Newsletter

Subscribe to the Culture Clash newsletter and get updates on Record of the Week, ticket sales, in-store performances and more!




News & Updates

Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

Record Store Day!

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

It’s about to be that time again! Time for the third annual Record Store Day! As always we have some rather deep discounts on all stock in the store, a full day planned of in-store performances, tons of exclusive releases(list is below!) and just an absolute blast of a time.

Did we mention deep discounts? Well, if there was something you had your eye on lately, Record Store Day would be the day to get it! We’ll be discounting everything as follows…

•20% off all new CDs, LPs, DVDs, Accessories(Record Players, Record Maintainence, etc)! This does exclude Record Store Day specific items due to their limited nature and exclusivity of this day.

•10% off all items already on sale! This includes all of our CDs on the listening stations and anything with a red sticker.

•33% off all used CDs, LPs, DVDs!

We couldn’t be more proud of the line-up we have for this year. We have some terrific bands coming in from all over the country, lending their time to the cause of Record Store Day and the best way to show your gratitude would be to come out and watch! Here is a tentative line-up for the day!

12PM: White Hinterland (Dead Oceans Records, from Portland, OR)

“Icarus” from White Hinterland’s 2010 album Kairos

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

“Dreaming of the Plum Trees” from White Hinterland’s 2008 album Phylactery Factory

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

12:45PM: Dosh (Anticon Records, from Minneapolis, MN)

“Subtractions” from Dosh’s 2010 album Tommy

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

“If You Want To, You Have To” from Dosh’s 2008 album Wolves & Wishes

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

1:30PM: Deadstring Brothers (Bloodshot Records, from Detroit, MI & Nashville, TN)

“Sao Paulo” from Deadstring Brothers’ 2010 album Sao Paulo

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

“The River Song” from Deadstring Brothers’ 2010 album Sao Paulo

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

2:30PM: Frank & Jesse (From Toledo, OH)

“Albuquerque” from Frank & Jesse’s 2009 demo

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

“Baton Rouge” from Frank & Jesse’s 2009 demo

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

3:30: Sir Mack Rice (Songwriter of such hits as “Mustang Sally” and many others, From Detroit, MI)

“Mustang Sally” from Sir Mack Rice’s 1965 single which charted as high as #6!

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

4:30: TBA

And now the exclusive releases we’ll have just for Record Store Day:

