75orless has started the 75orless Music Label which is sure to put us into bankruptcy.
Release Schedule
75OL-072 Six Star General - If You Want Them to Dance....Live OUT SOON
75OL-070 Sanity Assassins - The Best of 1989-93
75OL-069 The Jesse Minute - Do or Die
75OL-068 15er - Backseat Lifer
75OL-067 Cliffs and Bangers - Shorts Tracks No Breaks
75OL-066 Found Dead in Trunk - Kerosene Cocktail
75OL-065 Eric Fontana and The Ultra-Fine Reducers - Studies In R+B
75OL-064 Suicide Bill & the Liquors - The Devil Said "Hi" To Bill
75OL-063 Coltrane Motion - The Year Without a Summer/Maya Blue EP
75OL-062 Nature/Nurture - EP001
75OL-061 Coma Coma - Live at Jakes
75OL-060 Six Star General - Spaceship to Planet Cookie T-shirt
75OL-059 von Doom - The Descender
75OL-058 The Propellers - 2
75OL-057 Minky Starshine - Unidentified Hit Record
75OL-056 No Qualms 2XCD Compilation
75OL-055 Six Star General - Spaceship to Planet Cookie
75OL-054 Alien Father - Knives With Journalism
75OL-053 Coma Coma - Does Your Remote Control Have a Remote Control?
75OL-052 Nate Laban - Is Wearing Yellow
75OL-051 The Diggers - self titled
75OL-050 The Inclined - The First Day of Many
75OL-049 Guntaard - Rhubarb in the Hoo-ha
75OL-048 Kill Kill Kill - Shark Smells Blood
75OL-047 MW Ensemble - Apartment or Nepal EP
75OL-046 Nathan Xander - Swiftly, Surely
75OL-045 Six Star General - Ice Machine T-shirt SOLD OUT
75OL-044 Turn Blue - It's Not What We Mean It's How We Mean
75OL-043 Elliott Levin/ Scott R Looney/ Damon Smith/ Weasel Walter - Summer Rise/Summer Set...Summaries
75OL-042 Killing Pablo - Quiet/Loud/Repeat
75OL-041 Sharks Come Cruisin' - Four Years Before the Mast
75OL-040 Six Star General - Already On One T-shirt SOLD OUT
75OL-039 Six Star General - Sick Stars, Sister Cyst T-shirt SOLD OUT
750L-038 Baylies Band - Riscourse and Visibility
75OL-037 The Spectacular Fantastic - Consume EP
75OL-036 Suicide Bill and the Liquors - A Little Bit...Burned?
75OL-035 Barn Burning - Bound to Leave This Dark Behind
75OL-034 Fashion Failures - Don't Make Me Kiss You Motherf*cker
75OL-033 The Propellers- self titled
75OL-032 von Doom - The Universe
75OL-031 Six Star General - Sick Stars, Sister Cyst
75OL-030 Ben Pilgrim - The Further Adventures of...
75OL-029 Chris Evil & The Taints - Wanna Kill! Kill Kill!
