Only Play Fast Shirts

Awesome new shirts… black on red, limited sizes. One note, not trying to scare you, but my friend wiped the screen for these shirts so these may be limited to 30. Will do more shirts of either this design or a totally different one when the screen gets burned again.

Thanks to my lovely friend Spinach for being an excellent model.

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Thanks MRR #334 for the love

XBRAINIAX – Deprogrammed CD
After a brutal and excellent mid-tempo opening track, Michigan’s finest fastcore veterans blast through 30 songs that each clock around the half-minute mark. Total blurrcore mania here, with jackhammer drums and vocals spewing disdain as fast as the guitars can crank out the riffs (pretty fast, apparently). The slow bits are sporadic but devastating, especially after your brain is turned to slush by the grind. These kids have been active for years, and this release floors their earlier efforts; indeed, it destroys most of the output from similar bands. An obligatory eleven-minute dirge closes the disc and fades into electronic noise..a peaceful but disconcerting end to the most brutal 30 minutes of your day. Completely awesome.

Backslider – Harsh Negativity EP
I like the previous tracks I heard from this band so was excited to review this 7″. BACKSLIDER is a two-person powerviolence band from Philly that mixes in a few other sounds. Imagine a combination of LACK OF INTEREST and GODSTOMPER. Quick, short tracks that somehow find a way to twist and turn in their short length. This is one of my favorite powerviolence records in a while.

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Releases available in local stores through Revolver and Ebullition

Rad news, been looking for better distribution and managed to get the XBRAINIAX CD in the Revolver distro. Maybe if it does well for them, they will carry more TLAL stuff and we can flood into your mom and pop shops more and more.
Xbrainiax: Deprogrammed | Midhaven Mailorder

Also, as always, can pick up most TLAL releases through the almighty Ebullition, who is a great distributor and gets copies in your local DIY music shops.

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Three songs from the upcoming Sidetracked 7″

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New releases I haven’t had time to hype

Here is what is out and why you NEED them!

First we have the Assholeparade live 10″. Why should I convince you to buy this at all? Well its a live recording from when they played Germany. Recorded off the soundboard and then premastered and mastered down to vinyl at Lucky Lacquers to make it sound crystal clear. Gold foil stamped covers, limited pink copies. This isn’t just a lofi crappy live recording, this might even sound better than the actual show did!

Next is the new Charogne Stone EP. I’ve only sold one of these in the two weeks I’ve had this, think people don’t know this is out. French straight-edge powerviolence (I think its more like superfast punk violence). Best record of theirs I’ve heard yet. Pretty rad packaging and pretty vinyl.

Conga Fury/Shitstorm split repress is fresh in here. Sold through the first 500 copies like it was free money. All copies are on the weird gray marbled or purpley marbled vinyl. Conga Fury is crazy spastic noise punk hailing from Japan. Shitstorm is furious grindcore from Miami, this is their first and to this date only recording with Eric playing bass on it. 500 more copies and then this thing will be gone forever.

Last and definitely not least is the Magnum Force EP. This record kills everything. Grindcore very much ala Magrudergrind. Also this is the first TLAL release to come with a download code, DIY style. Super heavy covers, all on black vinyl, real grind form AZ. Do yourself a favor on this one.

Upcoming releases record porn

All hail the new Suffering Luna vinyl… first new release in 15 years.

New Beartrap EP, 300 on crazy green, 100 on coke bottle clear (only from the band), 100 on blue (only from me)… out as as soon as I have covers!

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Magrudergrind/Cough – Southern Tour

3/11 – Philadelphia @ TBA w/ Backslider and others
3/12 – Washington DC @ St. Stephens Church w/ Dropdead, Wasted Time
3/13 – Greensboro, NC @ Legitimate Business
3/14 – Atlanta @ TBA
3/15 – Birmingham, AL @ The Firehouse
3/16 – Baton Rouge, LA @ TBA w/ Thou and others
3/17 – Houston, TX @ White Swan w/ Pretty Little Flower and others
3/18-3/20 – SXSW

Click here for updates/info

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Out of town – delay sending out orders

As of 1/19/2011, orders will be delayed by a week due to going to California for Short, Fast, and Loud Anniversary fest!

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Archagathus – Intoxicating Aroma mp3 from the upcoming Canadian Horse LP

Archagathus – Intoxicating Aroma

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Some old jams

Realized lately a lot of younger folks around here don’t know about some quality older songs. After spamming FB with a bunch of these I decided it would be cool to post them all collectively on here.

Here is a poorly thrown together collections of songs that are rad. I think I could have pulled some better stuff together if I had sat down and thought it through better, but who has time for that?

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