20 Buck Spin update: Kylesa, Coffins, more

Kylesa Static Tensions lineup

20 Buck Spin has kicked off 2009 with a massive new update. It’s so cool I posted the whole thing below. New Kylesa LP (called Static Tensions)! Coffins to play Murderfest! I feel a plane ticket coming on. 20 Buck Spin’s site features a new ad for Oaken Throne zine – which means a new issue is en route! One of my happiest finds recently was the flickr page of Kylesa’s Laura Pleasants. She’s an extremely talented artist and photographer. (She does much of Kylesa’s artwork.) Someone should collect her work into an exhibit. This photo would make a great start.

“20 Buck Spin will release the new Kylesa LP titled Static Tensions in March. The regular version will be a single LP with an 8 page LP size booklet. A ‘deluxe’ version will also be made, limited to 500 copies. That version will be a Gatefold 2xLP mastered at 45 RPM housed in a full color foil stamped slip case and comes with the booklet as well as an A2 sized poster (same size as the one that came with the Coffins and Samothrace LPs). The deluxe version will be on colored wax. Orders direct from 20 Buck Spin for either version will probably also get a patch and sticker, still working it all out. All artwork is being done by John Dyer Baizley of Baroness. 20 Buck Spin is releasing this in North America only. The La Familia label will do the European version of the LP (and is also planning to exclusively sell copies of the deluxe version in Europe). CD will be on the Prosthetic label. For the first time ever we’re gonna try and get it together enough to do pre-orders on this one, probably sometime in February.

Also coming in March/April will be the long planned Stormcrow / Laudanum split 12er. The two Oakland bands each come with two epic new tracks unavailable elsewhere.

Laudanum, who are probably unknown to most out there, will also have a new full length album coming out sometime after the split with Stormcrow. 20 Buck Spin will do the CD version while Life Is Abuse will handle the LP. Crushing and punishing doom and warped noise clash head-on on The Coronation, the band’s second full length. Features the bass talents of one Greg Wilkinson (Brainoil, Pig Heart Transplant, Earhammer Studio and a zillion other bands). Check ‘em out at myspace.com/laudanum18.

We can announce that Coffins is finally coming to the American West Coast. They will be a headliner at the LA Murderfest this year at the Knitting Factory in LA. Prior to that the band will do about a week of shows starting up in Seattle around April 30th if all goes as planned. Other cities will likely be Portland, Olympia (of course), Eugene, somewhere in Norcal like Arcata/Eureka/Chico, SF and Oakland. No SoCal shows besides Murderfest. Stormcrow is also gonna tour with the band and play the Murderfest as well. If the stars align properly a split 12er between the two bands will surface in time for the tour but that’s probably wishful thinking…”