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	NEW!	COPYRIGHTS "North Sentinel Island" from It's Alive BUY LP • $10.00 It's hard to believe it has been eight years since The Copyrights released their first album way back in 2003. Pop punk had long since burst onto the scene, into the big leagues and retreated back to the basements by then, leaving behind the last of the diehards. Among those diehards were The Copyrights. Still teenagers then, these guys took everything good about the old style and made it new again... and better than ever. They were among the first of a few young bands to really take pop punk, turn it on its end and redefine the genre. Eight years, a slew of singles and five full length albums later they are still at it. They continue to define and redefine the genre with each successive album. No two Copyrigths albums sound exactly the same, but they are all unmistakably Copyrights through and through. Bands like this make sticking to the music you love despite all of its lows worth it every day. North Sentinel Island is the best Copyrights album to date. But ask any Copyrights fan and they will have said the same about each new album when it came out. They aren't wrong - this band just gets better and better with each new record.
	NEW!	GATEWAY DISTRICT "Perfect's Gonna Fail" from It's Alive Records BUY LP • $9.00 BUY CD • $8.00 Back in print on vinyl! Sophomore album from Minneapolis' Gateway District following up 2009's "Some Days You Get The Thunder." Once again recorded, mixed and mastered by Jacques Wait at The Terrarium. Featuring members of Dear Landlord, Banner Pilot, The Soviettes and Rivethead!
	NEW!	MANIX, THE "Neighborhood Wildlife" from It's Alive BUY LP • $10.00 BUY CD • $9.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes **OUT IN LATE DEC./EARLY JAN.! Enough is enough. Minneapolis punk bands seriously need to take a year or two off and let the rest of the country catch up with their awesomeness. It really is getting ridiculous how many incredible bands call that city home. Being the land of a thousands lakes, I gotta believe it is something in the goddamn water. Sure, many of the bands coming out of MPLS have similar sounding styles, but why is that a bad thing if their styles of choice kick my ass every time? The Manix are the latest musical champions from this magical land to have graced It's Alive Records with the privilege to release a record of theirs. Their debut album Neighborhood Wildlife is packed with a dozen jams that absolutely kill it with every listen! The songs showcase a great mix of the shoutalong go-for-broke anthems super-prevalent in the basement scene of today's midwest and the ultra catchy head-bopping melodies that are the core of all pop punk past and present. The lyrics are smart, thoughtful and heartfelt without any hints of trying too hard to be anything they aren't. The album was mixed at mastered by Jacques Wait - the man behind the boards for many an album from other MPLS locals such as Off With Their Heads, The Soviettes, Dear Landlord, Banner Pilot and The Gateway District - so you know this shit sounds tight! Frontdude Corey Ayd spends his time away from The Manix as a member of the professional punk rock group Banner Pilot, so there's a whole wealth of incredible music to feed off of right there. Drummer Mike Cranberry also plays in Nato Cole's latest rock group The Blue Diamond Band and is the sweetest dude on planet earth. Second vocalist and guitarist Steve used to be in The Turkletons, so that's pretty much gonna sell a thousand copies of this album right there. Tyler was something like 12 years old when he played on this album, but left the band to pursue a high school education or something like that. Joe, formerly of Amen And The Hell Yeahs has replaced him and totally upped The Manix drunx punx points. How these kids in their early 20's come off sounding like the new reigning champs of punk rock I have no idea, but they do... It's gotta be the fucking water! **MEMBERS OF BANNER PILOT & THE BLUE DIAMOND BAND
		BARRAKUDA MCMURDER "Slow Crawl" from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes This is Grath Madden of The Steinways first band and first release since the unfortunate end of The Steinways (www.myspace.com/thesteinways). If you were a fan of his past material you're sure to love this new EP. The melodies and harmonies are back in full force as well as the shitty attitude. The songs are still about a crappy life, love and all that junk, but they read a little more personal than his past efforts. A great first release from a new band showing lots of promise.
