Chunklet - Zack Galifianakis + Ted Leo 7"

This just in!
Working on another post when I saw this email about a 7 inch picture disc from Chunklet...only available by purchasing something else from them, but that just makes it even cooler (and the shipping is expensive anyway, so you pretty much have to).
This has to be the only Zach G single in existence, and with Fiona Apple? That's insane. I remember seeing that video of hers somewhere, before I even knew who he was and thinking he was the best part, he's singing the entire song really serious and she's watching him cracking up. That's a weird friendship...I have to give a couple of points to Fiona for hanging out with this genius. That and the video with Will oldham for Kayne, which is still amazing.
The crossover meter just broke.
Now this...The Ted Leo side...not such a huge fan, but I admire the exclusiveness of this release...it's why seven inches are still around...you'll want this or you won't, I can't decide..

From Chunklet:
Nobody thought it could be done, but it's happening! Comedian Zach Galifianakis! Ted Leo! The Pharmacists! All on one seven inch single! Yes, you read correctly!

One of the world's most innovative comedians, Zach Galifianakis, joined up with comedian AD Miles, record producer Jon Brion and Fiona Apple (yes, that Fiona Apple) to record the ultra-danceable track "Up In Them Guts". We guarantee that it'll soon to outpace "You Look Mahvelous" by Billy Crystal but will only come close to touching anything off Joe Pesci's solo album.

The flip is by Ted "Rockstar" Leo! Yes! Teddy went into the studio with his Pharmacists and recorded "Rock'n'Roll Dreams'll Come Through" which is a song that was originally made popular on The Best Show on WFMU and featured on "New Hope For The Ape-Eared" CD by Tom Scharpling & Jon Wurster.

Both tracks are exclusive to this single. The first 500 are on picture disc!

And as with previous singles, it won't be available in stores! It's only available with purchase, and only chunklet.com has it!

Whirlyball III - Dark Meat and Diplo

Another whirlyball concert in Atlanta has this seven inch for sale only at Criminal records. The rest of us will have to wait until it's officially repressed for sale on Chunklet.

I think Whirlyball is some kind of weird venue specific sport, kind of like bumper car Jai-alai, and I guess in Atlanta they also have concerts at these weird basketball size court spaces.

Dark Meat looks like a huge collective of people and some tracks are a capella and others are blues rock kind of JSBX style, lots of horns and giant choruses. Diplo of course is a DJ instrumentalist from way back considering....and that's going to make for a very interesting show....in the middle of this crazy court/bumper car stadium.
I'm considering a move to Atlanta, sipping Hennessy with Morrissey.

On one side, Dark Meat cover Iggy Pop's classic jam "Success" and, on the other side, Diplo deconstructs it on a track entitled "Unsuccessful Space Jam."

Creston of Harvey Milk on Chunklet

This email came in last night from Chunklet:

So you're getting this email before anybody else because you're clearly a Harvey Milk fan, and what I'm hawking is a limited seven inch single by Mr. Creston Spiers. Two songs. Recorded in his living room in Athens with just him and a 12-string guitar. The debut release by Southern Shelter Records.

There's only 200 copies of this record and Chunklet's got half of them to sell. Super heavy clear vinyl in a picture disc bag. A record nerd's dream.

So I checked out Southern Shelters site:

I'm excited to announce Southern Shelter Record(s) and our first (and only?) release, a 7" vinyl single by Harvey Milk frontman Creston Spiers! I brought the Southern Shelter Mobile Recording Unit to Creston's home in Athens recently and recorded two of his unreleased original songs. Side A is "Yesterday's Parade", written for the band A (who never made a release); it's backed with "The Time Has Come", written during Creston's time drumming for Producto. These songs are drastically different from Creston's Harvey Milk work. Both tracks have him backed only by acoustic 12-string (sitting on his couch!)

Now I've ordered the full lengths on vinyl and Courtesy and Goodwill towards men is amazing, sitting down and listening to it all at once it was an education in the history of metal/rock in the early nineties. The fact this existed then is staggering. It's really one of those slint situations, where this is a rosetta stone for what's possible for distorted guitar. 10 minute songs, gutteral singing, slow doom rock, precursors to Pelican....everything.
I'm sure this 7" is going to be very very different but the source is amazing, and I want to hear it for sure.

Here's where to order:

PREORDER! Chunklet is proud to help distribute the new and extremely limited seven inch single by Harvey Milk songsmith Creston Spiers released by Southern Shelter. Two original songs performed on an acoustic guitar and recorded in his house in Athens, Georgia. One song from Creston's time in the minimally named A, and another from when he was in Producto. You will never hear these songs on anything else. We have a chunk of them and then you can kick yourself that you didn't buy it here. On super thick, clear vinyl housed in a hefty picture disc bag. Oh, and there's only 200 pressed! Get on it!

