WANTAGE LIST EARLY 2010 NEWS:
The JapantherNinjasonik 7" is officially coming out Feb. 8th, and to you subscribers of the Wantage List, it's out now. And how. We're extra proud of this thing, it's a hand-screened gem we did right here in the ol' cellar with some Plastijet ink, too little ventilation, and an absolutely cool piece of text-graphic from Japanther bro Kevin Bouton-Scott. It's a translucent, label-less 7" with a hand-screened, limited and numbered print on each copy. This was a hard-fought 7", and After a friggin' heapin' helping of bullshit with the pressing plant, we've got these things, finally. Japanther need no introduction around these parts, and Ninjasonik have been busily making a name for themselves in the u.g. hip-hop/punk rock realm like few others. This record deals topically with the ease with which the internet is used as a tool for shit talking, and Pop Rocks. This thing's available first up to Wantage List subcribers. If you're reading this, you get it postage-paid for $6, nobody else gets that price. BUY A JAPANTHERNINJASONIK 7" HERE.

FUCK AN MP3!
The New Pygmy Shrews and White Shit records are out and bros've been responding real positively. Pygmy Shrews went out and slayed the midwestern and eastern U.S. last year, and White Shit have been laying low, and scheming, hoarding and conniving, doing their deal. To make reading this irregular update all the more valuable for you, there's a free download of the Pygmy Shrews: the Egyptian LP right here Additionally, to spur some love for the painfully underrated Fire Witch, here are the four MP3s from their rad Japan 10", which we've still got in stock. These links will time out in about five days, and each is good for 100 downloads. Get em while you can.
Pygmy Shrews: The Egyptian download here.
Fire Witch: Japan 10" download here.

UN-EARTHED VINYL GEM-DIAMONDZ.
We thought it was fully out of print, and the last copies snatched up from each and every distributor. Turns out that Atlantans aren't too keen on the soulful work of Ms. Lana Rebel, and we came up with, count 'em, FOUR more Miss Lana Rebel: All I Need LPs. We're not putting these up on the regular site, until we're very sure none of you want one. Again, this is the first pressing of the stellar, and totally sold-out 2008 Miss Lana Rebel LP. Available to you only, and first come, first-served.
BUY A MISS LANA REBEL: ALL I NEED LP HERE.

Yes, moreover, we've found a decent little handful of Mountain High's Wicked Wanderer LP on GREEN VINYL. These were supposed to have been long-gone, but one of our distributors was sitting on a little stack. Mountain High are a woefully under-appreciated Philly group whose sound makes me think of a punk rock Amon Duul II, or a two-drummer, Karp fan-populated Groundhogs. Neither of these descriptions do much justice to the fuckin' sweetness this band offers. The green vinyl we've got was a short run of 105 copies and each LP comes with a CD as well. BUY A MOUNTAIN HIGH: WICKED WANDERER LP HERE.

DISTRO, BRO.
Indeed. Distribution. So, We've got four copies of this thudder of an LP from Inappropriate Tough Guy Behaviour from the Republic of Down Under in the Southern Hemisphere, the Land of the Lost... Oz. Australia. It features Jem 'Fire Witch' Moloney bangin' skins, and some of the grinding-est, excellent fast-but-dense/noise rock that we've found in recent months. These dudes love Big Business, and that's noticeable, but in a "holy shit, what a rad, heavy, fast band!" sort of way. ITGB blast, and that's pretty much it. We get a lot of authentic Hammerhead (the Minneapolis Amrep Hammerhead) vibes and desperation, and those are very rare commodoties. At $25/ea. these records are not cheap, but they were imported fro Australia, and are very worth it. We haven't marked them up, but It turns out short-run vinyl ain't cheap to press in Austraila, and these things took a fair amount of postage to make their way stateside. At the time being, other than mailorder customers, these are the only copies available domestically. We added only postage costs to these because they're so excellent they must be heard. Each comes with a hand-silk screened lyric sheet and CD of the album. It's high atop Wantage's best of 2009 list.
BUY AN INAPPROPRIATE TOUGH GUY BEHAVIOUR IMPORT LP HERE.

