Future Farmer Recordings Products

SLOW TRUCKS "Bummer Bee" 7" Vinyl Single

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Yeah! Tearing straight out of SF, hometown shredders SLOW TRUCKS are stirring things up with show after show on the west coast, making friends and blowing minds along the way. The band comes straight from Future Farmer lineage with David Mitchell, brother of former JOAQUINA bass player Dennis Mitchell carrying the Future Farmer torch into the nether new sound of what the label is bringing in 2010. Slow Trucks’ debut release, “Bummer Bee” 7″ vinyl single leads the Future Farmer Singles Club release.

"BUMMER BEE" 7" single, featuring tracks "BUMMER BEE", "CURSE OF THE PEACOCK MANSION", and "UNDERCOVER LOVERS" with the bonus track "MYSTERY".

Future Farmer Original Logo T-Shirt (Large)

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Future Farmer Original Logo T-Shirt

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Future Farmer Original Logo T-Shirt

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Future Farmer New Logo T-Shirt (Small)

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Future Farmer New Logo T-Shirt (Medium)

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Brown T-Shirt with Gold Lettering.

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Future Farmer New Logo T-Shirt (Large)

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Brown T-Shirt with Gold Lettering.

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CUB COUNTRY "Stretch That Skull Cover and Smile" 12" VINYL

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

CUB COUNTRY's newest: "Stretch That Skull Cover and Smile" availably now on 12" vinyl!

M.Ward-End of Amnesia Double LP

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Limited Supply, Act Now!
“Bucolic folk sound with a postmodern lo-fi sensibility.”

Here’s your chance to own this very limited classic Future Farmer release on double swank, double 12″ vinyl.

From the faint to the jangle-y, M. Ward manages to master it all on his latest, End of Amnesia, an album that is subtle and lo-fi, reveling in the quiet moments, saying more with silence than most artists will ever manage to say in their lives.

The album is the perfect combination of ultra-timid singer-songwriter and flushed out, light pop songs. M. Ward's voice is shaky and airy, sounding like a cross between just waking up and walking around in complete confusion, balancing it all with a bit of heart broken sorrow and melancholy appreciation for life and all of its wonderful surprises.

The songs are potent in lyrical content, which M. Ward makes apparent when he sings, wrapping the tunes around his voice, preferring to use the instrumentation as a guide rather than a force to overshadow.

Here is a brilliant songwriter in his right, just making a name for himself, coming out of the darkness to inform those in the light. Eerily beautiful, strikingly memorable stark naked acoustic songs, M. Ward is a name to remember.Track Listing

1 End of Amnesia
2 Color of Water
3 Half Moon
4 So Much Water
5 Bad Dreams
6 Archangel Tale
7 Silverline
8 Flaming Heart
9 Carolina
10 From a Pirate Radio Sermon, 1989
11 Psalm
12 Ella
13 Seashell Tale
14 O'Brien/O'Brien's Nocturne

Yuji Oniki - Tvi

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Track Listing

1. 40 Seconds
2. Rails in Vain
3. One Bright Summer Day
4. Skeleton Station
5. Transport
6. Between Beds and Clocks
7. Grapefruit
8. Beekeeper
9. I Am a Cat
10. Reminders
11. Cinnamon Shops
12. One Last Year
13. Fall

Yuji Oniki - Orange

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Track Listing

1. Tokyo Clover
2. Houston
3. Colmene Whispers
4. Elements
5. Tomorrow Stays
6. Blink
7. Paper Tigers
8. Amnesiascape
9. Observation
10. Last Days
11. Tokyo Clover (Refrain)

Wonderlick - Wonderlick

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

If the Waterboys would have been brought up on the Flaming Lips and Modest Mouse, they would probably sound a whole lot like Wonderlick. Featuring modestly played folk and alternative rock filtered through dream pop guitar and electronic percussion, Wonderlick's eponymous debut is a coy, curious offering from the band. On one hand, they can make this sound come together into a beautiful combination of pop and nonsense. Take "How Small You Are" as an example. It tries to incorporate beautiful female vocals, but includes all the takes of her screwing up, too. The song stops at several points, only to change around the percussion and add other elements. And the gorgeous singing is offset by the goofy male vocals that perform the verses. But they still manage to turn it into a memorable and fun pop song, even if the route they take to get there is different. Their cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is a folky ballad that flows nicely, but it still fails to capture the yearning and desperation that Ian Curtis' original version provides. That song points out their weakest point: their overt quirkiness.

