We really oughta do these more often. Don’t call it a comeback, these folks have been here for years. Or somewhere else for months.

1) Early Man.  Touring like crazy and there’s a new EP on the Jarboe-tastic The End.

2) Jacob Morris, formerly one of the key characters beyond the dearly missed Double.  New EP on Rcrd Lbl

3) 18th Dye.  New album and US tour.

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This is the one-sheet for Superchunk’s second album, OLE-035, No Pocky For Kitty, now available on Merge. A one-sheet is industryspeak for a retail sell-sheet. They are to be distinguished from bios, which are directed at press and tend to be more serious (and more frequently vetted by bands, if not actually written by them). A one-sheet is supposed to grab a frazzled buyer’s attention and say “order this record in quantity” with quick and catchy reasons why. It is not a place to meditate on music or art, which is not to say we haven’t done that on occasion.

This one-sheet was probably written by Johan Kugelberg, Matador’s first sales director.

Watch out UK (and Ireland), Jay Reatard is finally heading back to our shores for a string of dates stretching across this area of the world starting on Sunday.

16 Nov : Green Synergy Festival, Dublin
18 Nov : Barrowlands 2, Glasgow
19 Nov : Deaf Institute, Manchester
20 Nov : The Faversham, Leeds
21 Nov : Korova, Liverpool
22 Nov : Bodega, Nottingham
23 Nov : The Cooler, Bristol
24 Nov : Old Blue Last, London
26 Nov : The Lexington, London
27 Nov : Banquet Records, Kingston (in-store performance)
27 Nov : New Slang, Kingston
28 Nov : Engine Rooms, Brighton

Keep note of that in-store appearance as it’s at 6pm - and an under 18’s show in advance of the evening show that night.

Here is part one of an occasional series on Matador artifacts from our history. The Matador Profiles ad series (recently resurrected) ripped off the Creem Profiles ads from the 1970s, which in turn ripped off the Dewars Profiles ads from that period and earlier. Click on the image for a legible version.

Here you can see the ultra-suave Michael Cudahy, singer and main songwriter in Boston’s Christmas, whose album Vortex we released in 1993 (by which time the band had relocated to Las Vegas). Later he was in Combustible Edison, over whom we will politely draw a curtain. He also nearly beat Jeopardy contestant Ken Jennings, the 17-show champ, on June 25, 2004. In the early 1980s he helped start the legendary artist-owned label Propeller Records, which released important records by the Dangerous Birds, V;, the Neats, Art Yard, CCCP-TV and many others. (Sadly the Propeller masters were all destroyed in a disastrous fire at Cudahy’s house in Allston many years ago, so HA HA there will be no digital reissues.)

Nils was kind enough to forward the following :

Matmos’s Drew Daniel will read from his book on Throbbing Gristle (Throbbing Gristle: Twenty Jazz Funk Greats, 33 1/3 Books), answer questions, and do a Soft Pink Truth performance (aka dance party).

This is all happening at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, Saturday, Nov. 15 at 8pm. Tickets are $10.

Tune into Viva Radio today to listen to Ted Shumaker interview Jay Reatard. ENJOY!

Monday November 10th
Me Plus You Pt. 31
w/Special Guest
Jay Reatard
hosted by Ted Shumaker
www.viva-radio.com/meplusyou

Annals of Ruth Rogers pasta recipes, part 8. I was looking for something to make with just stuff in the house or easily available… it turned out that all I needed for this one was heavy cream. This dish is extraordinarily delicious and piquant with intense depth of flavor, and I’m not sure why. It may have been the white wine I used, a 1999 Zind-Humbrecht riesling Clos Häuserer, but it was frankly past its prime for drinking and I worried that it would add a cloying note. It may be the cooking process… rather than fry the pancetta aggressively as in her excellent carbonara, you cook it at very low heat in an equal amount (!) of butter, so that the fat of the pancetta combines with the butter.

Long cooking time and patience is of the essence, I suspect. Melt 150g butter in a thick-bottomed pan, and add 150g pancetta cut into 2cm pieces and cook over very low heat until the pancetta becomes crisp - at least 20 minutes says the recipe, more like a half hour for me. Add 2 dried crumbled red chiles (I used Indian ones), 1/2 tbs freshly ground black pepper, and 120ml white wine. Cook for 5 minutes to reduce the wine, then add 6 real San Marzano canned plum tomatoes, roughly chopped in their juice, and some sea salt, and simmer for 15 minutes. Add 120ml heavy cream and cook for a further 15 minutes or until the sauce thickens. Cook the tagliatelle in boiling salted water until al dente. Drain and put it into the pot with the sauce (still warm but off the heat) and toss. Stir in 50g freshly grated reggiano parmegiano. Serve with the remaining reggiano on top, in heated bowls.

