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Eureka the Butcher, solo pseudonym of Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez (also of Zechs Marquise and The Mars Volta) announces the forthcoming release of his debut album. The recording, Music For Mothers is dedicated to the multi-instrumentalist’s mother Frances Sarah Rodriguez-Lopez who passed away last year. The album will be released via Rodriguez Lopez Productions on May 28, 2013 - stream “Here Comes Eureka B” below:



Regarding the album, Marcel writes:
“This record is for my mom because she is the reason why I started playing the piano. She told me that it was great that I wanted to play drums, but if I played the piano, I could create music and play to a room full of people by myself. I didn’t start playing drums for another 4 years, and I wouldn’t start playing piano for another 7 or so. That’s when i started making electronic music. Making music under the Eureka name gives me that ability: to make music and perform by myself. I, however, do not perform alone. Sadah Luna performs with me because of my love for her dance and her love for my music. She completes the live show.

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It was a busy and exciting year at Sargent House & Rodriguez Lopez Productions. We released a lot of great new albums and even did our very first re-issue with one of my favorites from 1997, The VSS’ Nervous Circuits - what a highlight! So, without further adieu below are all our 2012 releases in chronological order by release date from the latest on. Take a listen and get ready for 2013. For now we can confirm new albums will be coming in 2013 from:  This Town Needs Guns, Tera Melos, And So I Watch You From Afar, Chelsea Wolfe, Native, Adebisi Shank, Le Butcherettes, Bosnian Rainbows, Deafheaven, Zechs Marquise, Eureka The Butcher and our newest signing Mylets - we are sure there will be even more added to this list so stay tuned and to all a HAPPY END TO 2012.

SARGENT HOUSE & RLP ALBUM RELEASES IN 2012 




Artist: The VSS
Album: Nervous Circuits & 25:37 (Double LP)
Label: Sargent House
Release date: November 30, 2012 
VINYL / DIGITAL





Artist: Boris & Asobi Seksu
Album: Asobi Seksu vs Boris (7” Covers Split)
Digital & Vinyl DL card comes with 4 bonus tracks
Label: Sargent House & Polyvinyl
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Vinyl /  Digital




Artist: Indian Handcrafts
Album: Civil Disobedience for Losers
Label:  Sargent House
Released: October 30, 2012
VINYL / CD / Digital




Artist: Chelsea Wolfe
Album: Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs
Label:  Sargent House
Released: October 16, 2012
Digital & Vinyl DL card comes with 2 bonus tracks
VINYL / CD / Digital




Artist: Deafheaven
Album: Demo
Label:  Sargent House
Released: October 9, 2012
Remastered issue first ever pressing in Vinyl.
VINYL / Digital




Artist: Crypts
Album: Crypts
Label:  Sargent House
Released: September 4, 2012
VINYL / CD / Digital

Artist: No Spill Blood
Album: Street Meat (EP)
Label: Sargent House
Release Date: July 31, 2012
VINYL / CD / DIGITAL




Artist: Deantoni Parks
Album: Touch But Don’t Look
Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
Release Date: July 31, 2012
CD / DIGITAL




Artist: Fang Island
Album: Major
Label: Sargent House
Release Date: July 24, 2012
VINYL / CD / DIGITAL




Artist: Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Album: Octopus Kool Aid
Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Featuring Teri Gender Bender of Le Butcherettes on Vocals
VINYL / CD / DIGITAL




Artist: Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Album: Saber, Querer, Osar y Callar
Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
Release Date: June 21, 2012
DIGITAL




Artist: Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Album: Un Corazon De Nadie
Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
Release Date: May 17, 2012
DIGITAL





Artist: Marriages
Album: Kitsune (EP)
Label: Sargent House
Release Date: May 1, 2012
VINYL / CD / DIGITAL




Artist: Good Old War
Album: Come Back As Rain
Label: Sargent House
Release Date: March 6, 2012
VINYL / CD / DIGITAL




Artist: Big Sir
Album: Before Gardens After Gardens
Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions
Release Date: February 7, 2012
VINYL / CD / DIGITAL

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Making your Holiday gift shopping easy Sargent House and Rodriguez Lopez Productions are offering a very wide selection of both brand new and older titles from a bunch of our artists we now have 3 deals going on our 5 CDS for $25 and the NEWLY Added 10 CDS for $45 and our 5 Vinyl LPs for $65 deal - So many great choices to choose from with many NEW Additions to the titles available!
TO ORDER HERE - We can Ship Globally!