Track Listing

1. Donner Lake
2. Hearts and Stars
3. How Small You Are
4. I Wanna Love You
5. Love Will Tear Us Apart
6. Black Box
7. Two Women
8. Never Let You Go
9. The Right Crazy
10. The New Truth
11. Chapel of Bones
12. I Disappear
13. Monti 8

Virgil Shaw - Still Falling

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Still Falling, teeters on a variety of styles; there are tinges of country, folk, Dixie land jazz, and R&B that he effortlessly intertwines making the album impossible to categorize. It?s a sound that feels comfortable, intimate and original. Virgil characterizes it as having A`a sort of secular, gospel, dark, soul, urban, feel?h further obscuring the need for a description. Ultimately, the music speaks for itself.

Track Listing

1. The Drawing
2. Golden Sun
3. Wilderness
4. Wet Splashes
5. Clock On The Wall
6. Still Falling
7. Owner Operator
8. Imaginary Guitars
9. Sing Me Back Home

Virgil Shaw - Quad Cities

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The album starts off slowly, with the plaintiff wails of a metaphorical "Water Colors." Track by track, the album's stripped-down simplicity melds well with Shaw's voice. The nuts and bolts version of "Carving Soap," though, doesn't quite live up to the fuller version on Dieselhed's Shallow Water Blackout. "Eureka," however, is vintage Shaw: nostalgic, mundane, and inexplicably beautiful. Singing about building doll houses and burning them down and writing his name in his own clothes so as not to lose them, Shaw's wittily self-effacing lyrics betray his irrepressible ingenuity. Finally, the last track, "For Your Precious Love," deals Dieselhed fans a bit of a surprise. It's a love song, devoid of irony, sarcasm, or witticisms.

Track Listing

1. Water Color
2. Gypsum
3. Twisted Layer
4. Carving Soap
5. Diamond Trade
6. Volvo
7. Back to Eureka
8. Surfboard Shaper
9. For Your Precious Love

Toadmortons

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Track Listing

1 Meat Puppets
2 Home
3 Down Before
4 Sink Hole
5 Flying
6 Two to One
7 V.I.P.
8 Coyote Henry
9 Suck Me In
10 Depression
11 Broom of My Will
12 Armor

The Minders - The Future's Always Perfect

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Departing from spinART and calling San Francisco-based indie Future Farmer home now, Portland, Oregon-based combo The Minders, with guitarist/vocalist Martyn Leaper and keyboardist/vocalist Rebecca Cole at the core, return with The Future's Always Perfect, their latest offering of blissful, ultra-melodic indie-pop sweetness. The word "Beatlesque" is an easy word to throw around in relation to The Minders' brand of pop. Yes, The Future's Always Perfect does pay homage. But it is so much more, and simply labeling it a Beatles inspired record would be limiting and doing the record a great injustice (though it is inspired by the Beatles, and the influences is undeniable). Right from the onset, The Minders let the good times roll. "It's So Hard", bolstering cheerful melodies and a 1-2 punch of bouncy rhythms and sing-along hooks, is an instant pleaser, the kind of unforgettable song that would have climbed the charts in the 60s. "Tearaway" follows, Cole's keyboards adding the twinkle in the eye of the song, giving it an extra sweet candy coating, making it another instant classic. Memorable pop classics is what The Minders excel at, however The Future's Always Perfect finds the band, much like on each release, experimenting a bit, while still retaining their unforgettable sound.

"Hahaha", which finds Cole on lead vocals, is a prime example. Instead of the rocked up, jangle-y, bounce-rock the band's pop songs are normally fueled by, this number takes a slower approach, Cole's keyboards chiming in with an infectious melody line that dances around in your head while you nod in agreement.

Then there is "Go Wave Your Wand", Cole's keyboards turning Leaper's song into a slightly new-wave pop offering, a song that shows the duo can explore several dimensions without losing the thing that makes all their songs so golden -- instant accessibility.

