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As we attempt to make room for the slew of upcoming projects we’re working on it seems like a good time to offer up some savings and encourage everyone to stock up and fill any gaps in yr SGG discography.
For a limited time you can score any LP for $10. No limit so order as much as you like. Tally up what you need from our store and email tower@sleepinggiantglossolalia.com and we’ll get you the lowest shipping cost possible.
Thanks for the support and don’t take any shit out there, people. 
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Two Mick Barr groups and Vaz in the same evening. This Friday it’s DBA all the way if SGG is yr cup of tea. 
July 26 – Death By Audio, Brooklyn
—BARR.SHEA.DAHL VS SEABROOK.WALTER.LIPSON
— Drose
— Vaz
— Murdered Man
— Hathenter (Mick and Colin of Krallice)
After we released their vinyl debut(SGG-023), a split 7″ shared with Sweden’s Ectoplasm Girls, Net Shaker worked with our pals at Kill Shaman to bring you their debut long-player and it was one of our favorite records in recent memory.
“Net Shaker’s sound would easily accompany Ridley Scott’s vision of a futuristic Lost Angeles in Blade Runner, which is appropriate since that’s where they are from. Their sound is murky, pounding, and ethereal at times. Their future-electronic industrial pounding is produced by only two members, Erik Frydenborg and Ernest Gibson on this, their debut LP. Drum machines, pounding rhythms, and whispering vocals round out the album. Mastered by Daniel Dudes Haworth. Includes printed LP sleeve with oddball artwork. Beware: this will blow out your speakers.” – Kill Shaman
“ESSENTIAL” – Aquarius Records
Not only is this ambitious project by our favorite power-pop mutators officially released TODAY, but we’ve somehow swindled mainstream media into covering it. Preview “Other Side” right here via SPIN, of all places. Then head on over to our online store to grab one(or to your favorite local shop and demand it!). The Flexi-Book is a five-disc art book hybrid that you can also play on your turntable.
Lame Drivers/Woolen Men split 7″ EP also still hot off the press..
Yet another all-out Brit-krieg from S & S..
In fine shops and our online store June 18!
SGG is thrilled as hell to announce the release of this WM/LD-shared slab of vinyl at the tail end of the bands’ 2nd tour together.
We couldn’t be happier with the material, as Lames offer up both old and new cuts, the recent live staple “Headhunting” and the classic “Excess”, which has been lodged in our head for years now.
Woolen Men in turn give us “Deaf Americans”(mastered by Pete Swanson), probably our favorite song on a long list of favorite songs by the PDX DIY basement blasters. Also on deck from WM is an excellent rendition of “Frozen Car”, originally performed by heroes of the New Zealand underground, The Terminals.
This extended-playing platter matters and is a great introduction(what!? where you been??) to both the Home Blitz-related, WFMU-saturated mutant power-pop of Lame Drivers and the modern day pride of PNW punk, The Woolen Men.
Get it at fine shops everywhere, in our online store, or at the release party at Cake Shop NYC tonight!
https://www.facebook.com/events/539849606057452/
One of our favorite WFMU programs, Dangerous For The Brain with Thomas Stork, recently hosted the Woolen Men in the studio for a time-bending discussion and excellent live set.
Find it archived here:
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50807
Thanks Thomas!
It’s true that these were made in a very limited edition, HOWEVER, you don’t have to dump loads of cash into the Ebay to score a copy of this fine publication/recording. SGG is happy to offer you one for a reasonable price while they last. Head on over to our store and procure. Don’t slog, they will cruise.
A meticulously assembled collection of photographs taken on the Vaz/Pygmy Shrews U.S. tour documenting all the blood, bloodsweat, and bloodtears that went into making the perilous journey so memorable.
Included is an exclusive download coupon for a fierce live Vaz set captured at the height of their game in Los Angeles.
Alexander Perrelli, NYC photo-maker extraordinaire, took pictures constantly, stopping only to pick up drum sticks and demolish the kit for the Shrews, so this book has the meat and potatoes, the curtain and the drapes, the lies and the furniture…
This handsomely presented photo book slips discreetly into your least favorite required reading so even summer school dsnt have to suck anymore…
SGG-024 available now..
Woolen Men and Lame Drivers Announce Split EP Out June 4th on Sleeping Giant Glossolalia and
Spring Co-Headlining US Tour Begins May 19th!
Delivering warped power-pop inspired by freeform radio, int’l psych, classic punk and Guided By Voices, Lame Drivers spent much of the past decade in the basement while also playing in other bands like HOME BLITZ and composing strange music for theatrical performances in NYC. They’ve released tapes, cd-r’s, and compilation tracks on labels including 75orLess, Eggy, State Capital and Not Not Fun. In 2011, they released the sampler Cruisin’ Classics for free..10,000++ downloads ensued. Lame Drivers are soon to release a Flexi-Book EP, an ambitious combination of sight & sound that will dominate the bookshelf and turntable alike.
The Woolen Men are three — two Oregon natives and a Washingtonian. They play punk influenced DIY music in the Pac-NW tradition of Dead Moon and the Wipers. More than a sound or style, that means a kind of work ethic — do-it-yourself and do it a lot. The band is happiest touring up and down the I-5 or bunkered in their practice space with the cassette 4-track rolling. And it shows. Live, the band is thunderous and energetic and the magnetic chemistry of the three of them playing together shines through in the recordings.