75OL-028 Torches - Forest
75OL-027 Cholo - Unlimited Nights and Weekends
75OL-026 Johnny Carlevale - Music from the film "You Must Be This Tall" SOLD OUT
75OL-025 One More Than Seventy Four Compilation
75OL-024 Killing Pablo- A Collection of Songs on Compact Disc
75OL-023-1 Six Star General - Live at Jake's bonus disc SOLD OUT
75OL-023 Six Star General - Already On One
75OL-022 The Followers - Secret Handshake
750L-021 The Cold War - Le Petit Morte SOLD OUT
75OL-020 The 'Mericans - Where All Dead Leaves Go SOLD OUT
75OL-019 Kaiser Cartel - Live From Breakthru Radio EP
75OL-018 Fred Kendal Abong - The Hand Trembler
75OL-017 Guntaard - Vote Monkey's Butt SOLD OUT
75OL-016 The F.I.D.'s - "Cry Me a Rivet"
75OL-015-1 The Masons - Change Me Back bonus disc SOLD OUT
75OL-015 The Masons - Let You Down Easy
75OL-014 A Passing Feeling- We Might Not Sleep At All This Year
75OL-013 The 'Mericans - 'Merican Recordings EP
75OL-012 Lame Drivers - Captain Amazing EP
75OL-011 Cowboy Steve K - self titled EP
75OL-010 Fred Kendal Abong - Moonman
75OL-009 Turnpike Glow - Rush Home EP
75OL-008 Six Star General - Ice Machine
75OL-007 75orless Records White Pocket T-Shirt SOLD OUT
75OL-006 75orless Records White T-Shirt SOLD OUT
75OL-005 "ROCK OUT WITH YOUR TAIL OUT" Comp 2XCD
750L-004 Six Star General - Self Titled SOLD OUT
75OL-003 Killing Pablo - Pop Songs for Assholes EP
75OL-002 A Passing Feeling - Self Titled EP
75OL-001-BOX Staggering Statistics - Pixelated Ones and Zeros Promo Boxes SOLD OUT
75OL-001 Staggering Statistics - Pixelated Ones and Zeros EP
AS OF APRIL 10, 2008 THE OLD MYSPACE PROFILE IS NO LONGER BEING USED. YOU ARE AT THE NEW ONE.
July 13, 2009....... 15er's "Backseat Lifer" has been released. The first solo release from Kyle Jackson, the guitarist for Six Star General. Influences include Ween, Trans Am, Daft Punk, Pavement, The Beach Boys, and Sebadoh. You can download the track Microphones are Almost as Cool as Bubbles. This release is limited to 75 silkscreened copies, while the label is limited to 25 copies. $6.00 postpaid.
Sanity Assassins' "Best of 1989-93" is also now out. Connecticut's most released band, with LP's on Full Circle Records and Retch Records U.K., plus 7 inch singles released on Dionysus Records. This release features the band's first 3 piece line up. This sub pop-punk-psychedelic inspired collection has tracks from the band's Dionysus and Retch Records releases, their Tombstone Records single, plus compilation and unreleased tracks. 17 tracks total, you can download the track Already Know. This release is limited to 50 silkscreened copies and the label is limited to 25 copies. $6.00
Both releases are available for purchase over at the label webstore.
JUNE ....... The Providence Phoenix has a feature on The Inclined...... von Doom's The Descender has been released. Equal parts barroom rock and indie-soaked pop, influences include The Replacements, Dinosaur Jr, and Pavement. Always teetering between just too hip and just plain odd, von Doom is the retro-hyper-active quartet. You can download the title track The Descender........The Jesse Minute's "Do or Die" is out. A split release with Red Tide Records, the 12 songs on "DO or DIE" were culled from a recent 25 song, 3 day DIY recording session. You can download the title track "Do or Die"........ Cliffs & Bangers' "Short Tracks No Brakes" is also now out. Based out of Newport, RI, C&B play powerful surf rock and are RI's answer to Dick Dale, The Ventures, and Man or Astro-man. Download the track Squid Hunter. While von Doom comes in a eco-pack, the other releases were screen printed in batches of 250 copies but the label webstore is limited to only 25 copies of each..........Eric Fontana and the Ultra Fine Reducers "Studies in R + B" has been released. A longtime fixture on the Providence music scene, Eric was a member of Mother Jefferson in the late nineties and is a current member of Hope Anchor. His solo work is a musical road trip of various eras and geographical locations as seen through the eyes of a modern indie pop-rock mutt. Influences include Paul Westerberg, Jack White, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Redding, Etta James, Buddy Guy, and Big Mama Thorton. You can download the track Happy Star......... Suicide Bill and the Liquors' The Devil Said "Hi" To Bill has also been released. You can download the
title track and pick up copies of both cds over at the label website....... Six Star General's "Spaceship to Planet Cookie" t-shirts are now available. There were only 25 shirts made and they are going fast. Spaceship to Planet Cookie was released in December and has earned two nominations for Album of the Year, from both Motif Magazine and the Providence Phoenix. You can order a shirt from the label website and don't forget to include size and color info......... Found Dead in Trunk's "Kerosene Cocktail" has been released. Killed by Death inspired Connecticut lo-fi punk band featuring former members of Stark Raving, The White Pigs and Sanity Assassins. You can download the track Prescription for Suicide......... Boston's The Noise has a review of the No Qualms compilation...... The pride and joy of Pawtucket, Fashion Failures have announced they have broken up..........Newport's Mercury Magazine features surf-rock masters Cliffs & Bangers on their May 6th cover...... Captains Dead covers some of the blog slash music labels out there, including 75orLess........ Information on the June 12 cd release show for Eric Fontana and the Ultra-Fine Reducers.
