CI | Chicago Independent Distribution

KIT
Mako Sica
Terminal Lovers
The Black Swans
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band

Thee Silver Mt Zion announce first leg of North American tour!

Thee Silver Mt Zion and Constellation Records have announced the first leg of a North American tour and it seems to mostly be around the East Coast and touches on the Midwest just enough for all of us here at Chicago Independent to catch them over two nights! Check the rest of the SMZ tour and all of our other touring acts as well here

Thee Silver Mt. Zion prepares to release Kollapse Tradixonales over THREE formats!

The release of Thee Silver Mt. Zion's sixth full-length album is weeks away! Were you aware of the THREE beautifully packaged formats of Kollapse Tradixonales? Please check out the book and posters that come with the limited, deluxe CD and 2x10" packages. The regular CD will be packaged in Constellation's standard, traditionally handsome, cardboard gatefold sleeve.

New Releases (Out Now!)

	Arriver Simon Mann EP (with download coupon) Bec Rec
Since the 2007 release of the "Vanlandingham and Zone" CD, fans of heavy, complex, or just plain rocking rock have been clamoring for more music from (Crosshair house band) Arriver. Clamor no...

	Young Governor Call Me When The Cat Dies CriminalIQ
The Young Gov has been rolling from label to label for the last year or two dishing out some of the best and craziest sounding punk tunes you can get your ears around and this one on Criminal IQ might...

	Claw Toe Ingrown Ego CriminalIQ
Scary looking guys doing creepy sounding metronomic dub-punk with a slightly gothic feel to it. This record is fucked up even by the standards being set by today’s burgeoning group of artists whose...

	Catburglars Catburglars CriminalIQ
There’s something nice. simple, and primal about punk rock like this – Nothing fancy or flash, just dumbed down, snotty, stress-relieving frat-punk that’s great to bounce around to at parties, or in...

	Appleseed Cast Low Level Owl Vol. 1 & 2 Graveface

	Hellvete De Gek Kraak
Hellvete is one of the three members who founded the Flemish Funeral Folk collective and a key figure of the satanadelic combo Sylvester Anfang II. Similar to the mothership, his solo work spans...

	The Afternoon Saints The Shirley Jangle Kraak
The three-sided LP “The Shirley Jangle” is a unique collaboration by some extraordinary talents, working under the moniker of The Afternoon Saints, better known individually as Lee Ranaldo...

	Privacy Songs (EP with Digital Download) Marriage Records
Laurel Knapp, just Laurel singing with her acoustic guitar. Bare, simple, and original folk music, sung in the writer’s own breathy, pitch perfect, deep voice. PressQuotes: “The fog of a dream...

	JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound Get It Together b/w I am Trying to Break Your Heart Rabbit Factory

	The Sticks The Sticks Upset! The Rhythm
THE STICKS are a stripped down garage party band from Brighton. They bash drums, sway on the bass and claw at guitar - often swapping over instruments between songs live - and yelp with melodic...

	Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band Kollaps Tradixionales Constellation
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra (SMZ) returns with its sixth full-length recording and first since the band's line-up change of summer 2008. Having shed three members and recruited one...

	Tindersticks Falling Down A Mountain Constellation
The new album by Tindersticks picks up where the band’s wonderful return to form on The Hungry Saw (2008) left off. With founding members Stuart Staples (vocals, guitar), David Boutler (keys, vibes...

	Seven Fields of Aphelion Periphery Graveface
The Seven Fields of Aphelion may be a member of Black Moth Super Rainbow, but with her debut solo outing Periphery, she’s left the tweaked dance floor glitches in the black forest, and wandered into a...

	Mako Sica Dual Horizon La Societe Expeditionnaire
"Mako Sica" is a translation of what many Native American tribes called "land bad"; hence the moniker of dusty mazes, buttes and spires created by millions of years of erosion in poisoned deserts...

	Wrekmeister Harmonies Pittsburgh Tizona
Chicago-based sound artist J.R. Robinson has been creating live, ambient tonefields in museums around the US and Europe over the past two years-including the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the...

	Miracle Condition Miracle Condition LP Tizona
Debut project from Chicago noise pioneers: Miracle Condition reconciles the dissonant abrasiveness of U.S. Maple with sublime, spacey grooves, subdued vocal harmonies and swirling sounds. Limited...

