Charger Fits“Bottom Of The Bottle” SHTI024

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Jay Satellite“Kicks Against The Pricks” SHTI023

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Jay Satellite’s new album veers pinball style between racing guitar power pop, sophisticated balladry, space-age synthesizer rock and indie angst.  All with the narrative spirit of doing your own thing against unbelievable odds.

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Oxvylu / Bit FaceSplit SHTI022

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Toronto’s Oxvylu sophisticated programming and soundtrack-esque sounds contrast with the buzzier, noisier Game Boy tones from Scotland’s Bit Face.  Together these artists demonstrate the breadth of musical ideas that can be realized through vintage gaming consoles without relying on the norm.

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The Ex-Optimists“Soaking Up The Cathode Rays” SHTI021

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The X-Ops’ debut album immediately brings to mind those heady days of 1991 listening to college radio.  Merging Nirvana’s bigger-than-life grunge pop with Sonic Youth’s angular downtown noise, The Ex-Optimists present 10 songs filled with passion and distortion.

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great unwashed luminaries“Kill Screen” SHTI020

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great unwashed luminaries steps into the 1980’s with six tracks of breakdancing electro-beat proto-prog. First 20 copies come with a bonus disc of soundtracks to imaginary John Carpenter films.

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A Very SHTI ChristmasCompilation CD SHTI019

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Seven Christmas songs from a variety of Sinkhole Texas musicians to get you in the spirit! This one is a freebie to download and a freebie to own. Limited to 50 copies, available only at the annual SHTI/979Represent Toys for Tots benefit (More info)

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Female Demand“Self Titled” SHTI018

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Houston’s Female Demand get crazy with bass, drums and a pedalboard that has more lights and knobs than the helm of the Millennium Falcon. With these tools they create aggressively gonzo disco punk rock.

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Atarimatt Vs. great unwashed luminaries“Contest At Neon World” SHTI017

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Atarimatt adds hints of dubstep and jungle to his quarter-pumping arcade punk rock, while great unwashed luminaries takes his electro prog straight to Manchester and Berlin for some early ’80s synthpop action. 

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Levi Fuller“Colossal” SHTI016

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Boston-via-Seattle singer/multi-instrumentalist Levi Fuller has a sound owing as much to early ‘90s lo-fi acoustic indie pop as it does to the intricate indie folk somewhat similar to Joe Pernice and Lou Barlow but with the Americana songwriting tradition of finding worth in commonality.

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The Ex-Optimists“20 Seconds To Live American” SHTI015

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The Ex-Optimists drop college radio indie rock science on you like it’s 1993 all over again. Sebadoh, Sonic Youth, Mission of Burma, etc. Jagged, guitars duel with melodic vocals against a racing backbeat. Four tracks from the 4-track.

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Primal“The Demolishment Of Mankind” SHTI014

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The Demolishment of Mankind is a turgid, uncompromising, headstrong double-kicks blazing riff-charging extreme metal onslaught. Black Roger’s sub-Satan vocals are unsettling, and alien, so different than the typical Cookie Monster thing.

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Magic Girl & Her Ex-Husbands

“Poor Man’s Queen” SHTI006.2
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2nd Pressing with 2 new songs and alternate artwork! The cracker jack SHTI house band lends a rough-hewn Americana noir vibe to Magic Girl’s plaintive red clay sermons, delivered with a voice both tough as the oil field and supple as willow.

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Before The Mast

“Before The Mast” SHTI000.2
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Before The Mast explodes politick pipe bombs of early ’90s discordant gonzo math rock pathos with dissonant guitars, distorted bass, off-kilter beats and Moog madness.

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“DANCE!DANCE!PARTY!PARTY!FUN!FUN! No.1″

Compilation CD SHTI007
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Somewhere a modern dance troupe is choreographing a ballet for Activision’s Pitfall Atari cartridge. This is their soundtrack. 14 tracks of Converse-shuffling honky boogie.

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The DEE:USE

“Shave Or Make Massive” SHTI009
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Deer bone drum sticks, lots of blood, homemade oscillators, a china cymbal with more cracks than a sidewalk and a strobe light floor tom.  Houston’s The Dee Use bridge the gap between avant garde performance art and no-wave with a punk rock attitude.

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The Hangouts

“Turn Up The Bird” SHTI008
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The Hangouts blast this four-song EP full of pre-hardcore SoCal punk rock with power pop hooks and sass in about the time it takes for a really good piss.

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great unwashed luminaries

“Saving Throw Vs. Spell” 4CD BOX SETSHTI012
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Nearly five hours of electro-prog sword and sorcery packaged together at an unheard-of low price.  This limited edition 4CD boxed set compiles great unwashed luminaries’ first three long out-of-print albums, adding a bonus disc of unreleased and rare recordings and a foldout poster.

Army Of 2600

“Bit Attrition” SHTI011
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Army of 2600 is the sound of a broken game cartridge in protest, spitting out white noise, menacing beats and ominous atmosphere while the CGI scions of darkness march across your television screen.  This is how you rewrite the soundtrack for The Terminator as realized for the Atari 2600.

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Something Fierce / The Hangouts

Split 7″ MA003
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