“Your Friends Will Carry You Home” by Adam Gnade

BOOK - 1/10/24
BOOK ISBN: 978-1-939-899-48-4
STREET DATE: 1/10/24
PUBLISHER: Three One G

117 pages

For fans of autobiographical literary writing in the vein of Ocean Vuong and Maggie Nelson, Adam Gnade's latest is both a spirited, hard-luck adventure and a clear-eyed look at the power of friendship and community in fraught times. Set in the gray cities and across the sprawling motorway of 2023 England, Your Friends Will Carry You Home shows Gnade's wayward American protagonist and his English friends looking for bright moments and celebration in the face of an uncertain future. This quick, lyrical road novel is recommended for anyone who feels lost in the modern age and wants more from life for themselves and for those they love most.

Venus Twins "/\/\/\/\/ (Stitching)"

CASSETTE - $7.50
STREET DATE: 11/8/24
CAT#: 31G148
LABEL: Three One G

Twin telepathy is real: "Being twins is definitely an unusual life experience; it seems the only way Venus Twins works is that the only two people in the band have this specific connection to one another." Venus Twins was founded in Denton, TX in the summer of 2018 by Jake (drums) and Matt Derting (bass and vocals). They began writing/recording their first release, Kickass, immediately after inception, followed by a relocation to Brooklyn. Venus Twins' first LP, Eat Your Dogs, accompanied this relocation. The next release was RAXIS, paired with nearly non-stop touring for two years averaging a show every 3.4 days, playing with bands such as Whores., Heavenly Blue, and Pons. Of upcoming release Stitches (visualized as /////), vocalist/bassist Matt explains: "I love sewing and making clothes. Throughout the recording of this EP I was practicing a lot, and it started to feel like a perfect metaphor lyrically." The band is influenced by bands such as Hella, Gilla Band, Machine Girl, JOHNNASCUS, PageNinetyNine, Melt Banana, The Locust, The Mars Volta, and Anthony Green, as well as non-musical artists like Kurt Vonnegut, Andy Kaufman, Robert Eggers, the feeling of constantly being stressed out, and living in NYC.

Stitches was recorded, produced and mixed by Hayden Ticehurst at Studio G in Brooklyn, as well as his personal studio. Mastered by Dan Millice (Hella, A$ap Rocky).

TRACK LISTING:
01. Prelude /////
02. I Just Can't Get Enough!*
03. God Help Me Bury This Fucking Light
04. Stitching
05. It Can't End Like This*

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Supporting The Blood Brothers, December 16th - Warsaw, Brooklyn

FOR FANS OF:
Machine Girl, Lightning Bolt, Jeromes Dream, The Locust, Converge

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"Cut & Paste: The American Hardcore Fanzine" by Patrick Kitzel

BOOK - $31.90
ISBN: 979-8-9868736-3-3
STREET DATE: 10/18/24
CAT#: UNDERWELT02
LABEL: Unterwelt Books / Tribal Publishing

From the early fanzines covering the pioneering bands of our scene to the staples that established the classic feel of the American Hardcore Fanzine and everything in between. Presenting a visual collection of over four hundred fanzines accompanied by distinguished Fanzine creators such as Al Quint - Suburban Voice, Hud - Flipside. Kent McClard - Heartattack, Tim McMahon - Common Cause, Mike Gitter - XXX, Fred Hammer - It’s Alive, Chris Daily - Smorgasbord, Porcell - Schism, and Brett Beach - Hardware, to name a few. Cut & Paste offers a diverse range, both visually and in terms of the individuals featured, which will give the novice important insight into our scene and, at the same time, give the ones who have been along for the ride for a while a worthy trip down memory lane. Unterwelt Books follows up its 2023 release of CIV’s “ A Roadies Tale” with another great piece of collected Hardcore history.

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Presenting a visual collection of over four hundred fanzines
  • accompanied by distinguished Fanzine creators such as Al Quint - Suburban Voice, Hud - Flipside. Kent McClard - Heartattack, Tim McMahon - Common Cause, Mike Gitter - XXX, Fred Hammer - It’s Alive, Chris Daily - Smorgasbord, Porcell - Schism, and Brett Beach - Hardware & more!

HELP "Courage"

LP - $17.25
LP UPC: 667758960996
STREET DATE: 10/11/24
CAT#: 31G143
LABEL: Three One G

Portland's Help is the frenzied sound of a broken and collapsing society. In a world beset with anti-human reactions to daily struggles, Help responds with ways to dismantle evil machines and systems. It is this pro-human mindset that brought Help band-mates Ryan Neighbors (Guitar/vocals), Morty (bass), and Bim Ditson (drums) together. All three had spent the last decade or so in other, perhaps more restrained, bands: Ditson with grinding indie rockers And And And, Neighbors with alt-pop dynamos Portugal. The Man and with his electronic project Hustle and Drone. With Help, they are retrieving punk roots each member had put down in their teens. They are ripping the seams back open to see what's really inside. "Everyone is angry," says Neighbors, "Make some art about it." Help is the band Portland needs right now. Fuck it, it's the band the whole world could use a heavy dose of if we want to climb out of the dark ages of greed and into the next century of mutual aid and collaborative self-directed communities of creativity.