		BE MY DOPPELGANGER "No Composure" from It's Alive BUY LP • $8.50 BUY CD • $8.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes **Includes download code! "No Composure" is an eclectic mix of the best pop punk, powerpop and rock 'n' roll the midwest has to offer from one of today's best bands going. Be My Doppelganger bring a party to the stage every time they play. They've managed to capture that energy and excitement and put it on wax - it's like your own porta-party! There's something on here for everyone, whether you're an all out rager, a romance junkie, or a hang-in-the-corner kid. "No Composure" was recorded by Matt Allison at Atlas Studios, co-produced by Adam Fletcher from The Copyrights, mixed by Matt "Drastic" Yonker (formerly of the Teen Idols), and mastered by Cliffy Huntington - all that shit's gotta count for something!
		BE MY DOPPELGANGER "Sonic Annihilation" from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes
		CHILDREN'S CRUSADE "Get Awesome" from It's Alive BUY 10" • $7.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes
		CHINESE TELEPHONES "Chinese Telephones" from It's Alive BUY LP • $9.00 BUY CD • $8.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes The self-titled debut album from Chinese Telephones was first released in November 2007. It was pretty much instantly sold out and repressed the following month in December 2007. By early 2008 it was gone again. The band had called it a day not long after, so we left this album out of print. A couple years later Chinese Telephones were playing some shows here and there and eventually went out for a couple of tours. Fast forward to 2010, the band was officially back to active status and has been playing out since. It seems dumb not to have this album in print for as long as this incredible band is out stoking the old fans and winning over new ones. So here we are releasing the third pressing of one of the absolute best records we've ever been lucky enough to have released. All copies have been pressed on yellow/blue split color vinyl and come with a download code. If you missed it the first time, get it now! If you already have it and want a copy that's really cool to look at, go for it! This album is goddamn modern classic!
		CHINESE TELEPHONES "Democracy" from It's Alive/Sandwich Man BUY LP • $9.00 BUY CD • $8.50 Chinese Telephones... Democracy... get it? Well, if you don't get the Guns N Roses "Chinese Democracy" joke in there I won't hold it against you. That piece of crap took them something like a decade to get released. So, to keep the parody of a joke as true to form as we could, we took forever and a day to get this LP out! The CD version has been out for a good long while now. If you know what's good for you, you already own it. But even if you do, you might wanna pick up this LP version. Not only does it have both songs from the Art Of The Underground Single Series 7" on it, which the CD did not, but it's also been entirely re- mastered by Justin Perkins. That dude knows what he's doing with all the switches and knobs!
		CHINESE TELEPHONES / DEAR LANDLORD from Recess Records/It's Alive BUY 7" • $3.75 DOWNLOAD from iTunes "I had to scroll down this lackluster, at best, Dreamweaver file to find out when the last time i did a split 7". Lets just agree that its been awhile. I dunno why cos its a format that got me thru years of shitty throwaway B sides and turned me onto some pretty great bands. Ah ok enough "those were the days" crap! Dear Landlord is Zack & Half Pint from Rivethead and Fletcher & Brett from The Copyrights. Obviously if you liked any one of those bands you will love their side of this! Zach has not skipped a beat with his great songs. For those of you who wished Rivethead never broke up can stop throwing their stupid pennys in the well now. Chinese Telephones are consistently recording some great stuff! I think they are a hybrid of D4 and The Marked Men. If you heard their great side off The Potential Johns split 12" then your already hooked. go for it! Split release with the lovely It's Alive Records." - Todd/Recess
		CITY MOUSE "City Mouse" from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 City Mouse has been kicking around for quite a few years now. Though the line-up has seen many changes over time, the awesomeness of the passionate and heavy-hitting songs has constantly been improving with each new incarnation of the band. Mainstay front-woman Miski Dee Rodriguez knows how to write a solid pop jam and can belt out the whoa-mama lead vocals like nobody's business! The four tracks that make up this s/t vinyl debut release are reminiscent of the mid-nineties pop punk rock n roll that was being played by some of the toughest ladies of punk rock from the midwest and upper south at the time - powerful, sultry lead vocals over an incredibly melodic, driving rhythm. Danzig-approved.
