Fan Death Records

Our next few releases will include a Jason Urick 7″ (This Is Critical), a Broken Water 7″ (title TBA) and a Screen Vinyl Image 7″ (Siberian Eclipse).

Also, we are currently a bit backlogged with mail order, but all late shipments will go out by mid-week. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail us at info@fandeathrecords.com.

Thanks!

Jamie Johns over at The Fader did a great Freak Scene profile of this year’s upcoming DNA Test Fest III and of some of the bands involved.

How and why did DNA Test Fest come about?
Sean Gray: I started a show on WMUC 88.1 FM College Park, Maryland called DNA IN THE DNA in September of 2007. My goal was pretty much to play what I liked. I really had no set agenda; it wasn’t (and honestly still isn’t) a punk show, an experimental, fringe show or what have you, it is just what I thought was good. We played and still play as much Gilbert O’Sullivan as we do China White or Keiji Haino. I started getting a lot of questions from bands if I’d play their stuff. Much of it, I noticed, had even been done live around the DC metro area such as Buckets of Bile, FNU Ronnies etc. Around the spring of 2008 I had this idea to just invite all these bands down to play in one fell swoop. Instead of me chasing all these bands around or booking shows one by one, I asked myself: “Why not just do a fest for…me?” I didn’t care if anyone came, I was prepared to lose money, and it was free (for better or worse).

You can read the rest of the article HERE!

We have a new tape by your favourite shitgazers, Psychedelic Horseshit, available for pre-order. All pre-orders will be shipped out next week, and the tape goes into wide release on March 30th. You can also pick up a copy if you come out and catch Psychedelic Horseshit at DNA Test Fest III in Baltimore on April 3rd!

You can pre-order through our online store HERE.

Give Psychedelic Horseshit a listen over at their myspace.

For all of you who pre-ordered the Pfisters LP, we apologise for the delay. We have finally received everything and all pre-orders will go out on Tuesday, 16 March! If you have any other enquiries, do not hesitate to e-mail us at info@fandeathrecords.com! Thanks for your patience.

Now available for order/pre-order through our online store.

FDR-005 LAMPS The Role of the Dogcatcher in African-American Folkore Order here!	FDR-010 PFISTERS Narcicity Order here!	FDR-016 NEON BLUD Whipps Pre-order here!

FDR 010 – Pfisters – Narcicity 12″ LP

Debut release from this Baltimore, MD noise-rock power trio. Pfisters come out of the gate swinging on Narcicity, which features 11 blasts of trashy rock inspired by house whiskey and thrown barstools. Pfisters have made a name for themselves with explosive live shows up and down the East Coast, including a number of notorious appearances at the band’s own Ruintown space. From the addled minds behind the New Flesh and Trash Camp.

Order it now! It ships as of March 3rd!

Also available for pre-order…

FDR 015 – Neon Blud – Whipps 7″

Evolving out of Slamantha and ZZ Suxx’ Body Rot project, whose Tuff Muscles CS was a Fan Death favorite in 2009, Neon Blud add drummer Carson Cox to pound their NYC ’78/Olympia ’92 vibe into an unrelenting six-track debut of Tampa heat and Ybor City sleaze. Members of Cult Ritual, Slavescene, Merchandise. Vinyl issue of a self-released CS.

Available for pre-order now. Pre-orders will ship on or before March 23rd. Whipps will be available in wide release on March 30th!

Just a quick head’s up to let you know Puerto Rico Flowers will have a new 7″ out this spring, 2, featuring Voice of Love and When Your Lonely Heart Breaks. Pre-orders will start on March 2nd and it will go into wide release on April 25th, which Sharkey would like you to know is also known as Anzac Day.

Via Sean:

This is the new single by Puerto Rico Flowers, 2. It’s called 2 because it features two songs. If there were seven songs, the record would be called 7. Surely, by now, you grasp the idea. Inspired by Canberran isolation and John Cale, 2 offers us one new orignal and one borrowed tune. Again performed solely—and in the same fashion—by John Sharkey III (CFC). This record was recorded by a New Zealander (FFC) in a house unfit for human inhabitants located in Yarraville, Victoria. 2 strays noticeably from the forced darkness of today’s boring youth and towards a more human element, while all along cementing the fact that women are not the enemy, time is.

FDR 020 – Twin Stumps – Seedbed LP/CD

Out April 20th, 2010!

If a band’s surroundings influence their sound, one might assume that Ridgewood, New York, a neighborhood on the border of Brooklyn and Queens that Twin Stumps calls home, is a decaying urban wasteland seldom seen outside of dead industrial cities in Eastern Europe. Coming on the heels of last year’s critically acclaimed self-titled 12″ on Dais, universally considered one of the most grotesque, misanthropic, and extreme releases of 2009, a listen to Seedbed finds the band pulling you further into the grime and mire of THEIR world. The result is a truly unnerving mixture of suffocating feedback and distortion, blown-out drum sounds, loop abuse beyond recognition, and the manipulated, maniacal barks of wild-eyed singer Alessandro Keegan. Recorded and mastered by Ben Greenberg (Zs/Pygmy Shrews) at Python Patrol.

The pre-order has sold out and will ship out a couple of weeks before the street date. If you missed the pre-order, be sure to pick it up as of April 20th!

In the meantime, listen to their new song, Missing Persons!

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Hold-ups at every level of production delayed this record by three months, but it’s finally headed our way.

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First off, DNA Test Fest has a brand new site, complete with a blog that we’ll be updating regularly. Check it out, bookmark it, and stay up-to-date with all the latest Test Fest news!

www.dnatestfest.com

DNA Test Fest III will take place on April 3rd, 2010, at Sonar in Baltimore, MD. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door. You can purchase tickets HERE. 16 amazing bands will take over two stages for a night of weird punk and total sonic assault.

This year’s line-up includes: Pissed Jeans, Psychedelic Horseshit, Homostupids, Sightings, Home Blitz, Lamps, Religious Knives, Pygmy Shrews, Birds of Maya, The Chickens (members of FNU Ronnies), Slave Scene (members of Cult Ritual), Neon Blud, Twin Stumps, Leather, Broken Neck and Useless Children.

We’d better see you there!