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4-4-08....... Turn Blue's "It's Not What We Mean It's How We Mean" has been released. Heavily influenced by 60's and 70's pop, modern electronic music, and the blue-collar melancholy of Green Bay's industrial surroundings, Turn Blue is a band more interested in conveying emotion through complex melody and deceptively minimal soundscapes than conveying a meaning or message through played-out lyrical ideas. For fans of Elliott Smith, Wilco and Surf's Up era Beach Boys. Silkscreened Edition of 150 copies but the label is limited to 25 copies. You can download tracks over at their website or purchase a copy at the label website .
March 2008_________"I love burritos. They're my favorite food. I also surf and skateboard as much as possible." Read the entire interview with Emerson Torrey of Mustache Ride. ...... Motif Magazine gives some press to the Propellers.... Killing Pablo Quiet/Loud/Repeat is now available. Recorded with Sean Lynch at Muzzle Recording Co. in Olneyville, "quiet/loud/repeat" packs ten songs and assorted weird noises into just over 36 minutes. Think of a room of drunken fools trying to mix Crazy Horse with Mogwai and you'd be pretty close to describing it. More pop and less aggressive than their previous two releases. For fans of Built to Spill, Silkworm, Neil Young, and Slint. Silkscreened Edition of 150 copies. Label limited to 25 copies. Purchase a copy at the label website .... Suicide Bill & the Liquors - A Little Bit....Burned? is now available. Never critically acclaimed, but often ashamed, the boys sometimes rock and sometimes acoustic through Bill's best collection of songs. Think part 80's Minneapolis, part 70's stadium, and part modern-day-quiet-complaining. 16 growing older, hate the day-job, lonely, unsure anthems. You can download either Original Lonely or Alligator Arms or purchase a copy at the label website .....big thanks to one of the best music websites, captains dead for giving some press to our own folk troubadour Ben Pilgrim......The 75orLess Live Music Showcase at The Penalty Box on Saturday March 22 will feature FREE COPIES of the brand new 75orLess release SUICIDE BILL & THE LIQUORS "FEELING A LITTLE BIT....BURNED?". Also appearing will be CHRIS EVIL AND THE TAINTS, SIX STAR GENERAL and THE FRENZY OF TONGS. The Penalty Box is on North Main Street in Providence. FREE * 21+ * 9:00PM.......2008 Providence Phoenix Best Music Poll finalists have been named and 75orLess Records has 8 finalists in 16 categories..... Sharks Come Cruisin' "Four Years Before the Mast" EP is now available. Inspired by Quint's rendition of 'Spanish Ladies' in the film Jaws, Sharks Come Cruisin' combines traditional songs of sailing, whaling, drinking and sinking with drums, bass, fiddle, banjo, accordion, guitar and lots of hollering......There is a brief interview with 75orLess Records in the March Issue of Performer Magazine .....For the entire month of March, we are donating 20% of all our sales online to ALS Research .
FEBRUARY 2008_________ Barn Burning "Bound To Leave This Dark Behind" EP is now available. Their fourth release and first for 75orLess, was recorded by Darren Burke over a two month period in Hyde Park, MA at Makeshift Studios . Alt-country indie rock and atmospheric soundscapes mixed with folk and post-rock for fans of
My Morning Jacket, Jay Farrar, Joy Division and Sun Kil Moon. Download the track You Are The Highway .......
CD RELEASE PARTY for SHARKS COME CRUISIN at Jake's Bar & Grille Saturday Night, March 1. Their new EP Four Years Before The Mast will be available and as a special bonus, the first 50 people will receive a complimentary Sharks Come Cruisin "Four Years" pint glass. Opening up will be local favorites RUM ROW and BEN PILGRIM.