		COPYRIGHTS "Button Smasher" from It's Alive 7" temporarily out of stock DOWNLOAD from iTunes
		COPYRIGHTS "Crutches" from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 Crutches is the first single off of The Copyrights' newest album North Sentinel Island. Like all of their jams, it is both instantly recognizable as a Copyrights song, yet at the same time just different enough from previous works to keep you guessing where they are going with it. Having already heard the new album, Crutches is really much more of a teaser than a indicator of what's to come. The safest bet is just to expect the best because every longtime Copyrights fan will tell you each successive album is better than the one before and North Sentinel Island is no exception to that rule. The flipside of this EP contains two demo tracks that didn't make the cut for the final recording of the new album; one a straight forward punk jam. The other a total pop ballad. A band that can nail it both ways is definitely doing something right. **Includes download code!
		COPYRIGHTS "Make Sound" from It's Alive/Red Scare BUY LP • $8.50 CD temporarily out of stock DOWNLOAD from iTunes
		COPYRIGHTS "Mutiny Pop" from It's Alive LP temporarily out of stock DOWNLOAD from iTunes
		COPYRIGHTS "We Didn't Come Here to Die PICTURE DISC" from It's Alive BUY LP • $10.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes
		COPYRIGHTS / DOPAMINES "Songs About Fucking Up" from It's Alive 7" temporarily out of stock DOWNLOAD from iTunes Two of the very best bands the underground has to offer in the way of melodic-pop-punk-rock. At some point the new-school becomes the old-school, or at least the not-so-new-school. The Copyrights were the new kids on the block seven years ago when they got started, but today have become a band that is inspiring newer, younger acts. The Dopamines are undeniably one of these bands. This EP showcases both bands at their very best doing what they do best - singing about fucking up! Download: "Dopamines - October 24th" MP3
		CREDENTIALS "Goocher" from It's Alive Records BUY LP • $9.00 In a time when it's not only accepted but seemingly encouraged and even applauded for underground independent bands to get their music licensed for video games, car commercials, energy drink sponsorships and shit knows what else, it's nice to know some bands still stand against all that big deal bullshit. The Credentials are one of those bands. Ideals aren't dead and neither is punk. "Goocher" is the band's second album and it's stacked full of anthems shouted out against the bullshit we all see and deal with in day to day life. They don't get all preachy or pretentious with it either. They sing from the heart and go for the guts on every track. Musically The Credentials fall somewhere between the east bay sound of the '90s not unlike Crimpshrine and Pinhead Gunpowder and more modern bands like Chinese Telephones and Witches With Dicks. Mix all that up with a little '77 street punk style and crunchy pop punk jams and that's how "Goocher" is gonna rock you!
		CREEPS, THE "Follow You Home" from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes The Creeps have been doing their thing for the better part of a decade now. Their first album in 2003 (Gamma Gamma Ray) was very much in the vain of the sci-fi-horror-outter-space meets girls-with-problems pop punk thing popular throughout the late 90's into early 00's. Though they were totally proficient and capable of rocking a good tune, it wasn't anything terribly fresh. Their next album in 2005 (Back To The Bin) had something new to offer in the guitar leads department, but otherwise wasn't too different in style or sound. It was, however, themed from start to finish - something pretty much trademark for the band ever since. 2008 saw the release of their third album (Lakeside Cabin) on which The Creeps really found their own sound. They got comfortable slowing it down and experimenting with song structures and really sparse yet effective backing vocals. Skottie's lead vocals were improved almost to the point of reinvention - they're unmistakable once familiarized with them. Later that year they released their first 7" EP (These Walls). It was on that EP that The Creeps really claimed the sound that is now their own and took a big step out into less trodden territory in the world of pop punk rock. That brings us to now... Follow You Home is The Creeps' sound perfected! Incredible lead and backing vocals, bright and shiny guitar leads over driving rhythms, thick clean bass lines over precision drum beats... it's all there. It's hard to imagine them getting any better than this, but then again it has been and upward trend ever since their beginning...