Help's new EP "Courage" is centered around heartbreak and pain. Progress as a series of fresh new hells. Hoping that it is better to be in love than to be right, while enduring the apparent absence of both love and coherence in American culture. The short version of the story of this record is that both Ryan and Bim's lives were exploding and falling apart. Okay, okay, it's a breakup album. Their vulnerability in these songs became necessary for their survival. Though deeply personal, these songs are meant as an invitation for others to feel and hurt freely. After all, this may be one of the last freedoms we get to enjoy in this crumbled world. Courage. In the face of hopelessness, in the face of everyone pretending anything is fine, in the face of the end of things meant to last and last. Courage. For the band, Courage is a step towards a broader sound and an experiment in honesty over security. The upcoming vinyl release from Three One G Records also includes the band's debut self-titled EP. Their focus in all they do: Remove fear from decision making. Act in defiant joy. Refuse to dominate others. Do not hoard the gifts of the universe. Remember: the future is uncertain. Ends don't justify means. Solidarity now. If the goal is growth, success is an ending. War and love are forms of death. This record is an example of the destructive nature of growth: on the planet, on the human spirit, on our ability to hold on.

A note from the band about the EP: "As much as we feel like Courage is a cohesive piece of music and stands alone, we wanted to give fans more bang for their buck and a more complete listening experience. We decided to press our self-titled EP, Help (released in 2019), on side B of the vinyl as well as make these songs bonus tracks on the digital release. The songs we wrote in 2019 still mean just as much to us as these new songs, our lives were just breaking in different ways, and they will be next time around too."

TRACK LISTING:
01. The Consequence
02. Black Cloud
03. Courage
04. Fresh New Hell
05. Claustrophobic Nightmare
06. Feel So Alive (Do You Have To)
07. Help
08. Devil is a Snake
09. Pennies on the Ground
10. Staying Awake
11. Skeletons
12. Class War Now

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Produced by Sonny DiPerri (Portugal. The Man, Animal Collective, Protomartyr, Emma Ruth Rundle)
  • Vinyl features bonus tracks

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Head Wound City "A New Way Of Violence"

LP - $17.90
LP UPC: 883888034615
STREET DATE: 8/2/24
CAT#: 31G047.5
LABEL: Three One G

Head Wound City is made up of members of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Blood Brothers, and The Locust. All come from diverse backgrounds, steeped in metal (thrash and grind in particular), goth, and every permutation of hardcore and punk imaginable. Their entirely aptly titled debut album, A New Wave of Violence (taken from the Raymond Pettibon zine), sounds like what one might imagine the sum total of five people known for innovation in discordant audio assault would sound like.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Old Age Takes Too Long
02. Born to Burn
03. Head Wound City, USA
04. I Wanna Be Your Original Sin
05. I Cast a Shadow for You
06. Scraper
07. Closed Casket
08. Palace of Love and Hate
09. Avalanche in Heaven
10. Love is Best

FOR FANS OF:
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Locust, The Blood Brothers

Various Artists "Don't Fall In Love With Yourself"

VHS - $18.75
STREET DATE: 4/26/24
CAT#: 31GLUNCHMEAT
LABEL: Three One G

Don't Fall in Love With Yourself is a documentary that explores the life of enigmatic musician and artist, Justin Pearson. From childhood tragedy and his roots in the San Diego punk scene, to his appearance on Jerry Springer and rise to cult celebrity status. An in-depth look at a career made out of blood, sweat and spit.

Much of the B-roll has been sourced from dozens of VHS & Mini-DV tapes recorded over the past three decades. Controversial and never-before-seen footage of one of the most interesting and unique musical movements is recent memory.

The film's interviews include Justin Pearson, Dave Lombardo, Eric Paul, Gabe Serbian, Bobby Bray, Travis Ryan, Jeremy Bolm, Jon Syverson, Molly Neuman & Becky DiGiglio and more.

TRACK LISTING:
01. The Perils of Believing in Round Squares - The Locust
02. Stop Flushing the Toilet
03. Red, White, and You - Struggle
04. It's a (Half) Pipe Dream
05. Intro to Photography - Swing Kids
06. The Ironic Assholism of Hardy Jenns
07. Radiation Blue - The Crimson Curse
08. I Hope You Don't Get the Joke
09. Psycho 75 - The Crimson Curse
10. Something to Guac About
11. The Half Eaten Sausage Would Like to See You in His Office - The Locust
12. The Hill of Fool's Gold
13. Warsaw - Swing Kids
14. AOTKPTA - The Locust
15. No Poetry Needed
16. Elephant in the Doom
17. Mature Science - Retox
18.. Myddel Fyngir
19. Old Age Lasts Too Long - Justin Pearson/ Gabe Serbian
20. Mind Meld
21. ZZ Stop
22. Rasquache
23. Come Bogeyman - Planet B

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Features interviews include Justin Pearson, Dave Lombardo, Eric Paul, Gabe Serbian, Bobby Bray, Travis Ryan, Jeremy Bolm, Jon Syverson, Molly Neuman & Becky DiGiglio and more!

FOR FANS OF:
The Locust, Swing Kids, Retox, Planet B

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Retox "Beneath California"

LP - $17.50
STREET DATE: 4/19/24
CAT#: 31G079
LABEL: Three One G

The world is falling apart one day at a time, and the majority of us sit and watch as if attending a public hanging--more and more, our interest is piqued by the appalling, while our thoughts and reactions remain largely absent. When stripped of the bloated, festering egos that so many cling to in order to feel important, we are nothing more than ugly animals. In a society that is predominantly dormant, Retox brings this reality to the forefront in a forward-thinking way, commanding our ever-rapidly-decreasing attention spans and determined to provoke some kind of visceral response, good or bad.

Consisting of Justin Pearson (The Locust, Deaf Club, Swing Kids), Michael Crain (Festival of Dead Deer, Dead Cross), Brian Evans, and Keith Hendriksen (Kill the Capulets, Virginia Reed), Retox is marked by a speed and sound that seeks to shatter apathy. Since their conception in 2011, they have toured with similarly like-minded acts such as Melt-Banana, Tomahawk, OFF!, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and Doomsday Student, physically bringing every bit as much intensity as the music itself incites intellectually.

