Translation Loss has posted preorders for Rosetta's "Wake/Lift" LP. This is available on purple/white splatter, coke bottle blue w/ rainblow splatter, and navy blue/gray swirl. Be sure to check out the shirt/cd package deals available as well.

Order here.

For the next week, Insound.com is offering 10% off their selection of "classic" releases from artists such as Arcade Fire, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sonic Youth, Joy Division, and many more.


Check 'em out here.

Farewell Party Records is now taking preorders for the vinyl debut from New York's Heavy Hearted. This self-titled 7" features four songs from their Detonate Records CDEP "Overcast". There are 171 copies on purple marble, 94 clear smoke, 91 red, 91 clear gold, 21 'black lotus', and 16 test presses.

Order here.

Farewell Party has also been kind enough to donate a test press to give away to one lucky Dead Format user, enter the contest here.

Polyvinyl is now taking preorders for Of Montreal's latest, "Skeletal Lamping". The 2xLP comes with a giant 3 foot by 4 foot poster designed by David Barnes, and all pre-orders include a free 3-song digital download code featuring Of Montreal rarities and a bunch of stickers.

Order here.

Coptercrash Records is taking preorders for The Saddest Landscape's 2xLP gatefold discography. There are two different sets of colored vinyl (each limited to 200), one with red and red/white vinyl, the other with coke bottle clear, blue/white vinyl. There is also a 180 gram black vinyl version limited to 100. All preorders come with a bonus 7" and free digital download card.

Order here.

Bear Records is now taking preorders for the new split 7" between German crazy grind/spazcore band Call Me Betty, and Baltimore thrashers Werewolves. This is limited to 400 copies on pink vinyl and 100 on black.

Order pink here / black here.

SEVENTH RULE is proud to announce that both the LIGHT YOURSELF ON FIRE “INTIMACY” LP and WETNURSE “INVISIBLE CITY” 2xLP are NOW AVAILABLE.

WETNURSE’s “INVISIBLE CITY” 2xLP was pressed on “#7 Green / Black Splatter” vinyl, which is limited to 200 copies, and “LIME GREEN OPAQUE” with 300 copies pressed. The “#7 Green / Black Splatter” pressing is only available through Seventh Rule mail order.

Take your pick, or perhaps buy them both and decide later.

A MP3 download card of the full album is included with each copy.

This is available to you almost a month ahead of street date!!

A Photo of the “#7 Green / Black Spatter” can be seen here… http://www.seventhrule.com/SRULE014.jpg

FULL WETNURSE TOUR DATES TO ...  [Read More]

The new LP Cold Cave (the solo project of Wes Eisold) is now available for preorder from Dais Records. This is described as "Touching and nostalgic analogue Coldwave in the vein of early Echo West. Danceable and addictive synths with brooding deep vocals under washes of static... 4:00 AM dance hits waiting to happen." Limited to 500 hand numbered copies.

Order here.

Solidarity Recordings has finally given the vinyl treatment to The Honor System's first album "Single File" (originally released on CD by Asian Man) after all these years. This is limited to just 500 copies - 100 on white with black splatter (Vinyl Collective exclusive) and 400 on orange with white and black splatter.

Order here.

Concord Music Group has just launched a new section of their site called the 'Collector's Corner' (http://www.concordmusicgroup.com/collectors-corner/); devoted to rarities and collectibles from The Concord Music Group catalog, which includes legendary labels such as Fantasy, Specialty, Prestige and Stax. 'Collector's Corner' features rare vinyl, box sets, out of print releases and weekly features including reviews and Concord staff picks; from the must-have collectibles to the historic and even the bizarre.

Concord has donated 5 classic jazz LPs to give away, one lucky Dead Format user will win them all! It's like an instant collection right here. Seriously.

Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds
Bill Evans Trio - Waltz For Debby
John Coltrane - Soultrane
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane

If you're a fan of any of this music, I definitely recommend you check out their Collectors Corner, there is a ton of stuff to choose from and their prices are pretty good too.

Enter here: http://www.deadformat.net/contest.php?id=17

Former Taking Back Sunday guitarist/vocalist Fred Mascherino has broken off on his own to form a new band... The Color Fred! His debut album "Bend To Break" was just released on limited edition brown vinyl through Equal Vision Records & The Vinyl Summer.


Enter here to a win a copy of this LP: http://www.deadformat.net/contest.php?id=14

Chupacabra Records (run by user Remi) has been awesome enough to hook us up with a European version of the new Algernon Cadwallader LP, "Some Kind Of Cadwallader" to give away. This was a split release with Marika and Security Blanket and limited to 600 copies worldwide - only 150 of these exist from Chupacabra and are now sold out from him.

Enter here: http://www.deadformat.net/contest.php?id=16

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HERDS "Spring" b/w "Katmai" 7"

Members of Charles Bronson, 14 or Fight, Get Rad, Kung Fu Rick, Seven Days of Samsara, The Bayonettes, Abort! Abort!, Threatener, and more. Another HERDS 7" will be available In Fall 2008 on Fashionable Idiots Records.

"Herds stampede over emerald hills, shedding coats of Winter's burden. Spring builds from distant thunder to an absent, hoof-annihilated valley. Imprinted mud and the lasting smell of animal serve as the only indication of visit. Quick as they come, the beasts are gone. Spring itself is overtaken by an even greater rumbling. Katmai is a slow riffing mountain of a song. There is no freedom on this bursted volcano. The surrounding sky is dark, the air thick with ash, and the cool mud has been overrun by molten rock. The throngs of Spring find no solace on Katmai-- lungs clamp, eyes burn, and...  [Read More]

Inkblot Records is now taking preorders for the new self-titled 7" from Alarm. Six loud, downtuned, thrashy metallic hardcore blasts for fans of Integrity, Coalesce, and Coliseum. Limited to 150 copies on opaque green and 350 on black.

Order here.

Relapse is taking preorders for Toxic Holocaust's debut Relapse LP, "An Overdose Of Death".

Order a LP+shirt package deal here / just the LP here.