		CREEPS, THE "Lakeside Cabin" from It's Alive Records BUY LP • $9.00 Originally released in 2008 on CD only by Black Pint Records, Lakeside Cabin is finally getting the vinyl treatment. In addition to the new format, the already excellent cover art has been improved upon with a fantastic reworked layout. Having released three albums prior to this one, Lakeside Cabin is the album in which The Creeps really broke out of the mold they had started out in and found their own sound. You can hear the transition from old to new throughout the album. While tracks such as "Bury The Bodies," "The Creeps Are A Gas" and "Long Way Home" echo the style of The Creeps' former albums, "All The Way Home" and "Baby, Hold On Tight" showcase a much more eclectic style with the addition of strings and funky bass lines. "Voices (Again And Again)" and "Palisades" also introduce new elements into the mix in the form of acoustic guitars and those absolutely perfect sparse backing vocals. Everything The Creeps released prior to Lakeside Cabin is good, but everything released after is absolutely essential. This album is a great place to start if you're just getting into The Creeps. Includes download code! 1st pressing is 500 copies on Green vinyl!
		CRUMBS / RIDICULES from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes The Crumbs have been making noise down in Miami for 15 years now. Their unmistakable 1950's classic rock n roll meets 1970's pre-punk style has been evolving ever since. Their two tracks on this record stand up to the best the band's ever done before. A few members have come and gone over the years - on this record they are joined by Joe Koontz of Against All Authority. Making their first vinyl appearance, fellow Miami residents, The Ridicules bring two tracks of a newer take on the pop punk rock n roll style to the flipside of this split. Their songs combine elements of the catchy up beat traditional pop punk sound with a healthy dose of grit and guts, not unlike a lot of the better music currently evolving up and out of the pop punk underground.
		CRUSADES "The Sun Is Down and the Night Is Riding In" from Razorcake Records/It's Alive BUY LP • $10.00 BUY CD • $8.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes To call the Ottawa punk scene incestual makes it sound too wholesome. At this point, a band family tree would be impossible. They’ve crossed the line into band forest territory; new sprouts feeding off the old growth. It’s a successful ecosystem inhabited by amazing musicians. At the end of the day, those people and their bands are releasing the most high quality records, per capita, in the entire world. The newest germination is Crusades’ debut full-length, The Sun Is Down and the Night Is Riding In. In my eyes, all punk worth a damn is somewhat anti-Christian, but Crusades take it to a new level. They combine their disdain for organized religion with melodies four voices deep. Crusades own the night, enlisting the unholy powers of unlikely allies like The Chinese Telephones, From Ashes Rise, and Alice Cooper. Comes in gatefold, reverse board cover, with a download code. (Ex-members/members of The Sedatives, The Creeps, Steve Adamyk Band, and much much more.) Here's a nice review: "If you're not already familiar with Ottawa, ON's Crusades from their promising first demo/seven-inch, you most likely know one or more of the handful of other bands the members inhabit(ed). Separately, they're responsible for some of the city's best bands (Year Zero, the Creeps, the Sedatives, Buried Inside) and together they've formed a whole new beast that takes pieces of the vast influences and fierce delivery of their other outfits. Ostensibly a heavier pop-punk band, but with darker thematic intentions and occasional metal inclinations (see "Remedy"), Crusades also dabble in some dark Jesus and Mary Chain-type pop on "Serpentine," and even touch upon Who territory with a moody acoustic finish on closer "Termites." They please lots of palates and do so in an incredibly smart, seasoned way. On its surface, this debut is brash and deeply melodic; underneath, it's a narrative of a "spiritual voyage" exploring religion and atheism. You can listen to it one way or the other or both and find it a charged and satisfying full experience." - Exclaim
