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Fivespeed

SA004 S/T


01 Dave's Garage
02 Keys To Your Car
03 Lapse
04 Yellow Illiterate
05 144,000
06 Surrender Ballad

 

*As with most of our out of print releases, you can only get this on iTunes.

*Update: a small box of 30 was found in the back of the warehouse.  A portion of those are now available at stinkweeds.com and cdbaby.com until they areallgone.com

LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
Voted Arizona Republic's "Indie Rock Record of the Year" when it was released.  This EP drew special attention from publications all around the country and abroad.  Fracture, UK describes it as "...all the melody, power and outright 'rockage' so required..."  We must also admit that it's easily one of the best records we've released.  These songs are so good.  They stand the test of time, but took over a post-hardcore/edgy pop era in which Arizona was blessed to partake.  A part of the glory days.  This 6-song EP, also known as "the first of compact cars" is hard to come by, so if you've got one, let us know.  We'd buy it back.  (The record was in such high demand that even the members of the band couldn't hang on to their copies.  No joke.)

 

Get Phased

ALLY034
GET PHASED

01 Rock n Roll Friends Check Each Others Books Back In
02 Full Count Dracula
03 Make Like A Tree pt.2
04 Tore Up From the Floor Up
05 Got You On Blast



*Available on tour now and in select stores. (Stinkweeds)

LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
You will get phased.  Rajiv releases an EP in support of his tour of about a year with friends Kinch and Dear and the Headlights.

 

Spring Cleaning

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SPRING CLEANING: CUT, CLEAN, SCAB, SCAR, REMIND, REWIND, REPEAT

01 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A [Select Start]
02 Hooray For Yourself (featuring Bob Hoag-The Go Reflex, & Robin Wilson-The Gin Blossoms)

03 Venom By Memory
04 Elected To Die
05 This Is Not Theory
06 Oh Well (Fountain St.)
07 Colic (Featuring someone awesome, but we can't tell)
08 Red Tape
09 Not Tonight Not Ever (Pinewood Derby)
10 Limb From Limb
11 Five Minute Warning (R Is For Regret)
12 Merry Christmas, I'm Cheating
13 Ticker Tape Charade
14 Good Night Quiet Noise (acoustic)
15 Cinema Spine (acoustic)
16 24 Minus 18 (acoustic)
17 Gathering (acoustic)
18 Merry Xmas I'm Cheating (The Edge 103.9 acoustic version)
19 Making A Meal Outta You (Gouge Potato)
20 Thank You


*Stinkweeds has a "triple-pack" offer that includes this cd, "Kill the Messenger...", & Art For Starters 2LP for the price of 2 cds.

LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
Some of the best Before Braille songs that were either never released before, or now recorded properly, as well as a collection of stuff you can't really find.  The response to this album surprised us actually.  I mean, we love it, but it seems to be a fan favorite.

 

Kill the Messenger Keep the Message

ALLY032
KILL THE MESSENGER, KEEP THE MESSAGE


01 Thread the Line
02 Subject Predicate
03 The Gathering
04 Secret No.8
05 Ventolin
06 Wolves In Wolves Clothing
07 Bad Habits Make New Friends (Blood Son)
08 (The Annex)ation of Islam
09 Help Is On the Way
10 Debutante Stomp
11 Secret No. 9
12 Start Dictation/End Transmission


LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
Long anticipated LP follow-up to The Rumor.  Stunning album art by Jason Byron Nelson (gutterpark.com)  Maybe Before Braille's most complete and dynamic work.

 

Drugs Made My Favorite Bands Drugs Ruined My Favorite People

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DRUGS MADE MY FAVORITE BANDS, DRUGS RUINED MY FAVORITE PEOPLE

*Double-album debut available now!

