The Outsiders

CQ $14.95 pre-order! Ships on or before Sept. 21st

With The Outsiders still spoken of in hushed tones in even the deepest circles, we’re thrilled to help shine some light on what might be one of the most underrat-ed bands ever. Originally released in Holland in October 1968, “CQ” (pronounced “Seek You”) was the third and final album by Dutch garage punks The Outsiders. These rowdy teenagers from Amsterdam were part of the thriving “Nederbeat” scene with the band taking their cues from British and Stateside garage acts of the day (including singing entirely in English). “CQ” spans R&B, spacey experimental numbers, folk rock and a revved-up kind of punk that pre-dates the angular moodiness of what would become the no wave/post punk sound a decade later. This unpredictable stylistic approach, when coupled with across-the-board amazing songs, make this one of the masterpiec-es of late 60’s psychedelic garage rock, and a cornerstone album of the genre.

Pressed in a vinyl-only limited edition, this deluxe reissue is replicated precisely with gorgeous silver foil cover art. Extensive liner notes include a 2009 interview with lead guitarist Ronnie Splinter about the recording of the album and an exclusive introduction by Mike Stax, editor of Ugly Things magazine.


A1. Misfit

Cromagnon / MIJ

Cave Rock / Yodeling Astrologer $25.00 LP bundle

Cromagnon - Cave rock and
MIJ - Yodeling Astrologer bundle.
Two great LPs for one low price!

The Wipers

Is this Real / Over the Edge / Out takes / Youth of America $50.00 4 x album set

All Four Jackpot Records WIPERS releases!

The Wipers

Out Takes $14.95 LP

Featuring 13 rare and unreleased cuts, “Out Takes” collects unheard songs, demo recordings, and alternate mixes. Handpicked by Greg Sage, the songs date from 1979-1983, the same years as their landmark first three LPs. Side one focuses on the era of their debut LP, “Is This Real?”, a desperate, energetic masterpiece, considered by Kurt Cobain as the blueprint for grunge. Included are raw, sparsely arranged 4-track demos, two unreleased songs from 1979, and the forceful, youthful track “Rebel With A Cause” which was cut from the LP.
The second half of the LP presents a live recording of “Mistaken Identity”, originally intended for the Wipers’ third LP, “Over the Edge”, a rare B-side, and alternate mixes of songs from “Youth of America”. “Out Takes” is an incredible new window into the career of one of the greatest American punk bands.

Tracklisting:

1. Let's Go Away
2. Mystery
3. Is This Real?
4. Tragedy
5. Misfit
6. Rebel With A Cause
7. Born With A Curse
8. Mistaken Identity
9. No Solution
10. Scared Stiff
11. Youth Of America
12. Pushing The Extreme
13. Romeo

Release Date: June 22, 2010 on Jackpot Records.
Catalog # JPR82804
LP Reissue

Lazy Smoke

Corridor of Faces $14.95 LP

In a genre built on obscured and unsung genius, Corridor Of Faces transcends and stands out as a true psyche masterpiece. Rising above any number of recently unearthed late-60s anglo-pop platters, the sole offering from small town Massachusetts phenomenon Lazy Smoke is a cohesive, solid, classic album in
every sense. Ten songs that weave into one-another, painting some beautifully drifty sonic picture as they go.

The first remarkable trait of Lazy Smoke's sound is the lead vocals’ uncanny similarity to John Lennon. If that likeness was the whole story, we would have a Beatles sound-alike on our hands, and that would be that. Upon digging just a little deeper below the surface, we instead find a darker tone and a patient, eerie and almost shut-in feeling resonating through the songs.

While bands like The Beatles and The Left Banke were singing about love, lament and hallucinated travel experiences, the songs on Corridor of Faces get sincerely dark right away. Even the seemingly-light teenage love-themed "Sarah Saturday" shares an undercurrent of on-the-edge uncertainty and dread. It's this
undercurrent that calls to mind comparisons to Forever Changes era Love and the more damaged end of the pop spectrum. Originally privately pressed in MA in an edition of only 500 copies in 1968.

