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Deathfix

Deathfix

    Having discovered a shared affinity for the sounds of 1972 - particularly glam and progressive rock - they started getting together to work on music at Canty’s warehouse studio space. Two years later, hoping to graduate the band from its studio-shut-in phase to its live ensemble phase, they recruited Devin Ocampo (Faraquet, Medications) and Mark Cisneros (Medications) to hold down the rhythm section. Both talented multi-instrumentalists and producers in their own right, Cisneros and Ocampo quickly started contributing their own riffs and arrangement ideas.

    The band’s self-titled debut includes seven songs that were recorded throughout 2012 at Canty’s studio. During that time, Morel and Canty’s demos were torn up and expanded through extensive improv sessions alongside Ocampo and Cisneros. Tracks that started out small and introspective were blown up to a size and volume more befitting of the group’s cavernous practice space.

    The tone is dark, but the lyrics – which cover themes covers themes like sickness, breakups, corruption, drugs, fame, and losing ones mind – shouldn’t be read as straight biography. They’re works of fiction; character studies that just happen to touch on topics that are close to home.

    TRACK LISTING

    1) Better Than Bad
    2) Low Lying Dreams
    3) Hospital
    4) Dali’s House
    5) Playboy
    6) Mind Control
    7) Transmission

    Fugazi

    End Hits - 2024 Reissue

      This is Fugazi's fifth full-length record, released in 1998.

      The 12" LP format was re-cut and re-issued in September 2009.

      Ian MacKaye vocals & guitar Guy Picciotto vocals & guitar Joe Lally bass Brendan Canty drums.


      TRACK LISTING

      1. Break
      2. Place Position
      3. Recap Modotti
      4. No Surprise
      5. Five Corporations
      6. Caustic Acrostic
      7. Closed Captioned
      8. Floating Boy
      9. Foreman's Dog
      10. Arpeggiator
      11. Guilford Fall
      12. Pink Frosty
      13. F/D

      J. Robbins

      Basilisk

        Eleven songs by J. Robbins (Jawbox, Burning Airlines).

        J. Robbins on Basilisk:
        2020 gave us the pandemic, which despite all its awfulness also gave me a lot of opportunities to write and demo music - but everyone was terrified to get into the same room together to play. Finally, around February of 2021, I called up Brooks Harlan and Darren Zentek and asked if they would be down to meet me at the studio and do a 2-day session and see how it turns out. Brooks and Darren were into the idea - we were all in full cabin fever mode at that point and dying to do anything - so I sent them the demos and we did it. The musical connection had always already been there, but the energy that came from all being in the same room doing this together - something we had just spent a year wondering if we’d ever get to do again - was wonderful. It felt like having been lost in the desert, and then finding an oasis. I’ve never been so happy with a session - both the results and the experience, and the outcome was exactly what I had wanted: something more stripped down and very immediate.

        We were all fired up and we did a second session in March 2022. In the interim I enlisted some collaborators:Gordon Withers to add cello and second guitar to a few songs, Janet Morgan and her two sisters to sing some harmonies, Dave Hadley to play pedal steel on “Not The End,” and Chicago punk legend John Haggerty to add an actual blazing guitar solo to the song "Exquisite Corpse." And I went on working on vocals and overdubs at home. The lyrics were (as always) somewhat therapeutical: “Automaticity” came out of thoughts on aging and remaining present in a world increasingly going on auto-pilot; “Last War” and “Dead Eyed God” work out fears prompted by January 6th and the rise of neo-fascism. More personal matters were trying to work themselves out as well. Recurring childhood dreams ("Deception Island"), surrealist games ("Exquisite Corpse"), and trephination guru Amanda Feilding ("Open Mind") were also in the mix.

        Another result of pandemic isolation was that I had also been working on more abstract, electronic based music(inspired by my love of film soundtracks, Peter Gabriel’s music, and by studio work I had done not long ago with the band Locrian), using granular synthesis, sampling, and software synths. So as Basilisk came together, I wanted to see if I could pull those sounds into the flow of the record, open up its vocabulary a little and still make something cohesive. Connection has always been the whole point of music making for me. There are so many ways to come at it, and i don't want to close any of those doors. Going forward, I only want to open more of them.


