SKELETONS & THE GIRL-FACED BOYS embark on a US Tour!

Derek and I are stoked to announce that our newest clients are Skeletons & the Girl Faced Boys. Ever since we caught them at 2005's CMJ Music Marathon and soon after heard their album "Git" (which was released by Ghostly International/Shinkoyo), we've been enchanted! (And that's an understatement.)




BIOGRAPHY
As a co-founding member of Shinkoyo records, Matt Mehlan retains the label’s core ideals of collaboration, experimentation, and unpredictability with his Skeletons project. Beginning in Oberlin, Ohio as a solo act with help from an eclectic cast of collaborators (classically-trained trombonists, punk rock drummers, a junkyard boy's choir), Skeletons has now settled comfortably into its adult body, having established the full-time band The Girl-Faced Boys (Seve, Johnny, Jason, and Carson) and forming an alliance with Ghostly. In addition to appearances at the 2004 CMJ and 2005 SxSW festivals, the group has lent live support to TV On The Radio, The Unicorns, VHS Or Beta, Animal Collective, Holger Czukay (of Can), Jackie O' Motherfucker, and Twig Harper. A major US tour is planned for summer following the release of the LP “Git”.




TOURDATES

Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys – The “Kings of All Cities” Tour 2006

24 Feb - Philadelphia, PA @ Swarthmore College
25 Feb – Ithaca, NY@ Fan Club
01 Mar - Pittsfield, MA @ Storefront Artists
02 Mar - NYC, NY @ Pianos
03 Mar - Williamstown, MA @ Clark Arts
04 Mar - Richmond, VA @ Gallery 5
05 Mar - Charlottesville, VA @ Dust
06 Mar - Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern
07 Mar - Athens, GA @ Caledonia Lounge
08 Mar - Atlanta, GA @ Eyedrum
09 Mar - West Palm Beach, FL @ Respectable St.
10 Mar - Tampa Bay, FL @ New World Brewery
12 Mar – Jacksonville, FL @ The Imperial
13 Mar - Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon
14 Mar - Dallas, TX @ Good Records (6pm)
14 Mar – Dallas, TX @ The Cavern (Belle & Sebastian afterparty, midnight)
15 Mar – Austin, TX @ Emo’s (2pm) (SXSW)
16 Mar – Austin, TX @ Urban Outfitters (1pm) (SXSW)
16 Mar – Austin, TX @ The Ritz (Blender Balcony)
17 Mar – Austin, TX @ The Peacock (3pm)
18 Mar - Ft. Worth, TX @ Metrognome
20 Mar - St. Louis, MO @ Way Out Club
21 Mar – Urbana, IL @ Canopy Club
22 Mar - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
23 Mar - Lansing, MI @ Mac's Bar
24 Mar - Dayton, OH @ Elbo's
25 Mar – Altoona, PA @ Lion’s Den


www.ghostly.com
www.ghostly.com/1.0/artists/skeletons/index.shtml
www.everyprettyboy.com
www.everyprettygirl.com
www.shinkoyo.com

Breaking News.



HYDRA HEAD RECORDS announces a sampling of its upcoming news
and releases for the next few months. Prepare for the assault.

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February 25th, 2006
OXBOW "Love That’s Last" CD / DVD
Oxbow is the San Francisco based mastermind who's history and influence extend back to 1990, and who's reach spans the world. Eccentric and amazing frontman Eugene Robinson leads his band through fits and tantrums to create dark, heavy, elaborate, and beautiful monstrosities that reach into your ribcage and rip out your heart, still beating, and very bloody.

"Love That's Last" is an album of genre defying at its finest. With songs ranging from BB King or Etta James saloon-jazz and blues, to post-hardcore of the most evil brand (think Hoover / Engine Kid), the songs travel through your being and fill it w/ a sonic orgasm, brought to you by the one and only Oxbow.

Also accompanying the album is a DVD documentary following Oxbow around the world, allowing unfamiliar and new fans the opportunity to truly understand the band. Interviews w/ confused and amazed Europeans, and mind-blowing live performances abound, Oxbow is really just prepping us for their upcoming full-length of brand new material due out circa Fall 2006 ;)

OXBOW Live:
3:30pm Thursday March 16th
VICE Magazine SXSW Showcase @ Victory Outside w/ Art Brut, Witch, Afrirampo, Zombi, and more.

www.theoxbow.com

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March 7th 2006
EVERLOVELY LIGHTNINGHEART "Cusp"
Dust, leaves, blood, photo chemicals, rust, various metal objects, a tunnel, a barn, a monastery, a booby trap, various moldy basements, water, explosives, tarot cards, an iron bison, the Los Angeles basin, the Mojave desert, a cat, a deer, potassium cyanide, mass confusion, a friendship, and a piano on fire in the middle of the street.

