Find these, and many other new and classic Matador, True Panther and distributed releases here. Spend over $50, and get free shipping AND while you’re at it, pick up a new Matador tote bag (cuz let’s be honest, who doesn’t love a tote? )
To celebrate the release of Fucked Up’s David Comes To Life, the album will be on sale for $3.99 (in MP3) as “MIDNIGHT MADNESS” takes over MatadorRecords.com starting at 12am EST tonight.
The catch is, the album will only be $3.99 for about 2 minutes. That’s right. From midnight until noon tomorrow, the price of the MP3 album will be steadily going up until it hits full price once again.
And that’s not all…. while we can’t compete with Fucked Up’s physical world antics in Toronto, our version of “MIDNIGHT MADNESS” will also include a virtual pop-up store with a screening room, characters from the “story”, a live webcam from Toronto “MIDNIGHT MADNESS” and a preview of our just about ready to launch “MataCloudTM.”
Can’t get your head around all of this? That’s cool, because all you will have to do is check back at this space in 15 hours to really understand.
We’d like to invite you to check out the new store and would appreciate any feedback, there is a button on the right side of the page, and maybe even buy a record or two.
We don’t have digital purchases ready to go yet and are still working out some kinks but to encourage your early usage enter code ‘TESTER15‘ at checkout to receive 15% off any order for the next week. Any problems along the way feel free to email store@matadorrecords.com and we look forward to having this baby up and fully functional in the very near future.
To celebrate the 8/24 release of their debut album Memphis, Magic Kids are going on an epic in-store tour to visit all of their favorite Southern independent records stores. Each store will host a free in-store performance and have some goodies to share with people that show up. All this will be benchmarked by a really really really special Memphis release-date performance that we can’t quite tell you about yet….but it is gonna be amazing. Ok, come say hello!!! MEMPHIS EVERYWHERE!!!!!
EUROPEANS! Magic Kids are on tour right now with Ariel Pink, just announced a whole slew of new US Dates but guess what….your time has come!
Starting October 2nd in London, Magic Kids are setting off across your fine continent! Make sure to show them a good time.
Order MEMPHIS now on CD/LP and get an instant high-quality mp3 download of the album. Order HERE
OCTOBER Fri 10/1 London, UK @ Barfly Sat 10/2 London, UK @ Camden Proud Galleries Sun 10/3 Bruges, Belgium @ Botanique/Witloofbar Tue 10/5 Amsterdam, Holland @ Paradiso Wed 10/6 Tilburg, Holland @Tilburg 013/Batcave Thu 10/7 Hamburg, Germany @ Molotow Fri 10/8 Helsingar, Denmark @ Musikhuset Elvaerket Sat 10/9 Oslom, Norway @ Café Mono Sun 10/10 Gothenburg, Sweden @ Pusterviksbaren Mon 10/11 Stockholm, Sweden @ Landet Tue 10/12 Copenhagen, Denmark @ Lades Wed 10/13 Berlin, Germany @ Magnet Thu 10/14 Köln, Germany @ Werkstatt Fri 10/15 München, Germany @ Atomic Cafe Sat 10/16 Zurich, Switzerland @ Club Zukunft Sun 10/17 Milan, Italy Indierocket party @ Rocket (free entry) Mon 10/18 Paris, France @ Point Ephemere Tue 10/19 Oxford, UK @ Jercicho Tavern Thu 10/21 Bristolm UK @ Louisanna Fri 10/22 Bristol, UK @ The Social Sat 10/23 Cardiff, UK @ Swn Festival Sun 10/24 Newcastle, UK @ The Cluny Mon 10/25 Leeds, UK @ Nation of Shopkeepers Tue 10/26 Birmingham, UK @ Hare and Hounds Wed 10/27 London, UK @ TBC Thu 10/28 London, UK @ Lexington
A lot has happened since we met Harlem a few years ago. They’ve written 16 indelible pop songs, played shows across the nation, contributed to a compilation celebrating the one of the better music scenes going right now and beat us in a couple rounds of cee-lo… and in the midst of all that and more, they let us release a damn fine LP that we couldn’t be more enthusiastic to yell, “drops today!”
By truepanthersounds on Friday, February 26th, 2010
LOVE IS IN THE AIR
It’s snowing like crazy here in NYC but True Panther Sounds remains bundled up, huddled away and working hard. Taking a few precious moments every day to find good youtube videos, but also putting out a bunch of records. Wanted to give y’all the latest update in the True Panther Universe..
