Lujo Records New Releases

11 Mar 2008 Lujo Records doesn’t stop. Here is info on some notable new releases as well as current releases you should check out. (Also, note these artists’ tour schedules & catch them live!)

POMEGRANATES Everything Is Alive - Available Now!

Pomegranates’ Everything Is Alive is available now exclusively from Lujorecords.com! Go get it, go get it! It’s really amazing!! Here is some info:
After self-releasing critically acclaimed EP Two Eyes, the boys put together a record..and a highly anticipated record at that. Everything Is Alive is the band’s debut full length and is pure pop ecstasy from start to finish. Drawing from influences like The Beach Boys and The Kinks, Everything Is Alive is as timeless as it is Modern. Melodic guitar lines, gusto vocals, unorthodox song structures.. and comparisons to early Modest Mouse. This is what KEXP’s blog had to say about the boys: “The comparisons to early Modest Mouse are pretty spot-on so long as that’s not the last word. Pomegranates’ sonic template is much wider, their pop, poppier.”

And be sure to check out their brand new video for “Whom/Who”:

AND the sample track for “Thunder Meadow” here!

NEW ALBUMS – In Stores! Head on down to your fave mom and pop record shop to pick up your very own copies of the new records from THE OUT_CIRCUIT, DEATH HOUSE CHAPLAIN, and LOOK MEXICO! Audio teasers are available for your listening pleasure in the media section of Lujorecords.com. For more on these new records, see below!

LOOK MEXICO - New release and new video!

As the title suggests, The Crucial Collection is a compilation of just about everything that the band has released…save for their recent debut full-length This Is Animal Music (also available from Lujo). Fourteen songs to round out your LOOK MEXICO catalog, including the remixed and remastered The Crucial EP, the remastered So Byzantine EP, two tracks from the Japanese release of Animal Music, cover songs and exclusive b-sides you won’t find anywhere else. Pick up your copy here and watch out for for a split 7-inch (on Suburban Home Records) with bosom buddies Fake Problems and a vinyl version of This is Animal Music (on Good Friends Records) both of which will be available from our webstore soon! Click here to hear the song “Guys I Need A Helicopter” from The Crucial Collection!

OH! And be positively sure to check out their new animated video for “You Come Into My House While I Sleep” off their full length This Is Animal Music illustrated by our very own Joshua Mikel of Look Mexico! It will blow your mind, promise!

THE OUT_CIRCUIT Pierce the Empire With a Sound

The Out_Circuit makes music in reference to a state of mind. On their debut record, Burn Your Scripts, Boys, that state of mind was mellow, moody and atmospheric. For the band’s sophomore effort, Pierce the Empire With A Sound, Nathan Burke holds to the bracing-yet-beautiful instrumental melodies that Burn Your Scripts was noted for, but builds on those, positioning them opposite a heavier sound actualized by occasionally screamy vocals and a driving rhythm section. Collaborations with Dustin Kensrue (Thrice), Sean Ingram (Coalesce), Rachel Burke (Beauty Pill), as well as members of Roadside Monument, The Epochs, Haram, and more are only appropriate here. Pierce the Empire With A Sound was mixed by Teppei from Thrice and offers you that rare space where darkness and beauty collide.

Click here to hear “Across the Light” from the album.

DEATH HOUSE CHAPLAIN Of Asthma

Like a good slap in the face comes the sophomore effort and Lujo debut record from Los Angeles trio, DEATH HOUSE CHAPLAIN. Front man Matt Holl pounds out the guitar licks and unrefined vocals in a way that’ll make you wonder what that crap on the radio is you’ve been listening to. Available exclusively for pre-order before it’s March release date, Of Asthma, is an absolute must for fans of US Maple, The Cure and -dare I say- The White Stripes? Oh yes I do! I dare!

Click here to hear the song “Until No Carp” from the album.

TOUR DATES

All Teeth And Knuckles
04/09/08 San Francisco, CA @ The Elbo Room

Baby Teeth
04/05/08 Iowa City, IA @ The Picador w/Dan Deacon

Cool Hand Luke
04/26/08 Knoxville, TN @ The V Cafe
05/01/08 Greenville, SC @ The Channel

Look Mexico
03/10/08 St. Louis, MO @ 2 Cents Plain w/Band Marino
03/11/08 Columbia, MO @ Mojo’s
03/12/08 Springfield, MO @ The Outland w/Band Marino
03/13/08 San Antonio, TX @ Cafe Revolution w/Tera Melos, By The End of Tonight
03/14/08 Austin, TX @ SXSW w/Team Grizzle Showcase
03/15/08 Dallas, TX @ the Door
03/16/08 Austin, TX @ SXSW w/Red 7 Radar Records Showcase
03/17/08 Houston, TX @ The White Swan w/Constants, Juinus, Buxton
03/18/08 Baton Rogue, LA @ Q and Data’s w/Constants, Junius, Cougars Den
03/20/08 Jacksonville, FL @ The Pit
03/21/08 Valdosta, GA @ Vito’s
03/22/08 Charlotte, NC @ Tremont Music Hall (The Casbah) w/Constants
03/25/08 Greenwood, DE @ The Barm w/Constants, Makeout Party
03/26/08 Philadelphia, PA @ Khyber w/Constants
03/27/08 Clifton, NJ @ The Cash Bar w/Constants
03/28/08 Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool w/Constants, Goes Cube
03/29/08 Cambridge, MA @ TT The Bear’s w/Constants
04/04/08 Richmond, VA @ Canal Club w/Love and Reverie
04/05/08 Clemson, SC @ WSBF’s Spring Concert w/Dave Dondero, Army of Ponch

Mouse Fire
03/21/08 Brandon, FL @ The Porch w/Look Mexico, Constants and Junius
03/29/08 Orlando, FL @ Taste w/Travis Morrison Hellfighters
03/30/08 Tampa, FL @ Crowbar w/Won Win Winter
04/04/08 Gainsville, FL @ Atlantic w/History
04/11/08 Pensacola, FL @ Handlebar w/Colour Revolt

Pomegranates
03/10/08 Newport, KY @ Southgate House w/Islands
03/12/08 Newport, KY @ Southgate House Lounge
03/14/08 Winona Lake, IN @ New Horizon
03/19/08 Newport, KY @ Southgate House Lounge w/M. Shelton
03/22/08 Cincinnati, OH @ The Gypsy Hut w/CD RELEASE SHOW
03/26/08 Newport, KY @ Southgate House Lounge
03/28/08 Springfield, OH @ Un Mundo
04/01/08 Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks
04/02/08 New York City, NY @ The Canal Room w/Chris Garneau
04/07/08 Washington, DC @ The Red and the Black
04/12/08 Asheville, NC @ The New French Bar
04/14/08 Nashville, TN @ The Anchor
04/26/08 Greenville, IL @ Greenville College

Roy
04/05/08 Bellevue, WA @ Ground Zero