Two more tracks that find Cole on lead vocals are "28X" and "Jealous Baby". The first incorporates both new wave and garage rock while the latter moves like molasses, using Leaper and Cole's voices as the prime instruments, everything else acting as a supporting cast to ensure the song springs to life.

The Future's Always Perfect is eight songs in twenty-six minutes -- it's an EP. But the songs are so delicious and beautiful, even though the record flies by so quickly, you feel more than fulfilled. It's one of the finest pop offerings in the last handful of years.

Track Listing - The Minders The Future's Always Perfect

1 It's So Hard
2 Tearaway
3 Here Goes Nothing
4 Hahaha
5 Go Wave Your Wand
6 28X
7 Jealous Baby
8 All the Way Round

The Minders - It's A Bright Gulity World

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Track Listing

1. "There Goes My Formula!"
2. Don't You Stop
3. Red Admiral's (Gonna Pass Me)
4. Accidental Joy
5. Crest of the Hill
6. Same Time, Same Place
7. Savour All the Days
8. Jenny
9. In the Middle of Your Love
10. Saturday Morning
11. Remember, Remember
12. 357
13. Glittering Dream
14. Guns of August

The Minders - Hooray for Tuesday

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Track Listing

1. Hooray for Tuesday
2. Pauline
3. Joey's Pez
4. Comfortably Tucked Up Inside
5. Yeah Yeah Yeah
6. Our Man in Bombay
7. I've Been Wondering
8. More and More
9. Pass It Around
10. Red Bus
11. Bubble
12. Frida
13. I've Been Wondering [*]
14. Hooray for Tuesday [*]
15. Comfortably Tucked Up Inside [*]
16. Red Bus [*]

The High Strung - These Are Good Times

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

The High Strung don't do garage rock per se. Instead of going for bluesy guitar chops like some of their Motor City counterparts, these Detroit natives-turned-Brooklyn ruffians sugarcoat rock & roll for a '60s psychedelic/indie rock blend. Call it garage pop if you like. These Are Good Times marks the band's debut, introducing the High Strung's sunny, stylish sound, which very well matches the Buzzcocks' more cheeky moments. Mostly, the High Strung just want to make simple rock music, and this quirky 13-song set delivers more than that. Fidgety shared vocals from Josh Malerman and Mark Owen accompany the jaunty backing session of bassist Chad Stocker and drummer Derek Berk.

Track Listing

1 Wretched Boy
2 Show a Sign of Life
3 Ain't That Something
4 The World's Smallest Violin
5 Throwaway
6 It's On
7 Stares Everywhere
8 The Songbird
9 I Got Frustration
10 Cocksure
11 Real Nice Boy
12 Rah Rah Rah!
13 If the Night...

The High Strung - Moxie Bravo

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

On Moxie Bravo The High Strung capture your rock 'n' roll heart with plenty of muddy, distorted guitars. Fronted by a female who knows how to wail and sing, The High Strung have the ability to imbed loose pop ambitions inside otherwise dissident rock, resulting in a pop concoction that is at first abrasive and hard to understand. But upon further exploration, those rough edges and jagged beats are what reels you into explore the pop - and get you hooked. It's anti-hi-fi, but not quite lo-fi, giving these rock songs some worn-in attitude, which helps push them even further.

Track Listing

1 Never Saw It as Union
2 Truce
3 Here It Comes Again
4 A Real Meal Ticket
5 N Over C
6 The Luck You Got
7 Seems It's One Thing
8 Deck the Boy with Mettle and Manhood
9 On Your Feet
10 Anything Goes
11 At the Same Time
12 The Gentleman

The Heavenly States - The Heavenly States

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Track Listing

1 The Story Of
2 My Friends
3 Beyond the Great Beyond
4 Cumulous to Nebulous
5 Car Wash
6 Senseless Beauty
7 Gin & Tonic
8 Empire
9 American Borders
10 New Parade
11 Hangar

Righteous Boy - I Sing Because Of You

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Track Listing

1. Loved Among Friends
2. View from a Satellite
3. No More Love
4. Righteous Boy/Righteous Girl
5. I Made It Hard for You to Love Me
6. All My Evils
7. I'm Not Shielded
8. Elephant Man
9. I Feel Apart
10. Lone Among Friends
11. Straight Song
12. You Better Do Good

