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RR08
The President - LeBron Deluxe CD-R
$5 PPD
8 releases deep and this is our first rock record. Drawing from power pop, metal, psychedelia and post-genre babble, LeBron was recorded on to a digital 8-track in a non-stop 4 day fury, culminating in The President's own ecstatic delirium upon learning of the Miami Heat's acquisition of LeBron James. This is an album about the war between self-conception and self-actualization. Other themes include: an obsessive lust for power and money, grandiose regionalism, and dark pleasure. LeBron is the product of it's surroundings: Planet White House, The President's rambling compound in Cutler Bay; a residence with no furniture (ample space for skateboarding), hundreds of alien drawings (some of which include extraterrestrial villains ordering the artist to "stop drawing us."), a vaporizer and portraits of George Washington alongside The President himself. 15 tracks of bizarre, infinitely clever/ridiculous rock and roll that draws influence from Cheap Trick right on down to The Melvins. Has been described as a "one man Ween" and "a meglomaniac." The package: a CD-R inside a 7'' slip with an original drawing (one of a kind for each copy) by the man himself, a one-sheet/factsheet/trackl ist, and a supplementary booklet filled with additional notes on the project.
RP01
Lazaro Rodriguez - I Swear
$22 PPD
Roofless Publishing is proud to present I Swear, the debut monograph from Miami-based artist Lazaro Rodriguez. The book develops the iconography and distinct tone of Rodriguez's Plan2Cry and everybodywasfeelingfine picture blogs, in which he appropriates images from the internet to probe interlaced themes such as the decadence of youth, queer desire, and digital self-conception. I Swear also enacts an intratextual, self-referential quality built upon a subtle and often witty dialogue between the subject matter and composition of various images. Limited edition of 50.
RR07
Flux Forces
"wetdream" Cassingle
OUT OF PRINT
A pair of psalms for lonely slackers. Limited to 50.
RR06
Curious Hair
"HAIR DOES HUMBERT" Cassingle
OUT OF PRINT
In 2005, Humbert and Hair squared off to see who could come up with a
better set of covers. The latter won by default and this tape is the
victory lap. Limited to 50.
RR05
MLU / The New Flesh
Split LP
$12 PPD
A 12" worth of headbangers for headbangers by headbangers. MLU is Tampa, Florida's beloved caterwauling prodigal son, and their contribution slices n dices with the precision of the finest noise-punk scalpel as utilized by the finest punk-noise surgeon. Exceptionally brutish, meticulously coarse. The New Flesh (Baltimore, Maryland) are a little less delicate but no less voluminous (see: blown out and belligerent). Royal cacophony with all the trimmings. A split release with Human Conduct, Stay Away From Ghosts, Breathmint and Cephia's Treat.
RR04
Skeleton Warrior / Preaux Breaux Geauxld
Split 7’’
$6 PPD
Bellwether singles from Tampa, Florida’s most perverse perps of new weird disco. Skeleton Warrior’s "Married to Draino" is a sleaze-synth
ode to young love and all it's trappings ("asked my dog for advice/she
said get married to draino"). Guest starring Diamond Hymen as Draino.
Pro Bro Gold (the Gulf Coast’s original keyboard/smoke machine phenom)
oozes a thick cloud of crunchy club pop with "Electric Fingertips"
(the sound of strobing). Take candy from strangers. Split release with
Cephia's Treat Records. Grey swirl vinyl.
reviews on Vicious Pop, Super Cosmic Bros, Vice Magazine, Still Single
RR03
Various Artists
“Over/Bored” Compilation LP
$10 PPD
Tampa, Florida has a long tradition of creeps and feedback. In the Spring of 2007, that lineage collided head-on with the burgeoning house party scene in nearby Sarasota, Florida. This compilation documents both sides of the story, with Cephia’s curating for Tampa and Roofless repping SRQ on the flip. Unreleased gold from (now pay attention): Parts and Pieces of Past Ticiples, Wolf Wolf, S2K, Pharaoh Faucett, Fuji & The Fly-Ins, Wrash, The Red Headed League, Skeleton Warrior, Skinny Winners, Tyger Beat, OutMode, They Live, Lava Transmissions, Andros Rex, Coleman Tents, VCRI, FiFi, Ant Parade, The Long Emergency, Cash Monee Boulder Roxx, Astrovian Func, Hispanics de Hombres, Pro Bro Gold, Skin Job, The Sharks. Split release with Cephia's Treat.
reviews on Still Single
RR02
Skeleton Warrior / Pharaoh Faucett
Split 7’’
$6 PPD
A six minute, four part epic cycle of manic rock peaks and nuanced decrescendos,“Sister Hologram” is the definitive recording from Skeleton Warrior’s raucous “mind music” phase; a meticulously composed statement of furious and dynamic psychedelia (a lot of adjectives, all of them earned, see for yourself). PHARAOH FAUCETT’S “Let’s Kill Something Delicious” crashes the party you're not having. You get home and all of the furniture is in one room and so is this song and there’s not enough room to squeeze in so you put your ear to the door and hear: Sarasota house party special blend:: equal parts psych and punk, walls breathing + lights flackering.... Cover features original b+w drawing by Masha Falkov.
reviews on Blastitude, Wire Magazine, Still Single
RR01
The Fas’ners / The Würst
Live @ Sarasota Succulent Society CS
OUT OF PRINT
Live recordings from a house party on March 9, 2007. Tyger Beat, Space Manatee, Pharaoh Faucett and The Sharks also played. Attendees did everything they could to lose their minds (footprints on the living room ceiling). The whole night was recorded on to a tape recorder left on the kitchen table. The only band that didn’t make the cut was Pharaoh Faucett and there was a reason. That same reason led to the tape being "lost" only to be found again because it wasn't lost in the first place.
Culled from these sessions is the last set from Tampa's THE FAS'NERS: pleasure in the future, ups and downs, swelling grand piano synthesizer music. 13 minutes 40 seconds. On the B-side is a 4 minute 53 second dirty dirge (and first set) from Sarasota's THE WÜRST: like being in the middle of a volcano in the middle of Jupiter in the middle of da Universe (wild, whipping synth + hheeaavvyy guitar) cover art by Allie Weiss. 99 of these tapes exist.
review on Blastitude
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