a 2013 NNF Label Showcase featuring a far-flung consortium of rare talents, most of whom aren’t able to tour much and have never played Texas before. THIS IS YR CHANCE. Odds are high this line-up will never happen again in our lifetime. Don’t miss out if you happen to be in town navigating the jungle of corporate rock and internet beer bashes. Gracing our stage will be:
XANDER HARRIS (Austin, TX) – hometown synthesist whose looming, ruling sophomore LP, The New Dark Age Of Love, drops April 2nd
MARIA MINERVA (Tallin, EST) – Estonia’s most beloved experimental pop star and budding standup comic, with a brand new EP on 100% Silk, Bless, of witchy playful electronic karaoke
HOLY BALM (Syndey, AUS) – geniously cool synth-funk/no-wave Australian party-groove trio in the midst of their first ever U.S. tour, supporting their awesome debut, It’s You
WEYES BLOOD (Philadelphia, PA) – Natalie Mering’s haunted Victorian attic-folk project is touring down from the northeast (check dates HERE), playing songs from 2011′s The Outside Room, plus new weird American tape-hazed ballads
RITES WILD (Adelaide, AUS) – Australia’s brooding secret gem of low-lit narcotic hypo-pop is flying 8000 miles to the states for all of 3 performances; this is one of them
WHITE POPPY (Vancouver, CAN) – first non-Pacific Northwest show EVER for Crystal Dorval’s opiated bedroom shoegaze guise, in advance of her TBA NNF debut LP later this summer
SAMANTHA GLASS (Madison, WI) – longtime label associate Beau Devereaux’s mantric nocturnal shadowplay songs hit a peak with last fall’s Mysteries From The Palomino Skyliner, and we’re beyond honored to have him kick off this very special show
RELEVANT DETAILS:
1) No festival badge necessary for entry
2) All ages
3) Alcohol, food, and merch available
4) $8-10 admission
5) Doors at 7 PM; first act starts PROMPTLY at 7:30
6) THIS WILL RULE
questions, drop us a line: notnotfunrecords@gmail.com
Unique New York
March 1, 2013
Best show of the spring?? L.A.’s Pharaohs make a rare trans-coastal appearance supported by Miss Maria Minerva and Octo Octa, plus a DJ set by Magic Touch!! All five boroughs residents should not miss this.
Balmy Los Angeles
February 18, 2013
THAT’S NOT ALL. THE HOLY BALM TRAIN ROLLS ON:
SAN FRANCISCO w/Bronze
OAKLAND w/Believe
PORTLAND w/Swahili and DJ Charles Berlitz
CHICAGO w/Stacian
MILWAUKEE w/Stacian
DETROIT w/Coyote Clean Up
Plus Austin (at the NNF SXSW Showcase!), Ann Arbor, Brooklyn, and the Dominican Republic!! Don’t miss out!!
White Poppy Wonderland
February 5, 2013
A dizzy, delirious, opiated live ambience session by White Poppy at the Shudder Gallery in Vancouver last year. Thrilled to announce that she’ll also be performing at NNF’s official SXSW showcase in Austin, TX on Friday March 15th!! More news on that soon.
Profligate In LA
January 31, 2013
First time live in Los Angeles!! 5 copies of his “Videotape” 12″ left in stock! [EDIT: Sold out from us!! Check Revolver for copies.]
Night Fantasies
January 23, 2013
Kansas City night-fantasist Umberto is a week and a half away from dropping his 4th official full-length (and his first for NNF since 2010), the slow-burn alien-invasion saga, Confrontations. Him and his team (including the Goodwillies’ enigmatic offspring, Eno & Cat) put together the appropriately haunted and baffling skeleton-cruiser video for the lead cut, “Night Fantasy.” Watch loud & in the dark.
