PAPA’s new 7″ single “I Am The Lion King” b/w “Halloween To Me” is out NOW and available to order in our Online Store.

In celebration of it’s release, PAPA will be playing a FREE show this coming Monday, May 9th, at The Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles.  21+ 11PM.

Ooooooh… B-SIDE ETCHING!

Slang Chickens MY FLOOR EP is now available to order in our brand new ONLINE STORE.  CD version will ship right away, and LP versions will ship as soon as they arrive, later this month or early March.

We are proud to announce our next release, Slang Chickens’ MY FLOOR EP.  MY FLOOR will be available as a one-sided 12″ (with b-side etching), digital, and CD.  This will be a split release with our dear friends Infrasonic Sound.  MY FLOOR finds Chickens’ mash of punk, country, new wave evolving into its newest form.  With songs covering a range of topics from firearms, drugs, love, and dreams, MY FLOOR will be available in February in time for the band’s Monday night residency at The Echo in Los Angeles.

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And stream two of the more of the EP’s songs, “My Floor” and “Never Been High” below

Mini Mansions Daytrotter session up now!  Love the cartoon PJ shirt.

Mini Mansions LP will be out November 2nd on Ipecac / Rekords Rekords!

Copies of their MONK 7″ are still available

Slang Chickens hit the road today.  West Coasters, come hang out!

8/14 San Francisco, CA @ Amnesia w/ The Splinters, Sam Flax and the Higher Power, and The Spooks
8/16 Portland,OR @ Valetines w/ Love Always (Kathy from the Thermals solo) and The Golden Hours
8/17 Olympia, WA @ Northern w/ Chung Antique
8/18 Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern
8/19 Eugene, OR @ Wandering Goat Coffee House
8/21 San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern w/ Man/Miracle and Yellow Dress
8/22 Santa Cruz, CA @ Crepe Place w/ Mountain Animal Hospital, and Indian Giver
8/23 Los Angeles, CA @ Downtown Independent w/ PAPA

Artist: Mini Mansions
Title: “Monk” b/w “Heart of Glass”
Label: Psychedelic Judaism (Echo Park)
Format: 7-inch (+ download), purple swirl, 1000 pressed

There’s a key entry in the popular hand guide, Judging Various Media By Its Cover, about skipping over anything adorned with doll parts. But, as the introduction to that book sagely cautions, every rule has its exception and Mini Mansions proves that even this time-honored “indicator of bunk” can be misleading. The band’s still young, but with ties to Queens of the Stone Age and Buddyhead’s Wires on Fire (all three acts share member Michael Shuman), Mini Mansions knows a thing or two about balancing the bizarre with the brilliant.

Side A features “Monk,” a mercurial slice of vintage-sounding psych-pop that finds singer Shuman channeling John Lennon’s stuffy croon through Elliott Smith’s delicate pipes. That’s not to say he’s as good as either (it’d be a mighty tall bill to fill), but it’s an aesthetic he wears well. Meanwhile, fuzzy distortion, organ hum, crisp bass-lines and a Zombies-like beat keep the track moving. On the flip, the Mansions take on Blondie’s “Heart of Glass,” slowing the original down to achieve a similarly gluey, psychedelic atmosphere.

Check out other rad vinyl reviews in Chris Martin’s column “INCHES”.

Mini Mansions “Monk” b/w “Heart Of Glass” 7″ is now available for order.  1000 copies.  Colored Wax.  CLICK HERE to order.  The boys leave soon for a US/Canadian tour.  Dates below.  Bring Tyler a churro.

June 1- Phoenix, AZ @ Yucca Tap Room
June 2- Sante Fe, NM @ The Underground
June 3- Colorado Springs, CO @ Triple Nickel Taverm
June 4- Denver, CO @ Moe’s
June 5- Fort Collins, CO @ Surfside 7 w/ Wire Faces and Natural Selection
June 6- Lincoln, NE @ Duffy’s Tavern
June 7- Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar
June 8- Des Moines, IA @ Vaudeville Mews
June 9- Minneapolis, MN @ 400 Bar
June 10- DAYTROTTER SESSION!
June 11- Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall w/ Gold Motel and Secret Colours
June 12- Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop w/ Josiah Wolf, Cars and Trains
June 13- Washington, DC @ DC9 w/ Warpaint
June 14- Philadelphia, PA @ North Star Bar
June 15- Brooklyn, NY @ Knitting Factory w/ Warpaint
June 16- TBD
June 17- NXNE- Toronto, ON @ Bovine Sex Club
June 18- NXNE- Toronto, ON @ The Great Hall
June 19- NXNE- Toronto, ON @ Dundas Square w/ The Stooges, The Ravonettes, Wavves, Surfer Blood
June 20- St. Catharines, ON @ Mansion House
June 21- Montreal, QB @ Il Motore w/ Sleepy Sun and Dissapears
June 22- London, ON @ Call the Office
June 23- TBD
June 24- Peterborough, ON @ Red Dog w/ Rikers
June 25- Ottawa, ON @ Mavericks Bar
June 26- Sault Ste. Marie, ON @ Lop Lops
June 27- TBD
June 28- TBD
June 29- Saskatoon, SK @ Amigos w/ Sleepy Sun
June 30- Edmonton, AB @ Pawn Shop w/ Sleepy Sun
July 1- Sled Island, Calgary, AB @ Republik House w/ Deerhoof, The Posies, and Women
July 2- Sled Island, Calgary, AB @ Royal Canadian Legion #1 w/ Bart Davenport, Sugar and Gold, Nice Nice
July 3- Sled Island, Calgary, AB @ Arrata Opera House w/ Bart Davenport, Apollo Ghosts, The Frequency
July 4- Kelowna, BC @ Habitat
July 5- Kamloops, BC @ Blue Grotto
July 6- Vancouver, BC @ Bitlmore Cabaret
July 7- Seattle, WA @ Comet Tavern
July 8- Portland, OR @ East End