        TRACK LISTING

        1. Automaticity
        2. Exquisite Corpse
        3. Last War
        4. Gasoline Rainbows
        5. Not The End
        6. Old Soul
        7. A Ray Of Sunlight
        8. Deception Island
        9. Sonder
        10. Open Mind
        11. Dead Eyed God

        Minor Threat

        Out Of Step Outtakes

          In January 1983, Minor Threat went into Inner Ear Studio for the first time as a five - piece (Brian Baker had moved from bass to second guitar and Steve Hansgen was now playing bass).

          They had six new songs that would end up being the centrepiece of what became the ‘’Out of Step’’ 12" EP. The band had also decided to re-record the song "Out of Step" with some extra language to try to clarify the lyrics, as well as "Cashing In", a tongue-in-cheek song about the DC punk scene which they had only played live once.

          After much debate, "Cashing In" was added as a hidden track on the original vinyl release though not listed on the cover or label. There was still blank tape on the reel, so they decided to record an instrumental with the working title, "Addams Family" and then recorded new versions of "In My Eyes" and "Filler" to hear what they sounded like with two guitars.

          "Addams Family" ended up being used as a coda to "Cashing In", but the other two songs were never mixed and largely forgotten for over 35 years until the multitrack tapes were taken into the studio to be digitized in 2021.

          Surprised by the discovery, Ian and Don Zientara mixed the two songs along with the complete take of "Addams Family". These outtakes are now being released on a 7" to mark the 40th anniversary of the release of ‘’Out of Step’’.


          TRACK LISTING

          A Side:
          In My Eyes
          B Side:
          Filler
          Addams Family

          Minor Threat

          Out Of Step - 2023 Repress

            This white vinyl LP was recut from the Silver Sonya re-masters in November 2008 at Chicago Mastering Service, and features an album sleeve redesign from the original artwork.

            Ian MacKaye vocals Lyle Preslar guitar Steve Hansgen bass Brian Baker guitar Jeff Nelson drums.

            Recorded At Inner Ear Studios Produced By Minor Threat.


            TRACK LISTING

            1. Betray
            2. It Follows
            3. Think Again
            4. Look Back & Laugh
            5. Sob Story
            6. No Reason
            7. Little Friend
            8. Out Of Step
            9. Cashing In 

            Make-Up

            In Mass Mind - 2023 Repress

              The Make-Up's second full-length LP, released in 1998.

              Ian Svenonius vocals
              James Canty guitar, organ, vocals
              Michelle Mae bass, vocals
              Steve Gamboa drums


              TRACK LISTING

              1. Black Wire Pt. 1
              2. Live In The Rhythm Hive
              3. Joy Of Sound
              4. Watch It With That Thing
              5. Drop The Needle
              6. Earth Worm Pt. 1
              7. Do You Like Gospel Music?
              8. Come Up To The Microphone
              9. Centre Of The Earth
              10. (I've Heard About) Saturday Nite
              11. Earth Worm Pt. 2
              12. Time Machine
              13. Caught Up In The Rapture
              14. Black Wire Pt. 2

              Fugazi

              Margin Walker - 2023 Repress

                This is Fugazi's second release recorded in December 1988 with John Loder while the band was in England for a European tour.

                These songs were combined with the tracks from the band's debut 7 Songs EP and was released on the 13 Songs maxi CD.

                This 12" EP was re-cut and re-issued in October 2009 (with updated art). Originally Released: June 1989

                Ian MacKaye vocals & guitar
                Guy Picciotto vocals
                Joe Lally bass
                Brendan Canty drums

                Recorded At Southern Studios Produced By John Loder

                TRACK LISTING

                1. Margin Walker
                2. And The Same
                3. Burning Too
                4. Provisional
                5. Lockdown
                6. Promises

                Fugazi

                Steady Diet Of Nothing - 2023 Repress

                  This is Fugazi's second full-length record, released in 1991.