Coming off of their sophomore album, "YPLL" (Years of Potential Life Lost), Retox have emerged from the collective depths of San Diego and Los Angeles with their latest antagonistic efforts, entitled "Beneath California". Varying styles and sonically experimenting, melding the raw with the refined, the band continuously teases yet never settles on any one genre-- aside from perhaps (as members of the band itself have referred to their work) "annoying". Tracks such as "Death Will Change Your Life" spit cynical lyrics drenched in rapid-fire rhythm: "All those who have died before me, forgot trustees, cleaned streets with parolees/They dragged everything into the sea, the filth and the debris, and hoped none would see."

Overall, Retox simultaneously seems to reflect and defy, using music as a way of holding a broken mirror to the rest of us, exposing different pieces of our own fucked up realities, and forcing the acknowledgement of the inevitable self-imposed apocalypse we are creating for ourselves.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Die In Your Own Cathedral
02. We Know Who's The Prick
03. The Savior, The Swear Word
04. Let's Not Keep In Touch
05. Disappointing Grade
06. The Inevitable End
07. This Should Hurt A Little Bit
08. Death Will Change Your Life
09. Without Money, We'd All Be Rich
10. You're Only A Crook If You Get Caught
11. Wooden Nickels
12. Strong Wrong Opinion

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Updated Packaging
  • Band featured Justin Pearson (The Locust, Deaf Club, Swing Kids), Michael Crain (Festival of Dead Deer, Dead Cross), Brian Evans, and Keith Hendriksen (Kill the Capulets, Virginia Reed)

FOR FANS OF:
Dead Cross, Deaf Club, Swing Kids, The Festival of Dead Deer

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Deaf Club feat. HIRS Collective / Fuck Money "Split"

7"EP - $6.50
7"EP UPC: 667758960971
STREET DATE: 3/22/24
CAT#: 31G142
LABEL: Three One G

For this split, The HIRS Collective combine chaotic forces with Deaf Club on an original track, "Biblical Loophole" as well as a Nirvana cover of "Tourette's." The HIRS Collective exists to fight for, defend, and celebrate the survival of trans, queer, poc, black, women and any and all other folks who have to constantly face violence, marginalization, and oppression. They are "a collective of freaks and faggots that will never stop existing. Infinite and never ending. No one is going to kill us, we are going to live forever."

Deaf Club is a savage sound bath dripping with sardonicism: a blastbeat-centric hardcore punk assault channeling crust, thrash, and grind (un)sensibilities. Justin Pearson (The Locust, Dead Cross, Planet B), Brian Amalfitano, Scott Osment (Glassing, Planet B), and Jason Klein (Run With The Hunted), approach music as an opportunity to confront our collective sicknesses.

Fuck Money is an American scrape rock band based in Austin, TX. The group debuted in October 2021 consisting of members TaSzlin Trébuchet, Alton Jenkins, Bill Kenny, and Jeremy Humphries. Their sound draws on punk rock, noise, industrial, extreme music and other transgressive subgenres. The merciless & melodic stick-work of Alton Jenkins paired with the visceral intensity of frontman TaSz Trébuchet guides listeners down a path of challenging yet awe-inspiring sonic behavior.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Biblical Loophole - Deaf Club feat. HIRS Collective
  2. Tourette's - Deaf Club feat. HIRS Collective
  3. Alley Tricks - Fuck Money
  4. Rat Queen - Fuck Money

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Deaf Club & Fuck Money EU tour 4/4 - 4/27
  • Deaf Club & HIRS Collective West Coast tour this summer

FOR FANS OF:
The Locust, Nirvana

N8NOFACE and Planet B con .MS.BOAN "N8NOFACE and Planet B con .MS.BOAN"

7"EP - $6.50
STREET DATE: 3/1/24
CAT#: 31G141
LABEL: Three One G

N8NOFACE has been described as a Chicano Flannery O'Connor playing chiptune Ministry, the Sleaford Mods of the American Southwest, Suicide for the 21st Century and Ghostmane meets darkwave synthpunk dashed with early Ween's glue-huffing pop. Lyrically, his sometimes romantic, oftentimes violent storytelling tunes lean toward Narcocorrido, the bloody ballads of Mexican drug cartels. It sounds dark on the surface, but really N8NOFACE's music is a lot of fun, and as exciting and cathartic as the birth of punk rock and hiphop.

Sharing the split is Planet B, which is Justin Pearson (Dead Cross, Deaf Club, The Locust), Luke Henshaw (Sonido de la Frontera), Kevin Avery (Field Day, Retox) and Scott Osment (Deaf Club, Glassing). The band was formed with the shared purpose of creating music subversive in sound and sobering in message. Their music is rooted in hip hop, hardcore punk, turntablism, and 70s-80s horror movie scores. For this release, Planet B teams up with Ms.BOAN (Medio Mutante, //TENSE//), the moody, mysterious & experimental, visionary synth-pop legend Mariana A Saldaña, who brings to the collaboration, the stormy emotions of coldwave, the ecstatic energy of EBM, and influences absorbed through her Mexican-American heritage. Serving up intense dance-pop, Ms.BOAN performs with a dramatic, emotional spirit.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Torture - N8NOFACE
  2. Makes Me Wanna Scream - N8NOFACE
  3. Punk As Fuck - N8NOFACE
  4. Connective Tissue - Planet B feat. Ms.BOAN
  5. Cumbia Mundial (Sonido de la Frontera cover) - Planet B feat. Ms.BOAN