The Bugs: Barbaric, Mystical, Bored LP. We can't stop talking about the Bugs. This is their long-awaited follow up to ....the Bugs, this thing has got more hits than Carl Yastrzemski. They're kind of a lo-fi, trashy pop band (ala the Urinals) whose approach to songwriting always leaves us gape-jawed.
BUY A BUGS LP HERE.

Pygmy Shrews: Lord Got Busted 7" Scuzzy, dystopian blasting hardcore plow from these bent Brooklynites. See also Drunkdriver, Zs, the Fugue, Little Women, Wives.
BUY A PYGMY SHREWS 7" HERE.



The Scrams: S/T 7" Sweet desert-sourced (Albuquerque!) trash-rock. Mummies inspired, Farfisa-driven, and swaggery as hell. With Early Humans and Giant Haystacks dudes. BUY A SCRAMS 7" HERE.

The Reactionaries: 1979LP the pre-Minutemen (with Watt, Hurley, Boon and Tamburovich) 1979 band that's just been restored, mastered and will be officially released Feb. 20. We're getting a handful of 'em. There's a song up here, scroll down.
PRE-ORDER A REACTIONARIES LP HERE.

1776: Teenage War Songs 12" Bill Badgley's (Federation X, Karp doc) and Sterling Callier's (Loving Thunder, Death Wish Kids, Area 51) long-steeping bi-coastal band-project. If you've been missing Fed X like hell, this should fill in the gaps pretty well. BUY A 1776 12" EP HERE.

CONTESTING!
As you should know, We give away test pressings every now and then in order to keep things interesting. This is less of a contest, and more of an incentive program. To the first five customers who respond to this update with an order, we've got test pressings of either the JapantherNinjasonik 7", the White Shit 10" or the Pygmy Shrews LP. We'll email options the first five people we hear from.

KARP DOCUMENTARY UPDATE
Bill's been busy as heck gathering his final bit of new footage, getting transcripts for everything, and moving into the editing process. It's slow work, but it's moving forward with a 2010 release goal. Recently, the coasts have been helping put some dollars into the film's near-empty coffers, mega-thanks to the bands in Bellingham, Seattle, Olympia, Portaland and Brooklyn (a small sampling of the groups: Vaz, 1776, Akimbo, Purple Rhinestone Eagle, etc). We've got a small handful of the benefit posters, with the classic "We Tear Apart" tee-shirt logo, altered by A-Jay. We'll throw these things in w. the first handful of orders we get from this email. Send a note to wantageusa AT yahoo if you'd like one included. There's a brand new website http://karplives.com/ that just went live, and there's some sweet new teaser footage there as well.


TOURS? We'll have the tours section of wantageusa.com updated today.

WHAT'S NEXT? Good question. Always a good question around here. 2010 is underway, and our immediate plans involve: #1 getting the JapantherNinjasonik 7"s out the door. #2 Getting this sweet new Lights (Seattle's lights) LP into the world's hands. From there, we'd like to get a couple records back in print (Miss Lana Rebel, Japanther DTAOT, Pygmy Shrews) and we'll be helping out with the CD release of Japanther's new Rock n' Roll Ice Cream LP.

WHITE SHIT AND PYGMY SHREWS: PRIMED, READY!

Wantage List subscriber, this Bud's for you, as we say in the U.S. of A. Alright, maybe nobody says that. Anyhow, there are some new records and bere are buy now links that are going to officially hook you up with copies of these two new releases sooner than anyone else. First up: Pygmy Shrews: this is one of those bands that once we heard, we knew. From the first single when the band was roughly in its current form, add one member, and then called Cutter, we knew thing thing was real. We'd been fans of bands that these folks had been in, like Archaeopteryx, Wives, Zs and Little Women, and we knew that when this deal hit, it was going to be a megablast.

PYGMY SHREWS: THE EGYPTIAN LP

Roll forward a year, a great recording, lots of phone calling, and now we've got the vinyl! It's an epic'ly dark, disturbing and propulsive piece of classic noise, and we're stoked as fuck to have it. Click on this LINK right

here to purchase one of these limited LPs, if you live in the U.S. or Canada, click HERE if you live somewhere outside of the U.S. like Europe or Asia, or Australia.

