Big stuff in the works but I am down with a cold. Ug! In the meantime, let the Poste Italiane entertain you with it's list of items you are not allowed to mail to Italy, in alphabetical order:

Albums of any kind (of photographs, postcards, postage stamps, etc.).

Arms and weapons.

Articles of platinum or gold; jewelry; and other valuable articles unless sent as insured Priority Mail International parcels.

Artificial flowers and fruits and accessories for them.

Bells and other musical instruments and parts thereof.

Cartridge caps; cartridges.

Clocks and supplies for clocks.

Compound medicaments and medicines.

Coral mounted in any way.

Ether and chloroform.

Exposed photographic and cinematographic films.

Footwear of any kind.

Haberdashery and sewn articles of any kind, including trimmings and lace; handkerchiefs; scarves; shawls, needlework including stockings and gloves; bonnets, caps, and hats of any kind.

Hair and articles made of hair.

Human remains.

Leather goods.

Lighters and their parts, including lighter flints.

Live bees, leeches, and silkworms.

Live plants and animals.

Nutmeg, vanilla; sea salt, rock salt; saffron.

Parasites and predators of harmful insects.

Perfumery goods of all kinds (except soap).

Playing cards of any kind.

Postage stamps in sealed or unsealed First-Class Mail International shipments.

Radioactive materials.

Ribbons for typewriters.

Roasted or ground coffee and its substitutes; roasted chicory.

Saccharine and all products containing saccharine.

Salted, smoked or otherwise prepared meats; fats; and lard.

Tobacco.

Toys not made wholly of wood.

Treated skins and furs.

Weapons of any kind and spare parts for them.

Woolen Men tour the West Coast with the Woollen Kits from Australia! Woolly bully!

LA Jan 26 Permanent Records w/ Woolen Kits
Fullerton Jan 26 Burger Records w/ Woollen Kits (What gives, LA? Everybody else wants to have a good time)
Fresno Jan 27 Audie's Olympic w/ The Mallard, Quiet Americans, Woollen Kits
Oakland Jan 28 1-2-3-4 Go! Records w/ The Mantles, Woollen Kits
SF Jan 29 The Knockout w/ The Mallard, Blasted Canyons, Woollen Kits
Davis Jan 30 Live on Art For Spastics on KDVS w/ DJ RICK!, Woollen Kits
Sacto Jan 31 Bows And Arrows w/ G Green, Woollen Kits
Portland Feb 1 The Know w/ Zotz, Woollen Kits
Seattle Feb 3 The Josephine w/ Orca Team, So Pitted, Woollen Kits

Hi hi hi!
Various Eggy related news:
Our favorite Russians, Post-Materialist, have a new track out on a Siberian internet-label called Hiroshima Toy Pet, you can scope it here.

And from the Void Skateshop crew, two videos:
Trailblazer

Trailblazer - Hey Hair from Coleman Guyon on Vimeo.

Street Gnar


And in the mail order, copies of the new-ish Jovontaes LP and Lab Coast split 7".

Lastly, a new Woolen Men tape on the way, take a listen here.

Geoff Mullen - Accidental Guitars LP - Rel Records
It's no surprise that Geoff Mullen's new record sounds chaotic on first listen -- the LP is made from the haphazard layering of a live set recorded to tape and two different improvised accompaniments to that set each recorded later to a different cassette deck. What's surprising is the way the record slowly takes shape, revealing passages of synchronicity and cohesion. Scattered, percussive guitar playing will ease into more meditative sounds, agitation give way to calm. Definitely not an easy listen, it is certainly thought-provoking and often mesmerizing.

$17, email eggyrecords@gmail.com to order it.

Robert Ridley-Shackleton - Shut Up Egg - Self-released
Following up his recent tape on Goaty, Robert Ridley-Shackleton returns with Shut Up Egg in a self-released edition of 30. Bracingly unhinged, fans of Baronic Wall will be familiar with the territory but Ridley-Shackleton is certainly on his very own trip. Shut Up Egg is a concept album of sorts, documenting Robert's fury towards an egg-man he finds in his kitchen trying to kill his wife, and his feverish desire to inflict yolk-splattering violence against the intruder and his supermarket kin. It's not completely strict in its theme, however, and includes a track about a "silly little poochie" with big feet and ears and a blood-lust towards Robert and his family. A pleasant surprise of the tape comes in the form of the backing tracks and instrumental work, which is less Casio-centric than I remember the last tape being and more experimental in texture, filled with weird growls and industrial noises. Maybe it's because I was listening to him earlier today, but there something vaguely Hasil Adkins about Ridley-Shackleton's strange visions(I'm thinking obsession with killing an egg versus obsession with cutting a woman's head off). Anyway, insular and somewhat unsettling, well, no, straight up unsettling, Shut Up Egg is the product of a unique mind, and will certainly perplex and entertain.

You can listen to it here:
http://robertridley-shackleton.bandcamp.com/album/shut-up-egg

$6, email eggyrecords@gmail.com to order it.

Ulaan Khol - La Catacomb - Soft Abuse
Pummeling in its poise, La Catacomb is a leveling slow burner of frayed guitar work that finds its peace in waves of distortion. Without thinking too much about it, the reference that comes to mind is Popul Vuh's soundtrack work for Herzog -- that sense of calm and unease somehow at the same time. Impeccable stuff. Honestly it's a little bit weird to me that this is only on tape, enough so that I spent some time looking for who had put out the vinyl version only to find that there was none. A little background info, Ulaan Khol is a project of Steven R. Smith, who first came to my attention in the early Aughts via his excellent work as Hala Strana, though he was also playing in Thuja at the time along side Loren Chasse and Glenn Donaldson. Which is to say he is a veteran of the Jewelled Antler scene and has been "doing it" for a while now. Really excellent tape, highly recommended!

$7, email eggyrecords@gmail.com to order it.