Current Releases
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White Crime (Coming Soon) $5 Imagine the dark guitar cruise-pop of Davey Crockett at the hectic coked-out pace of The Cutters…and you pretty much have Houston’s White Crime. These seven songs make punk rock dark again, somewhat dangerous and less about attitude and more about the insane rush of fucked-up rock & roll. |
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[7"] The Ex-Optimists (Coming Soon) $6 Two sides from College Station’s The Ex-Optimists make for SHTI’s first vinyl release. This 7” makes like a Sonic Youth / Sebadoh split from 1992, balancing the heady rush of early ‘90s indie noise rock with early ‘00s confessional guitar pop. Comes with download code for MP3 action plus two bonus tracks. (MP3 download also includes the two previous Ex-Optimists releases!) |
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The Tron Sack
It is difficult to capture The Tron Sack’s colossal towering mass of feedbacking bass riffs, resounding drums, and analog synthesizer atmosphere in mere 1’s and 0’s. Yet they have managed to present 80 minutes of stoner drone metal that is both soothing and unnervingly epic. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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great unwashed luminaries
great unwashed luminaries drifts from driving sampladelica through Berlin School trippiness, intergalactic stellarscapes, and mind sharpening sonics on their 7th full-length album. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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Vegenaut
Vegenaut can mellow your head and move your feet all at the same time, shuffle-step you beyond the solar system with his electronic dance music, both ethereal and concrete, like neon lights on wet pavement at night. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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Black Swedes
Seattle’s chamber pop masters Black Swedes create music that captures the quality of Northwestern sunlight, soft and gray, lulling rhythms and sighing Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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Stay in Touch
Stay In Touch melds soaring emo ultramelodic vocals, post-metal palm-mute riffing and a workmanesque rhythm section into a taut metal-inspired punk rock that makes Losing Friends not just a unique release for the Brazos Valley but pretty unique in the current punk rock scene. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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Magic Girl & Her Ex-Husbands
Magic Girl delivers a new album of trailer trash lullabies delivered with a Texas alt-country kick, but this time taking on plaintive folk, delta stomp and the sweet soul blues along with her signature oil field grit and moxy. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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Davey Crockett
Houston’s Davey Crockett cranks out 1960’s Pacific Coast Highway rock, a kind of top-down sunny music but with a paranoid vocal up top and Southern Gothic overtones that hasn’t quite shaken off the dirt from the grave. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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Flak Jackets ALL GONE!!! B/CS’s favorite punk rock jackasses, fronted by the lovechild of Johnny Rotten and Stan Lee from The Dickies, doing nothing but covers of the worst songs by The Foreskins! Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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Charger Fits
If you have seen Houston’s Charger Fits there are two things that stick in your mind: they are all left-handed, and it is impossible to be a wallflower at their shows. Somehow they have harnessed that good times punk rock vibe and captured it on one’s and zero’s. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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Jay Satellite ALL GONE!!! Jay Satellite’s new album veers pinball style between racing guitar power pop, sophisticated balladry, space-age synthesizer rock and indie angst. All with the narrative spirit of doing your own thing against unbelievable odds. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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Oxvylu / Bit Face
Toronto’s Oxvylu sophisticated programming and soundtrack-esque sounds contrast with the buzzier, noisier Game Boy tones from Scotland’s Bit Face. Together these artists demonstrate the breadth of musical ideas that can be realized through vintage gaming consoles without relying on the norm. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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The Ex-Optimists ALL GONE!!! The X-Ops’ debut album immediately brings to mind those heady days of 1991 listening to college radio. Merging Nirvana’s bigger-than-life grunge pop with Sonic Youth’s angular downtown noise, The Ex-Optimists present 10 songs filled with passion and distortion. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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great unwashed luminaries
great unwashed luminaries steps into the 1980′s with six tracks of breakdancing electro-beat proto-prog. First 20 copies come with a bonus disc of soundtracks to imaginary John Carpenter films.
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A Very SHTI Christmas Seven Christmas songs from a variety of Sinkhole Texas musicians to get you in the spirit! This one is a freebie to download and a freebie to own. Limited to 50 copies, available only at the annual SHTI/979Represent Toys for Tots benefit (More info) Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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Female Demand
Houston’s Female Demand get crazy with bass, drums and a pedalboard that has more lights and knobs than the helm of the Millennium Falcon. With these tools they create aggressively gonzo disco punk rock. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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Levi Fuller
Boston-via-Seattle singer/multi-instrumentalist Levi Fuller has a sound owing as much to early ‘90s lo-fi acoustic indie pop as it does to the intricate indie folk somewhat similar to Joe Pernice and Lou Barlow but with the Americana songwriting tradition of finding worth in commonality. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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The Ex-Optimists ALL GONE!!! The Ex-Optimists drop college radio indie rock science on you like it’s 1993 all over again. Sebadoh, Sonic Youth, Mission of Burma, etc. Jagged, guitars duel with melodic vocals against a racing backbeat. Four tracks from the 4-track. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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Primal
The Demolishment of Mankind is a turgid, uncompromising, headstrong double-kicks blazing riff-charging extreme metal onslaught. Black Roger’s sub-Satan vocals are unsettling, and alien, so different than the typical Cookie Monster thing. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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Magic Girl & Her Ex-Husbands “Poor Man’s Queen” SHTI006.2
2nd Pressing with 2 new songs and alternate artwork! The cracker jack SHTI house band lends a rough-hewn Americana noir vibe to Magic Girl’s plaintive red clay sermons, delivered with a voice both tough as the oil field and supple as willow. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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“DANCE!DANCE!PARTY!PARTY!FUN!FUN! No.1″ Compilation CD SHTI007 ALL GONE!!! Somewhere a modern dance troupe is choreographing a ballet for Activision’s Pitfall Atari cartridge. This is their soundtrack. 14 tracks of Converse-shuffling honky boogie. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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The Hangouts “Turn Up The Bird” SHTI008 ALL GONE!!! The Hangouts blast this four-song EP full of pre-hardcore SoCal punk rock with power pop hooks and sass in about the time it takes for a really good piss. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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great unwashed luminaries “Saving Throw Vs. Spell” 4CD BOX SET SHTI012 ALL GONE!!! Nearly five hours of electro-prog sword and sorcery packaged together at an unheard-of low price. This limited edition 4CD boxed set compiles great unwashed luminaries’ first three long out-of-print albums, adding a bonus disc of unreleased and rare recordings and a foldout poster. |
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Army Of 2600 “Bit Attrition” SHTI011 ALL GONE!!! Army of 2600 is the sound of a broken game cartridge in protest, spitting out white noise, menacing beats and ominous atmosphere while the CGI scions of darkness march across your television screen. This is how you rewrite the soundtrack for The Terminator as realized for the Atari 2600. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
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Something Fierce / The Hangouts
Split 7″ MA003 ALL GONE!!! |
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