April 5, 2016 - 2:33pm UTC
RELEASES FROM THE FLESHTONES, ELI PAPERBOY REED AND SHADOWY MEN ON A SHADOWY PLANET CONFIRMED FOR 2016
AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT PARTICIPATING INDEPENDENT RECORD STORES ON APRIL 16, 2016
Yep Roc Records announces three Record Store Day 2016 titles, including 45s from The Fleshtones and Eli Paperboy Reed, and a four-LP vinyl box set from Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet.
All titles will be available exclusively at select independent music retailers on Saturday, April 16, 2016. For a list of participating stores, please visit: www.recordstoreday.com.
A full list of titles is below.
The Fleshtones, “End of My Neighborhood”
Format: 45/single
“End Of My Neighborhood” composed and sung by The Fleshtones guitarist Keith Streng, certainly lets us know he's more than concerned about the re-development of his neighborhood and the concurrent loss, not only of all the things that made the 'Northside' of Williamsburg such a cool place to live, but of its human scale as well.
For the B-side, lead vocalist Peter Zaremba came up with the blatantly '60s track, “Cardboard Casanova,” Besides the beat, the song features the type of lyrical content you'd expect from that era. A punk lead singer, angrily denouncing some girl's preference for the rich guy, who in actuality doesn't 'make it' as a lover anyway. What will she decide? Strangely relevant today. Mike Mills of REM joins in on vocals, and Fleshtones founding member Jan Marek Pakulski might also be somewhere in the mix as well. The songs were recorded with longtime friend of The Fleshtones, Florent Barbier, at Cold Cut Productions Studios.
The 45's sleeve was designed by Herve Peroncini of the rocking Italian band The Peawees, and the photos were taken by Jacopo Benessi before a Fleshtones show in La Spezia, Italy.
- Limited to 1,000 copies worldwide
- Cover Art
- Official Video
Eli Paperboy Reed, “Cut Ya Down”
Format: 45/single
This 45 features two new tracks from Eli Paperboy Reed’s forthcoming debut album for Yep Roc Records - “Cut Ya Down” and “Hold Out”. It’s packaged as an old-school jukebox 45, with a large hole on the record and custom label, which is in a plain brown paper sleeve. The label design is reminiscent of old soul 45 test pressings, of which Eli is an avid collector. It is the perfect package for his unique brand of soulful, funky R&B
- Limited to 1,200 copies worldwide.
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet, Oh, I Guess We Were A Fucking Surf Band After All...
Format: 4 LP vinyl box set
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet is the seminal Canadian instrumental combo formed in Toronto, in 1984. They released three albums before disbanding in 1996, reconstituting once again in 2013.
Yep Roc Records is proud to be re-releasing all three original studio albums -- Savvy Show Stoppers; Dim The Lights, Chill The Ham; Sport Fishin’: The Lure of the Bait, The Luck of the Hook -- on vinyl in deluxe gatefold sleeves, with expanded artwork, liner notes by Bon Von Wheelie, Bry Webb and Scott McCaughey, contextual essays by band associates and a chihuahua. The set also includes “Having An Average Weekend,” made famous as the theme to the hit sketch comedy TV show, The Kids in the Hall.
Remastered from first generation tapes by recent Grammy winner Peter J. Moore, I Guess We Were A Fucking Surf Band After All… box set includes an exclusive new LP, Soft Polished Separates, including tracks from singles, soundtracks, compilations, their trashcan, and BBC John Peel and CBC Brave New Waves sessions.