To celebrate, Umberto is embarking on an expansive overseas tour, hitting up tons of cities (and countries) for the first time. Dates are below. He’s also performing at a prestigious John Carpenter tribute/festival in Geneva alongside Alan Howarth and Zombie Zombie, check out the details here:
http://www.antigel.ch/en/lineup-deposit/soiree-john-carpenter-en.html
CONFRONTATIONS TOUR DATES
Feb 27 DE Berlin
Feb 28 GR Thessaloniki
March 01 GR Larisa
March 02 GR Athens
March 07 ES Madrid
March 08 ES Valencia
March 09 ES Barcelona
March 14 POR Lisbon
March 15 DE Bielefeld
March 16 DE Darmstadt
March 18 F Paris
March 19 F Paris
March 22 NL Amsterdam
March 23 DE Trier
March 25 CZ Prague
March 26 DE Leipzig
March 27 DE Osnabrück
March 28 DK Copenhagen
March 29 SCO Edinburgh
March 30 SCO Glasgow
March 31 SCO Dundee
April 03 CH Geneve
April 06 BE Brussels
April 07 BE Ghent
April 11 IT Rome
April 12 HU Budapest
April 13 A Vienna
April 14 SLO Maribor
Golden Road
January 11, 2013
Madisonian cosmos crunkist Golden Donna is perusing out on a brief midwest whirl alongside fellow synthesizer aliens Ginseng (member of Cuticle), please stop in and enjoy the sounds if you want to a break from January’s deep freeze. Dates are thus (for specific venue details contact signaldreams@gmail.com):
1/16 Madison, WI @ Good Style Shop w/ Outside World
1/17 Detroit, MI @ ADLT CNTMPRRY w/ Coyote Clean Up, Healers, +MORE
1/18 Bloomington, IN @ The Ream w/ Dracula Pills, Vedek, +MORE
1/19 Chicago, IL @ Dust Bowl w/ Gel Set, The North
1/20 Milwaukee, WI @ Quarter’s
ALSO – we received a small warehouse-scavenged parcel of previously OOP NNF + SILK vinyls, all available for a limited time NOW in the shop. Titles include:
1) KWJAZ LP !!
2) ROBEDOOR “TOO DOWN TO DIE” LP
3) AFTERHOURS “SLEEPWALKER” 12″ (clear vinyl)
4) MARIA MINERVA “SACRED & PROFANE LOVE” 12″
5) FORT ROMEAU “KINGDOMS” CD digipak
6) ROLAND TINGS “MILKY WAY” 12″
please partake if you missed any of these the first time ’round. ALSO, worth noting: the BUY 3 GET 1 FREE vinyl sale is still in effect!!! take advantage. non-US folks drop a line first: notnotfunrecords@gmail.com
Profligate Gets Wierd
January 7, 2013
Brooklynites/New Yorkers don’t miss this.
The End Of The End Of The World
December 22, 2012
What do you know?? The apocalypse came and went, as chill and uneventful as Y2K. To celebrate, we’re having a ‘WE’RE STILL ALIVE!!!’ Vinyl Sale, running through January 31st. As in years past the deal is:
BUY ANY 3 LP/12″ titles (NNF or SILK) & RECEIVE A 4th FREE!!
(Domestic buyers: mention the 4th title in your Paypal notes; Int’l buyers: EMAIL FIRST!)
And yes, if you buy 6 records that means you get 2 FREE (and on and on). A great time to buy late gifts, blow holiday $$, stock up on titles you missed, and help fund the 2013 slate of releases (Jonas Reinhardt, Xander Harris, Russian Tsarlag, Ensemble Economique, etc!). Endless thanks to everyone for staying bold and weird and taking chances on new artists!!
ALSO, OUT TODAY – the final 2 NNF releases of 2012 are 2 exceptional tapes:
Filthy Huns “S/T” (killer solo debut of droned biker hieroglyphs and hazed ghostrider grooves by Nick of Daughters Of The Sun; check the sample track)
Super Jam presents Upper Layer Cruisers “Rush Consequence” (radly blasted sountracking by this consistently stellar Swedish subterranean)
Also, if you missed it, there’s a new video from the LA Vampires With Maria Minerva collab record, full of summer euro tour footage courtesy of videographer extraordinaire Benjamin Shearn. Please scope if you haven’t already (and grab the release in the NNF shop, already quite low on copies):
Whiteout Wonderland
December 16, 2012
Vancouver blur-trader White Poppy aka Crystal Dorval architected this warped compilation of alien-ized basement Xmas/holiday song covers called ‘Whiteout’, featuring Golden Donna, Cough Cool, Ginseng, White Poppy, Yling Ylang, and a host of other esotericists. Available for streaming or free download! ‘Tis the season.
November Reign
November 26, 2012
NEW SHIT OUT TODAY:
Rites Wild “Ways Of Being” LP! Adelaide Australia’s secret weapon, with her vinyl debut of echo drum machinery, foggy keys, blank-eyed voices, and bedroom dirges.
