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This Saturday Earshot is hosting three amazing bands from the southeast. Atlanta's HAWKS, Athens's CHRISSAKES and Charlotte's GRIDS will perform an after hours show at Earshot. All three bands are of the noise-rock/punk genre and are travelling to Greenville just to play for you! So, come out and support these great bands! If you dig, loud, heavy and noisy, this is the show for you. Fans of The Jesus Lizard, Melvins, Today is the Day, Unsane, Pissed Jeans, Shellac, Young Widows, Coliseum, The Birthday Party and Shotmaker should take note! This show will have a $5 admission (all funds go straight to the bands) and the store will remain open for paying attendees who desire to shop.
Check out the bands here:


HAWKS


CHRISSAKES


GRIDS



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LOCAL POST-PROG-INSTRUMENTAL QUARTET EAST NORTH TO PLAY AT EARSHOT 9/18 7pm
.. Pulling influences from Post-Rock bands like Explosions in the Sky and Mogwai, East North pursues inspirational instrumental music with a clever nod towards Prog-Rock. Imagine the strong musical imagery of Godspeed You! Black Emperor melting with the progressive tendencies of Yes. Formed nearly two years ago, East North spent much time scrutinizing every note of their songs to make sure that nothing would come off as cliché or insincere. With everyone pushed to the edge of their musical ability, Chas Whitmire (guitar), Drew Mashburn (guitar), Matt Mashburn (bass), and Christopher Morris (drums) still manage to put a lot showmanship into their performances while maintaining sonic integrity. If you like Post-Rock, but are looking for something new, you need to hear or see East North.

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Relapse Records' GRAVES OF VALOR delivered a half hour's worth of brutal, hardcore-influenced death metal to a crowd of about 60 at earshot on Friday night! Above are a few shots attempting to capture the brooootality. Check out their new cd "Salarian Gate" at earshot on sale for $11.99! Totally worth it.

Sorry folks! We've been doing most of our short updates through TWITTER, so that's why this guys is getting neglected. We have great news! Relapse's Graves of Valor will perform for free and have a release party for their new cd "Salarian Gate" at Earshot on Friday May 29th at 8pm! Here is a tiny bio of Graves of Valor:
GRAVES OF VALOR (ex-Through the Eyes of the Dead) explode to the forefront of the modern extreme metal scene with their Relapse debut ‘Salarian Gate’. The quintet’s razor-sharp attack melds a traditional metal spirit with 21st century extremity to establish GRAVES OF VALOR as one of the most promising new death metal bands in years. As songs such as “Locusta”, “Pestilence”, and the title track prove, ‘Salarian Gate’ is a massive debut and one of the best death metal albums of 2009.

SCOTT MILLER "FOR CRYING OUT LOUD" CD $13.99
Our distributor was out of this for a while, but have plenty in now and they are ready for the taking! Singer/songwriter/roots rock. Jointly produced by Michael Webb and Doug Lanceo. New original songs. Last studio release in 2006. Guest artists: Patty Griffin, Doug Lanceo, Tim O'Brien. Was lucky enough to see him at the CIMS convention in Nasheville and he wowed the crowd.



BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY/CHEYENNE MIZE "AMONG THE GOLD" 10" $11.99/DIGITAL DOWNLOAD
"Cheyenne Mize plays fiddle in Louisville's folk Collective Arnett Hollow. Bonnie "Prince" Billy creates his own world of music that many describe as Roots, country, indie rock, or just a mix of all. The duets release is culled from music written between 1873, and 1915. The music has a timeless sound to it, and their performances are excellent. I think choosing duets, and standards has allowed these performers to really open themselves as perfomers." There is no cd version that I know of but you can download this from our digital download store for a mere $6.66 visit us at earshot.thinkindie.com

The mighty Toxic Holocaust will play a free show at Earshot on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at 5pm before their slot on the Napalm Death tour stopping in Spartanburg at Ground Zero later that night. Earshot has Toxic Holocaust's new album "An Overdose of Death" on sale now for $11.99 as well as "Evil Never Dies" & "Hell on Earth" in stock on CD/LP. Listen to Toxic Holocaust here.