•Against Me – 2 Song Single 7″ (Sire)
•Album Leaf – There Is a Wind 12″ (Sub Pop)
•Band of Skulls – Live @ Fingerprints CD (Artist First)
•David Bazan – Live @ Electrical Audio CD
•Beach House – Zebra 12″ (Sub Pop)
•Beastie Boys – White Label 12″
•Black Keys – Tighten Up / Howlin’ For You 12″ (Nonesuch)
•Black Moth Super Rainbow – Eating Us LP (Graveface)
•Bon Iver / Peter Gabriel – Split 7″ (Jagjaguwar)
•Budos Band / Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – Split 7″ (Daptone)
•Built to Spill – Water Sleepers / Linus & Lucy 7″ (Warner Bros.)
•Cage the Elephant – Live @ Grimey’s CD (Jive)
•Julian Casablancas – 11th Dimension 7″ (RCA)
•CocoRosie – Lemonade / Surfer Girl 7″ (Sub Pop)
•Coheed and Cambria – Guns of Summer / Pearl of the Stars 7″ (Columbia)
•Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Live at Hollywood High EP 7″ (Hip-O)
•Deerhoof – Apple O LP (Kill Rock Stars)
•Ani DiFranco – Live @ Bull Moose CD (Righteous Babe)
•Charlotte Gainsbourgh – Heaven Can Wait / Irm 7″ (Atlantic)
•Deerhoof – Apple O LP (Kill Rock Stars)
•Deerhoof – Green Cosmos LP (Kill Rock Stars)
•Deftones – Rocket Skates 7″ (Warner Bros.)
•The Doors – People Are Strange / Crystal Ship 7″ (Rhino)
•Drive By Truckers – Your Woman Is a Living Thing / Just Maybe 7″ (ATO)
•Dum Dum Girls / Male Bonding – Split 7″ (Sub Pop)
•Jakob Dylan / Courtyard Hounds – See You in the Spring / Everybody’s Hurtin 7″ (Columbia)
•John Fahey – Yellow Princess LP (Vanguard)
•Flaming Lips & Stardeath and White Dwarfs – Dark Side of the Moon LP (Warner Bros.)
•Flogging Molly – Devil’s Dance Floor 7″ (Side One Dummy)
•Fucked Up – Daytrotter Sessions 7″ (Matador)
•Gogol Bordello – We Comin Rougher / Trans Continental Hustle 7″ (Columbia)
•Goldfrapp – Head First LP (Mute)
•Great Lakes Swimmers – Legion Sessions CD
•Buddy Guy – A Man and the Blues LP (Vanguard)
•Happy Birthday – Shampoo / Alien 7″ (Sub Pop)
•Helio Sequence / Menomena – Pilgrim’s Progress / Converter 7″ (Barsuk)
•Jimi Hendrix – Live at Clark University LP (Legacy)
•Hold Steady – Heaven Is Whenever LP (Vagrant)
I Need that Record!: The Death or Possible Survival of the Independent Record Store DVD (See of Sound)
•Japandroids – Post Nothing LP (Polyvinyl)
•LCD Soundsystem – Pow Pow 12″
•John Lennon – 7″ Box Set 7″ (Capitol)
•Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – Oldest House / North Coast 7″ (Matador)
•Let’s Wrestle / Love Language – Split 7″ (Merge)
•Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs LP Box Set (Merge)
•Manchester Orchestra – Live @ Park Avenue CD (Columbia)
•Mastodon – Blood Mountain LP (Warner Bros.)
•Dave Matthews / Tim Reynolds – Squirm / Lying in the Hands of God 7″ (RCA)
•MGMT – Siberian Breaks 12″ (Columbia)
•Moby Grape – Rounder 7″ (Sundazed)
•Modest Mouse – Moon & Antarctica LP (Epic)
•Monsters of Folk – Monsters of Folk LP (Shangri-La)
•Mountain Goats – Life of the World to Come DVD (4AD)
•Muse – Exogenesis 12″ (Warner Bros.)
•Nada Surf – If I Had a Hi-Fi CD
•Of Montreal – Back to School 7″ (Polyvinyl)
•Omar Rodriguez-Lopez – Solar Gambling LP (Rodriguez-Lopez)
•One A.M. Radio – Credible Threats 7″ (Dangerbird)
•One Eskimo – Live EP CD (Shangri-La)
•Owl City – Fireflies 7″ (Universal)
•Passion Pit – Little Secrets 7″ (Columbia)
•Phoenix – Fences 7″ (Glassnote)
•Plants & Animals – La La Land LP (Secret City)
•Grace Potter & the Nocturnals – Live in Skowhegan CD (Hollywood)
•Queens of the Stone Age – Feel Good Hit of the Summer 10″ (Interscope)
•Rodriguez – 7″ 7″ (Light in the Attic)
•Roky Erickson & Okkervil River – True Love Cast Out All Evil LP (Anti-)
•Rolling Stones – Plundered My Soul / All Down the Line 7″ (Universal)
•Sea Wolf – Get To the Rivers Before the River Runs Too Low 12″ (Dangerbird)
•Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings / Budos Band – Split 7″ (Daptone)
•Sonic Youth – Hits Are For Squares LP (Interscope)
•Soundgarden – Hunted Down / Nothing to Say 7″ (Sub Pop)
•Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros – Global A Go-Go LP (Hellcat)
•Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros – Streetcore LP (Hellcat)
•Superchunk – Misfits & Mistakes 7″ (Merge)
•Tegan & Sara – AOL Sessions CD (Sire)
•Thermals / Cribs – Split 7″ (Kill Rock Stars)
•TV on the Radio – Dear Science LP (Interscope)
•Various Artists – Fragments From a Work in Progress(Ariel Pink, Blonde Redhead, Big Pink, Gang Gang Dance, and more) 12″ (4AD)
•Various Artists – It Happened Here(Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Damien Jurado, Lou Barlow, and more) LP+7″ (St. Ives)
•Various Artists – SP20: Casual Nostalgia Fest(Iron & Wine, Obits, Blitzen Trapper, Pissed Jeans, Low) CD (Sub Pop)
•Tom Waits – Mule Variations LP (Anti-)
•Weezer – Ratitude: Happy Record Store Day CD (DGC)
•White Rabbits / Antlers – Split: Daytrotter Sessions 7″ (ATO)
•Yeasayer – O.N.E. 12″ (Secretly Canadian)
•Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Skeletons 7″ (Interscope)

5 CDs For Under $5

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Exiled On (a) Main St. Pt 2

Oh my what are they doing to my Secor Rd? Actually in isn’t (yet) as bad as I would imagine. I will share a few tips no GPS will give you.

