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Matador At 21 Instores Sept. 28th
Matador Records, arguably one of the most important and influential record labels of a generation, is celebrating their 21st anniversary and to commemorate they have dug deeeep into their vault and come out with Matador At 21, an expansive, all-encompassing 6 CD Box Set to be released in conjunction with
their Las Vegas anniversary concerts Oct.1st-3rd
Available as a US Import, and in strictly limited numbers, Matador At 21 is presented in a linen covered box with 36 poker chips, an 85-page perfect bound book with history of the label, photos, ephemera, emails, and much more.
5 CDs are of remastered songs from the label’s history with 1 disc of unreleased recordings from the 10th Anniversary shows in NYC, 1999, recorded to multitrack via the Rolling Stones Mobile Truck.
Also available is a double LP of Disc 5, which compiles their current roster of artists including Kurt Vile, Fucked Up, Sonic Youth, Cold Cave, Cat Power, and others. Includes MP3 download coupon.
Oct. 1-3 the label and its hordes are taking over The Palms Hotel in Las Vegas for three days of shows with Matador artists past and present, including Sonic Youth, Pavement, Spoon, Yo La Tego, a reunited Guided By Voices, Come, Chavez, Fucked Up, Guitar Wolf and others.
For more information, please visiit www.matadorrecords.com/21
Disc One: The Pre-Dawn (1989-1992):
1. Teenage Fanclub – Everything Flows
2. H. P. Zinker – Dancing Days
3. Superchunk – Slack Motherfucker
4. Dustdevils – Throw The Bottlefull
5. Railroad Jerk – These Streets
6. Come – Fast Piss Blues
7. Bettie Serveert – Kid’s Allright
8. Chain Gang – Cut Off The Drug Czar’s Head
9. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – Glee
10. Unsane – This Town
11. Circle X – Compression Of The Species
12. Toiling Midgets – Mr. Foster’s Shoes
13. Bailter Space – The Today Song
14. Pavement – Perfume-V
*Disc Two: The Years Of Milk and Honey (1993-
1995):*
1. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Afro
2. Yo La Tengo – Big Day Coming
3. Railroad Jerk – The Ballad Of Railroad Jerk
4. Helium – Superball
5. Pizzicato Five – Baby Love Child
6. Liz Phair – Mesmerizing
7. Pavement – Silence Kit
8. Guided By Voices – Game Of Pricks
9. 18th Dye – Whole Wide World
10. Chavez – Peeled Out To Late
11. Come – String
12. Moonshake – Secondhand Clothes
13. Guitar Wolf – Midnight Violence Rock’n’Roll
14. San Francisco Seals – Back Again
15. Bardo Pond – Rumination
Disc Three: Days Of Whiskey and Tears (1996-2001):
1. Boards Of Canada – Telephasic Workshop
2. Spoon – Waiting For The Kid To Come Out
3. Yo La Tengo – Autumn Sweater
4. Chavez – You Must Be Stopped
5. Silkworm – Tarnished angel
6. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Flavor Parts 1 & 2
7. Pole – Fliegen
8. Cat Power – American Flag
9. Belle and Sebastian – We Rule The School
10. Mogwai – Helps Both Ways
11. Arsonists – Backdraft
12. Large Professor – ‘Bout That Time
13. Cornelius – Tone Twilight Zone
14. burger/ink – Flesh & Blood
15. Pavement – You Are A Light
16. Arab Strap – Blood
17. Matmos – L.A.S.I.K.
Disc Four: Don’t Call It A Comeback (2002-2007):
1. Interpol – Hands Away
2. Cat Power – He War
3. Yo La Tengo – Today Is The Day
4. The New Pornographers – From Blown Speakers
5. Dizzee Rascal – Fix Up, Look Sharp
6. Dead Meadow – Good Moanin’
7. Mogwai – Kids Will Be Skeletons
8. Mission Of Burma – The Setup
9. Early Man – Death Is The Answer
10. Belle and Sebastian – Dress Up In You
11. Pretty Girls Make Graves – All Medicated Geniuses
12. Cat Power – Love & Communication
13. Shearwater – Johnny Viola
14. Brightblack Morning Light – Everybody Daylight
15. Lavender Diamond – You Broke My Heart
16. Jennifer O’Connor – Tonight We Ride
17. Earles & Jensen – The Yogurt Machine
18. Stephen Malkmus – Discretion Grove
Disc Five: Matador Today (2008 – ):
1. Fucked Up – Son The Father
2. Sonic Youth – Sacred Trickster
3. Kurt Vile – Amplifier
4. Yo La Tengo – Nothing To Hide
5. Jay Reatard – There Is No Sun
6. Harlem – Friendly Ghost
7. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists – Bottled In Cork
8. Cold Cave – Youth and Lust
9. The New Pornographers – My Shepherd
10. Times New Viking- Sick & Tyred
11. Girls – Lust For Life
12. Interpol – Success
13. Shearwater – Castaways
14. Cat Power – Silver Stallion
15. Esben and the Witch – Marching Song
16. Delorean – Stay Close
17. Magic Kids – Superball
18. Perfume Genius – Learning
19. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Real Emotional
Trash
*Disc Six: Unreleased & Live from Matador at 10,
1999:*
1. Pavement – Here (LIVE 1999)
2. Pavement – Trigger Cut (LIVE 1999)
3. Pavement – The Hexx (LIVE 1999)
4. Pavement – She Believes (LIVE 1999)
5. Pavement – Unfair (LIVE 1999)
6. Pavement – Zurich Is Stained (LIVE 1999)
7. Pavement – Debris Slide (LIVE 1999)
8. Pavement – Spit On A Stranger (LIVE 1999)
9. Come – New Coats (LIVE 1999)
10. Bardo Pond – Walking Stick Man (LIVE 1999)
11. Bardo Pond – Tommy Gun Angel (LIVE 1999)
12. Cat Power – Good Woman (LIVE 1999)
13. Cat Power – Naked, If I Want To (LIVE 1999)
14. Cat Power – You May Know Him/Sea Of Love
(LIVE 99)
15. Mogwai – Ex-Cowboy (LIVE 1999)
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