This weekend Earshot has huge savings Friday, Saturday and Sunday and live music all day Saturday. For the full list of events and savings visit http://www.earshot.com/recordstoreday.htm

LARKIN GRIMM FREE SHOW MARCH 25, 4PM EARSHOT
By Matt Wake
Metromix
March 23, 2009

The pagan whoosh on “Parplar,” Larkin Grimm’s third solo record, sounds like it was conjured by shamans.
Maybe it was.

Grimm, who grew up in a commune, can convincingly deliver lyrics like “drinking my eyes.” She says Old Soul Studio, the Catskill, N.Y., mansion where “Parplar” was cut, is haunted by “pirates and prostitutes.”

“We tried to accommodate them as much as we could within the recording,” Grimm says

The 26-year-old Grimm is eccentric and incandescent.

In addition to commanding a witchy singing voice throughout “Parplar,” the Memphis native plays her share of instruments.
On “My Justine,” a zither evokes Oriental icicles. The title track’s galactic beeps were done on a busted Casio, and caravan percussion heightens “Ride That Cyclone.”

“My dad owns a music store in Dahlonega, Ga., and I grew up in that shop,” Grimm says. “So now when I’m trying to write a song I try and find a new instrument to inspire me.”

Released on Young God Records, “Parplar” recalls Devendra Banhart’s primal folk.

“People hear my voice and want me to make beautiful music,” Grimm says. “But I want to make groundbreaking, wild music. (Young God owner/producer) Michael Gira found me and was like, ‘You’re dark and crazy, and can I work with you?”

Catch Larkin Grimm at 4 p.m. March 25 at Earshot Music. The show is free.

HOWL INTERVIEW

See them at Earshot March 14 at 10pm!

Providence, R.I.'s HOWL return to Greenville! Howl is an amazing heavy metal band whose sound is similar to early Mastodon/Baroness with some Entombed and Slayer thrown in. They are one of the most promising new metal bands touring today! "If you put chips down on young metal bands, bet big on Howl: A Providence four-piece with a sprawling, scabrous three-track debut EP and a stage set screaming with twin-guitar leads and thematic shifts nodding to U.S. black metal, Howl is the Baroness of the North Woods. See them now." GRIDS from Charlotte, NC will open.
Show is March 14th, 10pm at Earshot. All Ages $5.


LARKIN GRIMM FREE SHOW MARCH 25 4PM AT EARSHOT

A lot has happened in the past few days:
Dinosaur Jr. signs to JAGJAGUWAR.
MF Doom has changed his name to DOOM.
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If you haven't picked up the new BEIRUT cd, we encourage you to come in and do so! Here is a clip of their recent performance on the DAVID LETTERMAN show!

Don't forget to pick up Antony & the Johnsons' new album "The Crying Light" available at earshot. Pitchfork gave it an 8.6 out of 10!

LARKIN GRIMM TO PERFORM FREE SHOW AT EARSHOT WEDNESDAY MARCH 25, 2009
more details soon, until then read her bio from the
YOUNG GOD RECORDS website
Larkin Grimm was born 26 years ago in Memphis TN to hippie devotees of the religious cult The Holy Order Of MANS - her parents were runaway kids that met in San Francisco in the late 60’s and eventually found their way into the cult, which later moved to Memphis. Larkin spent her early years in this communal environment, raised by several parents at once. When the cult disbanded Larkin was 6, and her nuclear family moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains in Georgia and quickly grew to include 5 siblings. Larkin says she ran wild in the mountains and was “raised by the family dog.” Larkin got the taste of music in her from her fiddler and singer father and her folksinger mother. She dropped out of school at 10 and didn’t return until 12. At 13 she was sent to boarding school (courtesy of Georgia’s Coca Cola, which funds the school with the intent of helping gifted Appalachian children). Larkin excelled, (though her erupting hormones and wild imagination were already roaring) and she won a full scholarship to Yale to study art. She spent a while there then freaked out at the elitism of the place. She left and returned several times, somehow along the way managing to find herself in Thailand, where she studied Thai healing massage and “befriended strippers and watched them being humiliated and abused by sex tourists”, bummed around Guatemala, and also hitchhiked around southern Alaska by herself, until she found a place “so beautiful I couldn’t leave, camped out there in my tent for about 2 months with the plan to starve to death, get eaten, or get enlightened.” Larkin says a Cherokee shaman named Jezebel Crow found her on the mountaintop and lured her to her truck with the promise of maple syrup and sausages. She became her “first great teacher, initiating me into the shamanic practice of using natural hallucinogens to gain spiritual wisdom. On one such trip, I got my first jolt of golden light to the brain and was possessed by a forest spirit who taught me to sing.” Jezebel drove her down to her commune in Olympia, Washington, where she would live off and on for a few years, soon hanging out with “eco-warriors, vagabonds, sexual deviants and various other miscreants.” But Jezebel encouraged Larkin to go back to Yale and when she returned Larkin started incorporating singing into her art practice, which led her finally to decide to become “a real musician”.