Now....I'd love to get this and then you go to checkout, I'm ready to buy I put in all my info and the shipping is 5.50. I remember having this problem last time and that's just insane. So order away, I guess if you're a Harvey Milk completist you'll get this no matter what. I'm curious to hear this 12 string current stuff, but I just feel dirty.

Whirlyball 7" - black lips, gentleman jesse, baby shakes and coffin bound

These whirlball 7" "tickets" just went on sale yesterday, the show happened like last week, so these must be the 7"'s they couldn't/didn't sell and then an additional 400 repress so everyone can thankfully hear the music.
If you are into these bands, this is totally bad ass, colored vinyl split down the middle, splatter vinyl....awesome. I have been barely checking out the black lips here and there and maybe it's just not something I want to get more of right now. I get them confused with the Black Keys but I think the Black Lips are bluesy kind of raw, dirty, in the vein of low-fi JSBX and the White stripes, they may have been doing this first, I don't really know.

This is the greatest idea, to release a 7" as the ticket to the show... and it looks like they go all out with the manufacturing of these things as art objects. Very nice. I like that you have all the options from plain affordable black to the ones from the show...and they offer media rate shipping this time....thank you chunklet.
FYI, they are 4.50. 6.50, and 7.50 respectively....$7.50 for the split red gold color 7"'s with the tickets still attached....crazy.

From Chunklet:
Only 400 additional copies made to satisfy the masses! 100 on clear/red/gold splatter vinyl. The rest are black. The Black Lips do an Ethiopiques cover, Gentleman Jesse do a Big Tuff cover, and the Baby Shakes and Coffin Bound each do an original.

ALSO! We have about 40 left of the OFFICIAL red/gold split-down-the-center vinyl with the ticket still attached! Oh so gorgeous! We don't anticipate these lasting very long so hustle!

Complaining about paying priority shipping? Contact this guy to do paypal with media mail. Save a few bucks.

New whirylball concert ticket 7"

There is another Chunklet Whiryball show being put together in Atlanta. This latest show/7" features the Black Lips, gentlemen jesse, baby shakes and coffin bound.
If I was really serious about my band I might pick up and move there immediately. Criminal records sounds awesome, they must have some good clubs, it has to be cheap and warm. Rob's House is selling out of 7"'s. Deerhunter, the coathangers, carbonas...the latest burn to shine was shot there. I'm just saying Atlanta is looking pretty good.
But this idea of selling a seven inch as a ticket to the show is such a great idea, I really want to support this so I'll have to wait until the repress it for the rest of us.
The Black Lips, recently moved to Vice records, home of bloc party, and they are getting primed for bigger things. I swear the other day someone asked me if I had heard of this new band, the black lips. They are bluesy punk, I think at first I was getting them confused with the black keys, the other duo.
I live in a crappy town called brooklyn, and we don't have anything.

Chad radford wrote a great piece about buying records with Gentlemen Jesse here.

From Criminal records:

Criminal Records made it onto Pitchfork again this week, thank to Uncle Henry. If you want to buy the Whirlyball concert ticket (that's also a 7" single featuring Black Lips, Gentleman Jesse and his Men, Baby Shakes and Coffin Bound), please come into the store. If you can't make it down to Casa Crim any time soon, I recommend that you buy it online here and pick it up (yes, from the store) by January 19, 2008 (OMG! The year is almost over, freeeak out!). Anyway, for those of you who just want the record and not the concert ticket that is attached to it, there will be a limited quantity of singles available after the show happens. So, you out-of-town folks, just be patient. We'll take care of you then, k?

7 inch ticket? Chunklet?

I don't have any info about this other than I saw this listed at criminal records, and I think it's an awesome idea. I'm debating trying to track one down through Chunklet, who's putting on the show, but that's like buying a ticket and then not using it...(I think) I'm not sure how it's going to work out but I like it.
I keep meaning to listen to the new deerhunter album, every time I forget it's on my ipod, I wish there was a 'recently added' playlist. I probably can make one. I'm looking up the coathangers, they seem awesome...this should be a good set.

Other exciting news from yesterday: Our local bon vivant, Henry, stopped by to distract us from work (well, we're all willing participants) and to announce his next Whirlyball extravaganza featuring local heroes The! Selmanaires!, Deerhunter!, The! Carbonas!, and The! Coathangers! (FYI, all those band links go to their MySpace pages.) I asked Henry if the Coathangers were actually good or just cute, to which he replied, "Both." And Rich from Cable & Tweed agrees. Anyway, you'll soon be able to get tickets for this Whirlyball show at Casa Crim, and here's the neat part: The tickets will actually be limited edition 7" singles featuring all four bands. Quadruple-neat! Anyway, I'll let you know as soon as Henry gets 'em ready. If you want to save the date, the show will be June 1st.