		DAN PADILLA "As the Ox Plows" from It's Alive/Razorcake Records/Dirt Cult BUY LP • $9.00 BUY CD • $8.00 Dan Padilla is Gene Doney, Davey Quinn, J Wang, and Matty. They live in San Diego, California and formed in 2005. Davey and J. are also in Tiltwheel. Gene’s in Sunnyside. Matty’s in Madison Bloodbath. There is little (if anything at all) that I can say about music that Todd Taylor can't say better. So sparing you my feeble effort, please read what my man had to say over at www.razorcake.org: "In every town or city with a DIY punk scene, there’s always a small core of people who continually get shit done. For going on two decades, members of Dan Padilla have been setting up and running shows, recording, helping touring bands with food, floors, and friendship. They’ve been all-around DIY ambassadors. They also all like to drink. A lot. Like “after this case and the next case, we only have three cases and a couple 750s. We’re running low” drinking. This isn’t boasting, competitive drinking. Often, it’s not fun drinking. Let’s face it. If you’re over thirty, have moved out of your parents’ house, and come to realize that “anarchy!” means no bridges, public libraries, streets, or fire departments, idealism’s a much harder pill to swallow; especially when you’re looking at it through possible liver damage. But the dudes in Dan Padilla have fought hard to remain ethical, moral, and honest well after more vocal members of the DIY punk community have “moved on” to the comfort and status quo they once claimed to despise and swore they’d “burn to the ground.” Dan Padilla just wants some public space and the freedom to play what they’ve created… and the cops can still go fuck themselves. It’d be pretty hard to find four other guys whose musical self- depreciation matches their talent for rough-hewn, yet melodic music. And let’s make sure we’re all wearing the same watches: Dudes in this band preceded the existence of Hot Water Music, so roll any bandwagons back into the barn. Dan Padilla play punk that could be soul. It could also be country. It’s versatile. It doesn’t contradict the spirit of either Naked Raygun or Otis Redding while embracing both in completely inobvious ways. It’s gruff-voiced, cuddly underbelly, hard-earned DIY punk with secret, catchy-yet-twisted, and drought-hardened guitar lines that scrape the listener like running through a dense thicket of chaparral. Burritofornia will ever be in their debt and probably won’t ever know it..." - Todd Taylor
		DOPAMINES "The Dopamines" from It's Alive BUY LP • $8.50 BUY CD • $8.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes
		DOPAMINES / TILL PLAINS from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes
		FEAR OF LIPSTICK "Fear of Lipstick" from It's Alive BUY LP • $8.50 BUY CD • $8.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes Fear Of Lipstick's self-titled debut album is a slice of everyday life, love and social commentary set to the tune of straight- forward pop punk rock. They play it passionate; giving it all they got. The guitars are loud, bright and punchy as all hell, the bass is fast and frisky, the drums get it done, and the lead vocals go for the guts every time. This is a summertime album all the way.
		FEAR OF LIPSTICK "Indie Band" from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes
		FESTIPALS "Gold Magic" from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes Festipals are four friends who get together to write and record great music to play at various festival type shows throughout the year. They are all currently and formerly in other bands including Charlie Brown Gets A Valentine, Dead Mechanical, Sick Sick Birds, Nancy and The AV Club. Each member brings something special to the band that can be found in the tunes of all their other bands, but when combined with one another as Festipals it makes for something all together different and its own special kind of awesome. A super group by any other name is still a super group, so call it what you will. Up until this record they only had a few self-released cd-r's which were all given away and traded for beers at shows. Catch 'em live and I bet you this 7" will cost you no more than a cup of whatever's on tap.
		FOR SCIENCE "Way Out of Control" from Don Giovanni/It's Alive 12" temporarily out of stock BUY CD • $8.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes Follow up EP to "Revenge For Hire", featuring Mike Yannich (The Ergs) on Bass and Chris "Gobo" Pierce (Sinkhole) on Drums. 8 songs, including "Salutations" and "Swan Song."