....... Each Note Secure covers the new Spectacular Fantastic release
..... Creem Magazine gives some love to The Masons "Let You Down Easy" - What an ambitious eclectic mish mosh of music styles. Listen carefully between the notes of this real life Masked Marauders and you'll hear just about everything including: Beatles, Stones, Mott, Bowie, Television, Velvets, Johnny Cash, Pere Ubu--everything but my favorite band, the Kitchen Sink
...... von Doom "The Universe" is now available. Pure power pop for aging effete moderns, rock oracle von Doom erupts
onto the 21st century's late first decade rock scene with sonic aplomb. Their debut disc, aptly titled
The Universe is a mix of aesthetics, Latin roots, the state of the art, and psychedelic effrontery. Navigating the treacherous void surrounding us all, von
Doom's requiem for humanity floats above the fray, all the while forging a path straight through your ear-fields. You can listen to the track Gravitational Pull
.......The Providence Daily Dose gave some praise to the latest 75orLess Records release, The Spectacular Fantastic's "Consume" EP: Hardest working label in showbiz, 75orLess has released a quick little EP from Cincinnati’s Spectacular Fantastic, Consume, and it’s one the label’s strongest releases to date. From the opening devolved Television riff of "Limitless and Free," the band is taking things back to mid-90’s American indie super-pop and the harmonized results are pretty great. With feet planted firmly somewhere between Dinosaur Jr.’s too-often maligned but undeniably awesome Green Mind and the more polished end of Guided By Voices, (which is still totally rough compared to anything else) Consume stays sweet and guitar heavy throughout, with chiming and sometimes dissonant solos, and again with the propulsive Dinosaur-esque euphoric drumming. This is a great, sunny record to keep you kind of cheery through all this miserable weather. - Eric Smith.......It's the record label's second anniversary! However, we are too busy to celebrate so we'll try for a big party for the third year...... The Spectacular Fantastic's "Consume" EP has been released in a silkscreened edition of 75 copies. The Spectacular Fantastic is a pop leaning rock band from the outskirts of Cincinnati. The duo, featuring multi-instrumentalists' Mike Detmer and Jonathan Williams, return with their new EP "Consume", co-released with Cincinnati's Ionik Recordings . This EP contains a link for a free download of the online only 'Reward' EP. For fans of The Beatles, Neil Young, and Sebadoh. You can download the track Tiny Little Heart .
January 2008_______75orLess Live music showcase on Saturday January 26, at The Penalty Box on North Main Street in Providence featuring Six Star General , Chris Evil and the Taints , The Propellers
and Suicide Bill . As always, no cover and the music starts at 9:00pm...... Fashion Failures "Don't Make Me Kiss You Motherfucker" is now available. The pride of Pawtucket, Rhode Island play loud, fiery guitar rock, drunken blues with big sing-a-long choruses. Nine tracks recorded with Joe Moody at Danger Multitrack Studios . Influenced by Chuck Berry, The Stooges, The Clash, The Kinks, The Real Kids and Motorhead. You can listen to the track Society's Flaw here and order your copy at
the label website ......
Baylies Band "Risibility and Discourse" is now released. Baylies Band come out swinging, starting with a nearly 17 minute Krautrock instrumental dipped in Japanese noise rock with a pinch of the Swans. That is followed by a mixed bag of 8 songs, some telling stories and rocking like the Melvins, others with a Captain Beefheart-flair, with John Cage and King Crimson nodding their approval. Features members of Temple Of Bon Matin, world criss-crossing noise and jazz rock pioneers and Mike Mountain's band. You can download the track Let's Get Stabbed here or for only $6.00 postpaid, you can order a copy here . Although it is a silkscreened edition of 125 copies, the label is limited to 25 copies with blue inks......
The 75orLess Writer's staff finally got around to listing their favorites of 2007 .......If you are into recording gear or plan on recording your own music, go over to Tape Op and sign up for their free subscription . Each issue is amazing.........
All seventeen of our 2007 75orLess Records releases can now be purchased at Zingg Music , located at 462 Main Street in Warren RI. If you haven't been there yet, they are one of the the premier music stores in Rhode Island, have tons of rare vinyl and offer a full range of music lessons.......
Six Star General "Sick Stars, Sister Cyst" T-Shirt now available. 9" album logo in black print centered on front. Anvil Pre-shrunk 100% Cotton short sleeve shirt. Colors available are blue, green, yellow, white, or red. Sizes remaining are Large or XL. Please indicate color and size when ordering. $6.50 postpaid.......
The Propellers self titled full length is now available. The Propellers cover a wide range of themes; Lullabies for the adorable yet petulant child, Homesickness, a Rooftop Swan Song, and a Love Song of Extraterrestrial Proportions. Fans of Wilco, Randy Newman, The Flaming Lips, Tom Waits, and Pink Floyd will delight in this ear candy. Silkscreened edition of 100 copies made while the label is limited to 25 copies with blue inks. You can download the track Crop Circles here .
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Why 75orLess? It's a reasonable question. The idea was born during our daily music chats, while discussing reviews we'd read. There was only one thing we consistently agreed on: they were too long. It seemed the point of how the music sounded and whether or not it was good was lost in an overlong mess of lyric quotes, personal accounts and a seemingly desperate attempt to fulfill a word count. Eventually someone said, "It's gotten to the point where if you can't say it in 75 words or less, you should shut the fuck up". Within a week, 75orless.com was born. The best part about our limit is its reversal of typical music reviews. We limit the amount of words we use, and are not required to reach a number.
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2004 Best Music Weblog nominee
75 or Less in the Providence Phoenix
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