	Gentle Friendly Ride Slow Upset! The Rhythm
Using a wide palette of sound that successfully captures the intensity of their live performance, Gentle Friendly have just completed their debut album. 'Ride Slow' is an adventurous record, which...

	Harangue Harangue Wilder/Pryor Recordings
This expansive LP from Pittsburgh mainstays HARANGUE is a dreamwalk through the minds of its makers, replete with unexpected vistas from this quartet of piano, guitar, bass and drums. Opening with the...

	Ninjasonik USBD (EP with Digital Download) Marriage Records
"Ninjasonik are tha future. Jah Jah's the punk, Telli's the rapper, and Teenwolf keeps the beat spinning. Easy to love hard to hate (unless you're a hater), Ninjasonik come from a place of pure...

	Gay Against You Righteous Signal/Sour Dudes Upset! The Rhythm
With 'Righteous Signals, Sour Dudes', Joe and Lachlann have written a new album which leaps and bounds over their debut 'Musclemilk', released in 2007 by Adaadat. The dual title is symbolic of the...

	Xiu Xiu/Parenthetical Girls Smiths/Morrissey Upset! The Rhythm
It doesn't get much more obvious than this, does it? Two like-minded experimental pop groups - who share a great deal of personal history and an unhealthy, often frustrating obsession with the...

Upcoming Releases

	Fursaxa Mycorrhizae Realm ATP Recordings
Available 2010-03-16 Fursaxa is Tara Burke. Formerly a member of the Silbreeze band UN, Tara started her Fursaxa project in 1999 after UN disbanded. Since then Fursaxa has released six full length albums on the Acid...

	Various Artists Flex Your Head (Remastered LP w/MP3) Dischord Records
Available 2010-03-16 Flex Your Headwas first released in January 1982 and was the first full-length album released by Dischord Records. The compilation features 32 songs by 11 DC area bands and went a long way towards...

	Everything is Terrible! Everything is Terrible! Everything is Terrible
Available 2010-03-16 Found footage has moved from sub-culture to art form. From late night infomercials to forgotten Z-movies, there's a galaxy of crap out there just waiting to be discovered, and the folks at...

	Sow Dog I, Absentee
Available 2010-03-16 SOW is Anna Wildsmith of France, with a revolving line-up of backing musicians. Previously on Martin Atkins' (Public Image Ltd, Killing Joke) Invisible Records, Wildsmith also toured as both a...

	Centipede Eest Metal Moon New Ruins
Available 2010-03-16 Metal Moon is a preview of their upcoming full length, Resonator, due 4/6 on New ruins. The careful listener will recognize the main riff of Metal Moon as a brief snippet from the upcoming full...

	Zu The Way Of The Animal Powers Public Guilt
Available 2010-03-16 Zu, the Roman metal/math/no-wave/free noise/punk/jazz trio, is perhaps best known in the US as a band who have had an unbelievable line-up of recording partners which includes The Stooges’ Steve...

	Holy Shit KBDOOP CriminalIQ
Available 2010-04-06

	Useless Children Skin/Nameless CriminalIQ
Available 2010-04-06

	Black Moth Super Rainbow Eating Us (Black Vinyl - Standard Edition) Graveface
Available 2010-04-06 After a year of eerie, stilted silence, the sun shines and the shadows reappear. Black Moth Super Rainbow has crept from the forests and cities to make Eating Us, their dark bubblegum freakout for...

	Monster Movie Everyone Is A Ghost Graveface
Available 2010-04-06 Everyone is a Ghost is the latest downer-pop showcase from Monster Movie, the London-based duo of Christian Savill (Slowdive) and Sean Hewson. 2010 marks the pair’s twentieth anniversary of working...

	Judson Claiborne Time And Temperature La Societe Expeditionnaire
Available 2010-04-06 The distant melancholy familiar to listeners of Low Skies (Judson's previous band) has grown into emerging layers of song in the tradition of troubadours, journeymen, country-western stars and...

	Rob Walmart Everybody Hurts (3LP) Marriage Records
Available 2010-04-06 On April 6th, 2010, Portland heavyweight juggernaut ROB WALMART throws down the gauntlet with EVERYBODY HURTS Triple LP plus Bonus mp3 LP. Marriage Records is pleased to present EVERYBODY HURTS...

