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12/19/07 —Rip It Off now available for Pre-Order
Times New Viking fans, now is the winter of our discontent! If the tension of waiting for Rip It Off's Jan 22nd release date is too much for you, you can now pre-order your LP or CD copy from our store. To pay our respects to your forsight we're offering a discount and a full-color poster with every pre-order. The time of unhappiness is almost past! Order Here!

11/8/07 —Times New Viking signs to Matador Records
hey kids, here are two tracks off our double A side single off our new record, ‘rip it off’. these were recorded at the state-of-the-art, multi-million dollar ’self-esteem studio’ recording facility in columbus, ohio. send us a post if you are interested in working there. very cheap rates and very fine chaps. we can put in a good word for you… because, as the big-wigs at the office tell us, cheaper recordings mean more money for drugs.

(My Head)
R.I.P. Allegory

(mgmt notation : said 7″ will also include two b-sides that will not appear on ‘Rip It Off’, The Petticoats’ “Allergy” and the Times New Viking original “Western Civ”. 550 copies max, sleees hand stamped by the band, gentlemen and gentleladies, start your hoarding engines now).

12/20/06 —Times New Viking signs to Matador Records

Matador's final (official) new signing of 2006 are the veterans of 2005's most exciting debut album and what will hopefully be one (or two) of  2007's most anticipated 2007 releases.   We're as pleased as a Carmelo Anthony sucker punch to announce the signing of Columbus, OH's TIMES NEW VIKING to a longish, global recording agreement.

The trio of drummer/vocalist Adam Elliot, keyboardist/vocalist Beth Murphy and guitar virtuoso Jared Phillips came to our deficient attentions last year when their first album, 'Dig Yourself', emerged as the first release in years from the pioneering imprint Siltbreeze (former home to crucial early works by Guided By Voices, the Dead C., Sebadoh, Strapping Fieldhands, Harry Pussy and other giants).  Those skeptical to the how's and whys of a seminal  American indie coming out of hibernation had their cynicism shattered with one listen to 'Dig Yourself', an instant classic that recalls multiple generations of that nebulous thing known as "lo-fi" while still being packed with a sensibility undeniably TNV's own.

Through their national travels --- both as a headliner, and in league with such characters as The Country Teasers, Mission Of Burma, Endless Boogie and Psychedelic Horseshit, Times New Viking have achieved near mythic status in the US unideground, and we fully expect it is just a matter of time before they become the favorite band of exactly the sort of people you can't stand to hang around with.

Said efforts will be helped along in no small part by the release of their upcoming 2nd LP/CD, ''present the paisley reich' (Siltbreeze) in February '07.   We expect the band to celebrate their lame duck status on Siltbreeze when they commence recording of their first Matador long player sometime next year.

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