The Younger Lovers mix tape has songs from the new “San Pedro Sessions” 7″ plus interviews with Brontez and Kid Kevin plus songs by their other bands plus songs by their favorite bands! Listen/download HERE
YOUNGER LOVERS MIX TAPE
If you click on any of the JABS releases and scroll to the bottom of the page there is a link to a separate page listing the complete production costs for that record. I have been thinking about this since the label started, all of the different ways this information might be useful, but especially in the wake of Donut Friend firing employees for working to organize a union I’m reminded of the hazy economics of “punk businesses” and I believe that making this information available is an ethical responsibility, or the beginning of a path to one.
Glassworks Coffee interview with AZITA
I actually just got the Scissor Girls Demo LP. I think it turned out really well.
Yeah, it’s pretty. I haven’t heard it yet, but it looks nice. I mean, I can’t really listen to my old stuff. But I realized that everything on that, I think it’s like 7 things, that’s the exact first time I wrote any songs. I never once even tried writing before those songs.
Oh wow!
I know! It’s so weird, because I never thought about that this whole time, but that’s why it’s hard to listen to?
If you haven’t listened to it yet, you may not realize this, but it’s a 45 rpm record, and I don’t think it says that anywhere on the labels.
Oh my god, I did not know that! Wow, I guess that makes sense.
I threw it on and was like “Man, it’s been ages since I listened to the Scissor Girls, but I don’t remember this groove they’ve got goin’ on…” and then your vocals came in and I realized the issue. That said, it’s still a great listen!
It all makes sense now.
I know the label that put it out had some delays due to printing issues with the jackets, but the guy Ethan was super responsive and cool about the whole thing.
Right, right. They did have some printing issues. I got to know him because of this, but Dan Koretzky had put him in touch with me and was vouching for him. So yeah, he was very cool to deal with in every way. He wrote me an email explaining the printing problems they had. Someone had posted about the delay on my Facebook, and another person commented saying they saw pictures of the bad covers and that they looked terrible, so I’m glad he redid them. Then, what I saw what the finished ones really look like, I just thought they look amazing. To me, since I have the cassette that was scanned, obviously, it looks exactly like the cassette sitting in the middle of this black field because of the spot varnish. It’s just the exact cassette cover. It’s cool.
Glassworks Coffee of Chicago, Illinois posted a great interview with Azita Youssefi about making music which includes a long history of the Scissor Girls, and some specific details about JABS 04 – The Scissor Girls LP which reproduces their 1992 demo cassette on vinyl for the first time. Apologies to anyone who’s been confused by the record playing at 45 RPM!
To read the whole article, click HERE
Modessa 7″ now available
Modessa was short-lived band with Helen White (Petty Crime), Amy Heneveld (Meltdown) and Ethan Swan (Emergency) inspired in part by the spectral coolness of Quix*o*tic and the insistence of the faster Raincoats songs but mostly influenced by each other’s bands. This 7″ has been “coming soon!” for 20 years? Excited that it’s finally out. All songs written, recorded, and performed live in a two-week span of time in Portland, 1999. For more info/ordering, click HERE
Scissor Girls LP out December 4
Happy to announce that the next release on JABS will be ‘The Scissor Girls’ a vinyl pressing of The Scissor Girls handmade demo tape, from 1992. This LP represents nearly two years of work, and incredible efforts by the members of the band, Bob Weston, Elliot Dicks, and Fred Thomas to make these songs available once again. Azita was able to find the DAT master, produced by Elliott Dicks in 1992, and after being transferred were remastered for vinyl and pressed at RTI. Full color cover with spot varnish details, printed inner sleeve. Limited to 500 copies, more info and preorder available HERE (direct) or HERE (via bandcamp).
JABS is now on bandcamp
‘Natty Light’ review on Pitchfork
“In the phase showcased on Natty Light, Black Dice collaged the impenetrable harshness of noise with the unhinged aggression of a punk show. The ugliness of these early recordings would help set the pace for the darkest sectors of the noise and extreme-music scenes as they mutated over the next decade.” – from the Pitchfork review of ‘Natty Light,’ posted May 18, 2019
to read the complete review, click HERE
BRONTEZ PURNELL & JASON KENDIG 7″ shipping now
Brontez Purnell & Jason Kendig’s collaborative 7″ EP, “Lay Down Your Burden Boy” ordered from the Jabs website will ship immediately. Copies will be available in stores on May 31 and beyond
BLACK DICE – “Natty Light” LP shipping now
Copies of “Natty Light” ordered through the Jabs website will ship immediately. The LP will be available in stores as of May 17, 2019.
$16 + shipping
For more info and ordering, click HERE
Black Dice record release party in Reseda!
Black Dice “Natty Light” record release party at The Canby in Reseda
with
Black Dice DJs
SFV Acid
Sandy Smiles (performance)
Greek Brothers (vegan food)
Wednesday, April 3, 9 PM – one million o’clock
$FREE$
“Natty Light” silkscreen cover edition of 50 only available tonight!