Back at Yale for the last time (eventually “graduating” with one credit left to go) Larkin met Dave Longstreth and became a member of Dirty Projectors for a time. When she left that band she joined up with the Providence RI Noise/Art scene, and was active in arranging gigs and festivals there, as well as working on her own music. Larkin soon made 3 self-recorded albums of freeform, improvisational songs (or “acoustic noise” as she calls it), 2 of which were released by Secret Eye (Harpoon, and The Last Tree). She books her own tours, travels constantly, and has by her own force of will, itinerant nature, and sense of reckless adventure managed to build a supportive network of friends and fans around Europe and the US/Canada. Larkin has shared bills with Devendra Banhart, Spires that in the Sunset Rise, Espers, Mi and L'au, Brightblack Morning Light, Entrance, Viking Moses, the Microphones, and Old Time Relijun. She has no permanent address (and doesn’t want one), but in the warm summer months can usually be found living in a tent in the woods.

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Handmade Record Bowls $6.99
These things are great and have a myriad of uses other than just looking totally cool! Try them as planters! They have a drain hole and everything. Maybe use them as a candy dish for your coffee table! We've got lots of them, so come in and get some. Remember each one is lovingly handmade by a master record bowl-maker on our staff. Each one is completely unique and no two are alike. They also make excellent gifts!

READ THIS TO FIND OUT HOW TO GET TICKETS:
Earshot has tickets to the SCION ROCK (errr metal) FEST! In order to get your FREE tickets to see Mastodon, Neurosis, High On Fire, Pig Destroyer, Boris, Torche, Baroness, Harvey Milk, Septic Flesh, Cryptopsy, Skeletonwitch, Toxic Holocaust, Warbringer, Trash Talk, Evil Army,1349, Nachtmystium, Wolves in the Throne Room, Coalesce, Krallice, Withered, Salome, Apocalyptic Visions, Zoroaster, Kylesa, Rwake, A Storm of Light, Alestorm, Tyr, Suidakra, US Christmas and more in Atlanta on February 28, 2009.

HERE IS HOW IT WORKS
- You need to go to http://www.scion.com/rock for info on how to get tickets. - When you go to the site you will be asked to enter your email address and zip code.

- You will be emailed a confirmation number to get a pair of tix and a list of locations in your area where you can pick up them up, including Earshot Music.

- You must bring the confirmation to the store and show us the confirmation in order to claim tickets. Basically, tickets can only be given out to people who bring in the email confirmation. NO EXCEPTIONS. Please read the details on the SCION site. We will also have silk screened posters to give away with purchase of items from the bands playing the show, but those won't be here for a couple of weeks.

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1/20/09
HEAVY METAL
16 BRIDGES TO BURN HM CD 14.99
ABACABB SURVIVALIST HM CD 13.99
BLACKENED THIS MEANS WAR HM CD 12.99
CATTLE DECAPITATION HARVEST FLOOR HM CD 13.99
DEADLOCK MANIFESTO HM CD 13.99
DEATHSPELL OMEGA CHAINING THE KATECHON HM CD 12.99
OFERMOD TIAMTU HM CD 13.99
ROSE FUNERAL RESTING SONATA HM CD 13.99
RUMPELSTILTSKIN GRINDER LIVING FOR DEATH DESTROYING TH HM CD 14.99
UNDERNEATH THE GUN FORFEIT MISFORTUNES HM CD 13.99
WINO PUNCTUATED EQUILIBRIUM HM CD 13.99