Tracklisting:

A1. All These Years
A2. How Was Your Day Last Night?
A3. Come With the Day
A4. Salty People
A5. Jackie-Marie
B1. Underskys
B2. Sarah Saturday
B3. There Was a Time
B4. Am I Wrong?
B5. How Did You Die?

Released May 11, 2010 on Jackpot Records.
Catalog #: JPR7107
Vinyl Reissue

Boston Spaceships

Camera Found the Ray Gun $5.00 CD

Jackpot is proud to announce our first non-reissue release, a stellar EP of exclusive new material from supergroup Boston Spaceships. Featuring the skilled popcraft of Bob Pollard (Guided By Voices), Chris Slusarenko (Guided By Voices), John Moen (The Decemberists) , this four-song offering follows the bands three full-length albums and gives us a new window into what powerful pressure-cooker pop can mean in the modern age.

Taking a page from the Rough Trade catalog, and echoing the sneery bombast of the Fall or mid-period Wire, there's an undercurrent of new wave washing through the catchiness. The stumbling basement/paranoid fantasy world glow of Guided By Voices carries over, as is to be expected from any band Bob Pollard is involved with, but there's something setting these tunes apart from some of the others in the overflowing song suitcases.

While even the most rabid GBV completest would have a hard time sifting through all of the Pollard-related titles that flood out on a regular basis, this EP shines brighter. The songs call to mind the manic energy of earlier Guided By Voices and meld it with an art-rock take on power pop, ending up in a strange place that doesn't give you all the answers the first time around. By the time final track "Aquarian Hovercraft" comes up, mashing "Alien Lanes"-esque song collage with masterfully recorded and constantly shifting instrumentation, one gets the sense of just how hooky, special and legitimately epic these songs are. Best when played loud and on repeat. Vinyl is limited to 500 copies.

Tracklisting:

1. The Way Out
2. Rival GT
3. Pluto is Polluted
4. Aquarian Hovercraft

Release Date: March 23, 2010 on Jackpot Records.
Catalog #
CD or 7” Release

THE 7" IS NOW SOLD OUT AND IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR ORDER. SORRY FRIENDS.

Cromagnon

Cave Rock $15.95 LP

Originally released in 1969, Cromagnon’s “Cave Rock” strings together a patchwork of untamed sounds and mental images which perfectly articulate the boundary-breaking psychedelic revolution that was occurring at the time – musically and socially.

Widely heralded as the best freak-out record of all time, Cromagnon’s “Cave Rock” is a captivating experience that engages the listener. The album surpassed even the most out there psychedelia of its day, predicting what would soon become the disjointed aural landscapes of Faust and the violent scuzz of Throbbing Gristle. Vivid elements of Cromagnon’s influence continues to shine in the lysergic rhythms of the Sun City Girls, Nurse With Wound, Ghost, and Animal Collective.

Tracklisting:

A1. Caledonia
A2. Ritual Feast of the Libido
A3. Organic Sundown
A4. Fantasy
B1. Crow of the Black Tree
B2. Genitalia
B3. Toth, Scribe I
B4. First World of Bronze

Release Date: February 23, 2010 on Jackpot Records.
Catalog #JPR7106
Vinyl Reissue

MIJ

Yodeling Astrologer $15.95 LP / 14.95 CD

“Yodeling Astrologer” (aka: Color By The Number) could be considered an anomaly, a one-off or a miracle of circumstance in the history of psychedelic pop music. Mij, a.k.a. Jim Holmberg was discovered by ESP owners while playing in Washington Square Park in the summer of 1968. His style and persona mesmerized the label heads, and he explained to them a recent auto accident had fractured his skull but left him changed. He perceived sound, color and vision differently and he had funneled this new world of perception directly into his music. All this was enough to warrant getting Mij into the studio to lay down a record of his rambly, cosmic folk songs. The entire album was recorded in three hours, first-takes and impromptu production intact, then pressed up and introduced to the world shortly thereafter.