* Click any link to stream the whole album 

ALBUMS CHOICES FOR THE CD Deals
Adebisi Shank - This Is The Second Album of A Band Called Adebisi Shank
And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs
Big Sir - Before Gardens After Gardens
Boris - Heavy Rocks
Boris - Attention Please
Boris - New Album
Bygones - by-
Cast Spells - Bright Works And Baton
Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs
Chelsea Wolfe - Apokalypsis
Crypts - Crypts
Days Away - Ear Candy For The Headphone Trippers
Deantoni Parks - Touch But Don’t Look
Fang Island - Fang Island
Fang Island - Major
Good Old War - Only Way To Be Alone
Good Old War - Self Titled
Good Old War - Come Back As Rain
Gypsyblood - Cold In The Guestway
Hella - Tripper
Indian Handcrafts - Civil Disobedience for Losers
Le Butcherettes - Sin Sin Sin 
Lisa Papineau - Red Trees
Marriages - Kitsune
ME & LP - Chez Raymond
Native  - Wrestling Moves 
Native - We Delete Erase
No Spill Blood - Street Meat
Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Cryptomnesia
Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Xenophanes 
Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Mantra Hiroshima 
Omar Rodriguez Lopez - どういたしまして
Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Un Escorpion Perfumado
Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Octopus Kool Aid
Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Saber, Querer, Osar y Callar
Omar Un Corazon De Nadie
Red Fang - Red Fang
Red Sparowes - The Fear Is Excruciating But Therein Lies The Answer
Russian Circles - Empros
RX Bandits - Mandala
RX Bandits - And The Battle Begun 
RX Bandits - Live At Park Avenue 
Tera Melos - Patagonian Rats
Tera Melos - Untitled 
Tera Melos - Drugs Complex
This Town Needs Guns - Animals 
Zach Hill - Face Tat
Zechs Marquise - Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare
Zechs Marquise - Getting Paid

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VINYL SELECTION

 * CD’s and Vinyl are regular price when sold separately.

Sargent House is happy to welcome Mono/Poly and his manager Sydney Villaroz to the Sargent House management family. We are also happy to announce that his upcoming release will be coming out on the Rodriguez Lopez Productions Label. To celebrate Mono/Poly will be heading over to Europe for a tour for some headline shows and some shows where he will be opening for Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group that will feature Teri Gender Bender of Le Butcherettes singing.

#FAMILY Style. That’s how we do.

Keep an eye out for MONO/POLY album release information - coming soon!
Follow: @Mono__Poly
Like: MONO/POLY

MONO/POLY EUROPEAN TOUR 2012
Sep 21, 2012 - Oslo, N0 @ Turkish Delight
Sep 22, 2012 - Wuppertal, DE @ Schauspielhaus
Sep 23, 2012 - Groningen,  NL @ Vera **
Sep 24, 2012 - Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg Oude Zaal **
Sep 26, 2012 - Brighton, UK @ Sticky Mike’s
Sep 27, 2012 - Manchester, UK @ The Deaf Institute **
Sep 28, 2012 - Birmingham, UK@ Hare & Hounds
Sep 29, 2012 - London, UK @ Birthdays
Sep 30, 2012 - Glasgow, UK @ Stereo **
Oct 01, 2012 - Galway, IE @ Roisin Dubh **
Oct 02, 2012 - Dublin, IE @ Button Factory **
Oct 03, 2012 - London, UK @ The Garage **

**w/ Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group

CLICK HERE FOR ALL SHOW DETAILS

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On August 25th at The Echoplex we will be part of the Echo Park Rising open house Free to all,  with Music, Food & Art. We will have a table with Vinyl, Posters, CDS and other assorted goodies including very RARE Test pressings from a bunch of our artists at Sargent House  & Rodriguez Lopez Productions. We are proud to be based in Echo Park so come hang out with us and all our friends in the community of Music here. Starts at 12pm - MORE INFO HERE

When Brooklyn based drummer Deantoni Parks first started to work with the guys in The Mars Volta circles, it felt like a perfect fit. Having first contact with his polyrhthmic and highly stylized techniques in a euphoric mind altered state at Vegoose festival playing behind the kit for Volta, I couldn’t believe how he was controlling his drums under a plethora of subtle effects and the overall sea of music around him. This was the introduction phase for me to diving into his band KUDU along with the traces of releases he would contribute to for The Mars Volta’s main composer Omar Rordriguez Lopez. Deantoni Parks plays with a level of precision and tenacity that walks a fine line between organic and constantly moving jazz drumming and highly intricate and synthetic Squarepusher esk electronic beats. It has been 6 years since I was dismantled mentally by his drumming live and now Deantoni Parks is embarking on the release of Touch But Don’t Look, his first solo record to date and the first of what we hope to be many albums by Parks on Rodriguez Lopez Productions and Sargent House.

