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Tuesday, October 2

saki newsletter 10/2/12!

Oh hey, Duderinos! We had a great time last week with in-stores from Here We Go Magic, Helado Negro, Serengeti & Tony Trimm, another round of Creative Control with Joe McAdam & Brother George, and the Schubas Pig, Swig & Dig! If you made it out for any of those things, thank you! Oh, and it was SO nice to see you. You're beautiful! You've lost weight, no?? Lookin' good!

We're gearing up for another big week, with our art opening for October this Saturday. Jordan Martins' show, Dysgraphia uses old hand-painted neighborhood grocery signs and repurposes them on canvas in a meticulous grid pattern. It's super bright and fun stuff that is actually pretty reminiscent of some of Sonnenzimmer's work. Speaking of which, Sonnenzimmer's Nick Butcher will be DJing the opening and as always, we'll have food & drinks for you fine people to enjoy. Come on out, it's gonna be a "real cool time" - Iggy Pop.


  from Jordan Martins' Dysgraphia

Then, on Monday, we welcome the pop punk allstars from Motion City Soundtrack for an Epitonic saki Session with Mike Middleton! MCS have been around longer than most of their pop punk brethren, probably slaying at Warped Tour or something. They've got great hair, you guys! They're playing a mostly acoustic set on Monday, so come on out after work and check it out. As always, you can download the audio from the session in a few weeks from Epitonic!


We also have an in-store with Good Willsmith & Not Not Fun-alum, Angel Eyes (from Australia!) next Wednesday. We'll have more on that in next week's newsletter, but for now, you've been warned!


Upcoming Events:
Saturday, October 6th @ 6pm
Dysgraphia: An Exhibition by Jordan Martins!

Monday, October 8th @ 4:30pm
Epitonic saki Session w/ Motion City Soundtrack & Mike Middleton!

Wednesday, October 10th @ 5pm
In-store w/ Good Willsmith & Angel Eyes (Australia)!

Sunday, October 14th @ 2pm
Powell Brew House presets: Sunday Funday w/ Poor Elvis, The Grooks, Today's Man & You Black Kettle!

Thursday, October 18th, 7pm @ Schubas
saki presents: The International Movie Betting Game hosted by Joe McAdam!
*Note: This event is at Schubas, not saki!

Sunday, October 21st @ 4pm
Another New Calligraphy presents: Pish Posh w/ A Light Sleeper & Flux Bikes!

Friday, October 26th @ 8pm
Creative Control w/ Joe McAdam!

Saturday, October 27th @ 8pm
Halloween 197BOO! saki's 1972-themed Halloween party w/ Netherfriends, Everything Is Terrible! & Bigcolour (as Can)!

Monday, October 29th @ 6pm
AD Presentes: An Epitonic saki Session w/ Father John Misty & The Orwells!

New Releases 10/2/12:
Arc In Round - S/T LP
Jessica Bailiff - At The Down-Turned Jagged Rim Of The Sky CD & LP
Balmorhea - Stranger CD & LP
Chris Brokaw - Gambler's Ecstacy CD & LP
Neneh Cherry & The Thing - Dream Baby Dream/Cashback 12"
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Live In Europe LP
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Concert LP
Mark Eitzel - Don't Be A Stranger CD & LP
ERAAS - S/T CD & LP
First Aid Kit - Drunken Trees CD EP
Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes CD & LP
Gun Club - Las Vegas Story LP
Holy Other - Held CD
Ralph 'Soul' Jackson - Alabama Love Man LP
Sondre Lerche - Faces Down LP
Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue LP
Mi-Gu - Choose The Light LP
Moon Duo - Circles CD & LP
Mount Moriah - S/T LP
Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth CD & LP
Natural Snow Buildings - Night Coercion Into The Company Of Witches CD
Robert Pollard - Jack Sells The Cow LP
Rippers - Better The Devil You Know LP
Al Scorch & the Country Soul Ensemble - Tired Ghostly Town LP
Shout Out Out Out Out - Spanish Moss & Total Loss LP
Ray Stinnett - A Fire Somewhere CD
Sun Airway - Soft Fall CD & LP
Taken By Trees - Other Worlds CD & LP
Telephone Man - 1992-1994 CD
 