		GATEWAY DISTRICT "Some Days You Get the Thunder" from It's Alive BUY LP • $8.50 BUY CD • $8.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes The Gateway District is one of the latest and definitely greatest bands to come out of the Minneapolis, MN scene. Members include Maren (of the Soviettes and Salteens), Carrie (of American Monsters and Salteens), Brad (of Dear Landlord and Rivethead) and Nate (of Banner Pilot, OWTH and Rivethead). Call it a super-group, a side project or whatever you want. All three songwriters bring a style of their own to this album, making for a great mix of character and approach from song to song. The artwork is fantastic, with a 16-page full color booklet. Each band member contributed art for each of their songs, so again, three styles come together to make for an awesome whole. Some days you get the thunder... This is gonna be one of those days!
		GET BENT "Dead It" from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes Get Bent seem to draw their sound from a wide, varied pool of influences. So much so that it's hard to very clearly identify and pick out any of them, much less all of them. They certainly haven't reinvented the wheel, but maybe they've just crafted a sound so much their own that they are their own biggest influence. The three tracks that make up Dead It are the last Get Bent ever recorded. There's a pretty big and constantly growing scene in and around New York City, with a ton of bands making great music. Andy, Jared, Mike and Gerge have probably played in half of them. Get Bent will be missed. **members of Potboiler, Down In The Dumps, Jonesin', Red & Blue, State Lottery, Thousandries
		HOUSE BOAT "The Delaware Octopus" from It's Alive BUY LP • $8.50 BUY CD • $8.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes What do you get when you take Grath and Azeem from The Steinways and put them in a band with Zack Off With Their Dear Landlord Heads and Mikey Erg [SA]? House Boat, that's what you get! More specifically, The Delaware Octopus. And what's The Delaware Octopus? Shit if I know! But I can tell you it's catchy, it's clever, it's cynical and it's one of the best pop punk albums you're ever going to hear! Short, sweet and the point... whatever that point may be!
		LEGENDARY SAN DIEGO CHARGERS / SUNNYSIDE "Give 'em Enough Booze" from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes Earlier this year San Diego's Sunnyside did a west coast tour with Minnesota's Pretty Boy Thorson & The Fallin' Angels. Pretty Boy were touring as a three piece instead of their usual five. On top of that, Brad Landlord was filling in on drums. Apparently they didn't know how to play too many PBT songs, and The Legendary San Diego Chargers were born out of the mess! If you took the country out of PBT, the punk rock core you'd be left with is exactly what TLSDC sound like - hard driving, singalong songs with a bunch of gravel in the guts. Sunnyside are everything that was and is great about the San Diego punk sound of the glory days when pop punk was big shit down there. They know how to put together a catchy tune without any of the unnecessary glitzy garbage. The vocals are unpolished and harsh at best - a perfect match for the crunchy pop punk music it fronts. This is the first of near forty releases we've put out to date with a southern California band. We were waiting for something gnarly and got just that.
		MALL'D TO DEATH "The Process of Reaching Out" from It's Alive Records BUY 7" • $4.00 Mall'd To Death is what happens when you take that Minneapolis punk rock Dillinger-core sound, add some Jeff Ott-esque vocal growlings, mix in some mid-nineties melodic punk sound of the EpiFat variety (complete with the occasional ska-punk breakdown!), put together some meaningful songs about life and personal politics, follow those up with some silly songs about important shit like video games and graffiti, and then round it all out with some of that good ol' J Church! It's like Mall Punk if "Mall Punk" meant a little bit of everything under one roof. I was totally taken by surprise and blown away by Mall'd To Death's debut full length Can't Make A Living released last year on CD by GC Records on and then on vinyl earlier this year by Bitter Melody Records. The Process Of Reaching Out is Mall'd To Death's second release of what I hope to be many more to come. I don't know of another band out there that really sounds anything like these guys. It's fresh and in that way reminds me of when I was first discovering punk rock. **Includes a download code!
