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Pelican's second full length album The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw , is finally back in press on 180 gram double LP.
With their 2005 epic, Pelican brought on new levels of complexity to their already distinctive auditory stamp. Acoustic guitars take their place beside the group's traditional power-droning and awe-inspiring instrumental anthems. Whether this signaled the end of the underground musical landscape as we knew it, or the beginning of a new one is anyone's guess. Luckily, it rules either way.
- Vinyl is housed in a Stoughton old-school style heavyweight gatefold jacket printed on reflective metallic stock. Available on 180 gram black, orange, black/blue splatter, and white/blue splatter vinyl. Each disc has full color labels and a heavyweight full color inner-sleeve.
Also available as part of the pre-order are a limited edition hoodie and t-shirt that revive classic Pelican designs in new color-ways.
Hey gang,
So maybe the person in front of you in line this morning snagged the last Botch - An Anthology of Dead Ends 12" at your local record store, or maybe you live too far away from any of the swell shops that were selling the Circle - Manner LP, or you only got two out of the three colors of the Pelican - Australasia 2xLP. Well, fret not because now you have the opportunity to order them from the comfort of the slow computer you share with everyone in your house. We have limited quantities of all three Record Store Day releases in every vinyl color available, so click them links before it's too late.
And don't forget to grab this Circle t-shirt. IT IS A GLOW-IN-THE-DARK SKULL.
So maybe the person in front of you in line this morning snagged the last Botch - An Anthology of Dead Ends 12" at your local record store, or maybe you live too far away from any of the swell shops that were selling the Circle - Manner LP, or you only got two out of the three colors of the Pelican - Australasia 2xLP. Well, fret not because now you have the opportunity to order them from the comfort of the slow computer you share with everyone in your house. We have limited quantities of all three Record Store Day releases in every vinyl color available, so click them links before it's too late.
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on Clear, Red, Gold, or Black vinyl
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on Eyeball, Black, or Red Eye vinyl
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on Black, Gold, or Yellow/Orange/Black Haze vinyl
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And don't forget to grab this Circle t-shirt. IT IS A GLOW-IN-THE-DARK SKULL.
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Hi. How are you?
Have you heard of Record Store Day?
It's one of those events that makes pretty much anyone remotely interested in making, selling or buying vinyl records go just totally and completely bananas. We may not have gone totally bananas...just yet anyway;)...but we do come close around this time of year, particularly with our very own Los Angeles based vinyl record store, Vacation Vinyl. Vacation will be loaded with the Hydra Head titles we're about to run through in this here 'eblast', but will also be well stocked on just about everything you are dying to find on Record Store Day's official list.
Hydra Head Records has three titles coming out on Record Store Day this year. There will be no webstore pre-orders for these, so please go old-school and ask your local store to order them (and several each of our catalog titles as well, if you don't mind), then go snag them in person at the crack 'o dawn on April 21st.
We will also be sending out free posters, signed prints, pins and patches to select stores as well...but more on that as Record Store Day approaches.
An Anthology of Dead Ends 12"
The final will and testament of Seattle's best boy band ever, released just in time for the 10th anniversary of their final show. A collection so vital its grown 2 inches in 10 years.
180g vinyl on multiple colors. Full color old-school style tip-on single LP jacket, with heavyweight full color innersleeve.
Manner LP
Finland's indomitable Circle return with a dilating dose of NWOFHM/Avant-AOR. Limited vinyl album. 6 songs. 40 minutes. Their first on Hydra Head.
Housed in a classic full color die-cut DJ sleeve, the cover image of the eye is not fully realized until the record is inserted into the jacket with the LP label completing the iris. The vinyl colors equally match the aesthetic; we would tell you what they are, but we don't want to ruin the surprise.
Australasia 2xLP
The instru-metal rock masterpiece that came to define a genre. Often imitated, never duplicated. Deluxe vinyl edition available for the first time on Hydra Head since the album's 2003 release.
180g double vinyl on multiple colors. Full color tip-on gatefold with full color innersleeve. This thing is so heavy you could probably hammer nails with it.
Hint: track down the 'haze' vinyl color...we like.
We have some new items up on www.RealTomatoKetchup.com including:
-Jesu poster pack (4 posters - s/t, Silver, Lifeline, and Conqueror)
- Melvins A Senile Animal Box Set (4xLP, belt buckle, and comic in a silk-screened box. Only 1!)
