We are Bored Housewives… You are Japan

British independent record label (and the subject of this weeks’ “It Came From”) Moshi Moshi are giving away The Wave Pictures’ 8 track EP…. with any purchase made from their online store.

Though not entirely free, Moshi Moshi does play host to a number of fantastic acts, including Architecture In Helsinki, Tilly and The Wall and Bored Housewife favorites The Mae Shi and Dananananaykroyd. Head on over there now; why not even make that purchase The Wave Pictures debut album “Instant Coffee Baby”?

Moshi Moshi Store

The Wave Pictures - Holding Hands (from the single “I Love You Like A Madman”)

KILL ROCK STARS (USA)
Formed: 1991
Key artists: Bikini Kill, Elliot Smith, The Gossip, Deerhoof
Website: http://www.killrockstars.com
Distribution: CD/DVD/7″/Cassette

Kill Rock Stars began in 1991 by Slim Moon initially to release 7″ spoken word singles - the first release, KRS-101, was a split 7″ featuring Kathleen Hanna and Moon (entitled “Wordcore”). The first musical releases were compilations entitled “Kill Rock Stars”, “Stars Kill Rock” and “Rock Stars Kill”, featuring artists from Olympia, Washington (home base of the label) featuring Bikini Kill, Unwound, The Melvins and even Nirvana. It was Moon’s believe that acts such as Bikini Kill, Unwound and The Melvins were too exciting to remain unsigned, hence throwing it open as a full time label. (more…)

It’s not us playing a prank. Due to the severe amount of traffic we’ve received, the storage site we use for all our stuff has hit it’s limit for bandwidth - meaning a great deal of the site is down!

We’re moving everything to a new server which is more reliable at the moment, then we’ll be writing up this weeks “It Came From” and also have both “The Dan Load” and “Listen.Rinse.Repeat” back in action.

The Subways - Streetfighter (from the Japanese release of the album “All or Nothing”)

[Source - The Internet Nirvana Fanclub]

Author of the acclaimed Kurt Cobain biography Heavier Than Heaven, Charles R. Cross, is ready with a new book: Cobain Unseen. The new book features previously unseen photographs and personal items from the estate of Kurt Cobain. Full description:

An unparalleled look inside the brilliant mind of one of America’s most revered rock legends, Cobain Unseen collects previously unseen artifacts and photographs from the estate’s archives to form a fascinating portrait of the creativity, madness, and genius of Kurt Cobain.

Personal items and photographs take readers deeper inside Cobain’s life than they’ve ever been before, and interactive features, such as Kurt’s handwritten sticker-sheet of Nirvana name tags, facsimiles of unseen journal pages, and gatefolds of his graffiti-embellished guitars make this an essential keepsake. An audio CD showcasing spoken-word material by Cobain, some of it never before released, will be included. Accompanying the previously unpublished images and memorabilia is a compelling biographical narrative by New York Times-bestselling author Charles R. Cross.

The book is set to be published in the US on October 27.

Nirvana - Sappy (from the compilation “No Alternative” and “With The Lights Out”)

RUMRAKET (DENMARK)
Formed - 2003
Key artists: Efterklang, Taxi Taxi!, Canon Blue, Our Broken Garden
Website: www.rumraket.com/myspace.com/rumraket
Distribution: CD/Digital Media

Rumraket (Danish for Space Rocket) is a Danish record label, based in it’s capital Copenhagen, which was conceived in as a means for Efterklang (label heads of Rumraket also) to release their homemade releases. Efterklang’s released both their post-pop albums on The Leaf Label, who have released the likes of Caribou, Psapp and Susumu Yokota, and through Rumraket - limited themselves to their own work until 2006 when they began releasing the works of Brooklyn’s Grizzly Bear and Japanese artists Cacoy and Kama Aina.

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In correlation with the new feature that will be running throughout the radio show from this Wednesday onwards, we’re going to also write a little bit more about it on the blog. It seems a practical enough idea - if you enjoy the tracks, why not read a little bit more about the artists that we play and hopefully we’ll also go into a little bit more length about the record labels also. (more…)