The Providence Phoenix has announced this year's nominations for the "Best of" music categories. 75orLess acts getting nominations are:
Best Act - Six Star General
Best Singer Songwriter - Ben Pilgrim
Best Punk/Garage - Fashion Failures, The Jesse Minute
Best Album - Six Star General "Spaceship to Planet Cookie"
MAY 2009....... The Providence Phoenix has a feature on The Propellers..........Boston's The Noise reviews the new Minky Starshine.
APRIL 2009....... The Providence Phoenix has a feature on Coma Coma........ Ear Damage reviews MW Ensemble.......... Motif Magazine has announced their 2009 music nominations. The 75orLess roster has three nominees. The Propellers "2" and Six Star General's "Spaceship to Planet Cookie" are up for Best Album of the year and Ben Pilgrim is nominated for Best New Act. You can vote for all categories here. SATURDAY APRIL 18 IS RECORD STORE DAY. NEWBURY COMICS ON ROUTE 2 WARWICK will have live music in-store starting at noon and running until 8:00PM. The bands performing are: Six Star General, The Propellers, The Blood Moons, Deer Tick, and Eric Fontana.
MARCH 2009.........3Hive sort of reviews the new Coltrane Motion........ Baby Sue reviews MW Esemble while Slowoustic reviews Nathan Xander's Swiftly, Surely...... Coma Coma "Live at Jakes" is now released. A quick follow up to their debut EP, the improvised guitar solos meld seamlessly with a pulsating rhythm section that explores their sonic landscape, while the organic vocals give the songs direction. Seven tracks, including a cover of Ween's "Baby Bitch", recorded live at the late, lamented Providence venue in December 2008 by Jeff Bright from Sambello Studios. Only $6.00 postpaid, this release is limited to 75 numbered, silkscreened copies. You can download the track 4th of July and purchase a copy over at the label website........ Lithium Radio and Ear It Now give some coverage to the new Coltrane Motion........ Both Captains Dead and Absolute Power Pop have reviews of the new Minky Starshine release...... The Rock and Roll Report has a recent interview with the 75orLess label....... The next 75orLess Live Showcase is taking place SATURDAY MARCH 21 at Houlihan's Tavern in East Providence with The Propellers, Mustache Ride, Suicide Bill and Six Star General. 9PM. NO COVER. 21+......... Coltrane Motion's "The Year Without a Summer/Maya Blue" EP has been released. Michael Bond and Matt Dennewitz fulfill their usual duties in this electronic duo, with GD Mills from Fuck Knights filling in on drums. Self-recorded in a bedroom and practice space in Ukrainian Village, Chicago. The seven inch single will be available in late March from the Data Was Lost label. This CD version contains two bonus remixes of tracks from "Songs About Music" by You, You're Awesome and Superaction80. It's limited to 75 total copies while the label is limited to only 25 copies. You can purchase a copy over at the label webpage........ Boston's The Noise has reviews of the latest releases from von Doom, Coma Coma, Six Star General and Nature/Nurture....... Brooklyn Paper features Cholo in their latest episode of Smash or Trash....... The Providence Phoenix has a feature on Nature/Nurture and their release "EP001"........ Also in the Phoenix, the 75orLess Music reviews websitehas been nominated for the second year in a row as Best Local Blog - despite not being a blog. Thank you regardless.
