Wow! Emily Rodgers Lathe Cut & Video & New JD Pinkus video "Slow Crawl"! Jad Fair & Kramer's "The History of Crying, Revisited" avail at record stores
New Emily Rodgers Lathe Cut 7" Single
& new video available today!
New JD Pinkus video "Slow Crawl" premieres today.
Jad Fair & Kramer's "The History of Crying, Revisited"
vinyl LP now available in your local Record Store!
New limited-edition (175) Clear Lathe Cut 7" single of
Emily Rodgers "The Chain" (Alternate Kramer Mix). A download of the entire Digital Album is included with purchase.
"The Chain" (Alternate Kramer Mix)
Clear Lathe Cut 7" single by Emily Rodgers
SDLC - 001
The Chain (Alternate Mix)
Purchase will also include a download of the full digital album "I Will Be Gone"
“Emily’s life is Emily’s art. Her voice is the physical embodiment of her soul. This puts her firmly within thepantheon of the world’s greatest singer-songwriters. If only the rest of the world might hear these songs...” - Kramer
"Intimate but devastatingly so, produced with (of course) an assured, deeply unobtrusive touch..especially from the moment her voice enters the picture a couple measures later, full of both unwavering confidence and a barely audible tremor of vulnerability" - Dave Cantrell (Stereo Embers)
WATCH / LISTEN & SHARE: JD Pinkus - "Slow Crawl"
“Slow Crawl” is a fittingly slow and solitary ending for the album, seeing Pinkus doggedly trudging forward over contemplative and sparse banjo. While decidedly less trippy than other tracks on the album, the song instead dives deep into dark melancholy, exploring the titular “slow crawl” back into a failing relationship. Meanwhile, the accompanying video dramatizes the song’s crumbling relationship, with plenty of wild-eyed stares from Pinkus and thrown glasses from his wife.
Pinkus says of the video, “The ‘Slow Crawl’ video was me and my wife tryin to pretend like we didn’t like each other cause we couldn’t afford Sean Penn and Madonna… I remember screaming at her ‘I fucking Love you so much’ and ‘I asked for a Snickers and you bring me a fucking Milky Way?!?!’ Then the glass ‘accidentally’ flew out of her hand onto my frontal lobe. It’s kind’ve about driving home real slow… every day… A big shout out to Josh and Keturah Bishop for capturing these uncomfortable moments and Jon Karr for his visual additions to the project. Thankfully, they all smelled what I was steppin in’
Watch the video below and check out Fungus Shui, out now via Shimmy-Disc and Joyful Noise Recordings.
- Under The Radar
J.D. Pinkus has been all over the place in his musical career, from the Texas trippiness of the Butthole Surfers to the bottoms-up hard-rock band Honky that he formed in the mid-’90s to the double-bass extravaganza that was the Melvins’ 2018 album Pinkus Abortion Technician (a title riffed off of the Butthole Surfers’ 1987 self-recorded masterpiece Locust Abortion Technician). Known to fans across the genre spectrum as a versatile and hard-working bassist, Pinkus has recently added the banjo to his musical arsenal. On his upcoming release and his second solo banjo album, Fungus Shui, Pinkus takes the banjo off the porch and in through the back door of that bar you’ve always been a little afraid of but are dying to get into, and proves that despite its innocuous reputation and popularity among many of the more benign and banal up and coming bands, the banjo can be killer when placed in the right sort of hands. Glide Magazine
"For fans of the cacophony that the Surfers and the Melvins have wrought through their respective careers, JD’s “spacegrass” stylings are a drastic shift towards the minimalistic and quiet."
- Hollywood Life
"Pinkus’ plaintive plucks at the banjo are warped to give us a feeling of being half in the nether world" - BPM
"...pretty much just him, his instrument and some deep thoughts."
- Brooklyn Vegan
"Fungus Shui"
by JD Pinkus
SHIMMY-2008
Fungus Shui Trinity
Part 1) In Tension
Part 2) Don’t Forget To Breathe
Part 3) Coming Down Is Half The Trip
Woke Up Dead
You Look Funny When You Cry
Shovel
Pussyfoot Down
Gittin’ It
Short Straw
Slow Crawl
JAD FAIR & KRAMER (featuring PAUL LEARY)
"The History of Crying, Revisited" arrives on vinyl! A few remaining copies of the "Golden Tears" first pressing are now available at your favorite local record shop!
Stay tune for the new Jad Fair & Kramer video for the title track "The History of Crying"
If you were depressed about missing out on the "Golden Tears" first pressing,
GOOD NEWS!
There are a few remaining copies circulating out in the wild in local record shops (happy hunting) or
you can preorder the limited edition "Red Red Sun" second pressing.
A few limited-edition T-shirts are also still available!