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new review of Miss Chain & BH 7" by Flying Revolver Mag

brand new stuff  the mailorder section

Review of Uptown Bums 7" by Razorcake

 

 LOVE BOAT  'Remember The Sabbath Day And Keep It Holy 7"ep  (SYA025) OUT NOW

Fuck yeah! This garagepop gem by our fave dudes-without-a-cause is finally out. Joking apart, we love our guys so bad and we're very happy to release their 2nd 7" after the glory of their debut 7" on SYA and the awesome album on Alien Snatch! Records. Here's another batch of instant-hits for your dancing bones. A couple of originals and a great cover of Haze's 'I don't want nobody'. All you dancefloor junkies are welcome!!!!

Black wax - 300 copies - SOLD OUT

Purple wax - 100 copies - mailorder only (a few copies left)

Love Boat on MySpace 

listen Frankie Shampoo

 

 

 MISS CHAIN & THE BROKEN HEELS  'Lie 7"  (SYA024)

We're very proud to release the third installment by one of coolest bands around here. After a couple of great 7"s and a winning tour in U.S. Astrid and her fave boys - the Barcella Bros. and Disaster Silva - come back with a pair of charming garagey tunes full of power pop sensations. 

 

Black Wax - 400 copies

Yellow Wax - 100 copies

MS&TBH on MySpace 

listen

Lie (sample)

He's your boy (but could be mine) (sample)

 

 

 The UPTOWN BUMS  s/t 7"ep  (SYA023)

Another fine debut on Shake Your Ass records, baby!

The Uptown Bums are five young lads from Denton/Arlington, TX, and they come with a fistful of kickin' ass garage pop that will blow your mind away and make your heartbeat crazy.            READ MORE and REVIEWS

 

Black Wax - 300 copies

White Wax - 100 copies - mailorder only - SOLD OUT

The Uptown Bums on MySpace 

listen Running my mouth

 

 

 LOVE BOAT 'Love Boat Song' b/w 'Don't Ask Me Why - 7"  (SYA022)

Amazing debut by this three-piece garage-pop combo from beautiful Sardinia. A great couple of swingin' & 'shakin tunes with 50/60s gospel/RnB taste and the Black Lips garage attitude in vein. SYA is too proud to invite you on board of this blue ship full of love. LOVEBOATOMIZE YOU!!!       READ MORE and REVIEWS

Love Boat on MySpace 

Black Wax - 300 copies

Red Wax - 100 copies

                              >>>ALL SOLD OUT<<<

listen Love Boat Song

 

 CONTAMINATORS  'Minimal Minds' 7"ep  (HMG001)

Fuck hell! Here's the first one shot by MENOTROPIC RECORDS which is the SYA's spin-off label. Contaminators are a great SoCal-based combo with KbD shit in vein along with Crime, Germs, and more toxic stuff.          READ MORE and REVIEWS

 

Black Wax - 300 copies

Pink Wax - 120 hand-numbered copies - mailorder only

test press - 13 hand-numbered copies on black wax  w/ different artwork

Contaminators on MySpace 

 

KAZALOK  'Chandrasekhar Limit' - 12" MLP  (SYA019)

Welcome to the psychaedelic garagepunk sound of the Kazalok. The band formed by Cole Weintraub (Jormungandr, Snake Flower, Barbaras) and Bennet Foster (former guitarist for The Mutant Spacebats of Doom) in 2005 in Memphis, TN. For their summer 2006 tour - with Brimstone Howl - they added Billy Hayes (Boston Chinks, Barbaras, Knaughty Knights) on drums and Alex Gates (Barbaras, Esque, Boston Chinks) on bass. Influences range from psych-folk performers such as Comus and Syd Barrett to protopunk acts such as the Velvet Underground. They currently hold the Guiness World Record for being the second tallest rock music band.   READ MORE and REVIEWS

first 100 copies on green vinyl

listen CIA   -   White Devils

Kazalok on MySpace

 

SNAKE FLOWER II  'Turn Back Time' - 7" EP  (SYA018)

This 4-tracks EP carries the sixties dreamy sound of great bands such as Move, Chocolate Watchband, and Love.... across the current garagepunk environment.

Snake Flower II was founded by Matthew M. Melton who recently relocated to San Francisco from Memphis, TN. Memphis was his home where he had lived his entire life. He left Memphis to go on tour with the first arrangement of the group, Snake Flower (one), which included notable Los Angeles based conceptual performance artist Bunny Lampert, and Cole Weintraub (Kazalok,The Barbaras).
When Snake Flower "I" fell apart apon the group's arrival in California, Melton reformed the project with Donnelle Malnik (Nervous Breakdowns) and Paula Frazer (Tarnation, Birdman Records). Right now the current line-up includes Will Axe on drums. As a young musician, Matthew's projects in Memphis included The Break Ups, The River City Tan Lines, and The Bare Wires where he collaborated with Alicja Trout and Jack O Yarber.
READ MORE and REVIEWS

listen

1000 Years

Snake Flower II on MySpace

 

POSSESSED BY PAUL JAMES    same - LP  (SYA017)

Possessed by Paul James is actually a stage name for Konrad Wert. He was born and raised down south in the glades of Florida. Some think it odd, but he comes from the Amish/Mennonite upbringing. Incorporating fiddle, banjo, guit, stomp box and the occasional diddly boe, he ‘growls’ out songs and kicks out originals with passion and grit. ....   READ MORE and REVIEWS

DON'T MISS HIS SECOND ALBUM OUT NOW ON VOODOO RHYTHM RDS!!!

listen

Colorofmybloodynose   -   Committed   -   Fiddle f**k

Watch the PPJ's 'Men Men Men' video shot by SLOWBOAT FILMS

Possessed by Paul James on MySpace

 

CHILI COLD BLOOD Rock N Roll Motherfucker Redux - LP  (SYA016)

CCB plays raw, howlin’, and boozy southern electric honky tonk Rhythm’n’Blues dirtyin’ it into some darkly post-punk sceneries. Think of R.L. Burnside & J.L. Hooker meeting some gloomy sound Black Sabbath alike. Real bad-man-blues thing with hypnotic and circular riffs that reminds as of Mississippi Delta/North Hills and Texas style licks as dark Tommy Iommi’s visionary musical intuitions.....  READ MOREand REVIEWS

listen

My eyes may wander   -   100 ways to kill a man   -   Graveyard

 

Chili Cold Blood on MySpace

 

BLACK JOE LEWIS & COOL BREEZE   same   7"e.p  (SYA015)

Black Joe Lewis is a young black gentleman that screams bluespunk and soul - with a ton of SOUL. The man who got unsettled the stereo's speakers and the shakin' asses of SYA's people here. Gories meet James Brown's pathos! Black Joe and his cool friends (Ed Miles, Walter Daniels, and the 'Weary Boy' Darren Sluyter) will blow your heart off!

listen   Boogie (sample) -   I don't mind (sample)

Black Joe Lewis & Cool Breeze on MySpace

CHILI COLD BLOOD  'Why baby why b/w Slow down'   7"  (SYA014)

Dirty, raw and fucked up blues from Austin, TX.  Think of John Lee Hooker and R.L.Burnside jamming in the dark night with Black Sabbath. Booze, wimmen and shotgun blues. A couple of tracks waiting for their album 'Rock N Roll Motherfucker Redux' out in November on SYA. Real music with balls, baby!

listen  Why baby why (sample)

Chili Cold Blood on MySpace