This is the performance/installation/image and object making/music and mayhem collaborative known as Everlovely Lightningheart. The collaborative is concerned with noise sound music weapons, psychic phenomena, delicate papers, pins and needles, the thinnest of threads, the devils trumpet, and the narrowest of lines. Everlovely Lightningheart (sometimes known Faith in Vapors Thin as Paper, symbolized in some circles by the image of a three headed unicorn) is an entity capable of producing, perverting, destroying, distributing, stealing, and selling a vast and sprawling array of existing as well as currently unheard of forms of cultural products and concepts.

• Everlovely Lightningheat’s performaces range from serene to chaotic. Including anywhere from two to a dozen performers, each performance is a truely unique experience.

• The band has played shows with Isis, These Arms Are Snakes, Pelican, Bastard Noise,Red Sparowes, and many others.

• As well as playing the conventional club circuit, Everlovely Lightningheart has been included as part of several muesuem and art collective events.

• Everlovely Lightningheart documents every performance with audio, video, and photography, creating an extensive library of work.

Everlovely Lightningheart Live:
4pm March 16th 2006 - Austin, TX
VICE Magazine SXSW Party @ The Longbranch Inn w/ Islands, Fatal Flying Guilloteens, Rye Coalition, Quintron and more.

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April 11th 2006
SCISSORFIGHT "Jaggernaut" (Tortuga)
oh yes, oh, oh, oh yes. fuck this, and fuck that, fuck everything, because this is Scissorfight.

Scissorfight hails from New Hampshire and over their history of balls out non-stop rock, has managed to release some of the greatest metal and rock records the world has seen, and "Jaggernaut" (a word that means all night party / partier) does not stop there. Comparing Scissorfight to other bands seems backwards but let's play the backwards game. References from Megadeth to Drive Like Jehu, Big Black to AC/DC, Scissorfight demonstrates its unrelenting ability to beat its audience into submission, and leave it begging for more.

Not only does Scissorfight wear the belt of rock champions, dudes are some smart mothers. Just read their lyrics, thanks to things like band-members enjoying family-life, or others the occcassional spliff, dudes lay it out like the blue-collar champions fighting for the good of everyday humanity. Have fun, be happy, don't be sucked into stupidity, and enjoy the awesomeness that is Scissorfight (*note, a beer in the process is ok).



SCISSORFIGHT Live:

Fri. March 24th CD Release Boston, MA @ Middle East Downstairs

Sat. March 25th CD Release Newmarket, NH @ The Stone Church

Fri March 31st CD Release Portland, ME @ Big Easy


www.scissorfight.com

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JESU "Silver"
Justin Broadrick and Ted Parsons are back w/ the followup to last year's self-titled full-length, whose brooding, monster of a record, found itself in many a year end best-of list. Together, the two return to release the "Silver" EP, marking a new and incredible journey for the band. Adding more electronic trickery and ambience, atop a mountain of heavy, "Silver," is the sound of the oceans alive and clouds forming, volcanos erupting and bliss being achieved, the soundtrack for "everything," and "it." Jesu is a spiritual journey, prepare to be uplifted.

Tracklist for "Silver"
1. Silver
2. Star
3. Wolves
4. Dead Eyes

http://www.avalancheinc.co.uk/jesu.html

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There is more news coming on the rest of the Hydra Head bands in 2006, including new releases by CAVE IN, DAUGHTERS, GRIDLINK (ex-Discordance Axis), AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED, the BOTCH DVD, and more.

*Additionally, Hydra Head Records have announced they are making a jump into the world of fashion (huh?!). It's true! Along w/ friends Dim Mak Records, the labels have courted some amazing artists to create a sick line of custom t-shirts and clothing soon to be available to the rest of us. If you're in Vegas right now, you can cacth them at the Pool and Magic Trade Show until Friday February 24th:



www.hydrahead.com
www.tortugarecordings.com

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For more information and to request promo material, say the word, and stay tuned for more announcements from the Hydra Head Records camp!

xoxo
derek meier
Solid PR
www.solidpr.com

Friday February 24th

SCENIC
23 Avenue B (between 2nd & 3rd)
New York City
11PM

IHEARTCOMIX 2006 SXSW
(unofficial) BLOWOUT!

• FREE ICE CREAM from the HEARTSCHALLENGER ICE CREAM TRUCK!! www.heartschallenger.com
• SILK SCREEN POSTERS by BUFFMONSTER!! www.buffmonster.com
• FREE IHEARTRCOMIX SXSW SAMPLER! featuring songs by almost every band/DJ on the party!!
• FREE POSTCARDS by FRANKI CHAN!
• PHOTOS by JUSTIN RENNEY! www.photojustin.com
• FREE IHEARTCOMIX SXSW MAGAZINE/PROGRAM!
• OPEN BAR (for most of it)!
• GIFT BAGS with goodies from: Dickies Girl, Chaser, Chord Magazine, Cryin' Tiger, Poketo, Sharps, Morphine Generation, Obey, Atlantic Records, Musicane Media, Triple 5 Soul, Dickies Girl, Logitech, Anthem, Urb, Heartschallenger, Kill Your Idols, IRIS Distibution, Creative Tax Planner, and Miele Fresca plus tons more to come...

MANY THANKS TO

posted by Céleste at 2:12 PM