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Planet B features Justin Pearson (Dead Cross, Deaf Club, The Locust), Luke Henshaw (Sonido de la Frontera), Kevin Avery (Field Day, Retox) and Scott Osment (Deaf Club, Glassing)

FOR FANS OF:
The Locust, Planet B , Sonido de la Frontera

Adam Gnade "I Wish to Say Lovely Things"

BOOK - $12.00
BOOK UPC: 9781939899460
STREET DATE: 2/14/24
CAT#: 31G139
LABEL: Three One G

Like a child born of the bell hooks classic All About Love and Maggie Nelson's Bluets, Adam Gnade's latest autobiographical novel takes a hard look at love in all forms--romantic, platonic, love of place, of chosen family, of destiny and purpose. Structured in large part as a book of lists, I Wish to Say Lovely Things is a complicated, big-hearted look at what it is stay loving and gentle in a violent age. Through it all, Gnade's characters struggle to get out of bed in the morning, fight for what they believe in while getting zero in return, and hope like hell in the face of hellish hopelessness. I Wish to Say Lovely Things is a graceful, philosophical, clear-eyed beacon with which to light your path through this painful, exhausting, and tremendously magnificent life.

Praise for the writing of Adam Gnade
"Lucid, life-affirming prose from an empathetic master." -Yannis Philippakis of the band Foals

"Adam Gnade is the kind of talent who will remind you how necessary it is to stay human, stay empathetic, stay true." --Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery

"The king of underground fiction. Every word is truth." -Nathaniel Kennon Perkins, Wallop

"Adam Gnade is a writer who can capture what it feels like to feel everything." -Dana Margolin of the band Porridge Radio

"Adam creates another world through his writing, one that is visceral and sharp, and helps this one make more sense." -Lora Mathis, The Snakes Came Back

FOR FANS OF:
Roberto Bolaño, bell hooks, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Lawrence Durrell

Planet B "Fiction Prediction"

LP - $17.50
STREET DATE: 2/9/24
CAT#: 31G140
LABEL: Three One G

Planet B's second LP has been a long time in the making: four years, to be specific. Obviously, over this span of time, there has been an almost unimaginable amount of surreality and insanity to pull from when creating the band's unique hip-hop-punk-meets-sci-fi-horror-movie sonic aesthetic. As always, the sound is as confrontational as it is catchy, the lyrics scathing and the beats bizarre. Earworms abound. As with the band's first release, there are a host of guest collaborations on the various tracks, from Josie Cotton to David Scott Stone (ex-LCD Soundsystem, Melvins), D-Styles (Invisibl Skratch Piklz), and more. Perhaps most personally meaningful are the instrumental contributions from Gabe Serbian (The Locust) and Eric Livingston (Mamaleek), both family to the band, who have each passed on from this dimension and back to whatever radical planet they came from since the creation of the album.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Dick On the Dance Floor
  2. Clogged Sync (feat. Eric Livingston and Ethan Campa)
  3. The Baader Review (feat. Crow Jane)
  4. The Bouquet (feat. D-Styles)
  5. Terrible Purpose (feat. Ric Scales)
  6. Horror Movie Called Civilization (feat. Tommy Meehan)
  7. Filthy Suitcase
  8. Goals Gone Wild (feat. Tommy Meehan)
  9. Rack More Brains (feat. Kent Osborne)
  10. Unreal Estate (feat. Dave Scott Stone)
  11. Let Me Explain This Again (feat. Josie Cotton and Gabe Serbian)

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Features guest appearances from osie Cotton to David Scott Stone (ex-LCD Soundsystem, Melvins), D-Styles (Invisibl Skratch Piklz), & more
  • Instrumental contributions from Gabe Serbian (The Locust) and Eric Livingston (Mamaleek)

FOR FANS OF:
The Locust, Satanic Planet, Sonido de la Frontera

Nonexistent Night “In the Middle of a Boiling Sea”

LP - $17.40
STREET DATE: 1/26/24
CAT#: 31G138
LABEL: Three One G

"While there was a sparse beauty to the solo piano recording, this fleshed-out composition is even better (if better means ‘more full of darkness and dread’). The added instrumentation folds in a welcome curiosity and complexity to this tune."
– KPBS

Carrie Feller (who creates gloom-synth earworms under the moniker Hexa), Sal Gallegos and John Rieder (of the instrumental noise-rock duo Secret Fun Club) first began working together in mid-2019. The odd, left-field idea was a cover of “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” by The Cramps, which was eventually featured on the compilation Really Bad Music for Really Bad People (Three One G, 2020). This unlikely-but-in-retrospect-perfectly-sensible collaboration continued on in spring 2021, when Carrie recruited Sal and John as the rhythm section for a new instrumental composition. The result was “Prelude in Terror,” a sonic partnership so thrilling and intuitive that a full project as a trio seemed like the only rational next step. Nonexistent Night formed soon after, and the three musicians began writing the songs that would become the new LP In The Middle of A Boiling Sea over the subsequent 12 months. The band made its live debut in June 2022 and then, with the blessing and support of the label Three One G, began production of their record throughout late 2022 and early 2023. The band recently added Alia Jyawook (Scary Pierre, ex-Hot Nerds) as permanent cellist and guitarist and are already working on new songs for a follow-up record. Influenced by bands like Three Mile Pilot, Rachel’s, Slint, Chelsea Wolfe, King Woman, Kate Bush, June of 44, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Om, Low, Converge, and Tristeza, Nonexistent Night is elegiac, dramatic, and tinged with dread: post-rock for a drowning world.