                  This 12" LP was re-cut and re-issued in September 2009.

                  Originally Released: 1991

                  Ian MacKaye vocals & guitar
                  Guy Picciotto vocals & guitar
                  Joe Lally bass
                  Brendan Canty drums

                  Recorded At Inner Ear Studios Produced By Fugazi.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  1. Exit Only
                  2. Reclamation
                  3. Nice New Outfit
                  4. Stacks
                  5. Latin Roots
                  6. Steady Diet
                  7. Long Division
                  8. Runaway Return
                  9. Polish
                  10. Dear Justice Letter
                  11. KYEO

                  Fugazi

                  In On The Kill Taker - 2023 Reissue

                    This 12" LP was re-cut from the Silver Sonya masters in April 2009 at Chicago Mastering Service.

                    Ian MacKaye vocals & guitar
                    Guy Picciotto vocals & guitar
                    Joe Lally bass
                    Brendan Canty drums


                    TRACK LISTING

                    1. Facet Squared
                    2. Public Witness Program
                    3. Returning The Screw
                    4. Smallpox Champion
                    5. Rend It
                    6. 23 Beats Off
                    7. Sweet And Low
                    8. Cassavetes
                    9. Great Cop
                    10. Walken's Syndrome
                    11. Instrument
                    12. Last Chance For A Slow Dance 

                    Soulside

                    A Brief Moment In The Sun

                      Soulside formed in Washington, DC, in 1985, split up in 1989, then reformed in 2014 and has continued playing and writing music since then. After releasing their debut album on Sammich/Dischord, they recorded Trigger (Dischord, 1988) and Hot Bodi-Gram (Dischord, 1989), which were combined on the Soon Come Happy CD in 1990. The band toured extensively in the US and Europe during these years, including groundbreaking shows in Poland and East Berlin shortly before the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.

                      In 2020, Soulside put out a new 7-inch, This Ship, their first release in 30 years, which was recorded in Prague. In late 2022, Dischord will release a 12-song Soulside album, A Brief Moment in the Sun, which was written during the heart of the coronavirus pandemic and recorded in person by J. Robbins in November 2021. 


                      TRACK LISTING

                      1. Times Like These
                      2. Day 2
                      3. Every Clover
                      4. Reconstruction
                      5. Runner
                      6. Walker
                      7. Tambourine
                      8. 70's Heroes
                      9. Resolved
                      10. Rediscovery
                      11. Survival
                      12. It's All About Love

                      Fugazi

                      Repeater - 2023 Repress

                        This is Fugazi's first full-length record, released in 1990. 

                        This 12" LP was re-cut and re-issued In April 2009. This pressing of the LP is on BLUE Vinyl.

                        Originally Released: 1990. Recorded At Inner Ear Studios Produced By Ted Nicely

                        Ian MacKaye vocals & guitar Guy Picciotto vocals & guitar Joe Lally bass Brendan Canty drums

                        Recorded At Inner Ear Studios Produced By Ted Nicely


                        TRACK LISTING

                        1. Turnover
                        2. Repeater
                        3. Brendan #1
                        4. Merchandise
                        5. Blueprint
                        6. Sieve Fisted Find
                        7. Greed
                        8. Two Beats Off
                        9. Styrofoam
                        10. Reprovisional
                        11. Shut The Door 

                        Minor Threat

                        Minor Threat - Coloured Vinyl Reissue

                          Recut from the Silver Sony are masters in November 2008 at Chicago Mastering Service, features a new blue cover, BLUE VINYL, and comes with a free MP3 download of the album.

                          Tracks 1-8 are from the first Minor Threat 7". Tracks 9-12 are from the "In My Eyes" 7 Inch. The Digital version of this record includes the song "Stand Up," from the Flex Your Head compilation. 