Nik Freitas - Here's Laughing At You

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Like a less sentimental, updated Emitt Rhodes, Nik Freitas, professional photographer and occasional drummer for San Franciscan labelmates For Stars, offers up a grab bag of pop delights on his first solo album, to which the modifiers D.I.Y., indie, and Beatlesque all suitably apply. Regarding the former characterization, Here's Laughing at You originated almost completely (and coincidentally) on a Rhodes organ in a small, typically untended twenty-something's room, a clutter that makes its way into the music, and to the music's benefit. Freitas was responsible for most of the notes, too, although he was assisted in the production — one of the album's most idiosyncratic elements — by childhood friend and occasional bandmate Aaron Estes, who also lent a hand to various performance aspects. As for the latter description, the songwriting certainly isn't as consequential as Lennon and McCartney, but it is distinctive and adventurous, tweaking song structures just so and taking chances, and it follows in the same mold as that duo's later work, frequently taking cues from the complex song structures, melodic turns, and buoyant but dense mood of post-psychedelic Beatles, as on "Pictures of the Sun," the stripped-down "Universal Buyout," and "Counting Yellow Lines." The google-eyed optimism endemic to the AM pop/rock universe of the '60s also pops its head through the grooves from time to time

Track Listing

1. Pictures of the Sun
2. Thanks
3. Pull My Leg
4. Check the Weather
5. Normal
6. Same Old Song
7. Universal Buyout
8. Faucets and Drains
9. Counting Yellow Lines
10. Hat Trick
11. All the Time in the World

Nik Freitas - Heavy Mellow

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

On Heavy Mellow, Nik Freitas comes into his own, expanding on the instrumentation of his debut for a true-blue pop album that grafts the indie smarts of Quasi to '70s AM rock and mellow gold collections. On his sophomore outing, Freitas comes closest in groove and pop eclecticism to Todd Rundgren. "Be Honest" has the fuzzy-around-the-edges heaviness of Something/Anything? combined with the slippery, jazzy hallmarks of Steely Dan. "Summer Hearts" is a beautifully nostalgic piano tune where Freitas moans "summer hearts can't be broken" as if he's trying to do John Lennon singing "Jealous Guy." On "Penny" he's probably shooting more for Mind Games crossed with early-'70s Elton John, and "Nursery Street" could easily fit on a Ryan Adams album.

Track Listing

1. Be Honest
2. Careful What You Choose
3. Summer Hearts
4. Treat Me Right
5. Penny
6. Cheaters
7. Nursery Street
8. Bad Dreams
9. Sentimental Life

Matt Keating - Tilt a Whirl

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Track Listing

1. Sunday Song
2. Man Overboard
3. As Bad as It Lasts
4. Jacksonville
5. Successful
6. Not Today
7. On Closer Inspection
8. Window Booth
9. Believe It
10. Executioner
11. Float Away
12. It's a Shame
13. Beautiful
14. Anyway
15. Bad Things Will Happen

M. Ward - End of Amnesia

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Kevin Salem - Ecstatic

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Track Listing

1. 1,000 Smiles
2. The Bedicine Down
3. Kindness
4. It's Only Life
5. Gold Diggers
6. End of the Addiction
7. Deepdarklove
8. Jump
9. Magnetic
10. Home Again
11. Party Song

Joaquina - The Foam and the Mesh

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Track Listing

1. Fresno
2. Moo Hoo Hoo
3. Ridin'
4. Superbowl
5. El Camino
6. Last of the Cut N'Pasters
7. JDMJFU
8. Big Timber
9. Child Star
10. The Day the Dogs Took Over
11. Modesto
12. The Small Cop Shaves

Jet By Day - The Vulture

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Track Listing

1. In Remission
2. I Want to Hold Your Handgun
3. Meet Me in the Dark
4. O' Salvation
5. Paperweights
6. Bleed
7. The Vulture
8. We're Levitating
9. Son's of Privilege
10. Done Dressing Up
11. The Buzzard

Jet By Day - Cascadia

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Track Listing

1. Worldwide
2. Let You Down
3. This Quiet Hell
4. Dying in the Spotlight
5. Helicopter to the Hospital
6. I Got Time
7. Last Call
8. Stare at the Sun
9. End of the Line
10. Lost in Translation
11. Bite the Bulllet
12. Cascadia