This album was recorded by Dale Holland and Sal Gallegos. Mixed by Dale Holland and mastered by Nathan Joyner. It will be released by Three One G on blue smoke color vinyl

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Unofficial Soundtrack to the Unconscious
  2. One Year
  3. Tessellations
  4. Prelude in Terror
  5. Metaphysics Becomes Physics Becomes Dead Language

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Features members of Hexa and Secret Fun Club
  • Limited to 300 copies of blue smoke vinyl

FOR FANS OF:
Three Mile Pilot, Rachel's, Slint, Chelsea Wolfe, King Woman, Kate Bush, June of 44, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Om, Low, Converge, and Tristeza,

Various Artists "Don't Fall In Love With Yourself Soundtrack"

LP - $17.90
LP UPC: 843563165881
STREET DATE: 1/26/24
CAT#: 31G143
LABEL: Three One G

Don't Fall in Love with Yourself is a documentary that explores the life of enigmatic musician and artist, Justin Pearson (The Locust, Swing Kids, Dead Cross, Planet B, Head Wound City, Deaf Club). From childhood tragedy to his rise in the San Diego punk scene, Don't Fall in Love with Yourself takes an in-depth look at a career made of blood, sweat, and spit.

Much of the footage has been sourced from dozens of VHS & Mini-DV tapes recorded over the past three decades. With never-before-seen footage of one of the most interesting and unique musical movements in recent memory. Interviews include Justin Pearson, Dave Lombardo, Eric Paul, Gabe Serbian, Jason Pettigrew, Travis Ryan, Jeremy Bolm, Jon Syverson, Molly Neuman, and more.

Don't Fall in Love with Yourself includes tracks from throughout Justin Pearson's career plus previously unreleased score music by Luke Hensgaw (Planet B), Alex Edkins (Metz) and Graham Walsh (Holy Fuck). It features music by The Locust, Swing Kids, Struggle, Crimson Curse, Retox, Planet B, and Justin Pearson/Gabe Serbian. Remastered by Dave Marino for vinyl.

Don't Fall in Love with Yourself is housed in an embossed silver foil laminated jacket, which includes a full-color double-sided insert.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. The Perils of Believing in Round Squares - The Locust
  2. Stop Flushing the Toilet
  3. Red, White, and You - Struggle
  4. It's a (Half) Pipe Dream
  5. Intro to Photography - Swing Kids
  6. The Ironic Assholism of Hardy Jenns
  7. Radiation Blue - The Crimson Curse
  8. I Hope You Don't Get the Joke
  9. Psycho 75 - The Crimson Curse
  10. Something to Guac About
  11. The Half Eaten Sausage Would Like to See You in His Office - The Locust
  12. The Hill of Fool's Gold
  13. Warsaw - Swing Kids
  14. AOTKPTA - The Locust
  15. No Poetry Needed
  16. Elephant in the Doom
  17. Mature Science - Retox
  18. Myddel Fyngir
  19. Old Age Lasts Too Long - Justin Pearson/ Gabe Serbian
  20. Mind Meld
  21. ZZ Stop
  22. Rasquache
  23. Come Bogeyman - Planet B

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Housed in an embossed silver foil laminated jacket
  • Includes a full-color double-sided insert

FOR FANS OF:
The Locust, Swing Kids, Retox

Angel Hair "Insect Immortality"

LP - $17.25
LP UPC: 783495323099
STREET DATE: 1/12/24
CAT#: 31G137
LABEL: Three One G

Angel Hair began in late 1992 in Boulder, Colorado, and as PunkNews.org described them: "Angel Hair was a five-piece from Colorado whose music would grow to be associated with the chaotic, inventive San Diego scene of the early nineties. Bands such as Heroin, Antioch Arrow, Swing Kids, Clikitat Ikatowi and Mohinder are good reference points, but Angel Hair had a unique intensity that not even their West Coast peers could match." After many changes the lineup solidified in early 1994, issuing a split 7" EP with Bare Minimum on Titanic Records, and touring the west coast. The lineup included guitarists Andy Arahood (Red Sparowes) and Josh Hughes (The VSS, Pleasure Forever, Rabbits, SSOLD), bassist Todd Corbett (Stiffwhiff), drummer Paul Iannacito (Generalissimo), and vocalist Sonny Kay (The VSS, Year Future, Gold Standard Labs). During that tour, they recorded the 4-song Gravity EP with Matt Anderson in Chula Vista, which was released in time for a six week summer tour around the US in 1994. In that time they also released a split EP with The Fisticuffs Bluff on Unleaded Records. In the fall of '94, they traveled to San Diego again to record the "Insect Mortality" 12" which was released on Gravity in May 1995, four months after Angel Hair had broken up. Drummer Paul Iannacito moved away abruptly following a west coast tour over Christmas, and the band, feeling he was irreplaceable, called it quits after a little more than two years. During this time, they toured with peers such as Monsula, Clikatat Ikatowi, Spitboy, Garden Variety, J Church, Bare Minimum, Antioch Arrow, the Yah Mos, the Fucking Angels and the Vicious Ginks.

The band explains of the release: "'Insect Immortality' combines nearly all our previous releases, certainly all the ones worth hearing. Most, however, were recorded by Gravity's Matt Anderson in San Diego in a variety of DIY spaces and setups, none of which would qualify as a studio per se. They were recorded quickly, mixed immediately, and often available on tour less than 2 months later. It was an incredible time in our lives and those recordings really do capture the energy and momentum of what we were creating. But three decades later, after our ears and minds have evolved along with technology, it became evident at some point that all the music we released could be made to sound much better. Thanks to Matt's foresight and diligence, obtaining the original masters wasn't difficult. We handed them over to Pete Lyman, a giant in the mastering world, and our old chum from Boulder, present at the first and last Angel Hair shows and many in between. Pete remixed the tracks from our 12" and most of the EP's from the ground up, and the difference is huge. These songs have never sounded so intense and everyone in the band is very well represented."