...I Care Because You Do cover art
Aphex Twin ...I Care Because You Do
Label: 1972
Format: 2LP
Catalog Number: if12lp
Release Date: September 18, 2012
2LP reissue of 3rd album, originally released in 1995. 1st-ever domestic vinyl edition of this crowning achievement in the APHEX TWIN canon
Richard D. James Album cover art
Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album
Label: 1972
Format: LP
Catalog Number: if13lp
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Reissue of 4th album, originally released in 1996. 1st-ever domestic vinyl edition of Richard James's drill 'n' bass masterpiece
S/T cover art
Arc In Round S/T
Label: LaSocieteExpedionnaire
Format: LP
Catalog Number: lse023lp
Release Date: October 02, 2012
LP w/ download. Layered dissonance & experimentation (think Disco Inferno & This Heat) w/ the Motorik Kraut rhythms of Neu! & Can. This is carefully crafted dark pop; taut, yet spacey - noisy, yet melodic. Haunting, dreamy male & female vocale nods to our shoegaze favorites. Guest appearances from KURT VILE & members of PATTERN IS MOVEMENT!
Double Natural cover art
Boomgates Double Natural
Label: Bedroom Suck
Format: LP
Catalog Number: bdrms035lp
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Something like a mix between Big Star, Camper Van Beethoven, Towns Van Zandt, Velvet Underground, & The Church, this Australian crew boasts members of EDDY CURRENT SUPPRESSION RING, TWERPS, & DICK DIVER. Their debut full-length. Previous releases on Smart Guy & Rip Society. Highly recommended
Bait An Orchard cover art
Dreebs Bait An Orchard
Label: Rotted Tooth
Format: LP
Catalog Number: rtr017lp
Release Date: October 09, 2012
STREET DATE 10/09. If you dig No New York or the related New York Noise comps Soul Jazz put out a few years back, youÕll dig this record too. At times, thunderous toms & commanding vocals lead the guitar-wielding troops into battle. At other times, shimmering, wall-of-sound, air horn six-strings are backed by a barrage of ride cymbals & looped feedback. Ltd to 300, hand-screen covers, purple vinyl
End Of Daze cover art
Dum Dum Girls End Of Daze
Label: Sub Pop
Format: MCD
Catalog Number: spp1001cd
Release Date: September 25, 2012
This EP flows from a pair of bombastic opening tracks, through the simmerging, plaintive cover of the Strawberry Switchblade's "Trees & Flowers", to the regretful ballad "Lord Knows", in which Dee Dee's voice remains rich yet crystalline, a gorgeous, toned instrument revealing an awareness of fear & misstep. NO EXPORT. NO RETURNS
Summer Flexi Series cover art
Eets Feats Summer Flexi Series
Label: Rotted Tooth
Format: 7" Flexi
Catalog Number: rtr020
Release Date: October 09, 2012
STREET DATE 10/09. Slightly surfy, fully creepy, & outta freakin nowhere. Amped up & reverbed out. Like a cross between Cosmonauts & Solid Attitude
Summer Flexi Series cover art
Heavy Times Summer Flexi Series
Label: Rotted Tooth
Format: 7" Flexi
Catalog Number: rtr021
Release Date: October 09, 2012
STREET DATE 10/09. Part of Rotted Tooth's Summer Flexi subscription series. "Lost Dogs" is an upbeat windows-down, girl-on-your-arm, open container summer jam. B/w "P.O. Box"
Bitter Defeat cover art
Kitchen's Floor Bitter Defeat
Label: Negative Guest List
Format: 7"
Catalog Number: ngl028
Release Date: September 18, 2012
SPECIAL ORDER ONLY. A pair of jangly noise-punk sides from this Australian three-piece
Ra-ako-st cover art
Lindstrom Ra-ako-st
Label: Smalltown Supersound
Format: 12"
Catalog Number: sts23312lp
Release Date: October 09, 2012
**EXCLUSIVE!! 10/09 STREET DATE. NOTE NEW PRICING! VINYL ONLY RELEASE. This is the first 12" taken from the brand new Lindstrom album "Smalhans" that will be released in November 2012. Contains two tracks, "Ra-ako-st" and "g-g d-sis" both featuring the original cuts and extended remixes by TODD TERJE. NO EXPORT OUTSIDE OF NORTH AMERICA
Curtain Hits The Cast cover art
Low Curtain Hits The Cast
Label: Plain
Format: 2LP
Catalog Number: plain172lp
Release Date: September 18, 2012
180gm 2LP. Originally released in 1996 on Vernon Yard, this is the 3rd album from the Duluth, MN slowcore pioneers. NO CANADA/NO EXPORT
Night Coercion Into the Company of Witches cover art
Natural Snow Buildings Night Coercion Into the Company of Witches
Label: Ba Da Bing
Format: 3CD
Catalog Number: bing077cd
Release Date: October 02, 2012
3CD, originally released in 2008 in an edition of only 22 copies. Fans of Popol Vuh raga drones, Flying Saucer Attack distorted bliss, The Dead C's intuitive chaos, & Islaja's oblique folk, take note. Melodic, orchestrated, droning compositions w/ layers of guitars, chants, woodwinds, percussive bells, distortion & delay
Accelerator cover art
Royal Trux Accelerator
Label: Drag City