                          Recorded: April & August 1981
                          Released on 12": June 1984

                          Ian MacKaye vocals
                          Lyle Preslar guitar
                          Brian Baker bass
                          Jeff Nelson drums


                          STAFF COMMENTS

                          Laura says: A Piccadilly favourite back in the day. If you ever came into the Piccadilly Gardens shop on a Monday (John's day off and the only day we could get away with playing this!) in the mid/late 80s, there's a good chance you'd have heard this at full volume. Still love it!

                          TRACK LISTING

                          Side A:
                          1 Filler
                          2 I Dont Wanna Hear It
                          3 Seeing Red
                          4 Straight Edge
                          5 Small Man, Big Mouth
                          6 Screaming At A Wall
                          7 Bottled Violence
                          8 Minor Threat

                          Side B:
                          1 In My Eyes
                          2 Out Of Step (With The World)
                          3 Guilty Of Being White
                          4 Steppin' Stone

                          The Messthetics

                          Anthropocosmic Nest

                            Formed in 2016 the Messthetics are Anthony Pirog, Joe Lally, and Brendan Canty. Pirog is a jazz and experimental guitarist based in Washington, D.C. One half of the duo Janel & Anthony, he also performs regularly with Low Ways Quartet and James Brandon Lewis. Canty and Lally were the rhythm section of the band Fugazi from its inception in 1987 to its period of hiatus in 2002.

                            Since then, Canty has remained active as a documen- tary filmmaker, producer, and composer, and released a music as a member of the band Deathfix. Lally has re- leased three solo albums and toured extensively with a frequently-rotating cast of musicians.

                            Recorded at the band’s practice space throughout 2019, it’s an album that more perfectly captures the trio’s current live dynamic, complete with improvisational tangents, playful experimentation, and cathartic sprawl.
                            When The Messthetics recorded their debut album in 2017, the trio had only done a handful of shows and had yet to fully find its footing on stage. In a way, those compositions were a template for the band that Pirog, Lally, and Canty hoped would come into being through subsequent work on the road.

                            Since then, The Messthetics have played upwards of 200 shows across the US, Europe and Asia. Their dialog as a performing unit has necessarily focused and intensified. As a result, Anthropocosmic Nest offers a more var- ied vision of the band. It’s the loudest the trio has ever been and also the quietest. 


                            TRACK LISTING

                            1) Better Wings
                            2) Drop Foot
                            3) Section 9
                            4) Scrawler
                            5) The Assignment
                            6) Pay Dust
                            7) Pacifica
                            8) Because The Mountain Says So
                            9) Insect Conference
                            10) La Lontra
                            11) Touch Earth Touch Sky

                            Fugazi

                            First Demo

                              First Demo’s first appearance on CD, vinyl and mastered MP3, bolstered by an 11th track: Turn Off Your Guns, recorded during the same sessions which was omitted from the original demo tape.

                              In early January 1988 and after only ten shows, Fugazi decided to go into Inner Ear Studio to see what their music sounded like on tape.

                              Despite the fact that Ian, Joe, and Brendan had been playing together for nearly a year, it was still early days for the band. Guy had only been a full member of Fugazi for a few months and only sang lead on one song ("Break In"). It would be nearly another year before he would start playing guitar with the band.

                              At that time, the studio was still located in the basement of engineer Don Zientara's family house. It was a familiar space as almost all of the members of Fugazi had recorded there with their previous bands (Teen Idles, Minor Threat, Deadline, Insurrection, Rites of Spring, Skewbald, Embrace, and One Last Wish). Joey Picuri (aka Joey P), who would later become one of Fugazi's longtime sound engineers, joined the band for the initial tracking.

                              The sessions only lasted a couple of days, but tour dates and indecision about the tape would delay the final mix for another two months. Though the band was at first pleased with the results, it soon became clear that this tape would remain a demo as new songs were being written and the older songs were evolving and changing shape while the band was out on tour. It was decided that the session would be passed out free as cassette copies, with the band actively encouraging people to share the recording.