To focus on the yodeling aspect of the Yodeling Astrologer would miss some of the depth of this album. Not just a hippie novelty act of the time, this is a truly thoughtful and somewhat frenzied document• Like Buffy St. Marie’s “Meditations”, Linda Perhacs’ “Parallelograms” or “Cold Fact” by Rodriguez, this is an album of sincere folk songs colored with subtle psychedelic touches. Uneasy reverberations and soft echoes glide over Holmberg’s breezy songs, creating a consistent sonic environment as spontaneous as it is intriguing. Available on vinyl for the first time since an incredibly limited original pressing in 1969 on ESP Disk'.

Tracklisting:

A1. Two Stars
A2.Grok (Martian Love Call)
A3. Romeo & Juliet
A4. Little Boy
A5. Lookin' Out Today
B1. Door Keys
B2. Planet of a Flower
B3. Never Be Free
B4. Look Into the (K)night

Released September 22, 2009 on Jackpot Records.
Catalog #JPR7105
Vinyl Reissue

Jandek

Six And Six $15.95 LP

Originally released in 1981, following a three year gap between the release of debut LP “Ready For The House”, Jandek’s second album “Six And Six” stands as an incredible document of the formative stages of his cracked genius. Following the astonishingly bleak tone of the first LP, the musical elements are almost catatonic. 9 songs drift by as a series of slight variations on several desolate, untuned acoustic guitar phrases. The meditative, steady music forms a dark backdrop for some of Jandek’s more vivid and poetic lyrical thoughts. Universal doom, loner dirges and sea-themed ruminations are all present. This is far and away the core of what was to come, in it’s most succinct and coincidentally most haunted form. This album was also the first to incorporate an image of Jandek on the cover, both giving a face to the sounds and hinting at what would become a prolific series of incredible, disturbed albums.

Vinyl for this album has been unavailable since the initial pressing ran out, and has been sought ravenously by collectors ever since. Working in direct collaboration with Corwood Industries, we’re thrilled to offer this exact repress, heavyweight-vinyl edition. An astonishingly ghostly album, unlike anything else and also unique to this particular phase in Jandek’s evolution, “Six And Six” is a crucial piece of the puzzle that we can only hope never gets solved completely.

Tracklisting:

A1. Feathered Drums
A2. Point Judith
A3. I Knew You Would Leave
A4. Can I See Your Clock
B1. Wild Strawberries
B2. Forgive Me
B3. You're the Best One
B4. Delinquent Words

Released July 2009 on Jackpot Records.
Catalog #: CORWOOD 0740
Vinyl Reissue

Jandek

Ready for the House $15.95 LP

The 1978 release of Corwood Industries #0739, "Ready For the House", began one of the most compelling, disturbed, and singular legacies in musical history. In the 30 years since this unique debut, Jandek has released 53 albums of mournful, atonal music that continues to defy classification and accessibility. And while the past three decades of intense productivity have yielded a depth of discussion, a handful of legendary live performances and even a film documentary, no amount of time or experience can prepare a listener for the experience of "Ready For the House."

Beyond stark, beyond oblique, beyond outsider even, the first Jandek LP (originally credited to The Units) explores musical territories no one even knew existed, with just a hollowed-out voice and a lonely, detuned guitar. In 1985 it had infamously sold less than ten of the 1000 copies originally pressed, however by 1999, when it was issued on CD, the vinyl had completely disappeared, with original copies changing hands for hundreds of dollars.

This exact repress on Corwood Industries, vinyl edition is the first time "Ready For the House" has been unavailable on vinyl for nearly 20 years, finally giving collectors and fans the opportunity to own one of the most peculiar, solitary, and strangely magnetic records of all time.