Format: LP
Catalog Number: dc145lp
Release Date: October 09, 2012
10/09 STREET DATE. VINYL VERSION of the reissue of Royal Trux's 1998 "masterpiece" (according to many, though we are inclined to believe that all of their releases were equally masterful), "Accelerator." NON-RETURNABLE. NO EXPORT TO EU/UK
Accelerator cover art
Royal Trux Accelerator
Label: Drag City
Format: CD
Catalog Number: dc145cd
Release Date: October 09, 2012
10/09 STREET DATE. Royal Trux roil out a crimson tide for your strain to walk upon. If you've got the guts to work underground, the silver & gold of guitars, drums, & vocal-hicular shrieks are here to be extracted for your profit. Fuck, this is almost a survivalist handbook. The 1st song says it all - "I'm Ready." NO EXPORT TO EU/UK
Twins cover art
Segall, Ty Twins
Label: Drag City
Format: MC
Catalog Number: dc530cas
Release Date: October 09, 2012
STREET DATE 10/09. LIMITED EDITION CASSETTE VERSION (the format of young America). NON-RETURNABLE. NO EXPORT TO EU/UK
Twins cover art
Segall, Ty Twins
Label: Drag City
Format: CD
Catalog Number: dc530cd
Release Date: October 09, 2012
STREET DATE 10/9. "Twins" just might be the blast that ends it all - or the explosion that launches a brave new evolution? A fury of rock ensues: songs rigged to explode on a dime, fired from a cannon into the stratosphere. They fuse together into one multivarious projectile, a bullet from a gun marked yin & yang. NO EXPORT TO EUROPE/UK/AUSTRALIA
Twins cover art
Segall, Ty Twins
Label: Drag City
Format: LP
Catalog Number: dc530lp
Release Date: October 09, 2012
STREET DATE 10/09. VINYL VERSION of what WILL BE your favorite new record comes in handsome gatefold jacket. NON-RETURNABLE. NO EXPORT TO EU/UK.
B.B. Gun Picnic cover art
Solid Attitude B.B. Gun Picnic
Label: Rotted Tooth
Format: LP
Catalog Number: rtr018lp
Release Date: October 09, 2012
STREET DATE 10/09. Snotty, mid-fi, & subtly melodic punk. From full-on bruisers to more laid back cuts, a solid debut LP all around. Ltd to 300
Wanderer / Whoa Complains cover art
US Maple Wanderer / Whoa Complains
Label: Rococo
Format: LP
Catalog Number: rcc0046lp
Release Date: October 09, 2012
**EXCLUSIVE!! 10/09 STREET DATE. US Maple was an American avant-garde rock band. The group was formed in 1995 at Chicago's Northern Illinois University by former members of Snailboy aka Shorty & the Mercury Players. The band consists of Al Johnson (lead singer), Mark Shippy (guitarist), Pat Samson (drums), & Todd Rittmann (guitarist) - who banded together with the intent of becoming the deconstructionists of rock & roll. "It twists around an idea without warning & transforms into another then snaps back to the first. It rambles, seemingly aimlessly at first glance, but by the end, everything has taken its natural course, and nothing was truly out of place." - Pitchfork
It's Cosy Inside cover art
WOO It's Cosy Inside
Label: Drag City
Format: CD
Catalog Number: dc522cd
Release Date: October 09, 2012
STREET DATE 10/09. WOO are two - the brothers Mark & Clive Ives, who in the 1980s made a pair of addictively appealing yet largely unknown records. Their 2nd, "It's Cosy Inside", released in 1989, qualifies as some of the most electronic organic music ever made. NO EXPORT TO EU/UK
It's Cosy Inside cover art
WOO It's Cosy Inside
Label: Drag City
Format: LP
Catalog Number: dc522lp
Release Date: October 09, 2012
10/09 STREET DATE. VINYL VERSION. WOO effortlessly combine elements of English folk music, jazz, electronic experimentalism, bits of playful easy listening, & now in this latest release, an occasional electronic reggae shuffle. NON-RETURNABLE. NO EXPORT TO EU/UK
Intensity / P.S. cover art
Woo / Nite Jewel Intensity / P.S.
Label: Drag City
Format: 7"
Catalog Number: dc542
Release Date: October 09, 2012
10/09 STREET DATE. VINYL ONLY RELEASE. NITE JEWEL (Ramona Gonzalez) crashed the party a few years back w/ the now classic "Good Evening", and returns with a side of a moody mix of thick synth riffs & Frippertonic-like guitar. WOO (Clive & Mark Ives) feature a pulsing sound as distinctive as anything by KRAFTWERK or ESG. NON-RETURNABLE. NO EXPORT TO EUROPE
Air Force cover art
Xiu Xiu Air Force
Label: Polyvinyl
Format: LP
Catalog Number: prc245lp
Release Date: October 09, 2012
STREET DATE 10/9. 6 years after its original release, on 180gm for the 1st time. Hot on the heels of a worldwide tour w/ Swans
If you are interested in our exclusives please check out our list of exclusively distributed labels. Good stuff, cheap and available a week before other online retailers!
Thanks for your interest, direct any questions, comments, accolades, or complaints to info@sakistore.net!

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