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updated: August 1st, 2016

Hi Everybody,

This is Mark writing with a quick update! The ARAB ON RADAR aluminum and copper covers for the "The Yahweh or the Highway Sessions" 7" single have been completed and they are now being assembled with the vinyl for the August 19th release date!

You can read all about it in the previous News Desk update below - and we are now taking pre-orders for the aluminum sleeved seven-inch, the copper sleeved variant, the two CD editions and a SKiN GRAFT shop exclusive Ultimate Edition which brings together an aluminum sleeved 7" with the CD cover of your choice. Pre-orderers can go HERE.

And just for kicks, I've gathered together some photos from Neil Burke, Jeff Schneider and Dave Stone to give you a behind the scenes look at the making of the sleeves. You can check it out at the SKiN GRAFT Facebook Page or by clicking the thumbnails below.

ARAB ON RADAR: Behind the Screens of the SKiN GRAFT Single:

ITEM! The new CELLULAR CHAOS LP/CD is out now and our pals at Tiny Mix Tapes have rolled out the red carpet for the music video premiere of the album's title track, "Diamond Teeth Clenched". You can read the full write up and check out the Preston Spurlock directed video at the TMT website right HERE.

CELLULAR CHAOS "Diamond Teeth Clenched"
Directed by Preston Spurlock
featuring Admiral Grey, Shayna Dulberger and Weasel Walter

"Diamond Teeth Clenched, the second full-length album from New York quintet Cellular Chaos, came out last month on old Midwest buddy cop label SKiN GRAFT. Together, singer Admiral Grey, bassist Shayna Dulberger, and Weasel Weasel have made an album as organically batshit as its 2013 self-titled predecessor. These dozen songs are encased in raw mayhem, stitched together through glam and high-end fuck-it noise rock, radical in their power and their succinctness.

The video for the title track, directed by Preston Spurlock, isn’t much different. Like a found collection of poorly-shot, grainy 1992 bootleg Pay-Per-View program torn up and shoved into a VCR, the video for “Diamond Teeth Clenched,” like the song, is falling into itself from every angle. Cellular Chaos are tearing the walls down and rolling around in the dust. And they’re daring you to stop them."

- MONET MAKER | JULY 28, 2016
TINY MIX TAPES

ITEM! LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS have just returned from their jaunt down south and the word is that the tour was fantastic! Now the band is prepping for their record release show in sweet home Chicago tonight!

From the Chicago Reader preview by Monica Kendrick:
"Jacobsen told me some of tonight’s special treats might include a Celtic Frost cover in four-part harmony—with members of Toupee and Cheer-Accident pitching in—and a possible assist from opener and longtime supporter Bobby Conn."

You can read the full write up HERE and if you have yet to get your mitts on a copy of your very own, you can order LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS "Glistening VIvid Splash right over HERE at the SKiN GRAFT Paypal Shop.

That's all for today. Thanks for visiting!

Mark Fischer

MORE NEW NEWS:

updated: July 11th, 2016

LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS "Glistening Vivid Splash"
LP / CD / Ultimate Edition OUT NOW!
CELLULAR CHAOS "Diamond Teeth Clenched"
LP / CD / Ultimate Edition ALSO OUT NOW!

ARAB ON RADAR "The Yahweh or the Highway Sessions"
screen-printed aluminum sleeved 7"/ CD / Ultimate Edition
now up for PRE-ORDERS

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LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS "Corpse Thighs Dancing"
Directed by Chris Hefner & Gregory Jacobsen
Director of Photography: Andrew J. Morgan
Editing, Masks and Art Direction: Gregory Jacobsen

Hi Everybody,

This is Mark writing and we've got a lot to share today! The new CELLULAR CHAOS album landed beside the brexit outcome two weeks ago - and if you haven't already done so, you should head directly to the previous update to read all about it. This time around, we've got a big announcement about the last two bits of unheard ARAB ON RADAR, a preview of some new art for this Fall's DAZZLING KILLMEN "Face Of Collapse" vinyl re-issue - and the skinny on the new album from Chicago's LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS - which is out - as of right now!

Before we get into the nitty gritty, LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS have put together a jitter-inducing video for the song "Corpse Thighs Dancing" and you can check it out up top. Also - The Chicago Reader's Philip Montoro has written up an extensive history of the band - and the windy city weekly is currently streaming "Glistening Vivid Splash" in its entirety so you can try before you buy. Check it out HERE.

And - LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS will be touring soon, check out the the FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE for all of the dates!

Okay - On with the show!
First up, LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS"Glistening Vivid Splash"( ! ):

"The music of the Chicago avant-rock oddballs Lovely Little Girls is inspired by the paintings and drawings of artist/vocalist Gregory Jacobsen. It's the sort of artwork that can inspire lyrics like "Inflammation of the harelip," candy-colored grotesques that seem like carnival art intended to scare children with the threat of STDs. These characters are depicted in the band's Frith/Residents-inspired anarchic outbursts, sideshow skronk in [Henry Darger] Vivian Girls colors. The songs come mostly from the pen of Cheer-Accident bassist Alex Perkolup, who translates Jacobsen's deformed portraiture into an equally deranged sonic palette, a no-wave juggling act by turns horrifying and horrified." - Shaun Brady, Philadelphia City Paper

Led by visual artist/vocalist Gregory Jacobsen and bassist Alex Perkolup, Lovely Little Girls is a nine-piece art-prog band that features the cream of the crop of Chicago's avant-rock scene. “Glistening Vivid Splash”, the band’s second full length release on SKiN GRAFT Records propels the ensemble’s darkly humorous vision of absurd sexuality, abject failure, and unceremonious death to new heights by utilizing more space, and employing a strange sense of harmony that will strike a chord with fans of Magma, Cardiacs and The Residents. Produced by Greg Norman and mastered by Todd Rittmann (Dead Rider, U.S. Maple), the music of Lovely Little Girls is permeated by an ominous urgency - ripening and decaying before the ears.

"Jacobsen’s band, Lovely Little Girls, is a total package: challenging, dissonant, ever-changing experimental rock, conceptually linked songs, and ambitious themed stage productions that often involve makeup, prosthetics, partial nudity, and large casts of players.. His longtime collaborator, bassist Alex Perkolup, writes most of the songs; Jacobsen animates their lyrics with his abject, frenzied singing and grotesque, even violent stage presence."- Monica Kendrick, Chicago Reader

"LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS / SKiN GRAFT 25th / DAZZLING KILLMEN"
Double-Sided Poster (click to embiggen)

LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS "Glistening Vivid Splash" is available digitally and physically - as a 12" Vinyl LP, a glass-mastered, factory pressed Compact Disc and in a specially priced Ultimate Edition bundle, which brings together the CD, a full-color double-sided poster and the 12" Vinyl LP & mimeographed lyric sheet. The bundle is available at a discount exclusively through the SKiN GRAFT Shop. Those who order the LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS Ultimate Edition will get a special surprise. Printed on the reverse side of the included LLG poster is a Commemorative 25th Anniversary SKiN GRAFT poster that showcases each and every SKiN GRAFT Record to date, along with a sneak peak at some of the new artwork Paul Nitsche has drawn for this Fall's upcoming DAZZLING KILLMEN "Face Of Collapse" vinyl re-issue.

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TRACK LISTING:
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1. Delicate Moisture
2. The Awful Unpleasant Consequence
3. Corpse Thighs Dancing
4. Glistening Vivid Splash
5. Resigned Postscript
6. Cavernous Cryptic Structures
7. Unseemly Circumstance
8. Purify
9. Irresistible

MP3: Purify
Mail Orders: SKiN GRAFT Records PAYPAL SHOP
Lovely Little Girls Band Page: Hi-Res Photos, Cover Art, Bio, etc

ARAB ON RADAR "The Yahweh or the Highway Sessions"
screen-printed aluminum sleeved 7"/ CD / Ultimate Edition

Mr. Clinical Depression and
some of his handiwork
(pre-silkscreening)

Limited Edition of 22 copies in copper sleeves

Seven-inch songs also available on CD in two editions, each with unique cover art.

Our next up and coming release is something that has been in the works for quite some time!

During the sessions that would become their final album - “Yahweh or the Highway”, Arab On Radar recorded updated versions of two songs that had originally appeared on a split EP with The Locust a year earlier. These versions of "Three Meals Away From A Crack Whore" and "Piggin’ In The Pumpkin Patch" have been locked away on a roll of analog tape since 2001, and they've long been favorites of mine. I'm pleased to announce that we're going to make these unheard recordings available in an edition of (550) 7” vinyl singles.