Tracklisting:
A1. Naked In the Afternoon
A2. First You Think Your Fortune's Lovely
A3. What Can I Say, What Can I Sing
A4. Show Me the Way, O Lord
B1. Know Thy Self
B2. They Told Me About You
B3. Cave In On You
B4. They Told Me I Was a Fool
B5. European Jewel (Incomplete)

Released July 15, 2008 on Jackpot Records.
Catalog #: Corwood 0739
Vinyl Reissue

The Wipers

Is This Real? $14.95 LP

Unquestionably Portland's most well-loved punk group, the Wipers formed in the late 1970s and in 1980 released their debut LP, "Is This Real?"—twelve songs of stabbing, jittery guitar, snapped vocals, and unabashed teen angst. Full of desperation and yearning, the LP has stood as a blueprint for wretched youth for over 25 years. In the early 1990s "Is This Real?" was given mainstream attention when Nirvana covered two tracks off the record and Cobain announced it was one of the primary influences on his group.

While it was reissued on compact disc and available as a part of the Wipers Boxed Set (Zeno), this is the first time "Is This Real?" has been available on vinyl in the U.S. since its initial release. Remastered from original tapes as provided by Greg Sage himself, the LP is pressed on audiophile grade vinyl and housed in a deluxe tip-on sleeve. Complete with a printed insert that replicates the original inner sleeve, the Jackpot Records reissue of "Is This Real?" is a lavish tribute to one of the greatest recordings of the last 30 years.

"What more can I say about them? They started Seattle grunge rock in
Portland, 1977"— Kurt Cobain "Ten Records that Changed My Life", Melody Maker 1992

Tracklisting:
A1. Return of the Rat
A2. Mystery
A3. Up Front
A4. Let’s Go Let’s Go Away
A5. Is This Real?
A6. Tragedy
A7. Alien Boy
B1. D-7
B2. Potential Suicide
B3. Don’t Know What I Am
B4. Window Shop for Love
B5. Wait a Minute

Released October 10, 2006 on Jackpot Records.
Catalog #: JPR 82801
Vinyl Reissue

The Wipers

Over the Edge $14.95 LP

The bleak, hard-driven third LP by the Wipers (originally released in 1983) offers Greg Sage at his most chased and breathless, lashing out with sharp staccato notes as if melody were his only defense. While their debut LP provided the blueprint for grunge, and their second album recast the band as one of America’s premier postpunk bands, it’s Over The Edge that best exemplifies the Wipers’ sound. The jagged, effortless guitar lines, the paranoid lyrics and raw-throated vocals and the taut, unified rhythms that define their sound bleed together most clearly on this LP, and it stands
as both the best entry point for new fans and the most prevalent favorite of diehards.

Since Jackpot Records began our Wipers vinyl reissues in 2006, we’ve been inundated with requests for a reissue of Over The Edge. After two years of labor, including an immaculate remaster from the original tapes by Greg Sage, we are proudto present Over the Edge, pressed on audiophile grade vinyl and packaged in a deluxe, tip-on sleeve.

Tracklisting:

A1. Over the Edge
A2. Doom Town
A3. So Young
A4. Messenger
A5. Romeo
B1. Now Is the Time
B2. What Is
B3. No One Wants an Alien
B4. The Lonely One
B5. No Generation Gap
B6. This Time

Released 2007 on Jackpot Records.
Cataog #: JPR82803
Vinyl Reissue

The Wipers

Youth of America $14.95 LP

Simply obliterating any conception of the Wipers as a mere punk band, Greg Sage released this follow-up to "Is This Real?" in 1981—a sophisticated, overwhelming response to the evil times marked by the turn of the decade. Broken up into six long songs, "Youth of America" is a much colder, harrowing experience than the teen angst of their debut. Vocally, Sage comes off as sleep-deprived and forsaken, snarling not only at his own predicament but at the predicament of the entire world.

The centerpiece of the album is the title track, a dire ten minutes of paranoia and angst that gave Sage the space to showcase his wildest, darkest playing yet. As bassist Brad Davidson and drummer Brad Naish hold the same hypnotic rhythm for the entire song, the guitar careens and swoops with such a frantic energy it seems as though it's the only thing keeping Sage alive in the maelstrom of sound. It's a fitting commentary that the exacting, post-punk legends Mission of Burma and squalling, noisy thugs The Melvins both saw fit to cover the track.