		MANGES "Rocket to Hollywood" from It's Alive BUY LP • $8.50 The Manges bring a ton of energy and excellent musicianship with them every time they take a stage. Much like their heroes the Ramones they make every live show count. This live album plays more like a greatest hits or best of album - all hits without any misses. There are a couple of Ramones covers thrown in for good measure, of course. Rocket To Hollywood was recorded during the summer of 2007 at Safari Sams in Hollywood, CA while on their third tour of the states, this time with The Queers and The Methadones. It was a great show start to finish and this recording captured the fun-loving spirit of the night perfectly. A split release with Cheapskate Records (Conecticut, USA), Squinty Joe Records (UK) and Peabrain Records (Denmark).
		MAXIES, THE "Going Clubbin'" from It's Alive Records BUY 7" • $4.00 Greenland is melting! Is global warming to blame? Definitely. But it's not climate shift... it's the motherfucking Maxies! These assholes may be jerks of the highest order, but they sure know how to melt faces (and polar ice caps) with their power pop punk jams! It's Alive Records in incredibly proud to present The Maxies' first domestic release, Going Clubbin'. Having already dominated the airwaves of Greenland and Iceland (Fuck those guys!), The Maxies have taken their act south in an effort to attain world domination. Their weapons of choice? Killer hooks, infectious melodies, bad attitudes and ridiculous costumes. This band's better than your band. That's all you need to know. **Includes a download code!
		METHADONES "Gary Glitter" from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes "Gary Glitter" - the first 7" release by The Methadones - picks up right where their "21st Century Power Pop Riot" album left off with an ode to the king of glam himself. On the opening track "Gary Glitter", The Methadones proudly display their love for the man's music with the song's stomping beat, slick riffs and gang vocal choruses, but in lyric show a distaste for the man himself by asking plain and simple, "What the fuck is wrong with Gary Glitter?" The flipside of the ep features the straight up pop punk gem "Over The Moon." Few people can write a song as catchy and perfect in its simplicity as front man Dan Schafer. This EP showcases The Methadones ability to not only write and record different styles of music, but to excel at it!
		METHADONES / COPYRIGHTS "Split" from It's Alive BUY LP • $8.50 Six songs each from two of today's greatest bands together on one record. That makes for a dozen reasons why this is one of the best splits ever! The Methadones and The Copyrights do Illinois proud on this collaboration - it's north meets south with awesome results.
		MUGWUMPS "Do Time" from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes
		RETARDED "Gambling on Rock" from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes
		SPINOFFS, THE "Stayin' Alive" from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 "Mutant Pop Records played a huge role in my own personal musical history. It not only exposed me to a number of fantastic pop punk bands by way of releases and the 1,000 Flowers mailorder and distro, but it also provided me with hours of enjoyment reading the monthly catalogs - later turned full- fledged zine - and weeks of excitement; anticipating the day I would come home to find my mailbox full of new records to spin. I started my own record label nearly a decade after Tim had started Mutant Pop, and sadly nearly half a decade after he called it a day (for the first time anyway). I have never been shy to say that along with Stardumb Records, Mutant Pop was the biggest influence and inspiration for how I wanted It’s Alive to operate as a label, but also to act as a documentation for what was happening in the underground. Tim’s final go-around with Mutant Pop ended with a couple of records left in limbo between plating and release. One of these was The Spinoffs “Stayin’ Alive” EP, originally slated to be released as MP-47. The band had intended to ask It’s Alive to release the EP (hence the first track and title of the record), but understandably jumped at the chance to be part of the Mutant Pop catalog when the opportunity arose. It made all the sense in the world to rescue this record from oblivion and release it ourselves! It is the closest thing we could do to co-releasing a record with the inimitable Mutant Pop - the plates are 100% MP; read the etchings! The Spinoffs are a great representation of a pop punk band doing their own unique thing in their own special way, just the way MP and IAR like it." - Adam / It's Alive
		STEINWAYS "Promise It'll Never Happen Again" from Don Giovanni / It's Alive BUY LP • $9.00 I am not exactly sure what The Steinways are promising will never happen again, but if it has anything to do with making, playing, recording or releasing music, I hope they are proven to be liars someday! Listening to all of these songs collected from singles, splits, compilations and Grath's iPod made me remember why I loved them so much when they were still around - they made some of the most fun and fantastic pop punk music of the past decade! "Promise It'll Never Happen Again" collects remastered versions of every song ever released by The Steinways that didn't appear on either of their two full length albums. Two tracks are being released for the first time, another was only available on a not-exactly-available-for-sale wedding gift 7" that only 150 copies of exist, and the first eleven are being made available in digital format (iTunes and the like, as well as download codes included with all copies of the LP) for the first time... officially anyway. If you missed the boat on The Steinways the first time, this is the perfect place to start. For existing fans, it's a great way to remember how good you had it when they were still around.