"Angel Hair's music has a certain unforgettable quality that places it in the canon of hardcore classics... A vicious, surreal and surprisingly exhilarating maelstrom of San Diego-styled hardcore, and it is certainly one of best (bands) Gravity has put out. This diamond in the rough is highly, highly recommended for fans of chaotic hardcore." --PunkNews.org

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Witch Hunt Scene from Star Trek
  2. This Stool is Cool
  3. Origin of Species
  4. Stigmata Martyr
  5. The Wax Museum
  6. Blood Believe
  7. Space Ape
  8. Land ov Enchantment
  9. New Rocket
  10. Crash Course
  11. T-Minus Sixty Years
  12. Second Cousin
  13. Pre-Super Model
  14. You Were Ugly But You Got Cute Again
  15. Kisses
  16. Lazy Eye
  17. Bedroom Scene from Communion

MARKETING POINTS:

  • This is an anthology of all the bands releases
  • Remixed and mastered for the first time

FOR FANS OF:
Drive Like Jehu, Blood Brothers and Orchid

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"How to Lose Friends and Irritate People" by Justin Pearson

BOOK - $10.70
STREET DATE: 12/22/23
CAT#: 31G065
LABEL: Three One G

In the book, How To Lose Friends and Irritate People, Justin Pearson reveals his misadventures with two DJ duos borrowing him as a frontman, lending some "punk" street cred to their music. Known for being part of bands like The Locust, All Leather, and Retox, as well as the owner of Three One G Records, Justin has paved the way for bizarre, abrasive and political music, while pushing the envelope of what is expected or what can be done in a band. The Bloody Beetroots and Designer Drugs approached him to sing on their albums, and what came out of those two experiences is both pathetic and hilarious. From being forced to lip sync at Australian festivals in front of thousands, to being lost in the woods somewhere in Pennsylvania at a music video shoot gone wrong, Justin questions not only the DJ's motives, but his own as well. Embracing actual musical instrumentation instead of laptop playlists, Justin trudges through the murky waters of musical capitalism.

How To Lose Friends and Irritate People is comprised of two stories, "Now I Will Make a Sound For You to Hear, A Sound Without My Mouth" and "A Sucker is Born Every Minute", originally separately bound in each own's book, as well as a flexi record in each book featuring All Leather "We Eat Gauche Caviar" and Ill Saint M "A Pig's Orphan" (featuring Justin Pearson). All parts bound together as one, creating more than just a book, but a collectors item, artifact, and maybe even an all around "fuck you" to Kindles and digital downloads. The book has since been reprinted as one novella, featuring only one of the Flexi postcard records as part of the packaging.

"Justin Pearson occupies a unique niche within the world of underground music in America. As a member of polarizing bands such as The Locust and All Leather, he's become synonymous with music which redefines the limits of technical prowess while blurring the lines between punk, noise, experimentalism and outright assault. As a lyricist and author, his aggressively contrary attitude and at times hilarious commentary on the scuzzy reality of do-it-yourself culture provide a glimpse into the mind of an artist whom, one could argue, has effectively used the underground to his advantage for close to 20 years. Which isn't to say he's an opportunist. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone contributing back to the culture from whence they came with the consistency and dedication Pearson exhibits year after year. Wearing his ideals on his sleeve, he is an icon within the punk scene -- a cantankerous, shape-shifting, immaculately-groomed hybrid of old attitudes and new. With punk as his platform, Pearson has crisscrossed the globe endlessly, experiencing people and places from a vantage point few others could imagine. His writing sheds light on the mostly unglamorous reality of rock (anti-) stardom in the twenty-first century, free of the typical clichés of hotel rooms destroyed and groupies disrespected. Pearson's life and art are case studies in DIY and few, if any, put their money where their proverbial mouths are with such aplomb". -- Sonny Kay

"For some reason, outspoken iconoclast Justin Pearson constantly finds himself dead center in a whirlwind of chaos. His unique energy and steadfastly rebellious outlook tends to explosively catalyze every situation he enters, resulting in hilarious, sometimes utterly tragic results. His hair raising decents into the moronic chasms of DJ culture are no exception. Underneath the party lights, gallons of sweat and an avalanche of "bass" there lurks a milieu diseased with brain dead idiocy, logistical incompetence and corruption. Can idealistic Justin withstand the karmic horror of this particularly mentally-retarded avenue of mainstream culture and survive with his integrity, health and soul intact? Reading these two harrowing tales will clearly reveal the answer. Justin always takes big chances in life and more often than not, the outcome is as absurd as it is riveting." -- Weasel Walter

"Justin Pearson is back with more tales from a life stranger than fiction. In this new work, Justin takes us along for a ride on his ill-fated Australian tour with the Bloody Beetroots in front of 15,000 sweaty/screaming bodies whose idea of anarchy comes more from American Apparel than Emma Goldman. In another story, after many hours of driving in a crowded van with a bunch of beer-drinking-beef jerky eating kids on the way to a video shoot that may or may not involve a live goat, we arrive to the location of the shoot: a remote forest somewhere in the state of Pennsylvania. JP tells each story like no one else could--mainly because no one else gets himself into quite the same kind of misadventures as he does." -- Jose Palafox

"If ever you find yourself lost in that murky abyss between triumph and failure, personal politics and paycheck, let these words of wit and wisdom from Justin Pearson serve as your guide." -- Jordan Blilie

Stress Positions "Harsh Reality"

LP - $17.25
STREET DATE: 12/8/23
CAT#: 31G136
LABEL: Three One G

Stress Positions is a band from Chicago, IL. The band is made up of three members from the now-defunct C.H.E.W. (Drummer Jonathan Giralt, guitarist Benyamin Rudolph, and bassist Russell Harrison) with new vocalist Stephanie Brooks. The band formed in 2020 during the Covid pandemic and plays forward-looking classic American hardcore punk. A new EP on Iron Lung records is due in September, as is an LP from Three One G. This is jungle D-Beats for clapping cheeks. Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness.