- Neurosis Sovereign LP (clear vinyl, dinged jacket - vinyl tore through edge during shipping)
- Torche Meanderthal LP repress (simplified standard gatefold jacket)
- Pelican poster pack
plus a bunch of other stuff. Have a look, and check back regularly. There are always new items that we have limited quantities of.
PELICAN ANNOUNCE WEST COAST TOUR DATES
CHICAGO QUARTET JOINING THE POWER OF THE RIFF & BOOMSLANG FESTIVAL LINEUPS
Chicago instrumental quartet Pelican have announced a string of west coast engagements this summer, ending a period of dormancy that has seen the band receding from stages to work on new material and a growing number of side-projects. Joining forward-thinking metal label Southern Lord’s multi-city The Power of the Riff Festival, which sports a lineup including luminaries Pentagram, Winter, Noothgrush, among several others, Pelican will play installments in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle in addition to their own headlining dates in San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Fresno, and Portland. The following month Pelican will make a select appearance at Kentucky’s Boomslang Festival alongside Swans, Secret Chiefs 3, Horseback, and many more (full tour dates below).
Since 2001 Pelican has presented a distinct brand of rock that draws on varied, occasionally contradictory, traditions of post-rock, stoner metal, and innumerable other styles, synthesizing a heady amalgam of soaring melody and dizzying distortion. As best experienced on their 2009 full length What We All Come to Need, the seemingly operatic compositions take on a life of their own, unfolding melodically and conceptually, as the four men are lost in performance, heads banging and feet stomping.
TOUR DATES
(all August dates with ÆGES)
8/12 San Diego, CA The Casbah
8/13 Los Angeles, CA The Echoplex (Power of The Riff Festival w/ Pentagram, Winter, Trap Them)
8/14 San Luis Obispo, CA SLO Brewing Company
8/15 Fresno, CA Audie’s Olympic
8/16 San Francisco, CA The Mezzanine (Power of The Riff Festival w/ Pentagram, Alpinist)
8/17 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre
8/18 Seattle, WA Neumo’s (Power of The Riff Festival w/ Winter, Noothgrush)
9/24 Lexington, KY Buster’s (Boomslang Festival w/ Swans, Secret Chiefs 3, Horseback)
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON PELICAN:
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A couple new Jesu items and the very last Pelican wooden box that we have, now available at www.realtomatoketchup.com.
Fresh faced and eager to inform the public, the merry prankster (we told you he anonymously mailed a butthole calendar to our office, right?) Larry Herweg is on a couple of panels as part of Scion's Music(less) Conference.
First up, Integrity and Selling Out in 2010, followed by Artists As Businesses.
Get out your legal pads, kids! It's learning time!
First up, Integrity and Selling Out in 2010, followed by Artists As Businesses.
Get out your legal pads, kids! It's learning time!
324 - japanese grindcore for fans of Discordance Axis and Gridlink, we got these LPs from Jon Chang a while back.
Melvins - A Senile Animal box set. This managed to hang around the office until now.
Pelican Wooden box - It's been up there a while, but we reduced shipping a little on these last three copies.
Bee Control - Now You Know
Still looking for a holiday gift for a Pelican fan (including yourself)? Well, we received a handful of copies of the Pelican Wooden Box from Viva Hate Records. If you are interested in acquiring one, please //edit/ visit www.realtomatoketchup.com /edit// . First come, first served. They are $200 each plus shipping (from California).
The wooden box contains Pelican's entire discography, 10 LPs in all:
Pelican – Untitled
Pelican – Australasia 2xLP
Pelican – The Fire In Our Throats In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw 2xLP
Pelican – March Into The Sea
Pelican – City Of Echoes LP
Pelican – Ephemeral
Pelican – What We All Come To Need 2xLP
Limited to 500 pcs.
Cartoon Network's Adult Swim put together a compilation of rare and unreleased tracks from a bunch of awesome bands including Torche, Isis, Jesu, Pelican, and Boris. You can download it for free here!
Pelican have announced plans to play two very special shows in celebration of their 10-year anniversary box set, out October 19th on Berlin, Germany’s Viva Hate Records. The elegantly packaged wooden-box set will be limited to a run of 500 copies and will encompass material from their four full-length releases and three EPs.