Jackpot - Weightless

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Track Listing

1. La Land
2. Piano
3. In a Trance
4. Waterfall
5. Cartwheels
6. Weightless
7. Whiskey
8. Bottlecapwindchimes
9. She's So Coo
10. Radio Robots
11. Queen Bewildered

Jackpot - Boneville

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Rusty Miller had been best known for his slithering guitar work on Cake's hit single "Never There" before the formation of Jackpot. Guitarist/vocalist Miller, bassist Sheldon Cooney, drummer Mike Curry, and keyboardist Lee Bob Watson began the group in the late '90s as an alternative country-rock band. Releasing Boneville in 1999.

Track Listing

1 Spaceout
2 Fleas on the Tale of Time
3 Gum in the Ashtray
4 Quicksand
5 Patrolling the Ruins
6 Dance All Night
7 Cabin Fever
8 Headlights
9 Radio Robots
10 Staring at the Ceiling
11 Pete the Barber
12 (Untitled Track)

Inbred: Sounds of the Joaquin Valley

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

The album that started it all here at Future Farmer Recordings. Inbred: Sounds of the San Joaquin Valley collects some of the best music from the valley and delivers it straight to your ears, wherever you may be.

Track Listing:

1. Fields Of Fire - The For Stars
2. Home - Toadmortons
3. Made Of Wood - Rizzo
4. My Horoscope Said It Would Be A Bad Year - Beulah
5. Fresno - Joaquina
6. Egypt - Speedboat
7. Bugs Are Round - Ranch 51
8. Tactful Drunks - Shove
9. That Bottle Of Wine - Evelyn
10. Shaman - Martells
11. Video Kid - Rodriguez
12. Hard Knocks - 6 Degree Theory
13. Atlanta '96 - Pine Wyatt
14. Journeyman - Courtney Gains

Granfaloon Bus - Exploded View

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Track Listing

1 Starting / Ending
2 The Bender
3 The Far from Perfect Cha-Cha
4 Moans Enclosed
5 Part of Joy
6 Heatwave Marchingband Soldier
7 South
8 Rosie
9 Petty
10 A Binary Story (The Murder Wagon)
11 The Crane
12 Reprise
13 Dead Pedestrians

Ghosty - Grow Up or Sleep In

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Recorded with Lincoln, NE-based producer Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Cursive), the songs that comprise the Three Pop Songs EP are the bedrock of Grow Up Or Sleep In. "Big Surrender" is one of those pop concoctions that is damn near perfect, with hooks as big as the open prairie skies and arrangements that build in anticipation that mirror the building restlessness of the lyric. It draws you in like an instant pop classic but sustains for much longer than is usually allowed. "Henry Green" is a poignant midtempo number whose swooning chorus is filled with introspective heartache while "Hey Somebody" opens like a long-lost latter day Pavement tune that Stephen Malkmus discarded because it might have actually been a hit song.

Track Listing

1 Jacqueline
2 Big Surrender
3 Henry Greene
4 Rooms in the Dark
5 (In a Big World) Little Dreams Count
6 High on Life
7 Vandalism
8 Clouds Solve It
9 Go to Add/Drop City
10 World Travelers
11 Hey! Somebody
12
11 Song for the Civil Engineer

Fuck - Those Are Not My Bongos

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

When talking about San Francisco's Fuck, many people tend to draw their immediate comparison to Pavement, but on Those Are Not My Bongos, the direction this record heads puts Fuck more in common with the Silver Jews and Smog. The great thing about Fuck is that they never stop in a general area, mixing up many styles throughout Those Are Not My Bongos. Fuck move from the '90s-sounding whispery pop of "No Longer Whistler's Dream Date" to the loose jazz of "Jazz Idiodyssey" to the slowcore of "Vegas." Just when the listener may think that Fuck has settled on a slower-paced vibe in the middle of the record, the band picks up the tempo with the metaphorical murder "A Vow" and the light punkish track "Hideout." Track Listing