MADE:
01 Pinprick By Prick
02 I Hope Ants Crawl Under Your Eyelids (On A Saturday Night)
03 Better Best
04 Went To Church Instead
05 I Think I'm Suffering From Menopause (11:34)
06 88 Doctors (Team Awesome)
07 Burn Down the Choir With Whore’s Fire & Devil’s Ire (Striking These Chords)
08 Caption Withheld
09 You Deserve A Disease
10 Diction
11 Disquiet Trembler
12 Bored With Things
13 Mark So Made

RUINED:
01 The Bone Stopped The Bullet (acoustic)
02 Drugs Ruined My Favorite People (True To Form)
03 I Hope Ants Crawl Under Your Eyelids (acoustic)
04 Bored With Things (acoustic)
05 Safe & Sound (Flesh-Incarnate)
06 Went To Church Instead (acoustic)
07 Better Best (acoustic)
08 Roman Crimes
09 Just Can't Sleep Before I Say This
10 Muslims Need To Chill A Bit
10+ Shorthanded
18 Oh Sun Hang

LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
Before Braille front-man, David Jensen.  Debut full length (double-album).  David Jensen's first venture outside the womb of Before Braille.  A more complete, melodic, story than past efforts. Some what of a concept album defined by personal experience and tumult.  Proud moment.

 

Ham Hocks & Guitar Strings

ALLY031
HAM HOCKS & GUITAR STRINGS

01 Teeter Totter
02 Thud
03 I Got A Cat
04 Walking the Mazerati
05 Canada Canada
06 Brain Fade
07 La La Land
08 Bowl of Cherries
09 AC/DC Is My Father!

10 Warm Is the Womb

-Includes Teeter Totter video
LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
Jesus Chrysler Supercar guitar/songwriter Jason Corman brings you his circus-core/happy madness.
You have never heard a record like this before, and you will never hear one like it again.  Promise.

 

Satellite

ALLY029
SATELLITE (Japanese Import)

01 Scanning Faces
02 Sudden Left
03 PI/4
04 Quiet
05 Milwaukee Mile
06 Mayday
07 Money Talks
08 NJB
09 After the Fact
10 Jazz Odyssey*
11 Cottus Carolinae*

*bonus tracks

LINKS:
Friend Of Mine | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
Highly touted LP gets a facelift for its introduction to Japan.  Remastered with new art and 2 new songs!  Our Japanese friends are eating it up!  Available in Japan through Friend of Mine Records/Hartley Craft  "The musical spaces cleared by The Player Piano are exceptionally beautiful, involving and entrancing." -Derives, Belgium  Punk news said: http://www.punknews.org/review/7269

 

Tired of Not Being Away From Here

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TIRED OF NOT BEING AWAY FROM HERE (UK Import)


01 New Vein
02 Proventil
03 Well As Well
04 The Case Is Out
05 We're Not Paying For Anything Anymore
06 Losing Feeling
07 Ideas vs. Protocol vs. Malotov
08 The French Quarter Does Not Add Up
09 Camera Disdain
10 Fight or Flight
11 Welcome Away

*Plus videos for Proventil, Fight or Flight, The Case Is Out, Thread the Line, Secret No.7
LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
Cattle Punching On A Jack Rabbit EP, plus 5 new songs, 5 new videos!  Distributed by You And Whose Army? Records in Europe.

 

Balance and Timing

ALLY027
BALANCE & TIMING


01 Merry Christmas, I'm Cheating
02 Limb From Limb
03 Help Is On the Way Now
04 Ex-Mas Eve
05 Camera Disdain*
06 Fight or Flight*

This Holiday EP is nearly out of print.

LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

DESCRIPTION:
The band's most popular download, featuring "Merry Christmas, I'm Cheating." After receiving interest from a local radio station, Before Braille put together what as meant to be a Christmas single.  In the studio, the band pieced together a few more tracks until a single, turned maxi-single, turned EP was devised.  A percussion-free acoustic version of "Merry Christmas I'm Cheating" was added to a compilation for The Edge 103.9 featuring a calendar (which Before Braille graced) along with other bands like Jimmy Eat World, Taking Back Sunday and others.  The radio comp version of the song was Top 3 most requested song in the month of December that year and is still regularly requested each holiday season.

Bad News Bear Records made this release possible.  We owe them a debt of gratitude.  And of money, perhaps.  :)

 

Of Black Water

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OF BLACK WATER

01 My Car Is A Statistic
02 The Holy Cow And Mango Tree
03 Chinese Fire Drill
04 Deer In the Headlights
05 Field Worker
06 God and the Devil In the Land of the Sun
07 Bipolar Bear
08 Drunken Southern Widow Pt.I
09 Make Like A Tree
10 Richest Man In Babylon

LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
Rajiv Divyang Patel's sophomore release.  No slump here.  Measured improvement from the debut.

