- ANNOUNCEMENT -
homecoming
SKiN GRAFT St. Louis HOMECOMING 2013
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YOWIE

((St. Louis))

XADDAX
((New York: ex Dazzling Killmen))

LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS
((Chicago: members of Cheer-Accident))

DECENT AL JOHNSON
((Dubuque: singer of U.S. Maple))

- and hold on to that paper route
and scour the sofa for the
SKiN GRAFT Records MERCH TABLE
((Vienna, Austria))

Schlafly Tap Room
2100 Locust Street, Saint Louis, MO.
ALL AGES admitted FREE of Charge (no secret handshake required)


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YOWIE
Coming no less than eight years after their debut LP, the second full length release from St. Louis’ sideways metaphysical “new math” rock outfit Yowie has been released. “Damning With Faint Praise” surpasses the girth and intensity of their debut, “Cryptooology”, an album that few have learned to decipher (or pronounce).

Utilizing just two guitars and drums, "Damning with Faint Praise" finds Yowie shredding through an array of gravity defying multidimensional shifting structures, while maintaining cohesion, and even, yes, grooves. Yowie’s Christopher Trull was honored with the Riverfront Times’ Best Guitarist Award of 2012. The other two guys was robbed.

Listen to “Shriners Sure Do Cuss A Lot”:
http://www.skingraftrecords.com/mp3/LP_MP3/YOWIE_Shriners_Sure.mp3

More info:
http://www.skingraftrecords.com/bandhtmlpages/yowie.html

On Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yowie/154070744664670

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XADDAX

Nick Sakes boasts one of those impeccable underground-rock track records. His discography to date encompasses three brilliant, insular projects: prog-minded post-hardcore nightmare merchants Dazzling Killmen, cryptic art-punk psychos Colossamite and the skewed yet surprisingly tuneful Sicbay.

His new band Xaddax - a duo with drummer Chrissy Rossettie - is as challenging and gloriously cathartic as anything he's done to date. Working with a mad-scientist electroacoustic drum set-up -- huge toms, no cymbals, various sample-triggering pads and a foot-controlled synth pedal -- Rossettie pounds out lurching math-disco rhythms, haloed in scuzzy sci-fi FX. Sakes responds with perversely anthemic riffs and mantra-like shouts, resulting in a kind of hot-wired hardcore -- like Devo gone nastily dystopic. Their debut album “Counterclockwork” is out now on SKiN GRAFT Records, home to Nick's former acts Dazzling Killmen and Colossamite.

Listen to “Lives On Nerves”:
http://www.skingraftrecords.com/mp3/LP_MP3/XADDAX_lives_on_nerves.mp3

More info:
http://www.skingraftrecords.com/bandhtmlpages/xaddax.html

On Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/xaddaxmusic

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LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS

Chicago's Lovely Little Girls construct theatrical No-Wave suites that morph from off-kilter dance anthems to punishing and ridiculous progressive rock. Simple musical motifs quickly deform into charges of odd harmony and tangled polyrhythms, punctuated by syllable-stuffed cut-and-paste prose; and grounded in a love for catchy melodies - a gravy-encrusted GLEE for the regressive metal and free jazz set.

“Cleaning the Filth From a Delicate Frame”, the band's latest recording and first for SKiN GRAFT Records is Lovely Little Girls' most cohesive work yet - a seven stage Théâtre de l'Absurde concept record.

The visual does aural.

Includes a who's-who of the Chicago underground. including members of Cheer-Accident, Guzzlemug, Bobby Conn, the Van Dyke Parks band, Flying Luttenbachers, Murmur, Baby Teeth, Detholz!, and Hot Garbage.

Listen to “Massive Vulva Cantaloupe”:
http://www.skingraftrecords.com/mp3/LP_MP3/LLG_Massive_Vulva.mp3

More info:
http://www.skingraftrecords.com/bandhtmlpages/llg.html

On Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lovely-Little-Girls/217202274987037

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DECENT AL JOHNSON

With glove on hand, Al Johnson erased the rules of rock as founder and frontman of the band U.S. Maple. U.S. Maple were pioneers of the new school, controlling time and space without falling hack to today’s trendier form: improvising. Make no mistake, U.S. Maple were always about songs - not the sum of parts - placing emphasis where the emphasis belongs: entertainment.