1. motherfuckeroos
2. no longer whistler's dream date
3. firing squad
4. jazz idiodyssey
5. her plastic acupuncture foot
6. vegas
7. hulk baby
8. a conversation
9. a vow
10. hideout
11. table
12. olives vs cherries
13. nowhen, or "now, hen"
14. good eavnin'
15. how to say
16. the sandy man's name is not "sandy"

Album Review

"Those Are Not My Bongos is Fuck's most fully realized act of love yet."
MOJO / Sophie Harris

"Some of America's finest quasi-experimental, guitar-based music"
NME / Stevie Chick

For Stars - Windows For Stars

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

From the haunting, spacious opening buzz that opens the recording just before Carlos Foster lets loose his choked singing, it is instantly apparent that For Stars' second album is a different, more musically mature affair than their sensational debut. Windows for Stars is equally wonderful but is also an altogether more textural and spatially expansive effort that ultimately ends up a more satisfying listening experience. It recalls Brian Eno as often as '70s soft rock and pop, and there is so much more color to the music: canyon-esque bass, barely audible bits of mellotron, splashes of trumpet and flute. The stark moments are filled with desolate space -- whole tracks ("Spectators," "Go Ahead") are built from ambient noise alone -- and in those spaces a deeper, ominous mystery is bred. The songwriting, too, shows increased diversity, and the more defined melodies of songs such as "Whose Idea" and the sweet minstrel ballad "Bleu" lend the music a more authentic poignancy. Foster's dreamy lyrics are perhaps the most intriguing progression from For Stars.
- All Music Guide

Track Listing

1 Spectators
2 Sorry
3 Whose Idea
4 Go Ahead
5 Burn the Buildings
6 Catholic School
7 Bleu
8 Run from Me
9 The Kissing Scene
10 Golden Boy
11 Compliment Me , Baby

For Stars - We Are All Beautiful People

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

For Stars' brand of sadcore packs a punch on its third disc. "Wires" thunders along after its tentative start; "How It Goes" is expansive synth rock. Though Carlos Forster's vocals waver on the edge of annoying ("People Party"), there's a containment in his delivery (as on the ballad-like "Back in France" and "The Astronaut Song") that reveals he could sing just about any way he wants if he chose to. It's the silly but modern keyboard sounds that really distinguish what For Stars are doing: A mix of ethereal indie rock and space rock with traditional pop that's so unselfconscious there's every chance the band has no idea how timeless it is. If a young dBs were making records these days, they'd sound like For Stars.
- All Music Guide

Track Listing

1 Wires
2 I Got Connected
3 How It Goes
4 Back in France
5 Beautifully ...
6 In Open Plains
7 The Astronaut Song
8 People Party
9 Only Star
10 There Was a River
11 If I Could

For Stars - It Falls Apart

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Track Listing

1. I Should Have Told You
2. Calm Down Baby
3. It Really Doesn't Matter
4. In The End
5. Shattered Glass
6. Reminds You
7. If It Falls Apart
8. Lend Out Your Love

For Stars - For Stars

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Carlos Foster may have the most gorgeous lonely voice in the history of pop music. One moment it cracks with agonizing desolation and the ache of unrivaled plaintiveness, and the next it is soaring into that high lonesome sound via a falsetto that is so utterly heartbreaking that it half sounds like crying. But what an intense emotional wallop it packs. And it directs the eponymous debut album from San Francisco's For Stars into wrenching emotional instability, with a haunting sound to match. The band mines the same sort of alien introspection as Neil Young or Radiohead (Foster sometimes comes across as a tic-less Thom Yorke) while betraying the same bittersweet naiveté as both Brian Wilson and Big Star. And David Gates made a living writing big, sensitive songs that sounded as soft and pretty as half the songs on For Stars. But none of those touchstones fully capture the naked beauty of For Stars and the slow-motion grandeur they unroll out of all the rainy-day moments of life. There is a captivating, drunken quality to the mood and music of the album, and end-of-the-party melancholy that continues to well up over the course of the eleven songs threatening to break open some unsettling, deeply buried wound. The band bled out stark, barely-there sound paintings from their instruments that come off as almost bashful, but really they are just waiting for the appropriate moments to punctuate and envelop the sentiments, and underscore the prevailing poignancy of Foster's vocal melodies. Halfway through "Movies" the group kicks into a deep rumble as Foster sings "Don't leave your heart at the movies," and instead of seeming like unbearable pathos, as it threatened to do earlier in the song, it sounds like a hard-earned lesson revealed with striking candor. There are moments on the album where the words do tread waters dangerously close to self-pity ("We Be Friends," for instance) and moments that the music drags when it wants to draw you in, but even those are infused with the loveliest kind of fragility. For Stars artfully turns misery inside out, and it comes out sublime.
- All Music Guide