FEBRUARY 2009......... Motif Magazine reviews both Minky Starshine and the new Propellers releases......... The Inclined "The First Day of Many" is now available for download on emusic. Also, You can see an interview and also a performance of the track "Pleased" fromCholo on Brooklyn College tv.........The Propellers "2" has been released. The Propellers took to recording in the humid New England summer of 2008, sculpting their sophomore art rock record. The album covers a variety of themes: a lullaby for a petulant child, revenge murder on a underground train, friendship, love, loss, and a celebration of life's foibles. Recorded in a Rhode Island basement by the bassist, and mixed by the drummer, "2" is truly a DIY effort. This release is limited to 150 silkscreened copies, while the label is limited to only 25 copies. You can download the track Lifted. The cd release party is on Thursday February 12 at KC's Tap in Pawtucket. Also on the bill are The Wippets, and Jeff Bright's latest project The Melodelodies, Loblolly Boy and Bearkat, both from Maine....... on Friday February 6 at Jimmy's Saloon in Newport, The "Jonny Jones Jam", a musical fundraiser for Jonny Jones will be held. You probably know Jonny from his many musical projects here in the Ocean State over the years - Mother Jefferson, Backwash, 2 Guys and Another Guy and others. His friends have gotten together to raise money to help pay for some recent medical bills. Raffles, food and a lot of bands. The suggested donation is anywhere from $10-20 bucks and the music starts at 7pm.
JANUARY 2009....... Two new releases from the 75orless label this week. Minky Starshine's Unidentified Hit Record is like listening to a box of old 8-tracks in your Uncle Don's basement. Recorded primarily by x-Hot Rod Circuit Michael Poorman at Strangeways Recording in Providence, R.I., Minky also teamed up with pal Ken Stringfellow (Posies, Big Star) in Paris, France at Le Domicile Studio, and with Chris Manning (Jellyfish, Guster) out at Salamander Sound in sunny California. This refined line-up features Mike Musburger (Posies, Fastbacks) on drums. You can download the tracks Good to Me or Millennium Wheel. Changing musical gears completely, Nature/Nurture has released EP001. An instrumental trio born in Fall River, Massachusettes and raised in the Wamsutta Mills of New Bedford. Sounds like Shellac, Minus the Bear, Isis and At the Drive In having a bar fight, minus all the yelling. Download the track 002. Both releases are only $6.00 each including shipping
Nate Laban made the trip down from New Hampshire in early January and played a few songs for us live in-studio. You can download the following tracks:
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Why 75orLess? It's a reasonable question. The idea was born during our daily music chats, while discussing reviews we'd read. There was only one thing we consistently agreed on: they were too long. It seemed the point of how the music sounded and whether or not it was good was lost in an overlong mess of lyric quotes, personal accounts and a seemingly desperate attempt to fulfill a word count. Eventually someone said, "It's gotten to the point where if you can't say it in 75 words or less, you should shut the fuck up". Within a week, 75orless.com was born. The best part about our limit is its reversal of typical music reviews. We limit the amount of words we use, and are not required to reach a number.
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75orLess
ATTN: Reviews
23 Laurel Lane
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A few things to keep in mind...
Please include some info with your submission, it doesn't have to be fancy. We just need some sort of starting point like, "This album sounds like heavy metal mixed with Brazilian pop music." Giving us a description of your music greatly increases your chances of getting reviewed. We receive over 100 submissions per month. We only review 25 per month. We are sorry to report we cannot review all submissions. We are a very small operation and our staff is completely volunteer. If your music is great, we will let our readers know. It doesn't matter to us if you are on a major label or you recorded it in your basement. On the flip side of that, if you are too sensitive too handle an unfavorable review, please refrain from submitting. We try to give positive reviews but sometimes can't help ourselves. You do not have to email us to ask us if it's ok to submit music. Please follow up your submissions by emailing us at info(at)75orless(dot)com. Do NOT use myspace for submission follow-ups. The review website and this myspace page are maintained by different people.
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