		STEINWAYS "Unoriginal Recipe" from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes
		STONED AT HEART "Party Tracks Vol. 1" from Recess Records/It's Alive Records LP temporarily out of stock BUY CD • $8.00 **Vinyl includes download code for entire album plus the demo versions! **Stoned At Heart is Todd, Jimmy, Chachi (Toys That Kill & Underground Railroad To Candyland) and Jessica (Baby J, Can Of Beans)! Stoned At Heart: We got together less than a year ago. I forgot why? I guess outta mutual love for each other's songs, me and Baby J. Chachi and Jimmy make those songs sound waaay better than they were intended. We made plans to record (demo or whatever) and it fell right in the midst of us recording The Underground Railroad to Candyland in our own Clown Sound Studio (in my garage). So we decided "just one weekend and then back to URTC". We were so happy with the SAH sessions that we scrapped the current URTC session only to re-do it the right way! The learning curve is a motherfucker, yet a nice motherfucker indeed.-Todd Congelliere
		THAT'S INCREDIBLE "That's Incredible" from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes That's Incredible are a new four-piece band from San Pedro, California made up of current and former members of Toys That Kill, The Soviettes, Killer Dreamer and Dick Army. Their debut release bears influence of their other bands' signature styles, but it has an awesome new sound and style all its own coming from the chemistry created by the combining of them all into one. Three lead vocalists each with a distinct, varying style will keep you guessing what's next from song to song. They play straight forward, poppy and thrashy punk jams. The band name really says it all... This record is incredible! All copies come with digital download code!
		VARSITY WEIRDOS "Can't Go Home" from It's Alive BUY LP • $8.50 BUY 2xCD • $8.00 The Varsity Weirdos are back with their fourth release and first full-length album for It’s Alive Records. When everything has been done, go back to the start and do it again. Do it right. Do it better than it’s been done before. When it comes to classic pop punk it all starts and ends with the Ramones. The Varsity Weirdos are one of the few bands hanging from the Ramones family tree that somehow manage to take what’s been done, but make it sound all their own - a rare feat in the post Screeching Weasel and Queers world. They don’t do it by adding unnecessary extras for the sake of it. They don’t do it by merging the tried and true with some new and improved garbage. They simply do it by playing true to what they love. Sincerity goes a long way in a genre filled mostly with songs about bubblegum and the junior prom. You either hate the genre or you love it - there’s very little room for fence-sitting. Can’t Go Home might not make converts out of any of the haters, but it’s sure to serve as a strong reminder to all the lovers why they still give a shit about classic pop punk.
		VARSITY WEIRDOS / HIGH SCHOOL TEEN PARTY from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes
		VETERANS "The Veterans" from It's Alive BUY LP • $8.50 BUY CD • $8.00 DOWNLOAD from iTunes
		WEEKEND DADS "Weekend Dads" from It's Alive BUY 7" • $4.00 Weekend Dads get their jam on in the land that lies somewhere between the classic four-chord down-stroking pop punk of yesteryear and the shout-it-out-loud super-charged anthems of today's modern pop punkers. They've taken two subgenres that have been done to death and put them together in a style that bridges the gap between the sugary sweet and hopelessly bleak. Their debut release is by no means a reinvention of the wheel, but more like a ride through a neighborhood you've been to a thousand times before, only this time you're taking the side streets and alleyways you always overlooked. The best shit is always in places you least expect to find it... places like Moncton, New Brunswick! Includes download code!