STREET DATE: NOVEMBER 18, 2016 NOVEMBER NEW RELEASE GUIDE NEW RELEASE GUIDE NOVEMBER 2016 ( 2) NEW RELEASE GUIDE NOVEMBER 2016 Welcome!! Welcome!! Ottmar Liebert’s amalgam of nuevo ᪹amenco, new age, ambient What more can we say about Caspar Babypants that we have not said guitar stylings have earned him decades of fame, fortune and fans. before. Seattle based…Chris Ballew from the Grammy nominated With millions of albums sold, and multiple industry recognition Presidents of the United States of America…a dozen albums of (rock nominations and awards, Ottmar continues to release new, challenging and) rollicking songs aimed towards kids but inclusive of all ages…two and introspective music. His latest is SLOW. Beatles covers albums and 卍nally WINTER PARTY!, a 卍ne collection of seasonal holiday tunes you recognize and/or soon will. The weather This is a tough business we are all in. If you’ve been around for a while outside is frightful, but Caspar’s so delightful! you can remember the big six majors, Tower and Licorice Pizza and Borders, Quad and 8 Tracks and a whole slew of independent Remember when baseball was 156 games, the two best teams played in distributors. Each year we seem to lose a few more those in our same the World Series and the Dodgers were in Brooklyn? Well, the seasons business. Sometimes when that happens, labels migrate to us. This are longer now and divisions and playo嘧 games stretch hardball into month we are pleased to welcome to the Burnside fold the catalogues November where we are now. (Call us crazy, but the bdc prediction is Hep Records, Esperanza Plantation, Sojourn Records, arkam the Cubs in 7 but we’ve been wrong before). So what’s the connection records, Small Plates Records, Karate Body Records and Aerobic with baseball and records? This year it would be Pulley, the SoCal 20 International. A number of new-to-bdc titles are in this guide. year old punk band led byScott Radinsky, the current bullpen coach of The Angels whose career included stints with the Dodgers, White Your friends at bdc… Sox, Indians and Cardinals. And the whole time he has been kickin’ it with Pulley. 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 Vice President 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] President [email protected] FRANK BRANDON NICOLE PARKER Senior Fellow amazon liaison [email protected] 6635 N. Baltimore Ave. Suite 285 Portland, OR 97203 JAMIE MCMULLEN P (503) 231-0876 Digital Distribution Coordinator F (503) 231-0420 [email protected] [email protected] CAMERON FRALEY Warehouse Staff [email protected] MARTHA HUCK Accounting Manager [email protected] ( 3) NEW RELEASE GUIDE NOVEMBER 2016 ( 4) NEW RELEASE GUIDE NOVEMBER 2016 CHILDRENS Caspar Babypants, WINTER PARTY! CD Simple, fun, acoustic, holiday, sing along songs for kids ages 0-6 and their parents is what the 12th album CAT: from Caspar Babypants is all about. WINTER PARTY! is a good time happy holiday song collection for the 0012 whole family during the holiday season. Caspar Babypants is also known as Grammy nominated Chris LABEL: Auronra Elephant Music Ballew (The Presidents of the United States of America). This album is a warm comforting collection of UPC: 614511836425 Christmas classics and new original winter songs for the whole family to enjoy around the holidays. PRICE: $13.99 Themes include sleigh rides and snow and joy and pumpkins that ᪹oat around in the woods and cold penguins and silent nights and candy canes and many more. There are original tunes mixed with traditional songs that have been updated in inventive and tasteful ways including The Twelve Days of Christmas. Mo Phillips, Spectacular Daydream CD Mo Phillips' 5th album for families is an ode to dreams, both day and night. The music and themes roll CAT: and undulate through dreamy snapshots of the lovely land of the subconscious. A ukulele album, it comes HB 015 with an attending ukulele songbook of all the songs with lyrics and chord changes, and amazing LABEL: Hey! Bacon!! Records illustrations by Portland artist, Lynsee Sardell. UPC: 614511839921 PRICE: $19.99 COUNTRY Various Artists, A Silverado Family Christmas CD Nashville's hottest new Country record label o嘧ers up it's take on Christmas with the classics, and several CAT: amazing original holiday tunes. Features Silverado Records recording artists including Grammy and SILV002 ACM-award winning Country icon Joe Diʼe, along with Singer/Songwriter Zack Dyer, Melissa Mickelson, LABEL: Silverado Christmas and several label friends including Mandy McMillin, Tony Winkler (of The Last Ride), Crystal Yates, and UPC: 076160018711 more. PRICE: $8.99 HOLIDAY John 'Elvis' Schroder, 'Holiday Single' 