New Arrivals 332: Angst, Defiled Altar, Discreet Music, Dressing, Hospital Productions, No Funeral, Oxen, Tribe Tapes, Vanishing Tower Tapes
Still more titles were expected this week, but CBSA has been experiencing system delays that are tying up some international packages.
I’ll be in Toronto and Hamilton this coming weekend of May 23rd. If you’re in the area and have any noise tapes/CDs/records/shirts/zines/etc you’re looking to part with, hit me up and let’s deal. Metal/punk/related stuff also considered!
Tickets for Initial Shock IV are on sale now. The full lineup features Killer Bug/Kazumoto Endo, Pholde, Violent Shogun, Knifedoutofexistence, A Fail Association, High Grove, Black Corolla, Murmur & Jazzhand, Nimmie Amee, D.F.H., Miox, Moss Harvest, Hypertrophy, Xodkaar, crucifiedwhitesaviour, Dang., Rhoda, Catholic Stare. Tickets can be purchased via screamandwrithe.com/initialshock and further details can be found in this previous post. Follow @initialshockmtl on Instagram for more updates.
New Arrivals 330: American Esoteric Laboratories, Initiation Services, Krim Kram, Neural Operations, Nyahh Records and more + ~50 second hand grind/metal tapes
A dash of new arrivals this week. I’ve been under the weather lately so next week will likely be a smaller update as well, although the long awaited latest batch from Angst should finally be landing. Apologies for any/all delayed responses, too. Capping off this week with a grip of ~50 second hand grind and metal tapes, up in the shop now.
New Arrivals 329: Bizzaro Warrior, Breaching Static, Clangor Tapes, Closed Casket Activities, Förlag För Fri Musik, Gracious Host, Industrial Coast, Life of Sensation, New Forces, Satatuhatta, Secret Buddy and more.
Lots of new arrivals picked up on the road, as well as packages from Discreet and Satatuhatta. Hopefully some hefty used items will be landing soon, more info later!
New Arrivals 328: Abhorrent A.D., Antihumanism Records, Black Psychosis, Input Error, Makade Star, Phage Tapes, Psychogeographical Research Institute + Primitive Isolation Tactics & Magnetic Corner tour continues
A post from the road to collate everything that arrived before I left.
The Primitive Isolation Tactics and Magnetic Coroner tour continues with a stop at Angry Mom Records in Ithaca, NY tonight. Then it’s on to BSMT 245 in Toronto tomorrow night, and finally Error 403 in Montreal on Tuesday.
The shop remains open while I’m gone, and normal shipping operations will resume on the 24th.
Alien8 Recordings, Amphetamine Sulphate, FAB Press, Fusty, Gathering Wool, Hamilton Tapes, Noise Receptor, Prose Nagge, Robert Fuchs, Tesco Organisation + 175 used items!
I will be away from April 16-April 21. I’ll be doing a shipping run on the 15th before I go. The shop will remain open while I’m gone, and normal Friday shipping operations will resume on the 24th.
Tickets for Initial Shock IV are on sale now. The full lineup features Killer Bug/Kazumoto Endo, Pholde, Violent Shogun, Knifedoutofexistence, A Fail Association, High Grove, Black Corolla, Murmur & Jazzhand, Nimmie Amee, D.F.H., Miox, Moss Harvest, Hypertrophy, Xodkaar, crucifiedwhitesaviour, Dang., Rhoda, Catholic Stare. Tickets can be purchased via screamandwrithe.com/initialshock . Follow @initialshockmtl for more updates, and hopefully the website will be up and running soon.
Magnetic Coroner and Primitive Isolation Tactics will be playing at Error 403 on April 21st.
New Arrivals 325: Grubenwehr Freiburg, Hospital Productions, MSDO, Reanimated Miscarriage, Ultra Sound Probe Transducer + Shadow Pattern (ON), Duncan Harrison (UK), Rory Salter (UK) and Robert Fuchs (US) in Montreal this Wednesday!
The technical issue with the broker for US packages is ongoing, but packages are beginning to make it through, meaning there are some nice new arrivals for this week. More en route, as always!
During the week there were some issues with orders where PayPal was the selected payment type, but the issue seems to be resolved. It came as the result of a botched update to the PayPal payment gateway plugin. If you continue to have trouble or notice anything weird during (or after) checkout, please let me know.
A Ticket section has been added. This will become most useful when Initial Shock IV is announced next week. Accessible via More > Tickets, or via the Initial Shock menu page.
Shop overhaul! + Death Is A Drummer, Dunkelheit, FAB Press, Helicopter, Narcolepsia, New Approach, Obsessive Fundamental Realism, Old Europa Cafe, Rude Fans, Shaking Box Music, Spectacular Optical, Steep Gloss, Troniks
Catching up on this week's update after a power outage prevented regular Sunday posting.
