Whoops, correction.

In our review of the Pom Pom cd on list #310, we said it was a collection of tracks selected from their prior vinyl-only releases. Well, we were wrong about that, it's actually a cd version of their 2x12" entitled 32. Sorry, didn't mean to mislead. And either way, it's a great cd if you like that minimal, Kompakt-style techno stuff.

New Arrivals list #310

Our exciting new list can be found here, featuring these Records Of The Week:

Blank Dogs "The Fields" (Woodsist) cd ep/lp $11.98/$14.98
A new wavey, lo-fi gothy gloom pop genius one man band we're all diggin'.
Swervedriver "Raise" (Second Motion / High-Speed Soul) cd $16.98
Swervedriver "Mezcal Head" (Second Motion / High-Speed Soul) cd $16.98
Two crucial reissues of early '90s heavy shoegazing rock action by these old faves!

New Arrivals list #309

Happy New Year! Our first list of 2009 is now up on the site here and possibly in your email inbox too.

Records Of This Week are:
Stars Of The Lid "Music For Nitrous Oxide" (Sedimental) cd $14.98
One of the great bands that got the whole "drone" thing rolling back in the '90s, before, y'know, your best friend and your little sister had their own drone bands. This is their wonderful debut record of slo-mo ambient bliss from '95, finally at last reissued!
The Telescopes "Singles Compilation 1989-1991" (Mind Expansion) cd $15.98
A new disc collecting all the singles A's and B's circa 1989-'91 by British heavy psych shoegazing garage rock outfit The Telescopes. Essential stuff for everybody who freaked out over those Loop reissues we made Records Of The Week so recently!! If you're gonna get just one Telescopes disc, this would be it.

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We're pleased to announce that at this year's South By Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, we'll be co-sponsoring a big ol' showcase gig with our good friends at New York/New Jersey's WFMU, one of the best independent (or otherwise) radio stations in the whole world!

So, if you're gonna be at SXSW (or now plan to attend 'cause you don't want to miss this show!), mark your calendars, our thing is scheduled for Friday, March 20th. Who's playing? Well, we're holding off on telling you about that until a few more bands are confirmed, but we'll provide further details soon, we promise. It'll be an interesting lineup full of AQ faves...

And hey - if you're a kindly AQ customer who happens to live in Austin, and possibly could help Allan and Andee out with either a place to stay and/or cheap bicycle(s) we could buy or borrow, please email us! Thanks!

2 upcoming AQ-staff-related happenin's

ART:

I Wanted Every Day To Last Forever

short films by Irwin Swirnoff (2003-present)

film installation at Right Window @ ATA
992 Valencia / 21st
Jan. 11th - 31st
opening reception Sunday Jan. 11th 5-8

ATA screening Sunday Jan. 25th 8pm
opening musical guest: Mira Cook
www.myspace.com/miracook

MUSIC:

Coconut
Aero-mic'd
Elm

Hemlock Tavern
Thurs. Jan. 15th 9pm
1131 Polk Street

That's our Irwin's art show/film screening (from which the above still is taken). And the music show at the Hemlock features two AQ staffers, Scott (from The Alps) playing in Aero-mic'd, and Jon (from Barn Owl) doing his solo thing Elm. Obviously, neither are to be missed!

"One of the all time worst days in music history"

Ron Asheton, guitarist for the Stooges, has passed away.
Our friend Drew, aka Drewcifer, a big Stooges/Asheton fan, emailed to let us know.

Apparently Asheton, 60, died of a heart attack on New Year's Day or New Year's Eve, and his body was just discovered today in his Ann Arbor home.

Sad. R.I.P., Ron.

Drewcifer went on to say: "Ugh. Just found out the Grateful Dead are going to get back together and start touring again. That and Asheton's death makes this one of the all time worst days in music history."

A couple more new arrivals of note

We got two things in since the last list that we thought you might want to know about now. Though, they'll be on our next list (#309) too of course. Two new items from two bands for which we know many AQ customers are fiends. Boris and Circle!

From Boris, or actually Boris with Michio Kurihara (of White Heaven, Ghost, et. al.) who last appeared with Boris on their "Rainbow" disc, we have a new cd on Japan's Pedal label entitled "Cloud Chamber". It's $21.00. And quite excellent!

From Circle, we now have the 12" vinyl edition of their 2006 Latitudes release, "Tyrant". A double lp - one of them a picture disc - to be exact. Limited of course, 1000 copies. Just $17.98.