JAZZ
COLTRANE,JOHN VOL. 3-IMPULSE! ALBUMS JAZZ CD 39.99
DAVIS,MILES KIND OF BLUE: 50TH ANNIVERSARY JAZZ CD 17.99
DESARE,TONY RADIO SHOW JAZZ CD 16.99
GOLSON,BENNY BEST OF BENNY GOLSON JAZZ CD 11.99
GOLSON,BENNY NEW TIME NEW 'TET JAZZ CD 16.99
MONHEIT,JANE LOVERS THE DREAMERS & ME JAZZ CD 16.99

PUNK
LET ME RUN MEET ME AT THE BOTTO PUNK CD 13.99
MOUTHPIECE CAN'T KILL WHAT'S INSIDE PUNK CD 14.99
R&B
CAREY,MARIAH BALLADS R&B CD 16.99
SCOTT,JIMMY D. DON'T STOP THE MUSIC R&B CD 14.99
RAP
ATMOSPHERE GOD LOVES UGLY RAP CD 14.99
MAC MAIN CERTIFIED GHETTO MUSIC RAP CD 15.99
PPP ABUNDANCE RAP CD 15.99

ROCK
1900S MEDIUM HIGH ROCK CD 9.99
ABBA ALBUMS-BOXSET ROCK CD 74.99
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION ROCK CD 14.99
ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS CRYING LIGHT ROCK CD 14.99
BIRD,ANDREW NOBLE BEAST ROCK CD 14.99
BIRD,ANDREW NOBLE BEAST/USELESS CREATURES ROCK CD 28.99
BLACK GHOSTS BLACK GHOSTS ROCK CD 12.99
BUGS BUGS ROCK CD 13.99
CASH CASH TAKE IT TO THE FLOOR ROCK CD 9.99
CAVANAUGH,MICHAEL IN COLOR ROCK CD 14.99
CUT OFF YOUR HANDS YOU & I ROCK CD 13.99
EARLE,STEVE & THE DEL MCCOURY MOUNTAIN ROCK CD 15.99
FICTION FAMILY FICTION FAMILY ROCK CD 13.99
GIARDINA,TIFFANY NO AVERAGE ANGEL ROCK CD 13.99
GIBBS,OTIS GRANDPA WALKED A PICKETLINE ROCK CD 13.99
JACKIE-O MOTHERFUCKER BLOOD OF LIFE ROCK CD 15.99
JIMI HENDRIX TRIBUTE-THIRD STO JIMI HENDRIX TRIBUTE-THIRD STO ROCK CD 12.99
MATT & KIM GRAND ROCK CD 12.99
MODERN SKIRTS ALL OF US IN OUR NIGHT ROCK CD 13.99
NEWMAN,A.C. GET GUILTY ROCK CD 14.99
NICHOLS,BEN LAST PALE LIGHT IN THE WEST ROCK CD 9.99
ODDS CHEERLEADER ROCK CD 15.99
PAGAN,CHASE OH MUSICA! ROCK CD 13.99
PAYNE,ADAM ORGAN ROCK CD 13.99
PSYCHIC ILLS MIRROR EYE ROCK CD 14.99
REEL BIG FISH FAME FORTUNE & FORNICATION ROCK CD 12.99
SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE RTZ ROCK CD 19.99
SWERVEDRIVER RAISE: US EXTENDED VERSION ROCK CD 15.99
TITUS ANDRONICUS AIRING OF GRIEVANCES ROCK CD 14.99
UMPHREY'S MCGEE MANTIS ROCK CD 14.99
WIDEAWAKE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN'T LET GO ROCK CD 12.99
WIGMORE,GIN EXTENDED PLAY ROCK CD 6.99
YORK,MATT MINE ROCK CD 12.99
YORKE,THOM ERASER RMXS ROCK CD 14.99
BON IVER BLOOD BANK ROCK CD SINGLE 9.99
MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE EVENING WEAR ROCK CD SINGLE 6.99

TV SOUNDTRACK
L WORD MENAGE A TROIS-SEANSONS ONE TW TV CD 23.99

VOCAL
SINATRA,FRANK SEDUCTION: SINATRA SINGS OF LO VOCA CD 16.99
SINATRA,FRANK SEDUCTION: SINATRA SINGS OF LO VOCA CD 22.99