The overhaul of site categories is more or less complete. Beyond main category updates there are new filtering additions (format, condition, style, etc.), as well as artist and label browsing pages. This comes after a lot of work streamlining things behind the scenes as well. Now the site is quite powerful, has become more scalable and should be much better to navigate. Less reliance on the search bar means no more battles with its pesky treatment of terms, and hopefully things that have been long buried in the nether pages of the catalog can find some life again. As the changes are quite numerous I’ve listed all updates (that I can recall) in a changelog at the bottom of the website version of this post. See how you can now take advantage of the site. If you run into any issues or spot any bugs, please let me know.
As far as changes to the newsletter go: New (and Second Hand) Arrivals are now split by category. The posts are also authored by “screamandwrithe” instead of just “admin”. Unfortunately it’s based on site username and I can’t force it to be “Scream & Writhe” proper. And a minor apology to everyone who reads this via email, as the entire content of last week’s update was inadvertently put behind a “Read More” marker. The content is intended to be readily available and not merely to generate clicks (although it did bring a nice number of visits to the site… Good to know folks do indeed read this!).
The technical issue with the broker for US packages is ongoing. A package from Helicopter finally made it through for this week’s update, but there are plenty more still waiting to land including packages from Andromache, Gathering Wool, Hospital, MSDO, Reanimated Miscarriage, Sound Probe and more. If they all land next week it will make for a pretty substantial update given the other international packages that are expected to arrive in the meantime.
New Arrivals 323: Discreet Music, Ferns Recordings, Fönstret, Fourth Dimension Records, Marhaug Forlag, New Forces
Site categories have been revamped, and will likely be going through further revisions while I make things more streamlined and scalable. Those using RSS product feeds will have to update their feed URLs (perhaps more than once, sorry). New/Used items are now grouped by default, and you can toggle if you’d rather see one or the other via the sidebar. After the music-related categories are locked in I will work on cleaning up the book section. To that, some titles from Spectacular Optical (CA) and FAB Press (UK) will be in stock soon (one Spectacular Optical book in stock as of now).
There has been a technical issue with the broker for US packages, so the latest from Helicopter, MSDO, and some Hospital items originally due for this week have been delayed. Hopefully those (and others) will be in for next week.
A handful of second hand grind/metal tapes have been added, with more to come before long.
There will be a show with Shadow Pattern (ON), Duncan Harrison (UK), Rory Salter (UK) and Robert Fuchs (US) in Montreal on April 1st at Casa del Popolo. Poster below. Other shows happening in April, May and June will be fully announced shortly.
Initial Shock IV will take place July 3-5. The lineup is complete and a full announcement will be made early April.
New Arrivals 322: Afvikling, Antihumanism Records, Dada Drumming, Oxen, Satatuhatta, +
Some of the anticipated international packages have arrived at last, with still more en route. If I have the proper time there will also be the latest titles from Ferns Recordings (+ restocks) added to the shop sometime today as well.
New Arrivals 320: Amethyst Sunset, DABA, Ecstatic Peace!, Editions Mego, Erstwhile Records, Glass Modern, Hanson Records, Harbinger Sound, Hospital Productions, Lake Shark Harsh Noise, Machine Gun Landscape Productions, No Holiday, Old Europa Cafe, Radiation Reissues, Room40, Rotorelief, Skull Skates, Streamline, Tribe Tapes, Urashima
Today is the last day to pre-order the official collaboration merch between Skull Skates and The Rita. These items are exclusive to Scream & Writhe outside of the skateboard industry.
A big pile of stuff in this week from an eclectic array of sources. New Dada Drumming, Oxen and Satatuhatta titles are already confirmed for arrival next week, and still others that were anticipated for this week continue to be in the hands of international postal carriers.
A few handfuls of miscellaneous second hand CDs added as well. A wide range of metal, new age, jazz, classical, etc. Some of it will hopefully be at least tangentially of interest.
New Arrivals 320: Blast Addict, Fusty, Intellect Books, Lake Shark Harsh Noise, Tenebrae, Total Black, Zombi Danz Records
Shock Factory, Nicolas Ballet’s major tome on “The Visual Culture of Industrial Music” is finally in stock. Copies are limited, and it has a high cover price due to being an academic press. The new (last?) Worth tape has also landed, along with other new arrivals and restocks from Total Black. Plus more noise arrivals, grind mania from Blast Addict, and a grip from one of the best underground metal labels of recent times, Zombi Danz. Anticipating next week to be a major one in terms of new noise arrivals—if the postal gods allow for it!
New Arrivals 319: EK Verlag, Public Froth, War Vellum
A quick one this week with a tape from Harriet Morgan’s new post-Military Position project Ego Morte on Ester Kärkkäinen (Himukalt)’s imprint EK Verlag, plus the latest tapes from Public Froth (Sewer Election already sold out, sorry!) and a grip of metal in from War Vellum including last year’s best 10” from Tsalal. Three second hand items thrown in the mix for good measure. Lots of good stuff en route!