Produced by Weasel Walter (Cellular Chaos) in 2001 at Sound Station Seven, - and mastered 15 years later for this release - every single will come with a hand-fabricated aluminum cover. Each piece of .025 gauge aluminum has been trimmed to size by Ralph Fischer, who took the lead on the metal sleeved edition of U.S. Maple's "Long Hair In Three Stages". The metal covers were then shipped to Arab On Radar's own Mr. Clinical Depression (aka Jeff Schneider of Made In Mexico), who custom surface treated and polished each one. From there, Mat Brinkman and Neil Burke (who collaborated on the cover art of Arab On Radar's "Yahweh or The Highway") drew up some new artwork and Neil is now screen-printing this two color design on each cover.

No two sleeves will be alike.

We're also printing a very short run of covers on copper rather than aluminum. The increased demand for copper from China and India, along with widespread global copper mine depletion, has pushed the price of copper way up, so these copper-covered copies will be very limited.

Both the aluminum and copper covered singles come complete with a two-sided, hand-numbered certificate of authenticity and a full-color double-sided tri-fold sleeve featuring vintage band photos taken at Chicago's Fireside Bowl by Marci Rogal.

The previously unreleased tracks will also be available on CD in two editions, each with unique cover art - and both will include the entire "Yahweh Or The Highway" album as bonus tracks.

The vinyl has already been pressed and is in-house. Because Neil is silk-screening the artwork on metal, the standard screen-printing inks used on T-Shirts and standard LP jackets are not compatible, making the entire process considerably more difficult. Neil has already started printing the covers at his Monoroid Studio and we expect these to ship in late August. We are taking pre-orders now for the aluminum sleeved seven-inch, the copper sleeved variant, the two CD editions and a SKiN GRAFT shop exclusive Ultimate Edition which brings together an aluminum sleeved 7" with the CD cover of your choice.

ARAB ON RADAR
"The Yahweh or the Highway Sessions"

7” Single Tracks
(from the "Yahweh of the Highway Sessions"):
1. Three Meals Away From A Crack Whore
2. Piggin’ In The Pumpkin Patch

Both CD Editions include the complete “Yahweh or the Highway” LP:
1. My Mind Is A Muffler
2. Cocaine Mummy
3. God Is Dad
4. Semen On The Mount
5. Vatican Is Up To Bat Again
6. Di To Solve Pi
7. Father, Son, And The Goalie Post
8. Birth Control Blues

You can pre-order at a big discount at the SKiN GRAFT Records Paypal Shop - HERE. We are reserving lower numbered singles for pre-order customers.

And for those updating their checklist - other acts featuring members of ARAB ON RADAR currently available from SKiN GRAFT Records include: DOOMSDAY STUDENT, MADE IN MEXICO, ATHLETIC AUTOMATON, The CHINESE STARS, CHROME JACKSON and AIDS WOLF VS ATHLETIC AUTOMATON.

Thanks!

Mark Fischer
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RECENT RELEASES:

LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS "Glistening Vivid Splash"
LP / CD / ULTIMATE EDITION

CELLULAR CHAOS "Diamond Teeth Clenched"
LP / CD / ULTIMATE EDITION

CHILD ABUSE
LP / MOD CD

DOOMSDAY
STUDENT CD

THE BEATOFFS
LP / MOD CD

SAX RUINS
LP / CD

STRANGULATED BEATOFFS MOD CD

ZEEK SHECK
Distributed 2xLP

U.S. MAPLE
DIECUT METAL LP

U.S. MAPLE
CD / LP

ATHLETIC AUTOMATON LP / MOD CD

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RECENT RELEASES:

LOVELY LITTLE GIRLS "Glistening Vivid Splash" LP / CD / ULTIMATE EDITION

CELLULAR CHAOS "Diamond Teeth Clenched" LP / CD / ULTIMATE EDITION

CHILD ABUSE LP / MOD CD	DOOMSDAY STUDENT CD	THE BEATOFFS LP / MOD CD

SAX RUINS LP / CD	STRANGULATED BEATOFFS MOD CD	ZEEK SHECK Distributed 2xLP

U.S. MAPLE DIECUT METAL LP	U.S. MAPLE CD / LP	ATHLETIC AUTOMATON LP / MOD CD