Harsh Reality was recorded by Seth Engel (Floatie, C.H.E.W, Nnamdi, Ratboys ), mixed by Matt Russell (Big Laugh, Oozing Wound, Rezen), and mastered by James Plotkin (Botch, Voivod, Cave In).

"Stress Positions barrel through most of these songs at such blistering speeds that they almost become airborne, leaving scorch marks on the ground. Giralt's dense, thundering drumming ignites the band's riffs and gives them their core character--they're relentless and frantic, though they can jump from pulverizing to swinging like flicking a light switch. Stress Positions are as loud as you'd expect--Rudolph's seesawing guitars alone can fill a room--but Brooks's voice is somehow even louder, so that her sharp holler punctures the avalanche of noise like a giant spike." --Chicago Reader

"...there's so much detail and nuance immediately found in the songwriting, creating tension and resolve, only to bludgeon it all into obscurity. This is not caveman hardcore, Stress Positions play with a sense of brilliance and a earthquaking dexterity. C.H.E.W. may be no more, but long live Stress Positions, perhaps your new favorite hardcore band."--Post-Trash

"...hardcore with lots of fun surprises thrown in… Vocalist Stephanie Brooks has a brutal vocal delivery that oscillates between shredding and shrieking, only slowing down to softer singing on an occasion or two… highly recommended."--Maximum RocknRoll

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Harsh Reality
  2. Hand to Mouth
  3. How to Get Ahead
  4. White Leech
  5. No Sympathy (For the Police)
  6. Flaming Sword
  7. Performative Justice
  8. Sunken Place
  9. Ode to Aphrodite

MARKETING POINTS:

  • The band is made up of three members from the now-defunct C.H.E.W. (Drummer Jonathan Giralt, guitarist Benyamin Rudolph, and bassist Russell Harrison) with new vocalist Stephanie Brooks
  • Recorded by Seth Engel (Floatie, C.H.E.W, Nnamdi, Ratboys)
  • Mixed by Matt Russell (Big Laugh, Oozing Wound, Rezen)
  • Mastered by James Plotkin (Botch, Voivod, Cave In)

Various Artists “Dynamite With a Laserbeam: Queen As Heard Through The Meat Grinder Of Three One G”

LP - $19.40
LP UPC: 888002296665
STREET DATE: 8/11/23
CAT#: 31G20
LABEL: Three One G

This compilation of all compilations is a tribute to one of the best bands that has ever existed. On this album you can hear your favorite bands recreating, or maybe just butchering your favorite Queen songs. Remastered by Brent Asbury at Measurable Harm. Pressed on two limited edition color vinyl variants, each limited to 250, and comes with transparent cover insert, as it was originally intended.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. The Blood Brothers "Under Pressure"
  2. Get Hustle "Another One Bites the Dust
  3. Asterisk* "Ogre Battle"
  4. The Oath "We Are the Champions"
  5. Go Go Go Airheart "Death On Two Legs (Dedicated To)"
  6. Upsilon Acrux "Bicycle Race"
  7. Sinking Body "Who Needs You"
  8. Glass Candy "The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke"
  9. The Locust "Flash"
  10. Weasel Walter "Bohemian Rhapsody"
  11. The Spacewurm "Vultan's Theme (Attack of the Hawk Men)"
  12. Fast Forward "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
  13. The Convocation Of "get Down Make Love"
  14. Bastard Noise "Lily of the Valley"
  15. Tourettes Lautrec "Killer Queen"
  16. Melt Banana "We Will Rock You"

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Repress of Three One G's Queen Tribute album which has been sold out for 20 years

FOR FANS OF:
Melt Banana, The Locust, The Blood Brothers, Queen

Squid Pisser "My Tadpole Legion"

LP - $17.25 / CD - $8.00
LP UPC: 727785353052
CD UPC: 727785353052
STREET DATE: 4/14/23
CAT#: 31G135
LABEL: Three One G

SQUID PISSER eviscerates the ego and and all things serene with their own vibrant form of vicious and mucky hardcore. Slamming down dolphin corpses at breakneck speeds, the duo, which is comprised of Tommy Meehan on guitar (Deaf Club, Cancer Christ, Sweatband Records, Cartoon Network) and Seth Carolina (Starcrawler), have constructed a fresh and mucousy new alien craft powered by tightly controlled noise-guitar, savage primal drum work, and gooped up vocal deliveries that might sound like a gaggle of frogs thrown into a garbage disposal (although the Squid boys wouldn't recommend doing this).

Conceptualized and formed in 2022, the band decided to fully utilize planet Earth's viral slumber in order to gestate, write, and record 2 full length albums worth of material. Throughout the year, SQUID PISSER played a handful of shows in California and Nevada as a 2 piece as they continued the quest for further personnel and collaborators. Tommy Meehan's tightly controlled noise-onslaught of rainbow vomit (spat out of a guitar amp via manic pedalboard wizardry and sophisticated finger work) paired with the utterly brutal, breakneck, and savage drumming of Seth Carolina, merge to create a collection of tracks that have been forged in a totally fucked and sonically chaotic storm of pus and goo.