                              In the spring, Fugazi went out on its first U.S. tour and a few weeks after returning from the road they went back to Inner Ear to record what would become their debut Dischord release, the self-titled 7-song 12" EP.

                              The only song from the demo session that was formally released was "In Defense of Humans", which appeared on the State of the Union compilation in 1989. Now, some 26 years later, Dischord is releasing the entire first demo including the one song ("Turn Off Your Guns") that wasn't included on the original cassette.

                              This release also coincides with the completion of the initial round of uploads to the Fugazi Live Series website. Launched in 2011, the site lists and details all of Fugazi's 1000+ performances and makes available close to 900 concert recordings that were documented by the band and by the public, as well as countless flyers, ticket stubs, posters, and photographs. After two years of work, all of the recordings in the band's archive are finally posted.

                              Ian MacKaye - vocals, guitar
                              Guy Picciotto - vocals
                              Joe Lally - bass
                              Brendan Canty - drums


                              Justin Moyer – a.k.a. Edie Sedgwick, the Warhol starlet who died of a barbiturate overdose in 1971 –spent much of the last decade schlepping around the globe in a wig and a dress, imparting his/her wisdom on celebrity culture to the masses. Sometimes, he brought a live band. Other nights, he made do with an iPod.

                              But following the release of his third LP, Love Gets Lovelier Every Day, in 2011, Moyer understood that it was time to change that shit up. After all, ten years is a long time, man. Since Edie first stepped to the mic in 1999, four of Moyer’s other bands – El Guapo, Supersystem, Antelope, and SPRCSS – came and went. Entire scenes, genres, and record labels were born and passed from this Earth.

                              So, Edie became E.D. And the group became Moyer’s central musical outlet, rather than a side-project indulged between tours. He recruited a full-time-ish backing band, including bassist Kristina Buddenhagen, drummer Jess Matthews (America Hearts), and singer JosaFeen Wells. And he consigned that tattered silver frock to the closet. Now, E.D. wears white.

                              Incidentally, We Wear White is also the title of his new record. Recorded by TJ Lipple at Inner Ear and mixed by Trans Am’s Phil Manley at his San Francisco HQ, Lucky Cat Recording, We Wear White is a more aggressive, dirtier batch of songs. In fact, the first song is called, “Dirty.” E.D.’s lyrics have drifted away from the pages of People magazine and toward topics relevant to the here and now – retro-fetishism, gentrification, and why it was totally a mistake for you to get that DC flag tattoo. It includes Moyer's first ever song about smoking marijuana (full disclosure: Justin Moyer has never smoked marijuana).

                              Why wear white? Because red means blood. Because blue’s no good. Because you get to be born again. It’s the color of renewal - and the perfect pigment in which to rendezvous with your preferred higher power

                              TRACK LISTING

                              1) Dirty
                              2) Hex Of Sex (For Minimal Man)
                              3) Rockin’ The Boat
                              4) Goddam
                              5) Mina
                              6) We Wear White
                              7) He’s The One
                              8) It Wasn’t Me
                              9) DNA
                              10) Ghost Dick
                              11) Weatherman

                              Rites Of Spring

                              Six Song Demo

                                Rites of Spring were among the most important and beloved bands to emerge from the DC underground music scene in the mid-80s.

                                Formed by Guy Picciotto (Fugazi) on vocals/guitar, Mike Fellows bass, Brendan Canty (Fugazi) on drums, and Eddie Janney (Faith) on guitar in 1984, the quartet released a self-titled LP and a 7” single before disbanding in 1986.

                                They were central to what came to be known as 'Revolution Summer', a period of redefinition and creative burst from the DC scene in 1985. Before that – before they even played a show -- the band recorded a six-song demo tape at Inner Ear with Don Zientara and Ian MacKaye.

                                After the dissolution of their previous band, Insurrection, in 1983, Canty, Picciotto, and Fellows joined with Faith guitarist Eddie Janney and began writing new songs. Unfortunately, just as they became ready to play out, Fellows announced plans to relocate to Los Angeles, effectively ending the band before it even got started. Before the bassist departed, the group decided to go to Inner Ear to document the handful of finished songs that they had written.

