Lather's Latest

SPRING  2008

San Kazakgascar's Greetings From Beautiful San Kazakgascar CD is out.  The album ricochets between rhythmic chant parties and Eastern-dipped drone.  Its lyrical obsession with topography is backed by the woodwind’s reverberations off of steep canyon walls.  The band’s poppy art-rock psychedelia steals ideas from the world over, especially Central and Southern Asia.  

Backing up Greetings... is a split 7" between San Kazakgascar and the Master Musicians of Hop-Frog.  SK does "Planet Dog" and MMoHF deal "Song of the South."  Only 300 pressed.

H-Bomb tends the hole at the Kazakgascar pig roast.

The new working title for the forthcoming Harvester album might be as well be Glacial.  Not because of Harrasser's passion for climbing them, but because the band is giving Boston and My Bloody Valentine competition for slowest moving recording session ever.  The dudes do live in different states, though...  Harrasser is also talking about finishing his Envelope Peasant EP.

Portland’s Killed by Bears have released their excellent self-titled CD.  Ryan Martin and his Fort Lexington troops have assembled an album that is as accessible as it is intriguing.  Pop, folk, and trumpet are all equal parts in this unstoppable killing machine.

SHOWS

Fri May 2 - Edge Central in Sacramento

w/Naked on the Vague (Australia), Gowns, and Night Nurse

Tue May 20 - Blue Lamp in Sacramento

w/Radar Bros. (LA) and Le Switch (LA)

Check out these reviews of our latest releases:

San Kazakgascar' Greetings From...CD at Sacramento N&R

Lookyloos' You're Looking Very Beautiful Man CD at Fake Jazz

Carquinez Straits' Humiliation Jacket CD at Americana UK

Acme Rocket Quartet's Sound Camera CD at Splendidzine

VIDEO CORNER

San Kazakgascar "Mosquitoes & Gnats"

Lookyloos "Nobody Sends Black Flowers" live

Harvester "She Don't Mind That"

Carquinez Straits "Not Even Storms"

Graves Bros. Deluxe "Neurotique"

DIRECTIONS: HOW TO LATHER

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