"Youth of America" is pressed on high-quality vinyl at RTI and packaged in a sturdy, old-fashioned tip-on sleeve. The tracks have been mastered from original tapes by Greg Sage himself, and the cover is identical to the original sleeve as issued in 1981.

Tracklisting:



A1. Taking Too Long
A2. Can This Be
A3. Pushing the Extreme
B1. When It’s Over
B2. No Fair
B3. Youth of America

Released on February 11, 2008 on Jackpot Records.
Catalog #: JPR 82802
Vinyl Reissue

The New Dawn

There's a New Dawn $11.95 CD

The New Dawn’s “There’s A New Dawn” has been hailed as one of the rarest and best psych albums to come out of the late 60s and early 70s. Fuzz guitar, minor-chord organ dirges, tender vocals and monumental bass are the calling cards of this private press gem. Maybe it’s all the rain, but like their Northwest counterparts, the New Tweedy Brothers and the Sonics, The New Dawn helped to establish a regional musical perspective that is hauntingly addictive.

Initially released in July of 1970, five hundred copies were pressed, but it’s estimated that only around 200 may still exist. Subsequently, auctions on Ebay for an original vinyl LP go for $2000.

After being highly sought after by collectors, we are proud to release this definitive CD reissue which was produced in close collaboration with Dan Bazzy, singer, songwriter, and founder of The New Dawn. Also included are three previously unreleased 1971 demos and a live track from a 2008 band reunion.

Tracklisting:

1. (There's A) New Dawn
2. I See a Day
3. It's Time
4. It’s Rainin’
5. Hear Me Cryin’
6. Dark Thoughts
7. Proudman
8. Billy Come Lately
9. We’ll Fall in Love
10. You
11. Last Morning
12. Life Goes On
13. We Need Each Other (Demo 1971)
14. Woman (Demo 1971)
15. So What You Want To (Demo 1971)
16. It’s Rainin’ (Live 2008)

Released 2009 on Jackpot Records.
Catalog #: JPR97
CD Reissue

Also available for purchase on iTunes.

Beauregarde

Beauregarde $14.95 LP

In recent years, a growing number of music collectors have taken an interest in the great lost works of the sixties and seventies. Nearly every city had bands that would hire a record plant to press up a limited run for the bands to sell. These records were rarely distributed outside of the band's home town and usually ended up being sold in local record shops or at live shows. This album is no exception, and in fact, comes from what some may perceive to be the most unlikely of influences: Psychedelic Rock and Professional Wrestling.

The year was 1970, and the Portland-based wrestler Beauregarde was at the height of his career. Known for his loud entrance music, and the even louder three wheeled motorcycle that would carry him into the ring, he was one of the most genuinely intimidating and charismatic wrestlers of the time.

In early 1970, he entered a Portland, OR recording studio with his band and a then unknown seventeen year old guitar player. That seventeen year old would later become punk rock legend and Wipers frontman, Greg Sage. In one afternoon they recorded what would see a limited release as an album, and would be used for Beauregarde's entrance music for the duration of his career.

All lyrics and music were written by Beauregarde and, ironically, never mention wrestling at all. His vocal style is passionate and direct but yet never goes overboard. The music features Hendrix-esque guitar solos over rock rhythms and soul drum beats.

After being highly sought after by collectors, we are proud to release these songs back on the vinyl format. With the help of Beauregarde and Greg Sage, the original master tapes were found and used to re-master this limited vinyl release. This LP serves as an important landmark in the worlds of wrestling, Portland's musical history, and psychedelic rock. We hope that you will come to enjoy and understand
the importance of this album as we do.

Tracklisting:
A1. I Got Something
A2. Super Star Super Star
A3. If You Got Soul
A4. Tomorrow, Tomorrow
B1. Everybody Ball
B2. I’m Talking Time
B3. Testify
B4. Pass Away
B5. “I”

Released October 5, 2004 on Jackpot Records.
Catalog #: JPR7104
Vinyl Reissue