Profligate “Videotape” 12 inch! Philly wasteland-stalker Noah Anthony’s new industrial guise continues its upward arc towards exquisitely eerie, chugging flatliner electronics.
Also: a grip of new SILKs, all in the NNF SHOP. Don’t miss the aktion!
Nu Vidz
November 20, 2012
OUT NEXT WEEK: Profligate’s Videotape 12″ (NNF265). Check this visual psychosis directed by airbrusher du jour Robert Beatty.
ALSO RELEVANT: Fresh weird verite new wave narrative for “Mad Girl’s Love Song” from Maria Minerva’s latest full-length Will Happiness Find Me? Bonus points if you can identify all the locations she wanders by.
Phantom Cuticle
November 9, 2012
Digital opera phantom Cuticle staged an ambitious & weird set of Halloween-vibed covers for a masked rave/ball last week, click the above photo to hear the results. Also, a few days previous he DJ’d at Club Blood Onyx in Chicago, go HERE to stream his set. Tracklisting includes Ministry, Jealousy, Xander Harris, Death In June, Geto Boys, and beyond. Limited copies remain of his Mother Rhythm Earth Fantasy 12″, please seek it out in the NNF Shop if so inclined.
On Ether Island
November 7, 2012
Coyote, New Mexico grunge-drone duo Ether Island have crafted a haunting video for the desolate, doom-soul march, “Black Wind Way,” off their 7″ vinyl debut, Season Of Risk. All original footage and photography by guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Jeremiah Cowlin. Still available in the NNF Shop, only $5!
Graveyard Smash
October 29, 2012
OUT TODAY – long-gestating collaborative full-length between LA Vampires and new New Yorker Maria Minerva, The Integration LP. Weird beats, woozy vocals, and two lifetimes of lost, luv-cool moods. Vinyl version is IN STOCK and ON HAND, CD version will be on the site and in shops in about 1 week! Check this Ben Shearn-directed vid for “Season’s Change,” if you haven’t scoped it already:
ALSO OUT – Golden Donna’s debut LP of airy, high altitude synthscapes and syrup-gauze cascades. Limited to 465 copies, with runic night-sky artwork by Brave Mysteries’ CEO Nate Ritter. There’ll be more from this wiz in the future. Here’s a visual whirlwind for a particularly golden cut off the rec, “Paulding Light,” enjoy:
LASTLY – some new SILKs in the DISTRO shop by Sir Stephen and JMII, both are excellent. Also have a tiny handful of Robedoor “City Of Scum” tapes back in from Tokyo, apologies to previous orderers for the delay on them…
Extremely low on stock for an array of older titles, don’t miss out on grabbing them. Don’t forget all orders of 3 or more vinyl releases get bonus 1-of-a-kind mix tapes while supplies last!!
Blocktober
October 1, 2012
Planet Of The Tapes
September 23, 2012
OUT NOW – Father Finger’s self-titled debut tape. Witchy, weird-wave psychic synthesizer pop of the sickest order. On tour with Maria Minerva, RIGHT NOW. Purchase in the NNF SHOP, while it lasts.
ALSO – semi-recently we came into some turntables, a mixer, and a box of short-ish blank tapes, SO: for the next month, ALL ORDERS OF 3 OR MORE 12″/LPs COME WITH A FREE ONE-OF-A-KIND MIXTAPE LIVE-CRAFTED FROM OUR VINYL VAULTS. esoteric shit, thrift store 12 inches, DIY trash, dub classic, scuzz 45s, skrewed house, NNF/SILK test pressings, and beyond – who knows? Each is different. Just mention it in yr paypal notes!! (note: order can be for NNF, SILK, or distro items – all count towards yr 3).
LASTLY – Samantha Glass’ stunning debut is out and about on the streets officially in distros and shops nationwide. Order HERE if you’d like more than an individual copy. Silkscreened in a sweeping array of various paper stocks and shades, ink hues, metallics, neons, etc. Don’t miss out, we won’t be able to make more of these covers once they’re gone….
Some new Robedoor action in the DISTRO as well from Italy and Japan. Check the site for upcoming live situations as well.
Questions/issues/int’l orders: notnotfunrecords @ gmail.com
Angel Eyes In The City Of Angels
September 20, 2012
Tour Time, Times Two
September 14, 2012
Maria Minerva – The Sound from Not Not Fun on Vimeo.