Al is decent. Currently sequestered in Dubuque, Iowa, he is pushing boundaries in the field of writing, contributing to Vice Magazine as well as his website, AlJohnsonisDecent.com. By accepting the role of host for the SKiN GRAFT St. Louis Homecoming, Al's self-inflicted exile has come to an end. He has returned – to place emphasis where the emphasis belongs: entertainment.

U.S. MAPLE's “Long Hair In Three Stages” is ranked #85 on the Alternative Press “90 Greatest Albums of the '90s”. We know better. This summer, U.S. MAPLE's debut LP will be available again on Compact Disc - and on Vinyl in three different editions: A standard issue LP and two hand-crafted metal-sleeved variants... made in St. Louis.

Listen to “Letter To ZZ Top”:
http://www.skingraftrecords.com/mp3/LP_MP3/USMaple_LetterToZZTop.mp3

More info:
http://www.skingraftrecords.com/bandhtmlpages/usmaple.html

On Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/U.S.Maple

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SKiN GRAFT RECORDS:

Like Touch and Go and Sub Pop before them, SKiN GRAFT sprang to life in 1986 as a fanzine, publishing a series of punk-infused comics out of the St. Louis area. With a move to Chicago in 1991, SKiN GRAFT Comix co-founder Mark Fischer reinvented SKiN GRAFT as record label, arriving fully formed as a quirky, aesthetically-driven collective serving up action-oriented “Now Wave” music (a term coined with tongue planted firmly in cheek).

SKiN GRAFT Records launched with a collection of seven inch singles packed inside comic book sleeves that defined it's multi-disciplinary approach, and began churning out a run of genre defying records that would seem at home nowhere else: from Dazzling Killmen's groundbreaking “Face Of Collapse” to U.S. Maple's debut LP packaged in hand-polished aluminum sleeves to the breakthrough album from Japan's Melt-Banana, 2500 of which were packaged in a screen-printed rubber jacket with a temporary tattoo insert.

Now headquartered in Vienna, Austria and with shipping facilities in St. Louis, SKiN GRAFT continues to curate a collection of music cultivated from some of the most extraordinary recording artists of the last two decades – touting acts such as Arab On Radar, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, AIDS Wolf, Cheer-Accident and Japan’s drum and bass duo Ruins.

SKiN GRAFT's Mark Fischer will be making a rare USA appearance (he's the tall guy with glasses) and the label will have an extensive merch table of wares available for sale.

For more information:
http://www.skingraftrecords.com/

On Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/skin.graft.3

More details on the SKiN GRAFT St. Louis HOMECOMING 2013
at the FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE HERE

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NOW UP FOR PRE-ORDERS from
SKiN GRAFT Records:
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Pictured Below: US MAPLE "Long Hair In Three Stages" LP
Aluminum Sleeve 2013 (non-die cut variant)

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US MAPLE
LP / CD
ATHLETIC
AUTOMATON MOD CD
ARAB ON RADAR
LP / MOD CD

The SKIN GRAFT News Desk:
http://www.skingraftrecords.com/news_desk.html

U.S. MAPLE
"Long Hair In Three Stages" LP / CD Pre-Order
Standard LP / CD - and (2) Metal Sleeved Vinyl Editions

ATHLETIC AUTOMATON
"5 Days In Africa: Extended" MOD CD Pre-Order
Includes (2) new Bonus Tracks & Vocals by 6FS' J Ryan


ARAB ON RADAR
"Soak The Saddle" Pre-Order
12" Colored Vinyl LP / MOD CD / Ultimate Edition

LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS
Eastwardly Tour
begins April 24th!
"Cleaning the Filth From..." LP / MOD CD / ULT Ed Out Now

and some more odds and ends...
broken bones, broken stampers, hints about future releases
and 25 years of STRANGULATED BEATOFFS


For all of the details visit the SKiN GRAFT News Desk

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