Their debut release, MY TADPOLE LEGION, is a mutated smorgasbord of songs and guest vocalists from projects like: MELT BANANA, NEKROGOBLIKON, CANCER CHRIST, PUNCH, THE LOCUST, WACKO, and more. Also featured prominently is John Clardy of TERA MELOS on drums for 3 of the songs.

My Tadpole Legion was mixed by Kurt Ballou (CONVERGE, GODCITY STUDIOS) and mastered by Alan Douches (West West Side Music).

Track Listing:

  1. Liquified Remains
  2. Violence Forever feat. Meghan O'Neil (Punch, King Woman)
  3. Marching for Trash feat. Arrow DeWilde (Starcrawler)
  4. The Everlasting Bloat feat. Nicky Calonne (Nekrogoblikon)
  5. My Tadpole Legion feat. Yako (Melt-Banana), John Clardy (Tera Melos)
  6. Both feat. Zaine Drayton (of WACKO), Clardy
  7. Vibe Monster feat. Joseph K. Karam (The Locust), Clardy
  8. Fuck Your Preacher feat. St. Anthony (Cancer Christ)
  9. Lord of the Frog feat. DJ EMBRYONIC PETIT SAC

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Features members of MELT BANANA, NEKROGOBLIKON, CANCER CHRIST, PUNCH, THE LOCUST, WACKO and Tera Melos.

FOR FANS OF:
The Locust, Tera Melos, Melt Banana

Venamoris "Venamoris"

LP - $17.25
LP UPC: 783495093275
STREET DATE: 2/10/23
CAT#: 31G135
LABEL: Three One G

Founded in 2021, by what can only be called, astral influence. Married couple Paula and Dave (Slayer, Fantômas, Testament, Mr. Bungle, Misfits, Dead Cross) Lombardo formed Venamoris, as a result of some persistent persuasion on the latter’s part. Dave, who is in charge of drums and production on the record, explains: “Several months after meeting Paula in 2010, she hesitantly shared with me her past decade-long career as the lead back up singer for Wayne Newton. She later played me some of the demos she recorded throughout the years and I was floored by her sonically soothing, rich tone and natural, instinctive ability to harmonize. I was determined to persuade her to return to her creative self. It’s been a deeply gratifying journey witnessing this music come to life.”

Songwriter, Paula Lombardo, who performs vocals and piano for this project, bursts with vulnerability and intimacy, addressing a broad scope of emotion: anger, healing, pain, hope. It’s evident that Venamoris was founded out of love, passion, communication, respect, and trust. One person thriving in music encouraged the other, who had abandoned music to find their way back. It is the result of many late nights with too much wine, and even more truth laid bare: an aural couple's journaling generously shared with the world.

Venamoris was recorded and produced at Ritmo Studio by Dave Lombardo. Drum Overdubs recorded at Studio 606. Mixed at Ritmo Studio by David A. Lombardo. Mastered by John Golden at Golden Mastering. Features guest appearances from Tyler Bates (Jerry Cantrell, Manson), Ra Diaz (Korn, Suicidal Tendencies), Jack Gibson (Exodus), George Pajon (Black Eyed Peas, Cairo Knife Fight), and Tim Stewart (Lady GaGa, Damnage). The album is pressed on two limited vinyl varaints.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Let Me Be
  2. We Fall
  3. This Is Me
  4. Crimson Tears
  5. Misguided
  6. Drowning Emotion
  7. I Love It
  8. In My Silence
  9. It’s Gone
  10. Tell Me How You Know
  11. Oceans
  12. So Good

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Featuring Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Fantômas, Suicidal Tendencies)
  • Limited to 500 copies

FOR FANS OF:
Portishead, Annie Lennox, Halsey, Phoebe Bridgers, Emilíana Torrini, Lorde, Kacey Musgraves

ADULT. & Planet B "Glass in the Trash b/w Release Me"

7"EP - 6.50
7"EP UPC: 783495117162
STREET DATE: 1/6/23
CAT#: 31G132
LABEL: Three One G

Justin Pearson (Dead Cross, Deaf Club, The Locust), Luke Henshaw (Sonido de la Frontera), Kevin Avery (Field Day, Retox) and Scott Osment (Deaf Club, Glassing, Volente Beach) formed Planet B with the shared purpose of creating music subversive in sound and sobering in message. Their music lays somewhere just out of reach of genre, with aesthetics rooted in hip hop, hardcore punk, turntablism, and 70s-80s horror movie scores. It is catchy, heavily percussive, and eerie all at once, much like the creative output of dark dance duo ADULT., a pair that seek to harness “the perverse aspects of the late '70s analog dystopian post-modernism.” These artists’ bodies of work mirror one another in form and function, and both “Release Me” and “Glass in The trash” encapsulates the ethos of both, allowing the duos’ similar mindsets to collide. Nicola Kuperus’s hypnotic vocals add an occult aura, mysteriously alluring and supernatural, pulsating and equally intense alongside Pearson’s aggressive style. Henshaw and Adam Lee Miller’s sampling, sequencing and synthesizing entangle and diverge seamlessly, providing dance-driven soundtracks fit for an apocalypse. Both tracks ebb and flow, pull and push, begs to be released and yet remains throbbing in your head long after it ends.

This record has been recorded by Adam Lee Miller and Luke Henshaw. Mixed and mastered by Brent Asbury at Measurable Harm.

Design and layout by The Black Moon Design.
Album photography by Becky DiGiglio.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Glass in the Trash
  2. Release Me

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Planet B features Justin Pearson (Dead Cross, Deaf Club, The Locust), Luke Henshaw (Sonido de la Frontera), Kevin Avery (Field Day, Retox) and Scott Osment (Deaf Club, Glassing, Volente Beach)

FOR FANS OF:
Industrial / Electro-clash