It is ON. Starting tonite, at Glasslands in Brooklyn, Miss Maria is setting off on a long and winding interstate road/highway – up, down, and all around the US of A, accompanied by fellow femme wildcard Father Finger. Roll out to a show in yr borough and grab Maria’s new moodswing tome, Will Happiness Find Me?, as well as Father Finger’s NNF tour tape (out on the site soon). Dates HERE, and everywhere. To further whet the audio-appetites, enjoy this radical vid for FF’s opening track, “Temper,” filmed/edited by Christine Jones:
Father Finger-Temper from Christine Jones on Vimeo.
Maria & Samantha
September 4, 2012
Behold: Tallinn’s most baffling and radical export continues to mix it up and max it out. Her official sophomore full-length is available on CD and LP, today, and this week she plays the MOMA PS1 in NY with Thom Yorke, Rustie, and a bunch of other surprising personalities. Right after that she hits the road with Father Finger for a serious trans-American adventure, hitting up dozens of cities. Dates are thus:
9-06 New York, NY – Fashion Night Out at Urban Outfitters.
9-08 Long Island City, NY – PS1 Warm Up
9-14 Brooklyn, NY – Glasslands Gallery
9-15 Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie
9-17 Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery
9-19 Pittsburg, PA – Brillo Box
9-20 Cleveland, OH – Now That’s Class
9-21 Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups
9-22 Chicago, IL – The Hideout
9-23 Minneapolis, MN – The Entry
9-25 Missoula, MT – Ole Beck VFW Post 209
9-26 Vancouver, BC – Waldorf Hotel
9-27 Seattle, WA – Decibel Festival
9-28 Portland, OR – Holocene
9-30 San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop‖
10-03 Santa Monica, CA – Central Social Aid & Pleasure Club
10-06 San Diego, CA – Soda Bar
10-07 Phoenix, AZ – Trunk Space
10-09 Austin, TX – Mohawk Insid
10-11 New Orleans, LA – Siberia
10-12 Atlanta, GA – 529
10-13 Durham, NC – Pinhook
10-14 Richmond, VA – Strange Matter
10-16 Purchase, NY – SUNY Purchase
10-17 Brooklyn, NY – Public Assembly
Don’t miss this rare, magic pass thru the U.S.S.A.
ALSO: out today is the long-in-the-works full-length debut by radical Madisonian Samantha Glass, “Mysteries From The Palomino Skyliner.” Tokyo drifter Ryo Kuramoto drew and screened the incredible sleeves for it, which come in dozens of shades and palettes of metallic, rust, neon, etc. These things are fucking awesome. Added bonus: a brand new music video for ‘Return To The Sky Pt. 3′, by Beau and Stina B. Seaberg. Rite on.
Samantha Glass – Return To The Sky Pt. 3 from Not Not Fun on Vimeo.
Live From The Cube
September 2, 2012
A grim grip of acts convene in the cubic reverb chamber that is Chinatown’s Human Resources, including out-of-towners Andrew Scott Young (Chicago) and Dream Pusher (Tokyo). Come for the coma, stay for the drain.
Summergrime Blues – New NNF & distro
August 13, 2012
It is seriously punishingly sweltering in LA – last night there were even blackouts across Highland Park from all the AC units blasting so non-stop. Hopefully some of you are sleeping naked or drifting poolside to beat the heat. The rising temperature happens to coincide with some us-beloved new releases that we are jacked up to share with you:
HOLY BALM ‘IT’S YOU’ CD/LP
MOONPOOL & DEAD BAND ‘HUMAN FLY’ 12″
AFTERHOURS ‘SLEEPWALKER’ 12″
NIGHT BURGER ‘BURNIN’ FAST’ CS
plus!
a grip of warm SILK garments:
ROLAND TINGS 12″
JONAS REINHARDT 12″ (dont miss this one)
ANDY SANGRIA CS
MARIA MINERVA ‘NOBLE SAVAGE’ 12″ (back in stock!!)
JUST BLACK CS
OCTO OCTA ‘OH LOVE’ 12″ (finally)
OCTO OCTA ‘LET ME SEE YOU’ 12″ (limited copies!)
peruse the SHOP and drop us a line for int’l/distro orders or related queries:
notnotfunrecords@gmail.com
xo nnf