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STREET DATE: SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 SEPTEMBER NEW RELEASE GUIDE NEW RELEASE GUIDE SEPTEMBER 2015 ( 2) NEW RELEASE GUIDE SEPTEMBER 2015 Welcome!! Welcome!! It’s all about the kids. The Kindie Music phenomenon continues to grow. In the last decade, musicians who were parents realized that IT”S IN THE GROOVES! That is an expression that harkens back to there had to be something that falls between Barney and The Wiggles RECORDS. These days we call them Vinyl (but never Vinyls). They are and the Disney teen angst singers. Kids are just like us grown-ups--- not slabs of wax anymore. And yes indeed, there is a resurgence that they like music; they really, really like it. Satellite radio has a 24 hour a continues to annually resurge. We’ve got four this month alone---Team day channel---Kids Place Live. If you are not offering kids music, you are Sleep, Máscaras, Fernando and Nate Allen & The Pac-Away Dots. missing out. Childrens Music is not just a niche for us here at Snap these babies up right now---it’s a happening thing (or as James Burnside, it is a significant portion of our day-to- day business. Brown had been known to say, It’s a Groovemaker!!) And that mini-rant brings us to Caspar Babypants. Yep, Chris Ballew, And what about Fernando? That would be Mr. Viciconte to you. How from the Presidents of the United States of America, is back with his many of you recall him from Monkey Paw---the 90s band, not the 10th album under that pseudonomic moniker. This is BEATLES BABY!, current one? Well there are lots of years under the bridge since then the follow-up to BABY BEATLES! Let’s face it, the Beatles were the most and Fernando’s latest is his 8th solo overall and this has a number of his significant musical artists of the last 50 years so how can you go wrong friends from R.E.M., Richmond Fontaine, Minus 5, She and Him, with their music. Everybody old and young knows it and embraces Delines, M. Ward and more---he has lots of friends and , deservedly so, it….and you can handle it on repeat after repeat in the car far better lots of fans around the world. than that purple dinosaur--- right? Dig it---Caspar Babypants is real and good. Actually, Caspar is REAL GOOD! and so much more…. your friends from bdc… THE BURNSIDE DISTRIBUTION TEAM MAIN OFFICE SALES STAFF 6635 N. Baltimore Ave. Suite 285 Portland, OR, 97203 SKIP WERNER CLAY PASTERNACK P (503) 231-0876 General Manager Rep area: Midwest F (503) 231-0420 6635 N. Baltimore Ave. Suite 285 21258 Maplewood Ave. Portland, OR 97203 Rocky River, OH 44116-1244 P (503) 231-0876 P (440) 333-2208 F (503) 231-0420 F (440) 333-2280 BILL MCNALLY [email protected] [email protected] Vice President [email protected] FRANK BRANDON Operations Manager/Label Relations [email protected] JAMIE MCMULLEN Digital Distribution Coordinator [email protected] CAMERON FRALEY Warehouse Staff [email protected] MARTHA HUCK Accounting Manager [email protected] ANTON LOEBBERT Intern [email protected] ( 3) NEW RELEASE GUIDE SEPTEMBER 2015 ( 4) NEW RELEASE GUIDE SEPTEMBER 2015 AMERICANA Click, Danny, Holding Up The Sun CD Produced by music legend Jim Scott and with a crack band, Holding Up The Sun is an amazing album and CAT: promises to be the one that breaks new ground for singer/songwriter/guitarist Danny Click. Recorded in DS5211591815 just two short weeks at Scott’s Plyrz Studios in LA, Holding Up The Sun is very fresh and live sounding yet LABEL: DogStar Records still refined, especially in the songwriting. This is what thousands of miles on the road and countless nights UPC: 700261428864 examining the human condition sounds like---real, honest and filled with hope. PRICE: $15.99 Fernando, Leave The Radio On CD Fernando Viciconte, the Portland, Oregon troubadour, has twenty years of local and national acclaim CAT: under his belt. His voice has caused countless publications (Billboard, Magnet, Paste, The Oregonian, No FnG028 Depression, etc) and fellow musicians (Peter Buck, Don Dixon, Steve Wynn) to rave about the feeling it LABEL: Fluff and Gravy Records evokes when Fernando sings his songs of dark despair and faint hope. Three years in the making, Leave UPC: 857674003468 The Radio On features a virtual who's who of Portland's finest musicians, including Buck and Scott PRICE: $12.99 McCaughey as well as members of M.Ward, Elliott Smith, Richmond Fontaine and The Delines. This is a new chapter in Viciconte's ever-evolving musical trajectory, a career marked by creative integrity and an almost painful honesty which attracts fans from high and low that still believe in the redemptive power of rock and roll. Fernando, Leave The Radio On LP