This last Tuesday, 3/23, we released two brand new records.
Hunx and His Punx‘ “Gay Singles”
We initially released a limited vinyl pressing this last year, but after blowing through them we re-pressed it on LP/CD/DA. It now has slightly different cover art, a cd that includes all the videos, better quality vinyl, and a free mp3 download with each record. PLUS it’s cheaper than before. The songs are classic glammy, and gay. They’ve gotten better with each listen. Lookout for national and international tour dates in the next few months.
Order HERE (and get a free Chiphunx CD) U Don’t Like Rock’nRoll (mp3)
This is a limited edition single from one of our favorite new bands. Their record is coming out on Rough Trade, but this first single is all ours! It’s limited and features an exclusive b-side “Oh Annie”, a more plaintive and restrained version of the band. Enjoy!
Order HERE Promises (mp3)
We’re also putting out 3 brand new 12″/digital records on March 9th! New releases from Tanlines, Lemonade, and Janka Nabay. Each record is a totally unique incantation of the dance music spirits- Janka electrified the Bubu dance music of his native Sierra Leone, Lemonade mixed every kind of electronic music from the last 30 years in a big caribbean fruit salad, and Tanlines are making “new music” , coalesced from tropical sounds and restrained house. We’re just going to call it all “Yes Wave”.
Get all three records in a bundle for only $25 and get instant downloads of the singles and a few exclusive remixes. Order HERE
We’re also having a big show to celebrate the release of the 12″s. Hope to see some of you in the New York are there!
That’s it for the update for now. Hope you enjoy the records. We have some great stuff on the burners for the new year, full-lengths from Glasser and Magic Kids. Releases from Teengirl Fantasy, The Bitters, and Real Estate. Stoked!!
If you’re anything like us you probably haven’t started your holiday shopping yet, and it’s a good thing you haven’t. Now you can get your friends and family something they will really love and take advantage of a 10% off sale valid through December 15th at the Matador store. Just make sure to enter code ‘holidaze’ at checkout.
A little while back, Gerard may or may not have mentioned something about Spiral Stairs playing an instore in Seattle (by a while back I mean this morning and by “may or may not have mentioned” I mean he mapped it out in great detail… I just like suspense).
Well, dear friends, here it is… In celebration of the release of his first album under the SS moniker, Spiral is taking Seattle by free-live-instore storm. Check it. Don’t wreck it.
Thanks to blogs.nashvillescene.com for the picture
Don’t forget, kids, tomorrow marks the first show of Jay Reatard’s highly anticipated West Coast Instore Tour.
So if you find yourself bogged down by summer in one of these little not-so-out-of-the-way hamlets up and down the West Coast, be sure to come out, check a FREE ALL AGES instore and pick up Jay’s newest record Watch Me Fall.
August:
18th – 6pm @ Amoeba Music Hollywood (LA)
19th – 7pm @ Fingerprints (Long Beach)
20th – 7pm @ M-Theory (San Diego)
21st – 7pm @ Streetlight Records (Santa Cruz)
22nd – 6pm @ Amoeba Music San Francisco (duh)
23rd – 6pm @ Amoeba Music Berkeley (again…)
25th – 6pm @ Jackpot Records (Portland)
26th – 7pm @ Easy Street Records (Seattle)
27th – 7pm @ Sonic Boom Records (Seattle)
28th – 8pm @ Zulu Records (Vancouver)
And if free all ages instores don’t whet your palette, maybe this will………………..
The Born Again Revisited preorder is up in its final incarnation in the Matastore, and it’s unfuckingbelievable. In a fit of unprecedented (and probably never-to-be-repeated) generosity, when you preorder Born Again Revisited through Matador Direct, you get:
-the new TNV single, Move to California, 7″
-the Stay Awake EP, 7″
-the Whitney poster from the band’s 2008 performance
Click here to get in on this incredible offer, while supplies last! Remember, your goods arrive on release day – Sept. 22nd – only when you preorder from the Matastore.
To celebrate the release of their new record, ‘Welcome Joy’, The Cave Singers are blowing out the Pacific Northwest with 3 record release parties around the area.
The band will play not one… not two… but THREE free, all-ages instores in Seattle, Portland and Bellingham, Washington.
GodHelpTheGirl.com has re-launched with a very exciting, fan-drooler of a subscription offer that includes 7″s, a Deluxe CD or LP of the new album, a 10″ and oodles of extra digital goodies. Plus, if you order you will get an instant stream of the entire album.