WHITE SHIT: WHITE SHI'ITE 10"

Now, what's all this White Shit ruckus about? The message boards have been all humming about this new outfit, and now we've gotten our shit together just enough to have this thing loose. With Coady and Jared from Big Business/Melvins, Andy from Monorchid and Wrangler Brutes, and shady fourth member by the name of O.J. Tits, we're not sure how this came to be, but we like it. This 10" has got two originals, and one Gism cover, and it smokes like a Dodge Fury with loose rings, bad valves and dirty oil. You can purchase a copy of this by clicking BUY NOW, (I'M YANK/CANUCK )if you live in the U.S. or Canada, or BUY NOW, I LIVE IN TURKEY, OR INDONESIA, OR EUROPE, OR WHATEVER if you live somewhere else in the world, like say Turkey, or Switzerland, or Indonesia, or maybe even Luxemborg.

Ach Zo, die Deutsche Amerikanische freundshaft hat beginen. Oder, We got some gut scheise from the Altin Village bros in Dresden, here it is.
Look sharp, Wantage friend! Import/Export business is hopping. The good fellers at Altin Village, a Dresden-based DIY punk label recently came through on their trade promise of a little while back. And how! Their stuff is nice! And when was the last time you bobbed your head to some Kraut-nouveau? Yeah, that's what I thought. Here's what we picked up from them:

Japanther: Skuffed Up My Huffy LP
In our humble estimation, this 2007 LP is the jumping off point for Japanther fandom. It captures their most ambitious, Beach Boys-ass melodies and focused side and damned if you aren't singing along to their semi-appropriated (from movies like Wild Style) tunes after the first spin. This thing unfortunately has not been released into the wilds on the vinyl format yet. So, until that happens, we've got to get a little bit of a premium for it. $15. Buy it HERE.

Bad Dudes: Tour 7"
Los Angeles' Dudes of Badness crank out a head-turner of a synth-prog-punk tune. Technically wizardly and dope, but rooted in high quality song writing and ultra solid and light hearted musicianship. They went to Europe and this 7" came along with them. $5. Buy it HERE.

Parts and Labor: Tour 7"
B.J. and the other Parts' bros are a crazy handful of band, with bagpipe noises coming out fo keyboards, their patented "grind-pop" and at totally infectious and honest love for what they do. They toured Europe and this 7" came along. $5. Buy it HERE.


The Falcon Five: We're the Falcon Five and You Don't CD
Wurzburg's own ultra-party bros kick out the neu-Kraut punk jams like few others can. When the Pope went to Europe, the FF fellers hooked us up with a rad show and spot to stay, bier und essen, and dropped one of these rippers on us. Good, fun, brash punk rock. Javol. $10. Buy it HERE.

Japanther/The Good Good: Tour 7"
Two Brooklyn ultra-rippers team up for this thing. I think also a tour 7". Solid!
Japanther take the Screamers approach, get it more stoned, make a beat and then dump a sweaty, dancy love-jam on top of it. $5. Buy it HERE.

List-Only Wears: Peddled Here.
FIRE WITCH: JAPAN 10" Wantage's newest epic noise rock joint, courtesy of Melbourne's Fire Witch continues to cudgel folks in the guts with a half-ton of flying cement. We're mailing copies out to American and Australian distributors right now, and Here's what Andee at Aquarius Records said: "The return of these Aussie low end heavies. Two basses, drums, NO guitar, recorded on the tail end of their recent Japanese tour, more of what we love from these guys, mathy, doomy low end heaviness. The A side is all one track, and it's a beaut. The basses loooow slung, thick and syrupy, streaks of feedback everywhere, the drums scattered, the whole thing gorgeously abstract, the bass lines sound woozy and warped, it almost sounds like one of the basses is being played with a slide, part way through it erupts into a full on free for all, drums going nuts, basses buzzing and roaring, the band managed to sound super tight, but also loose and improvised, slipping from droney to super complex to mathy to space-y to sparse and plodding to freaked out and frenzied. The flipside begins heavy and downtuned and mathy, sounding like a more metal ruins, super tight, locked into impossible grooves, before slipping into another stretch of drifting abstract free jam, before finishing off with a super rocking jam that is total early nineties Homestead worship. Awesome! Beautifully hand screened covers, black and metallic silver on white (peep the inside of the cover, they're all printed on recycled Oxes / Arab On Radar sleeves, haha), each one hand numbered and signed, LIMITED TO 355 COPIES! Includes a photocopied insert too. "
Buy a Fire Witch 10" Now