Pelican play Chicago’s Bottom Lounge on October 23rd joined by longtime friends and occasional collaborators The Life & Times.
Munster, IN’s Three Floyds Brewery will celebrate the event by unveiling a special, Pelican-dedicated doppelbock (one of the few styles of beer all four band members regularly agree upon). The as-yet-unnamed ale will be served at the Chicago show and at select watering holes and specialty shops around the Chicagoland area for a limited time.
One week after the Chicago appearance, Pelican will join forces with legendary doom-metal overlords Goatsnake (making a rarer than rare live appearance) on October 30th to play the Troubador in Los Angeles.
PELICAN 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY DATES:
10/23 Chicago, IL @ The Bottom Lounge w/ The Life and Times, Swan King
10/30 Los Angeles, CA @ The Troubador w/ Goatsnake, Nails
Larry Herweg (Pelican, Tusk, San Angelus)
Jams:
Isis "Wavering Radiant"
The Life and Times "Tragic Boogie"
Satyricon "The Age of Nero"
The Boston Quadruple Threat= Converge "Axe to Fall", Cave In "Planets of Old", Doomriders "Darkness Come Alive", Disappearer "The Clearing"
Jawbox "For Your Own Special Sweetheart" reissue
Alice in Chains "Black Gives Way To Blue"
Shows: "Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
"Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!"
Reads: "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
The Life and Times "Tragic Boogie"
Satyricon "The Age of Nero"
The Boston Quadruple Threat= Converge "Axe to Fall", Cave In "Planets of Old", Doomriders "Darkness Come Alive", Disappearer "The Clearing"
Jawbox "For Your Own Special Sweetheart" reissue
Alice in Chains "Black Gives Way To Blue"
Shows: "Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia"
"Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!"
Reads: "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Highlights:
Touring and/or playing shows with Isis, Tombs, Wolves in the Throne Room, Sunn, Eagle Twin, Black Cobra, Sweet Cobra, Earth, Black Breath, Struck By Lightning, Disappearer
Spending almost a combined total of 4 weeks in Seattle, recording 2 Pelican records, the San Angelus album and partying/swimming at the Lake!
Spending almost a combined total of 4 weeks in Seattle, recording 2 Pelican records, the San Angelus album and partying/swimming at the Lake!
The kind and generous gentlemen and gentlewomen over at scion financed a Torche music video as of recent. The track is titled "King Beef." Hydra Head is releasing the audio for this song on a limited 10" split with Boris very very soon, so be on the look out for that etc.
The Torche video is part of a larger project that involves the simultaneous digital release of several music videos via Itunes on December 22nd... Our friends, Pelican, also have a music video involved in this project... Below is a trailer Scion has put together to promote the project as a whole... It certainly leaves you wanting, but that's what trailers are supposed to do, right?... so check it out!
A couple weeks ago it was Mahk Thompson's birthday. A year and a couple weeks ago Sugarbear shot this video at the party at Mark's house. Cameos by members of Torche, Clouds, Helms Alee, Minus the Bear, and Isis. Also, Mark shows up in a Pelican video on Headbanger's Ball.
If you are in Oklahoma City, Pelican is playing a last minute show at the Conservatory tonight. Also playing are Sweet Cobra and Struck By Lightning. Spread the word.
PELICAN have posted a new track from their upcoming album on their official MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/pelican.
The song, entitled "Strung Up From The Sky", is one of the eight tracks encompassing the band's upcoming full-length What We All Come To Need, being released on October 27th, their first for Southern Lord Recordings.
The August issue of Modern Drummer hit newsstands nationwide yesterday. The significance here is that the issue contains an interview with Larry Herwig (the drummer of Pelican) and also Aaron Harris (the drummer of Isis). Larry's interview is regarding the recording of Pelican's most recent full-length, "City of Echoes." Aaron's interview, aside from the Tre Cool centerfold, is just another reason to pick up the issue. You should be able to find more info here.
Here is the new Chel's List video touting the Champions of Sound 2008 2x7", Oxbow - "Lover Ungrateful" 7", and more Torche - "Meanderthal Demos" cassettes. Also featuring an appearance by members of Kayo Dot.
Email chelvanin@hydrahead.com to get on his exclusive mailorder list.
Email chelvanin@hydrahead.com to get on his exclusive mailorder list.