Exclusive Pre-sale: Lloyd Miller and The Heliocentrics Out Now At Stones Throw!

The collaborative album between Dr. Lloyd Miller and The Heliocentrics is set for release on Strut on August 2nd on CD/Itunes (vinyl will come out on August 31st). But CDs are in and shipping over at Stones Throw NOW – and vinyl pre-orders are being taken. Vinyl will ship around August 5th.

Get this monster of an album – inspired by Millers’ frequent tours and ceaseless study of Middle Eastern music and culture, full of the rock solid rhythms that the Heliocentrics are known for and blessed by Miller’s genius on an array of instruments that would cause even the most talented of jazzers to pause – now!

Download: Lloyd Miller and The Heliocentrics – “Fantasia Part. 1.”

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Official L.A. Listening Party – Seu Jorge and Almaz

Seu Jorge and Almaz is out next Tuesday, their North American tour starts this Friday in Miami, and this Sunday here in LA we’re going to be serving up feijoada, mixing caipirinhas from scratch and listening to the album over at Palate Food + Wine. Come on through – CDs and LPs will be available for sale on a first come, first serve basis.

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Discovered – Photos of Carleen and The Groovers

We’ve been looking for photos of drummer Carleen Jean Butler since Egon offered the first official reissue of Carleen and The Groover’s monstrous funk anthem “Can We Rap” on The Funky 16 Corners anthology a decade ago. In the interim, we released a vinyl anthology that contained the band’s four known recordings, compiled “The Thing” on Cold Heat, and even tracked down Carleen’s first drum teacher in search of some documentation that this woman actually existed!

And now, nearly forty years after he first received these promo shots in the mail, an East Coast club owner made these two photos available for sale. They now reside in the collection of producer and funk enthusiast DJ Shadow. And they prove that Carleen did indeed play a double kick-drum – better than the rest of ’em. Take that Lars Ulrich!

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Coming Soon – Hand-Silkscreened Seu Jorge and Almaz Tour Posters

The Seu Jorge and Almaz 2010 North American tour kicks off in less than two weeks – and we’ll be announcing the exclusive merch items you’ll be able to pick up along the way.

First up – a short run of tour posters designed by Mike Davis and hand-silkscreened by Burlesque. These posters will be available in small quantities on each tour stop and in our store for $20. You might have caught Burlesque’s work for Stones Throw’s Dam Funk – if not, check some of the process here:

Buy: Burlesque screen printing/Dam Funk tour posters.

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