Track Listing

1 Cowboys Lost at Sea
2 Movies
3 Playing at a Party
4 We Be Friends
5 Lot Like Me
6 Field of Fire
7 N.Y. Gets Cold
8 Don't It Feel Good
9 Rain, Thunder
10 Come Along
11 Aging

David Dondero - Transient

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

On his second full-length for Future Farmer Recordings, singer-songwriter David Dondero blends indie-rock, Americana, and folk into his ragged, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants songs. With a loose, homespun touch to his arrangements, and an emotionally gripping voice that dominates each song, no matter what the instrumentation is like, his voice, his lyrics, are always center place. And, though his voice is rough around the edges and is really an acquired taste, and his music a bit too non-cohesive at times to easily swallow, Dondero's bare-bones approach works to his benefit, because once you're into it, you're sold. For everyone else, the record will wear thin quickly and replaced by something else. But for those that have time and want to give it a fair shake, its flaws become its selling points.

Track Listing

1 The Living and the Dead
2 Ashes on the Highway
3 Twenty Years
4 Dance of Spring
5 See It Clear
6 Less Than the Air
7 Going Back to Wilmington
8 The Stars Are My Chandelier
9 Vaporize
10 The Transient
11 Song for the Civil Engineer

David Dondero - Shooting at the Sun With a Water Gun

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Balls-y songwriting - intelligent and bold - David Dondero's Shooting At The Sun With A Water Gun... is a folk-country masterpiece. Roots-y in songwriting style and approach, folk-ish in the storytelling flow of things, but completely edgy in the lyrical department, dealing with topics of divorce, lonely hearts, and getting back on your feet.

Dondero's shaking, ready-to-break at any minute voice, and heart-wrenching tales, coupled with his one moment faint and the next moment tumbling guitar playing makes this acoustic-based record a must have for fans of so many genres. Its mass appeal will surely find it in many fans CD players for quite some time.

Track Listing

1 If You Break My Heart
2 The Real Tina Turner
3 Love
4 The Lonesomeness That Kills
5 Pied Piper of the Flying Rats
6 Rosary
7 This World Is Not My Home
8 The Waiter
9 Analysis of a 1970's Divorce
10 Proposal
11 Now and On

David Dondero - Live At The Hemlock

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Once upon a time, Bob Dylan was accused of writing depressing lyrics, and while he did occasionally express existential angst in his writing, his music always sounded uplifting. David Dondero's death-obsessed lyrics make Dylan's pessimism seem like a picnic in the park on a lovely spring afternoon. If the lyrics of "Living and the Dead" and "Ashes on the Highway" don't convince one that tomorrow will be even blacker than today, then Dondero and his band's musical accompaniment will. This isn't necessarily a criticism: Dondero obviously has heavy things on his mind and sees no reason to sugarcoat it.

Track Listing

1 Intro
2 I'm in Love w/The Living + The Dead- Ashes on the Highway
3 The Blvd of Broken Hearts, Busted Dreams
4 Preinvasion Jilters
5 The Real Tina Turner
6 If U Break My
7 Chainsaw Preacher
8 Song for the Civil Eng
9 Gotta Get Back East
10 Michael Raines
11 Call Me D.
12 You Shouldn't Leave a Lover Alone Too Long
13 The Waiter
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Cub Country - Stay Poor / Stay Happy

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Cub Country is Jeremy Chatelain from JETS TO BRAZIL. 'Stay Poor/Stay Happy' showcases Jeremy's undeniable songwriting / musical talent and serves as a solid follow-up to 2002's debut 'High Uinta High' . The album was mixed by Brian Paulson (of prior Wilco & Superchunk projects, to name just two).