Vinyl CAT: FnG028 LABEL: Fluff and Gravy Records UPC: 857674003451 PRICE: $20.99 BLUES JC Smith Band, The, Love Mechanic CD Love Mechanic, the latest CD release from the award winning JC Smith Band, includes West Coast Swing, CAT: Chicago Blues, Back Alley, Country, and Funk Based Blues. A blend of original music and artfully CR-CD 006 rearranged covers, Love Mechanic captures the live performance excitement of the JC Smith Band with LABEL: Cozmik Records its’ onstage charisma. JC is the quintessential sharp dressed man who wrings notes from his instrument UPC: 638827999995 that have to be heard to be believed. With an appreciation of the past from the masters (Little Walter, PRICE: $15.99 Eddie Boyd) to their offspring (Electric Flag), JC Smith puts his own stamp on everything he does. Omar and the Howlers, Live at the Opera House CD This is Omar and the Howlers recorded live at the (now shuttered) Opera House in Austin on August 30, CAT: 1987. Omar Kent Dykes and the classic Howlers lineup from the Hard Times in the Land of Plenty era with BGM 1501 Eric Scortia on Hammond B-3, Gene Brandon on drums and Bruce Jones on bass. Simply put, they were an LABEL: Big Guitar Music unstoppable force to be reckoned with. If your name was Vaughan in Texas with Double Trouble or the UPC: 614511834322 Thunderbirds, you were aware of Omar as the man with that voice and that guitar that meant you’d better PRICE: $15.99 tighten up your doo if you were going to step on the same stage. Omar ruled. No more needs to be said. ( 5) NEW RELEASE GUIDE SEPTEMBER 2015 CHILDRENS Caspar Babypants, BEATLES BABY! CD Creating a second volume of simple, clear, fun, acoustic, sing along covers of classic Beatles songs for CAT: kids ages 0-6 and their parents is what the 10th album from Caspar Babypants is all about. Caspar AE0010 Babypants is also known as Chris Ballew, the twice Grammy nominated songwriter and lead singer for LABEL: Aurora Elephant Music the Seattle rock and roll band The Presidents of the United States of America (Lump, Peaches, Kitty). John, UPC: 614511829922 Paul, George and Ringo sang to life stories of love and joy and those sentiments are clear as a bell for PRICE: $13.99 young ears on this amazing collection! ELECTRONIC White Apple Tree, Peach Hat X CD White Apple Tree, the band, stopped touring in 2013 but their songs kept on going. One recently going CAT: GOLD on the Robin Schulz CD. Peach Hat X is an electronic, alt sound with just the right amount of 37EP173 everything. WAT sound has been described as eclectic, complex, occasionally awkward and witty. Hailing LABEL: 37 Records from Southern California, their sound is far from surf rock norm. Lush ambient guitars, quirky sense and UPC: 888295278720 four on the floor kick, create this unique and refreshing take a modern electronic music. They have songs PRICE: $7.99 featured in Gossip Girl, Whistler Blackcomb films(three times), a large German bank commercial for De Guisse Bank, a smash indie film called Kokowaah as well as a new remix on EDM golden boy, Robin Schulz's hit CD, PRAYER. FOLK Amelia Curran, They Promised You Mercy CD They Promised You Mercy is the newest collection of songs by Amelia Curran, Canada's master CAT: contemporary songstress. On this album, Amelia's knife-sharp lyrics find peace and even cheerfulness SIX089 amidst lush layers provided by producer Michael Phillip Wojewoda's nuanced studio vision. The album is a LABEL: Six Shooter Records poised, focused and consummate work that showcases Amelia's singular songwriting talent, and raises UPC: 836766008949 the lyrical bar yet again with its unrivaled eloquence. They Promised You Mercy was nominated for the PRICE: $15.99 2015 Juno Award for Roots and Traditional Album of the Year. ROCK/POP Nate Allen & The Pac-Away Dots, Take Out The Trash CD Elements of blues, punk and folk line the foundation of this rock and roll record. Written by an unemployed CAT: workaholic, Take Out The Trash covers the identity struggle between projecting a good image and actually HER 05 being a kind person. The serious-but-hopeful lyrics are contrasted by a lighthearted beat, gang vocals and LABEL: High Endurance Records sometimes a kazoo, banjo or harmonica. Nate Allen (one half of the zany duo Destroy Nate Allen) is a UPC: 735201999678 white man in his 30's taking an stern look in the mirror, acknowledging privilege and pain, and inviting you PRICE: $10.99 to Take Out The Trash. Nate Allen & The Pac-Away Dots, Take Out The Trash LP Vinyl CAT: HER 05 LABEL: High Endurance Records UPC: 738964887633 PRICE: $20.99 ( 6) NEW RELEASE GUIDE SEPTEMBER 2015 ROCK/POP Holly Henry, The Orchard CD This is the second EP from Emmy winning artist Holly Henry.