7" Vinyl Vinyl With our 卍rst foray into the holiday music sceneVoodoo Doughnut Recordings is proud to present CAT: Christmas with John “Elvis” Schroder. Recorded in the early 90’s by Dean Fletcher, one of the great VDR 1613 documenters of the Portland music scene, these tracks were originally featured on a small-run, full-length LABEL: Voodoo Doughnut Elvis Christmas album. Side A has Elvis crooning the yuletide kiss-and-tell classic, I Saw Mommy Kissing Recordings Santa Claus over a simple beautiful arrangement. Side B is an original tune with lyrics by John “Elvis” UPC: 616892420149 Schroder and musical composition/backing by Courtney Taylor-Taylor & Peter Holmström of Portland, PRICE: $7.99 Oregon’s very own The Dandy Warhols. Stay tuned Elvis fans, for the spring 2017 release 57 Elvis Fans Can’t Be Wrong: John “Elvis” Schroder’s Greatest Hits featuring 15 of the King’s 卍nest! NEW AGE Ottmar Liebert, Slow CD “Sometime in 2015 I decided to record an album by myself, without the band, and knew that I wanted to CAT: create slow music. Love whispers and hate screams, and I decided to whisper very softly. I wanted to raise 902022 my guitar against the sound of billions of smartphones beeping with the latest news, mentions, likes, and LABEL: Spiral Subwave Records comments, designed to keep us in a state of constant alarm. I made all of the music on this album with one International guitar and one microphone. Working by myself in the studio felt like writing a very personal diary. I hope UPC: 678277262027 that some of you will switch your devices into airplane mode and let this music take you on a ᪹ight.” PRICE: $15.99 Ottmar Liebert ( 5) NEW RELEASE GUIDE NOVEMBER 2016 PUNK Pulley, No Change in the Weather CD Pulley is a southern California veteran punk rock band that was formed upon vocalist Scott Radinsky's CAT: departure from the band Ten Foot Pole. This year (2016) marks their 20 year anniversary as a band. CT119 Frontman Scott Radinsky is known for his baseball career. He has pitched for the White Sox, Dodgers, LABEL: Cyber Tracks Cardinals, and Indians. He is currently the bullpen coach for the Los Angeles (Anaheim) Angels. Pulley's UPC: 614511839723 initial lineup included Strung Out drummer Jordan Burns, guitarist Jim Cherry (former bassist of PRICE: $15.99 Strung Out), and former Face to Face bassist Matt Riddle. Pulley's debut album, Esteem Driven Engine, was released in 1996 by Epitaph Records. Pulley has opened for bands such as Green Day and NOFX. ROCK/POP Burnseer, 'Burnseer' CD Burnseer is American rock band based in the Paci卍c Northwest. Burnseer is Frankie G, - guitar and CAT: singing – Formerly of Rocket Surgery with Jack Endino and Norman Scott on the drums (Skin Yard, GM1039 Gruntruck, Capping Day), and bassist Eric Norberg. Burnseer is a band that has mass and density. It is LABEL: Green Monkey Records Dinosaur Jr vs. The Ramones for 15 rounds. What you may not expect is the NYC pop sensibility that UPC: 718483103926 Frankie brings to the band. It is as if PJ Harvey and Patti Smith had a love child. In addition to the core band, PRICE: $11.99 the mighty Fastbacks guitarist Kurt Bloch provided additional notes to several songs. Good notes! Burnseer was recorded by Mr. Conrad Uno (Mudhoney, PUSA, millions more) at Egg Studios and subsequently mastered by Mr. Bloch. Churchwood, Hex City CD Austin-based experimental/avant-garde blues band Churchwood continue their streak of winning albums CAT: with Hex City, their fourth full-length release. This go-around 卍nds them in a sardonic and playful mood SEX1606 with great new tunes including ‘One Big White Nightmare’,‘Hainted’ and ‘Sag’ as the band weaves a spell of LABEL: Saustex Records musical voodoo around the tongue twisting, multi-lingual lyrics of Joe Doerr. Veteran critic Michael UPC: 614511838924 Corcoran describes the band’s sound as having “a prog-like thickness while staying grounded in roots PRICE: $12.99 rock”, while William Michael Smith says Churchwood is “Dense and nasty, literate and mean...”. Churchwood is recommended for those who favor artists such as Captain Beefheart, Nick Cave and Tom Waits who push the lyrical and musical boundaries of the blues form. CD package includescover art by Jon Langford and 12-page booklet. Crushed Out, 'Alien Ocean' LP Vinyl Alien Ocean is Crushed Out’s most de卍nitive, cohesive, ᪹eshed out album to date. Frankie dubs drunken CAT: lap steel, bassy analog synths, electric piano and hammond organ, while Moselle brings her most CCW005 inventive and passionate performances. Frankie's signature shimmering clean to ripping fuzz guitar tone LABEL: Cool Clear Water dances from 60's surf to roaring cave creature.