CAJUN
BEAUSOLEIL ALLIGATOR PURSE CAJU CD 15.99

COUNTRY
ROBISON,BRUCE HIS GREATEST COUN CD 14.99
TWITTY,CONWAY LOST IN THE FEELING COUN CD 12.99

DANCE
SCHULZ,MARKUS PROGRESSION PROGRESSED: THE RE DANC CD 16.99

ELECTRONIC
COMBICHRIST TODAY WE ARE ALL DEMONS ELEC CD 14.99
O'DONNELL,ROGER SONGS FROM THE SILVER BOX ELEC CD 12.99

FOLK
BEYMAN BROS MEMORIES OF SUMMER AS A CHILD FOLK CD 14.99

DVD
AMUSEMENT AMUSEMENT HORR DVD 25.99
BELL/MANDYLOR/PATTERSON SAW 5 BLUR DVD 34.99
BELL/MANDYLOR/PATTERSON SAW 5 HORR DVD 26.99
BIOGRAPHY BARACK OBAMA DOCU DVD 12.99
BLACK/WATTS/BRODY KING KONG (2005) BLUR DVD 26.99
CALEXICO LIVE FROM AUSTIN TX ROCK DVD 15.99
CHILES XALAPENOS CHILES XALAPENOS FORE DVD 9.99
CRISS ANGEL-MINDFREAK SEASON 4 TV DVD 28.99
EL REY DE LA MONTANA EL REY DE LA MONTANA FORE DVD 17.99
GUTIERREZ/VILLALPANDO EL NORTE DRAM DVD 35.99
GUTIERREZ/VILLALPANDO EL NORTE BLUR DVD 35.99
HUDSON/WYMAN MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION DRAM DVD 35.99
IGOR IGOR CHIL DVD 26.99
JOLIE/SINISE GEORGE WALLACE DRAM DVD 23.99
KATT WILLIAMS PRESENTS: KATTHO KATT WILLIAMS PRESENTS: KATTHO COME DVD 13.99
LARTER/RIFKIN/CARRADINE/JEREMY NATIONAL LAMPOON'S STONED AGE COME DVD 25.99
LYNCH,STEPHEN LIVE AT THE EL REY COME DVD 13.99
MI-5 VOL. 6 TV DVD 74.99
MOONLIGHT WS TV DVD 39.99
POWERPUFF GIRLS ANNIVERSARY TV DVD 59.99
ROCK,CHRIS KILL THE MESENGER COME DVD 16.99
ROCK,CHRIS KILL THE MESENGER COME DVD 29.99
WAHLBERG/KUNIS/LUDACRIS MAX PAYNE ACTI DVD 26.99
WHO KIDS ARE ALRIGHT ROCK DVD 13.99
WHO KIDS ARE ALRIGHT ROCK DVD 16.99

NEW VINYL 1/20/09
EYEHATEGOD IN THE NAME OF SUFFERING HM LP 19.99
ALPERT,HERB & THE TIJUANA BRASS WHIPPED CREAM & OTHER DELIGHTS
JAZZ LP 24.99
SHAI HULUD THAT WITHIN BLOOD ILL-TEMPERED PUNK LP 11.99
YOUTH OF TODAY BREAK DOWN THE WALLS PUNK LP 13.99
YOUTH OF TODAY CAN'T CLOSE MY EYES PUNK LP 13.99
BANHART,DEVENDRA SMOKEY ROLLS DOWN THUNDER CANY ROCK LP 19.99
FRUSCIANTE,JOHN EMPYREAN ROCK LP 15.99
MEGAPUSS SURFING ROCK LP 16.99
NEWMAN,A.C. GET GUILTY ROCK LP 16.99
PATTERN IS MOVEMENT ALL TOGETHER ROCK LP 15.99
SIGUR ROS MED SUD I EYRUM VID SPILUM END ROCK LP 21.99
UMPHREY'S MCGEE MANTIS ROCK LP 14.99
WELCOME WAGON WELCOME TO THE WELCOME WAGON ROCK LP 14.99
BON IVER BLOOD BANK ROCK 12" SINGLE 10.99

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