1) Coming North on Secor isn’t bad at all. You might have to wait an extra light at Sylvania.Of course, rush hour may be another story.

2) Coming from the West. I would advise making your way to Sylvania taking a left turn on Secor. Again, Secor heading North isn’t bad so 475 will work also.

3)Driving from the East 475, Monroe and Sylvania all work OK with minor delays

4) Coming from the North. Are you a patient person? Secor is a slow process. Douglas or Talmadge to Sylvania is recommended.

Extra credit tip. You can take the alley which connects to 19 Hole and Sylvania in and out of our lot. It’s an easy turn to head East, South or West.

So that brings us to our new program…5 for $5! We will be offering 5 CDs (new of course) for a rock bottom price of under five bucks!! We give you another reason to stop by! Here’s our first throw:

Five For Five

Velvet Underground -White light white Heat

Steely Dan – Countdown To Ecstasy

Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation

New York Dolls – ST

Tom Waits – Franks Wild Year

Just Annouced The Black Atlantic In-store

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Photobucket Just confirmed! A very
special in-store with The Black Atlantic this Friday March 26, 6:00 @
Culture Clash Records. A great intimate preview of their show later at
the Ottawa Tavern.
http://www.myspace.com/theblackatlantic

Start the weekend off right

Support Local Free CD Compilation

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Photobucket

Here are the listings for our Toledo City Paper – Culture Clash Records

DIY Support Local free compilation. Thanks so much to Emily at TCP for such a great issue

Homeville Circle – Toledo
Frank & Jesse – Albuquerque
Polka Floyd Show – Fearless
Drawers – Opium Den
Daniel Strange – Dream Lord
OnceOver – Forever Hold Your Peace
Coosters – Bed
Fairly Handsome Band – Loney Hula Girl
Jason Quick – Curly Calypso
Great Lakes Crew – A Little Bit
AntiVilians – So Much For Romance
Homeville Circle – Interstate Trailerpark Headaches
Mighthaveben – Moving Again
Kentucky Chrome
Other Half – Smut

Polka Floyd Toledo Blade Review

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

Photobucket

LIVE AT THE OHIO THEATRE The Polka Floyd Show (Static)
First, blasphemy: Pink Floyd is kind of boring.
Cutting a vast swath across Pink’s entire discography, the band injects the late great classic rock band’s music with much-needed fun. This live album recorded at the Ohio Theatre on Lagrange Street perfectly captures the group’s sound, thanks to a killer set list and the overall vibe you get by combining spacey music, scorched-earth guitar, and a polka beat delivered by an air-tight band.

Equally cool is Polka Floyd’s willingness to plumb the depths of Pink Floyd’s archive, serving up odd tunes like “Seamus” from “Meddle” or weird tracks from the Syd Barrett days like “Jugband Blues,” followed by fierce renditions of more familiar songs like “Metal Machine Music,” “Pigs” (with Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” seamlessly worked into the mix), and “Comfortably Numb.”

Any discussion of the Polka Floyd Show requires a caveat to ensure the
uninitiated that the band’s raison d’etre — polkafied versions of Pink
Floyd — is not schtick. The band doesn’t take itself too seriously, but
it also never sells the music short. Crank this up loud and perhaps for
the first time in your life, you’ll actually dance to Floyd’s music.

The band is having a CD release party Friday at Culture Clash Records at 7 p.m. and at Mickey Finn’s Pub at 10 p.m.
— ROD LOCKWOOD

Upcoming Instore Performances

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Free Instore Shows

Polka Floyd Show -CD Release Party -July 24 @ 7:00

& we do mean party!! Polish delights & brews abound!!

Prayers For Rain July 25 @ 4:15

Yes, I Said Yes! July 25 @ 3:30


Copyright Culture Clash Records 2009
Culture Clash | 4020 Secor Rd. | Toledo, OH 43623 | (419) 536-LOVE | (419) 536-5683

Switch to our mobile site