	Hollows Bobby Blueheart Trouble In Mind
Available 2010-04-06 First single from these Chicago girl-group garage-punkers! Hollows sound like no-one else right now; a swirling mix of girl-group harmonies & melodrama, post-punk throb, psychedelic garage snarl...

	Liminanas Je ne suis pas tres drogue Trouble In Mind
Available 2010-04-06 Trouble in Mind is pleased as punch to be releasing the debut release from French-pop group The Liminanas! Hailing from Perpignan, France (hometown of Trouble In Mind alums Sonic Chicken 4!), The...

	Mean Jeans Tears In My Beers Trouble In Mind
Available 2010-04-06 New single from Portland tardo punks The Mean Jeans! We're talking CATCHY AS HELL punky pop numbers - "Tears In My Beers" is sure to have you crying into the sleeve of your leather jacket, while...

	Ty Segall/CoCoComa/White Wires/Charlie & the Moonhearts 4-Way Covers Split Trouble In Mind
Available 2010-04-06 A first for Trouble In Mind! This 4-Way split contains exclusive cover songs from all four artists! San Francisco savant Ty Segall tackles the Bob Seger System's fiery political number "2+2...

	Fuck Buttons Olympians (12inch Single w/Download) ATP Recordings
Available 2010-04-20 First 12inch single from the acclaimed Tarot Sport LP. Includes remixes by J. Spaceman (Spiritualized, Spacemen 3) & Alan Vega (Suicide). Strictly limited to 2500 copies world-wide on heavy vinyl...

	Faraquet View From This Tower (Remastered) Dischord Records
Available 2010-04-20 Devin Ocampo - guitar, vocals, drums/percussion, keyboards Chad Molter - drums/percussion, vocals, piccolo bass, keyboards Jeff Boswell - bass, feedback Faraquet began as a side project featuring...

	Medications Completely Removed Dischord Records
Available 2010-04-20 Devin Ocampo and Chad Molter have been musical partners, swapping instruments and bands, since their high school days in Los Angeles. Both eventually migrated east to Washington, DC where they...

	Lumerians Burning Mirrors/Chevaux Fous Rococo Records
Available 2010-04-20 Lumerians—a San Francisco-based outfit known for their propulsive psychedelic fuzz—show once again how they can so effortlessly knock you out of your comfort zone. Pummeling drums carry “Burning...

	El Vicio El Vicio Rococo Records
Available 2010-04-20 Straight from the French garage underground and featuring members of Sonic Chicken 4, El Vicio's gritty hooks are reminiscent of a younger and angrier Roky Erickson. Feedback drags buzzing guitar...

	Tyler Jon Tyler Seperate Issue/Paul Rococo Records
Available 2010-04-20 Tyler Jon Tyler's second 7" single is the band exposed. Their efficient and up front approach to two-minute punk songs tears open the jangly pop of an excited youth to reveal the subtly sad and...

	Passe Montage Oh My Satan Sickroom Records
Available 2010-04-20

	Aun/Habsyll Aun/Habsyll Split Public Guilt
Available 2010-05-18 AUN (Montreal, Canada) has a back catalog rich with harmonic drone, sepulchral ambience and of thick detuned guitar vistas. For this split, AUN ventures into new territory. "Druids" plays like 70's...

	Aluk Todolo Finstrenis Public Guilt
Available 2010-05-18 Aluk Todolo are a recondite creature. Part okkult black metal fiend and part snide kraut menace. Somehow the doppelganger works and Finsternis proves for a second time there is brilliance in the...

	Maximum Wage 1st 7inch Rococo Records
Available 2010-05-18 Maximum Wage, a sensational new group out of Chicago, comprised of Ian Adams (Guitar player and singer, formerly of Happy Supply/The Pony's/Submarine Races), Ryan Weinstein (Bass player and singer...

	Red Mass Split Brain Experiment Rococo Records
Available 2010-05-18 Red Mass creates dark, driving, and repetitive apocalypse-punk that's unique to Montreal, especially considering that this band features members of now-defunct CPC Gangbangs. Their dissonant and...