NEW EXCLUSIVE DISTRIBUTION TITLES: X-MIST Wäntage is distributed in Europe by X-Mist, which is also a great record label, the following are rare European pressings of which we've got very limited numbers. The following are available currently only to the elite Wantage List subscribers. All prices include U.S. postage. Foreigners: Y'all git ahold of us, y'hear. Actually, yes, if you want some of this stuff and don't live in North America, just send an email and we'll calculate postage. Ordering mutiple copies always works out in the foreign mailorder customer's favor.

BIG BOYS: Lullabies Help the Brain Grow/No Matter How Long the Line... DOUBLE LP. Legendary Texan skate-funk punk, on hard-to-find vinyl! Arguably as important/rad as the classic Minutemen double record, Double Nickels on the Dime. $17. Buy it HERE.




WRANGLER BRUTES: The Tape LP
Wicked hardcore from ex-Born Against, Men's Recovery Project, Monorchid, Fast Forward, etc. etc. Released domestically as a cassette. This band crammed more ideas into their grand-total of 35 minutes of recorded output than most bands do in whole, long careers. $14. Buy it HERE.



EX-MODELS: Chrome Panthers LP.
With Kid Millions on loan from Oneida, this line-up was my favorite, and Ex-Models brought a bizarre wild, no wave-cum-punk approach, and it was like a breath fresh air in a time inhabited by Pixies worshipers and sycophants. $14. Buy it HERE.




THIS MOMENT IN BLACK HISTORY: It Takes a Nation of Assholes to Hold Us Back LP.
TMIBH are Ohio punks in the style of past Ohio punks (Dead Boys, Pagans, etc). With ex-Neon King Kong, Bassholes and Chargers Street Gang. A blazing set of blazers, here. Test drive their new song, Obama right here on theirspace. $14. Buy it HERE.



VAZ: Demonstrations in Micronesia LP
Vaz are Jeff and Paul from Hammmerhead, continuing with their spacious, midwestern, cosmos/future obsessed excellent noise rock. Demonstrations in Micronesia is our favorite Vaz record, because of its extreme focus and powerful crunch! If you believe that Hammerhead's Into the Vortex is a crucial record, you've probably already got this. If not, it's time. $14. Buy it HERE.


Red Fang Fans: Take Note. This is aimed at you. LIST ONLY SALE: LAST OF THE JUANITAS (TOP GEAR CHEAP).
Here's Special deal for you Wantage List folks: It struck us that lots of folks are getting into Red Fang (with good reason) but before Red Fang was a twinkle in anyboydy's eye, Fangers Bryan Giles and David Sullivan (Along with Lana Rebel and Johnny Shier) rocked with Last of the Juanitas. The "Juanitas," in addition to being painfully overlooked, toured with the Fucking Champs, Drunk Horse and Rocket From the Crypt, and more importantly broke minds with their dense, metallic excellently wild scree. The Juanitas' music was a wee bit more psychedelic than Red Fang, and often instrumental. To encourage some more folks to check it out, we're selling their CDs for $5 and their LPs for $6, this deal is available to List members only. Oh, and if you're a Miss Lana Rebel fan and country-file, we certainly encourage stepping out side of your zone and checking out Lana's previous endeavors. She sang a fair amount on both Time's Up and In the Dirt.

Buy an In The Dirt CD

Buy a Time's Up CD

Buy a Time's Up LP

Buy a Hawaii CD

Buy a Hawaii LP

NOTE THE SEPARATE PRICES FOR NORTH AMERICAN AND WORLD PRICES, POSTAGE INCLUDED BELOW.

Fire Wich: Japan 10" (grey-brown "Australian mud" colored vinyl)
$14 ea. Limit 4 per. North Americans (Canada, US, Mexico) click here to purchase copies.

$20 ea. To order copies with postage to anywhere in the world (outside North America) click here.

Red Fang: S/T 12" (Translucent red "Blood of the Fang" vinyl)
$15 ea. Limit 2 per person. North Americans click here to purchase copies.

$22 ea. To order copies with postage to anywhere in the world (outside North America) click here.