Social Music Club

The word on the interenets is that the Social Music Records Club will be available for delivery (after much delay) in a couple of weeks. Unlike other record clubs, this one is reasonably priced and contains some killer music, even some garage rock. $95 gets you 10 records (Nine 12's and one 7",) plus digital downloads. Also still available are the same releases on chrome bias cassette tapes for $45. Only a total of 350 subscriptions will be produced. The club includes releases from:


* TY SEGALL: San Francisco Rock Compilation or Food or Weird Beer From Microsoft Collage-crazed psychedelic pop insanity from everyone's favorite SF-based wiz kid. Originally released as a cassette tape in an edition of 100 in 2010. Finally on vinyl!! Remastered by Brian Pyle, just amazing.
* JACUZZI BOYS: Seahawks & Peacocks   This record turned out so great! Two brand-new studio songs recorded in Miami paired with four killer live tracks from two separate shows in Seattle from May, 2010.
* SIR RICHARD BISHOP: Graviton Polarity Generator  A full LP of brand new instrumental material (organ and electric guitar) by your favorite bearded, genre-defying badass.
* THE BATS/ CALIFONE:  Bonus Holiday 7"   Winter wonder cheer from New Zealand's Bats and the United States of America's Califone. A one-sided split 7", with a brand new Bats song and Califone's classic cover of "Silver + Gold" (previously released as a promo CD-R).* 
* CLOUDCRAFT: Cloudcraft   Self-titled debut from Hamish Kilgour (the Clean/ Mad Scene/ Bailter Space) + Theo Angell (Hall of Fame/ Theo Angell & the Tabernacle Hillside Singers). This is fun and vibrant stuff, raga wonderland music.
* NOAH FOUND GRACE:   Amazing stuff, never before anthologized! This compilation collects Jamaican gospel music from the '60s + '70s. We guarantee you've never heard anything like this.
* ALI FARKA TOURE: Ni Foli  Live cassette from Mali ca. 1974. Super distorted in the best way; one might say that it's Ali Farka Toure, the master musician of Mali, in Group Doueh mode. Unreal.
* ELIZABETH HARRIS + ILYAS AHMED:  Visitor  This is so good, holy shit. Here we have four collaborative recordings made in Portland, OR by Elizabeth Harris AKA Grouper and Ilyas Ahmed. Who doesn't need any AKA's.
* ABNER JAY: "Hambone"/ "Rattle the Bones"    Rare, previously unreissued recordings assembled by Jay Martin (who oversaw the A.J. releases on Mississippi), licensed from Mr. Jay's estate. Fancy tip-on Stoughton-style cover.
* DANIEL KROHA:   The Folk-Blues Stylings of Daniel Kroha Seven superb old-timey songs recorded straight to the Gories co-founder's cell phone! Raw and ragged, but right. Diddley bow, a capella, fingerpicked guitar. One-sided 12", his first-ever solo release!