 

Various Artists

ALLY025 AMERICOPA MANTLE VOLUME. I


01-02 Before Braille
03-04 The Ruby Lee
05-06 The Go Reflex
07-08 Black Feet
09-10 Awake & Alert
11-12 Sweet Bleeders
13  Rajiv Patel
14-15 Not Quite Bernadette
16 Wonderful Wednesday



LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
Previously unreleased songs by Arizona's finest artists.  All recorded and produced by Bob Hoag @ Flying Blanket (flyingblanket.com), Album design by Clay Whipkey ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), layout by David Jensen and Clay W., Cover photography by Cooper Johnson ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), Inside photos by Clay Rogers mostly, other good stuff by good people.

 

Obey the Cattle

ALLY022 OBEY THE CATTLE

01 Rattlesnake
02 Ten Thousand Lakes
03 Mountain Standard Time
04 Curse of Laban
05 Cactus Is My Brother
06 The Wheat Looks Good This Year
07 Morris Code Saved Our Lives
08 Horseride Out of the City
09 Quilombo
10 Mom Don't Worry Big Brother Is Watching

LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
Rajiv Divyang Patel's debut. "...Patel's presentation is a bold, creative statement for an album of such incredibly subtle artistry." -Brian Baker, Rockpile

 

Keep Moving

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KEEP MOVING

01 300 Copies
02 I Had You
03 Not Now, Not Ever
04 Glory! Glory!
05 You Sleep, I Drive
06 Me And Andy
07 The "Risks" Involved In Waking
08 Ink
09 Tonight! Tonight!
10 This New Room
11 The New Split
12 Who's Going To Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet
13 Big Action
14 Newborn Life Teething
15 Niagara Falls

LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
Debut album for David J, world traveler and featured member and guest in Kind of Like Spitting and the Cash Money Brothers (mbrs of KOLS, Death Cab For Cutie).  "Every little piece of this intricate patchwork puzzle is intentional and completely complimentary." -Indie Workshop

 

The Retaliation For What They Have Done To Us

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THE RETALIATION FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO US

01 Middle Eastern Youth Gone Wild
02 Ideas vs Protocol
03 Trans Add Panic
04 Ode If It Weren't For Cowboy Dan
05 Losing Ceiling
06 People Move From City To City
07 Bipolar Bear*

LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
The previously secret project of members of Before Braille due to record label constraints that existed at that time.  Instrumental to say low profile.  If asked, each member would probably cite this release as their finest musical moment.

 

Was It Fear

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WAS IT FEAR


01 I Tried To Erase
02 Racked & Martyred
03 His Song
04 Money Shot
05 11
06 ...
07 A Walking Tour of Trinadad, CO
08 Ben/Piano
09 Name
10 A Few Moments Between Sleeping and Waking
10+ Blue Eyed Baldwin

LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
Half Visconte has been listed as being a part of Arizona's top 50 band of history.  Was It Fear hits a striking chord as the bands first and only full length album, but we would be remiss to not mention the incredible self titled EP and split 7-inch with Death of Marat on This Argonaut Records.

 

Various Artists

ALLY015 V/A NOT ONE LIGHT RED: A DESERT EXTENDED


01 The Go Reflex*
02 Cursive
03 Seven Storey*
04 The Real Diego*
05 Recover
06 Kristopher Astrom & Hidden Truck*
07 Mock Orange*
08 Bluetip
09 Fine China
10 The Format (first song ever released)*
11 Grey Am*
12 Fivespeed*
13 The Good Life*
14 Fireside*
15 Before Braille*
16 J.Rawls*
17 Bluebird*
18 The Revolution Smile*
19 Chris Mills*
20 Reubens Accomplice*



LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
*16 previously US unreleased songs.  6 of Arizona's top bands join hands with great indie rock talent from around the US and Europe.