Track Listing

1. Be Your Own Hitman
2. The Salt Islands
3. Good Job Jer Blues
4. Missed The Train
5. If We Should Fall
6. O Holy Bridge
7. Leaving The Bar
8. The West
9. 59 Grand
10. The Sun

Release Date: September 28, 2004

Built Like Alaska - Hopalong

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Loose, fuzzy indie-rock and nestled, contemplative sweeping pop. Built Like Alaska's debut, Hopalong is a mature, diverse record that proves a weepy acoustic number can, and does, go well next to a bouncy, guitar-soaked rocker. The two sides of the band tug and pull at your emotions as you find yourself crying with them one minute, as you both share a smile and a laugh the next. At times majestic and other times dirty, the serene rock of Built Like Alaska mirrors the cold, light climate of the land in which is takes its name from.

Track Listing

1 Thinkfast
2 Mistake #2
3 Seven Steps of Trespassing
4 PBS: Murder Mystery
5 Kinky Todd
6 Burnin' Mine
7 Meat on Your Bones
8 For a Kid
9 Moby Dork
10 Graft vs. Host
11 Love Scmlove
12 Healthy One
13 Fulcrum Prism Blues
14 Throw an Old Man into the Ocean With a Lead Weight Tied Around His Leg

Built Like Alaska - Autumnland

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

Pretty, sparkling indie-rock with a strong sense (and love) of pop, Built Like Alaska's Autumnland is rightfully titled. Like a good autumn, Built Like Alaska brings to mind those cold, windy mornings, while the sun is still shining, trees turning brown, leaves all over the place, and life just that much more beautiful. Songs like "Wet Hay In A Barn" deliver light, toe-tapping rhythms alongside a stark piano and somber vocals, while the stark beauty of "Controlled Climate", with its piano and vocals focus, showcases the delicacy of this band. Meanwhile, "Ran Into A Coroner" showcases the band's ability to create fuzz-pop, and "Does Your Mother Feel Sick" is all late-night, sleepy-eyed indie-rock with plenty of feedback to feed off of.

Track Listing

1 Theme from Autumnland
2 Ran into a Coroner
3 Does Your Mother Feel Sick
4 A Happy Home
5 Dirty Mouth
6 Heavy Foot
7 Train Wreck
8 Allergies and Lust
9 Wet Hay in a Barn
10 Random Car
11 Controlled Climate
12 It'll Keep You Warm
13 Almost the Earth
14 Quake Song

Smut DVD

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:01:24 -0500

First release from Future Farmer Films.

Inside Every Weirdo Lies a Hero

Inspired by a dream visit by his mother, wide-eyed idealist Marty O’Neill (Lee Holmes - Erosion, The Salton Sea) takes to the road on a quest for something that will give his life meaning. When his motorcycle breaks down outside of an adult bookstore in a small middle American town, Marty takes a job in the store to make some cash and get his bike fixed. While struggling to understand the mad methods of Max (Mark Boone Junior - Batman Begins, Memento, 2 Fast 2 Furious), the store’s gruff owner, Marty befriends Elmore (Melvin Van Peebles - Jaws 2, Panther, Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asss Song), an eccentric old beat poet who frequents the bookstore, and becomes enamored with Mary Jane (Jenette Goldstein - Duplex, X-Men: Next Demension), the cynical stripper who stars in the show’s peep show booth.

Between hours on the job, Marty bonds with Bav (Meredith Scott Lynn - Legally Blonde, A Night At The Roxbury) a tattoo artist and aspiring business guru who’s fascinated by the artful video interviews Marty has collected in his travels. Sensing a business opportunity, Bav transforms transforms screenings of Marty’s videos into the hippest party in town--—catching the attention of Tex Scram (Maxwell Caufield - Grease 2, Empire Records), a charismatically nasty used car dealer who covets the few things left in the town he doesn’t already own, and Mrs. Maplethorpe (new comer - Kirsten Nelson), a conservative house wife who wants to save Marty’s soul. Battle lines are drawn and Marty is surprised to discover the meaning of his quest in one simple question: “What is smut?”

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Future Farmer Truck Foam and Mesh Hat

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Black on black trucker hat with white loge. A classic. One size fits average head.

Future Farmer New Logo T-Shirt (Baby T)

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Brown T-Shirt with Gold Lettering.

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