I added a decidedly non-Italian touch as you can see above: chopped curly parsley. Like most cooks reared in the ’80s and ’90s I learned always to use flat-leaf Italian parsley for everything and treated curly parsley as a relic from ’60s and ’70s cuisine, only useful as a visual garnish. In fact it has a bright, fresh flavor of its own, quite different from the humid grassiness of flat-leaf. It took Fergus Henderson and Jesper Eklow to bring me to my senses. This led me to my favorite new dish, so simple it’s almost not worth mentioning… white rice with chopped curly parsley. Make steamed white rice by your favorite method. Chop about 3 tablespoons of curley parsley medium (no stems, not coarse, not fine). As soon as the rice is ready, fluff the parsley well into the rice with a wooden fork or wooden spoon. Serve. I have no idea why this is so delicious. I could eat cups and cups of it. Freshly ground pepper and some lemon juice may be added if you like.

Fucked Up are currently shacked up in North West London, in the legendary Maida Vale studios - recording a session to go out on BBC Radio 1’s Rock Show in the near future. Then they’re flying over to east London to play 93ft East TONIGHT for the Hokaben Festival.

But wait, there’s more! Secret show alert…. Tomorrow night, after the Brighton show, the band are coming back to London to play PUSH club at about 2am. So keep the caffeine rolling.

The second unreleased mp3 in our Brighten The Corners: The Nicene Creendence Buy Early Get Now went up yesterday! For those of you who for some inexplicable reason haven’t signed up yet the song is a live version of “Transport Is Arranged”.

We promised a some surprise goodies for Buy Early Get Now so without committing too much, there might…possibly….probably….be a few more incredible unreleased tracks coming along to supplement the two we promised and delivered

You can get into Buy Early Get Now on the Matador Store HERE or sign up at one of the fine retailers below….

1-2-3-4 Go! Records - Oakland, CA
Aboveground Records - Edgarton, MA
AKA Records- Philadelphia, PA
Atomic Records- Milwaukee, WI
Aural Exploits - Santa Monica, CA
Bull City Records - Durham, NC
Criminal Records - Atlanta, GA
Disconnected Records - San Diego, CA
Ear Candy Music - Missoula, MT
East Coast Music & Video - Greenville, NC
End Of An Ear - Austin, TX
Exiled Records - Portland, OR
Good Records - Dallas, TX
Graywhale - Salt Lake City, UT
Grimey’s New & Preloved Music - Nashville, TN
Guestroom Records - Norman, OK
Hard Boiled - Chicago, IL
Insound - New York, NY - Online Only
Jackpot Records - Portland, OR
Landlocked - Bloomington, IN
Laurie’s Planet of Sound - Chicago, IL
Lou’s Records - Encinitas, CA
Love Garden Sounds - Lawrence, KS
LUNA Music - Indianapolis, IN
Lunchbox Records - Charlotte, NC
Madcity Music - Madison, WI
Matador Records - New York, NY - Online Only
Mod Lang- El Cerrito, CA
Mojo- Tampa, FL
M-Theory - San Diego, CA
Music Saves - Cleveland, OH
Other Music - New York, NY
Parasol - Urbana, IL
Park Ave. - Orlando, FL
Paul’s Compact Discs - Pittsburg, PA
Permanent Records - Chicago, IL
Reckless Records - Chicago, IL
Repo Records - Philadelphia, PA
Siren Records - Doylestown, PA
Slowtrain - Salt Lake City, UT
Sound Fix - Brooklyn, NY
Square Records - Akron, OH
Stinkweeds- Phoenix, AZ
Tonevendor - Gainesville, FL - Online Only
Treehouse Records - Minneapolis, MN
Twist & Shout - Denver, CO
Underground Sounds - Ann Arbor, MI
Vintage Vinyl - St. Louis, MO
Von’s Records - West Lafayette, IN
Waiting Room Records - Normal, IL
Waterloo Records - Austin, TX
Wazoo Records - Ann Arbor, MI
Wuxtry Records- Atlanta, GA
Young Ones - Kutztown, PA
Zzz Records - Des Moines, IA

And, here are participating Canadian stores!
Blackbyrd Myoozik - Edmonton
Criminal Records - Toronto
Ditch Records - Victoria
Encore Records - Kitchener
Grooves Record Store - London
Listen Records - Edmonton
Music Trader - Winnepeg
Phonopolis - Montreal
Red Cat Records - Vancouver
Rotate This - Toronto
Scratch Records - Vancouver
Sonic Boom - Toronto
Soundscapes - Toronto
Zulu Records - Vancouver

Australian stores:
Big Star - Adelaide
Planet - Perth
Polyester - Melbourne
Red Eye - Sydney
Rockinghorse - Brisbane

indeed, “cheaper than a movie” (in Hollywood, anyway), unless you’re heading for the dollar theatre to see Quinton “Rampage” Jackson’s star turn in “The Midnight Meat Train“.