The Lame Drivers side of the EP features two songs..”Headhunting” channels Mark E Smith, a tight 3-piece groove. “Excess” is from an earlier incarnation of the band, feat Matt LeMay and Kevin Sparks, and is a haunting song about about human excesses destroying the planet, and an excessive relationship destroying itself. RIYL Jesus and Mary Chain, shoegaze?
The Woolen Men side reflects their NW punk / NZ pop influences with Deaf Americans, and a cover of the Terminals’ “Frozen Car.”
In support of the new release, both bands will be hitting the road together on a co-headlining US tour beginning later this month (full itinerary below).
Track List:
Lame Drivers Side:
1. Headhunting
2. Excess
Woolen Men Side:
1. Deaf Americans
2. Frozen Car
Woolen Men and Lame Drivers Live!
May 19 (sun) NYC – Brooklyn @ Shea Stadium w/ Hippy & Shark?
May 20 (mon) NJ – Woolen Men tape @ WFMU followed by a New Brunswick house show
May 21 (tues) Boston MA @ O’Brien’s w/ Bent Shapes, Half Sour
May 22 (wed) Philadelphia PA @ Johnny Brenda’s w/ Literature, Pet Milk
May 23 (thurs) Cleveland OH @ Now That’s Class w/ Chomp
May 24 (fri) Chicago IL @ Permanent Records (6pm) **late show TBA**
May 25 (sat) Bloomington IN @ The Ream w/ Thee Open Sex
May 26 (sun) Nashville TN @ The End w/ R Stevie Moore
May 27 (mon) Memphis TN @ The Lamplighter
May 28 (tues) Little Rock AR @ Professor Bowl
May 29 (wed) Austin TX @ Beerland w/ Simple Circuit, Zoltars, Shinta
May 30 (thur) New Orleans LA @ AllWays Lounge w/ SS Boombox
May 31 (fri) Athens GA @ Farm 255 w/ Eureka CA, Dead Dog (tour kickoff), Little Gold
June 1 (sat) Atlanta GA @ 529 w/ This House, Starfighter
June 2 (sun) Charlotte NC @ Yauhaus (BBQ) + Late Show in Winston-Salem
June 3 (mon) Durham NC @ Fellowship Hall w/ Fruit, Stems
June 4 (tue) Washington DC @ TBA w/ The Best Band In Town
June 5 (wed) Baltimore @ Ottobar Upstairs w/ Crimson Wave, Expert Alterations
June 6 (thur) – NYC @ Cake Shop WM/LD SPLIT 7″ RELEASE PARTY!!!
June 7 (fri) – Brooklyn @ Silent Barn (Woolen Men only)
Even an extensive familiarity with the vast Expo ’70 catalogue doesn’t prepare the listener for the results of this conference. Augmented here by the intuitive electric guitar mastery of Temples(known to Glossolalians for collaborations with EPILEPTINOMICON, as well as releases on PseudoArcana and Peasant Magik) and the work of longtime collaborator Matt Hill of UMBERTO, the Expo ’70 sound is at once amplified and dissected. An altogether unique sonic identity is represented by these three players, one which captures the cinematic, improvisational qualities the initiated would expect while offering both challenges and rewards previously unknown. Fans of previous Temples, Umberto, and Expo ’70 output will find that this union succeeds in being something more than the sum of its parts.
4 tracks on 2 sides, 40+ minutes of music
Strictly limited edition
Original artwork by underground comix provocateur P. Keck
SGG-028 is 2 sides of ripper, one by these PDX punx, the other by NYC warped power-pop experimentalists Lame Drivers. 7″ EP out June 4th with 2 tracks from each band, or grab a copy early on their co-headlining tour starting next week..
Pretty unbelievable even to us, but we managed to get a one-off, VERY special show together for Bill Wood, aka New Zealand’s psi-celebrated 1/3 OCTAVE BAND here in NYC. Devoted Glossolalians will recognize Mr. Wood as one-half of BIRDCATCHER, whose LP for SGG has been in the works(and is nearly ready for you, though you may not be ready for it!).
Aquarius Records has this to say: “1/3 Octave Band take the bliss-out of Spacemen 3, roll it in angel dust and dip it in tar before laying down and drifting off.”..and..”This is the music of dreams. Music from another world.”
A fine selection of local friends are rounding out the bill, including P. Pyuri (Jon Williams, EXCEPTER), J. Slusher, Mike Zorman, and Millions.
This Friday, April 19 2013..take it to the Hose..8 pm, all ages
The Ho_se is located at:
28 Lawton St #1, Brooklyn, New York 11221
RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/236569949818598/
Our pals in the Portland via San Francisco boy-girl sci-fi doom-unit Prizehog are here in New York this week, not only making an appearance at our beloved WFMU for a live session hosted by Imaginary Radio with Chris M, but laying waste to Death By Audio with consistently crushing locals VAZ, the Dazzling Killmen-descended XADDAX, and the surgically precise STATS. We’re psyched to have put together such a flawless bill(if we do say so ourselves) and look forward to seeing you there.
RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/145530605608512/?ref=25