 

Trade In Your Halo

ALLY009 TRADE IN YOUR HALO


01 Smile, Lie
02 Field Guide To the Night's Sky
03 Chaos Control
04 Blackened Crisis
05 Quitter
06 Halo
07 The Killing Star
08 Sea Sick
09 Barrack
10 Parachute
11 Justice

LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
Dave sold his house to afford putting out this record.  It paid off. Fivespeed was signed to Virgin Records.  The band then went on to release Morning Over Midnight.  Shortly after they disbanded.  Old, old school Fivespeed fans love the songs, but could take or leave the production on this record.  New school Fivespeed fans can't get enough of this record, and we can't blame 'em.  If you like post-rock you will love Trade In Your Halo.  If you don't love 'Halo' you will love the self titled EP.  If you don't love either, you don't love post-rock...or yourself.

 

The Rumor

ALLY000 THE RUMOR


01 Secret No.7
02 The Spanish Dagger
03 A Cinema Spine
04 Miracle Mile
05 Twenty Four Minus Eighteen
06 Jaws of Life
07 Goodnight Quiet Noise
08 Split Lip Envy
09 Paranoia Pays Off
10 When the Feeling Fades
11 Abracadaver
12 Low End of Luxury
13 Arrive Alive
14 After Arguments
15 Unfit

LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
Before Braille's debut full length release.  It received much high praise and was considered one the best album of 2002 by many local zines as well as CMJ, R&R, and other reputable sources.  More albums of The Rumor have been sold than any other Sunset Alliance release.

 

Cattle Punching On A Jack Rabbit

ALLY023 CATTLE PUNCHING ON A JACK RABBIT


01 New Vein
02 Proventil
03 Well As Well
04 We're Not Paying For Anything Anymore
05 Tired of Not Being Away From Here
06 Fight or Flight
07 Welcome Away

-Few copies remain
LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
"This is one of the best releases I have ever heard, independent or not." Independent Clauses

4 songs and 5 videos were added to "Cattle Punching..." along with new artwork, and released as a Euro-Import through You And Whose Army? Records, UK.  The artwork was that of the great Mel Kadel.  (melkadel.com)  The full length import release is called "Tired of Not Being Away From Here" aka, Cattle Punching with a B12 shot...and maybe some extra enzymes, some glutamine, and fda approved hormones.  So, don't worry, other than an awesome digipak packaging designed by Jason Farrell, Cattle Punching On A Jack Rabbit is just a differently packaged, and limited tracks version of Tired of Not Being Away From Here.

 

Various Artists

SA006 - ARGO 003 NOT ONE LIGHT RED: A MODIFIED DOCUMENT


01 Seven Story "Second Rome"
02 Fivespeed "Blood Over Wine"
03 Sea of Cortez "Morning, Noon and Nite"
04 Harcuvar "While You're Away"
05 Go Big Casino "So Proud of You"
06 Pinewood Derby "Make A Wish"
07 Redfield "Killing Hope"
08 Before Braille "No Karate Chops"
09 Sextet "Procession, Pt. II"
10 Pollen "A Clear Complexion"
11 And Guppies Eat Their Young "Feel Like Another"
12 Scott Tennent "Follow Through #1"
13 Reubens Accomplice "Leave the City"
14 Fightshy "We Don't Care What They Do Up North"
15 Death of Marat "Name Your Poison"
16 Chula "Ready"
17 Half Visconte "Blue-Eyed Baldwin"


A few copies of this record were recovered.  Get a copy of this treasured comp at Stinkweeds.com now while they last.

LINKS:
Official Site | Myspace

 

DESCRIPTION:
Compilation of mostly exclusive songs from inspiring Phoenix-area artists in support of the Modified, home to the finest performing arts in Arizona. As David Jensen and Scott Tennent worked on this project collectively for over 3 years creating one of the most prized of all AZ local music possessions. Both Dave & Scott vowed to never do a compilation again. Only one of them kept his promise. Cover art by Sergio Aguirre. The compilation provided the first live show and recording of Jim Adkins's (Jimmy Eat World) short lived project Go Big Casino, as well as many other respected bands who had performed @ Modified Arts including, Seven Storey, Fivespeed, Fivespeed, Sea Of Cortez, Harcuvar, Pinewood Derby, Redfield, Before Braille, Sextet, Pollen, ...And Guppies Eat Their Young, Scott Tennent, Reubens Accomplice, Fightshy, Death Of Marat, Chula, Half Visconte. *Our apologies to Stereotyperider who's song "I Despise" was incommensurately left off the compilation.