                                At this point, not only had they never played a show, Rites of Spring hadn’t even settled on a name (on the tapes, Zientara listed the sessions as Insurrection II). But already, the music marked a musical shift for the DC punk community, consciously breaking away from the macho-clichés that had come to plague hardcore music.

                                The sessions were notable for being the first time that anybody had heard Picciotto sing. At the time, few bands had access to a PA system during practice and the volume of the other instruments often blotted out vocals. Shortly after tracking was completed, Fellows hit the road and the recordings were mixed in his absence, hence the Beatles-inspired “Mike Fellows is dead,” gag at the end of “By Design.”

                                Because the band had broken up before ever playing, there was no plan to officially release the recording, so the completed songs were dubbed onto cassette tapes and given out to friends, who passed them along to others. As a result of the tape-trading the recordings were heard far and wide, though each copy suffered a loss of sound-quality.

                                As it turned out, the West Coast didn’t agree with Fellows and in July he came back to DC to rejoin the band. Shortly after his return the band performed its first show at Food For Thought opening for Gray Matter. They would perform fewer than 20 shows before they dis- banded.

                                These six songs capture Rites of Spring in its earliest stages. Once the band started playing out, the songs gained velocity and intensity (see the 7-minute plus version of “End on End” that closes their LP), but many of the elements that defined their music – frenzied energy, sharp melodies, and introspective lyrics -- were already very much in place. The release has been mastered from the original tapes and is presented exactly as it was on those cassettes in 1984 complete with the tape collages and assorted audio-graffiti. Members went on to play in Happy Go Licky, Fugazi, Royal Trux, and Silver Jews.

                                Recorded April 1984 at Inner Ear Studios by Don Zientara; Produced by Ian MacKaye. Mastered by TJ Lipple in Summer 2012.

                                Lungfish

                                The Unanimous Hour

                                  “The Unanimous Hour” (which has been out of print for years) is being re-issued on CD and LP, both re-mastered from original tapes, and features a free MP3 Download coupon (inside the LP only).

                                  Lungfish is now, as it often has been, quasi if not entirely defunct. However, since the release of the band’s last album in 2005, “Feral Hymns”, singer Daniel Higgs (who is also an accomplished visual artist) has embarked on a burgeoning solo career, releasing albums on Northern Liberties, Thrill Jockey and Holy Mountain and showing his artwork both in the States and The United Kingdom.

                                  Asa Osborne is currently recording and performing solo material under the name, The Zomes.

                                  The Lungfish band, from Baltimore, Maryland, has been performing and releasing albums on the Dischord Records label for more than 20 years. “The Unanimous Hour” was the band’s 8th full-length album, appropriately released at the beginning of the new millennium, June 1999. For many “The Unanimous Hour” represents the band at its peak, incorporating Daniel’s wild lyrical imagery with the band’s signature focus and repetition and spinning them to new levels of tension and release.


                                  Dag Nasty

                                  Dag With Shawn

                                    After only three months of playing shows, Dag Nasty went into Inner Ear Studios with Ian MacKaye. "Dag With Shawn" was recorded on Halloween Day 1985 and features the original line-up of the band with Shawn Brown on vocals.

                                    Initially songs from this session were to be released as a four-song 7" on Dischord, but shortly after the recording Shawn left Dag Nasty and the tape was shelved. In early 1986 the band re-recorded the entire album with new vocalist Dave Smalley and released it as "Can I Say".

                                    This original session has only been previously available as partial out-takes and unauthorized bootlegs and, until now, has never been released in its complete form. This recording, taken from restored master tapes, offers a unique view into the early development of one of DC’s most influential bands.

                                    Shawn went on to form the much loved Swiz and Dag Nasty went through several more line-up changes over the years, including another vocal switch when Dave Smalley was replaced by Peter Cortner.


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