This subscription package will gently unwind over the months allowing you to soak up the living, breathing world of God Help The Girl. A musical project with a beautifully and diligently crafted narrative that deserves to be listened to over time, for each place, character and voice to be properly digested before moving on to the next.
As well as delivering 7″ singles, 10″ EPs and your choice of CD or LP albums straight to your door we will regularly fill your inbox with video footage made to document the creative process by Stuart Murdoch and Marisa Privitera, music videos and album streams to keep you entertained no matter how far from your record players you stray this summer.
By subscribing you will receive the following:
Physical
11th May: 7″ ‘Come Monday Night’ single
22nd June: LTD CD or LP God Help The Girl album
20th July: 7″ ‘Funny Little Frog’ single
By Xmas: 10″ 5 track exclusive EP
Digital
A full album stream on purchase
MP3s of the Album & 7″ on release
The ‘Come Monday Night’ video
4 x episodes documenting the ‘Making of”
The ‘Funny Little Frog’ video
Now to further get you excited, here is the brand new video for the first single “Come Monday Night” directed by Blaire Young and Stuart Murdoch. (via Pitchfork.tv)
This coming Tuesday, the limited-edition double vinyl gatefold 10″ EP from Cat Power hits the stores. Entitled Dark End Of The Street, it includes six bewitching cover songs from the Jukebox sessions and not included on that album. This would make a wonderful Christmas or Hannukah present for someone who likes gatefold covers, or cover songs, and it’s available for preorder now.
We have a lot of other deluxe packages from this year appropriate for stocking-stuffers or under-the-tree action. The deluxe 44-song, 48-page book, die-cut slipcase edition of Pavement’s Brighten The Corners, for example (and if you preorder now, you can still – just – get the ultra-limited live vinyl bonus LP, exclusive to this release). Two weeks ago we released Belle and Sebastian’s justly acclaimed BBC Sessions, with essential radio performances from their early 1996-2001 period. The deluxe version of the CD comes with a second disc containing a complete concert in Belfast from December 2001. The set includes covers of I’m Waiting For The Man, The Boys Are Back In Town and Here Comes The Sun. This is strictly limited and once it goes, it’s gone.
There’s also the deluxe version of the Mogwai’s latest, The Hawk Is Howling, which comes with a bonus DVD containing two videos for “Batcat” (including one nightmarish one directed by Dominic Hailstone of Chris Cunningham / Aphex Twin video fame), and a short documentary about the band by Vincent Moon.
And of course, last March, we released to-die-for versions of the three original Mission Of Burma albums on Ace of Hearts. We’ve banged on enough about the real all-analog mastering from the original tapes, the precious live footage from the late ’70s and early ’80s, the gatefold sleeves on the vinyl, and the books with interviews and photos and more. We’re prouder of these packages than any other reissue we’ve ever done. All three are available for a very short time longer in a vinyl bundle deal for 50 bucks.
There are also a few deluxe copies of Cat Power’s Jukebox left with the gatefold foil digipak and second CD. Then there’s just about every vinyl release from this year, nearly all printed at Stoughton and pressed on RTI HQ180 vinyl. Single LPs here and double LPs here.
Last week, Dump made a rare live appearance at Maxwell’s. I took a photo as proof. Regarding the 7″ Gerard so kindly posted about below, you can also get it on the Dump myspace page and in the Matador Store! Love,Jennifer
We’re very happy to announce the newest incarnation of the Matador Store is now up and running. We embed ourselves even more comfortably in the digital age by offering digital (MP3 and FLAC) downloads in addition to a nicer, easier to navigate look and loads of other geeked-out features.
* Mp3s (256k) and FLAC (lossless) files. Can we say that they’re encoded at a higher bit rate than iTunes? Because they are.
*Sample files of everything in our digital catalog
*Digital files are fully integrated with Songbird and will put the downloads you’ve purchased directly into your Songbird “Purchased Playlist” as well as allow you to easily browse and listen to sample files.
* A download helper for both MAC and PC to improve the experience of downloading singles and albums
Please note that this is a soft launch of the digital store and we’ll have a more comprehensive version of the digital catalog (along with a mess of draped up and dripped out features) next Wednesday.
(photo by Greg Giannukos)
Regarding the 7″ Gerard so kindly posted about below, you can also get it on the 