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This was the best present I ever got. The directing team simply known as “The 90’s” made me a video tribute to Sargent House & Rodriguez Lopez Productions and our bands circa 2012. With music by Matthew Embree.  Thank you guys!  Best belated Christmas present ever!

Deantoni Parks - DMAGINATION (2:08)
Directed by: Bruno Levy
Concept by: Deantoni Parks, Zachariah Parks, Bruno Levy
Cast: Deantoni Parks, Monica Uchiyama
Musical Score: Deantoni Parks
Label: Rodriguez Lopez Productions / Sargent House

PRE ORDER THE NEW ALBUM
Deantoni Parks’ debut solo album “Touch But Don’t Look” will be released digitally everywhere on July 31, 2012 via Rodriguez Lopez Productions / Sargent House but if you pre-order it now you will get three tracks right away HERE.

On July 31, 2012 the solo album by Deantoni Parks will be released on Rodriguez Lopez Productions / Sargent House. It’s an honor to be part of this because to Omar and myself we believe he is one of the greatest living drummers on earth.
GO D!

Check out the track Make My Day from the new album here:

El Paso-based prog band Zechs Marquise released Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare in 2009 and the much tighter and more original Getting Paid on On Rodriguez Lopez Productions via Sargent House in 2011. Getting Paid received appreciative reviews but the band was often written about in terms of the bassist and the drummer’s older sibling Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and his prog-rock band The Mars Volta. Zechs Marquise contains keyboardist Riko Rodriguez Lopez,  bassist/vocalist Marfred Rodriguez-Lopez and drummer Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez, who also plays keys in The Mars Volta.

It’s no coincidence that both bands have similar influences. “We get a lot of comparisons to Mars Volta because of our relation or whatever, but the main difference is that Marcel and I were heavily influenced by hip-hop, where our brother Omar was influenced by punk rock, and salsa. We were influenced by hip-hop and salsa. So, it has that dynamic. We were all in the same house growing up listening to the same music. You influence each other, living together for so long. You develop each others tastes in a weird way,” Marfred Rodriguez-Lopez says over the phone.

One might wonder if there could be any sibling rivalry among this clan of intense prog fiends. In a word: nope. The Rodriguez-Lopez members of The Mars Volta and Zechs Marquise tour with each other and gig with each other. Zechs Marquise opened when Omar Rodriquez Lopez’s earlier band At the Drive-In played a hometown reunion show. When they get done with all of that they take a break, in order to hang out with each other.

They are, in fact, doing exactly this when Marfred Rodriguez-Lopez answers his cell for the interview. The brothers are driving back to Texas with their dad after a weekend spent going to baseball games in Los Angeles. “All of us spend our fair share of time away from home, so it’s nice to get to have these last-minute trips with our dad,” says Marfred Rodriguez-Lopez. Empirically speaking, it is the sweetest thing ever.

Lately, reviews of the Zechs Marquise live show and the slow-building recognition for Getting Paid have be taking the band from status as the little brother of The Mar Volta to a known quantity in its own right. Note to aspiring indie rockers: a little touring had something to do with that. Also, Getting Paid is some fine music. The twelve instrumental tracks fuse funk and prog-rock without being tedious or anachronistic. Cerebral and psychedelic it might be, but it’s also brash and pugnacious: Old music for young heads by young heads. Rodriguez-Lopez confirms the secret ingredient is hip-hop.

“We were listening to these old hip-hop records that we hadn’t listened to in years. You know these bangers where you kind of nod your head and tap your foot? I like the feeling of a lot of these songs. A lot of hip-hop songs have that. That was one of the ways that hip-hop influenced Getting Paid. We liked that swing, that groove,” he says in a phone interview.

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In case making ALL our Digital albums only $1.99 each all weekend wasn’t enough for you. We have another great sale going on, pick any 5 CDS for just $25 at the Sargent House / Rodriguez Lopez Store we have added a ton of new titles to the selection with album choices from:

CLICK BAND TO STREAM ALBUMS  

Adebisi Shank 
And So I Watch You From Afar
Boris 
bygones
Cast Spells 
Chelsea Wolfe 
Daughters 
Days Away 
Fang Island
Good Old War 
Gypsyblood
HELLA
Lisa Papineau
Love You Moon
Marriages 
me&LP 
Native
Red Fang
Red Sparowes 
Russian Circles 
RX Bandits 
Tera Melos
This Town Needs Guns 
Zach Hill  

Rodriguez Lopez Productions 
Big Sir 
Le Butcherettes 
Omar Rodriguez Lopez 
Zechs Marquise

CHECK IT ALL OUT HERE

As many times as we’ve heard Morrissey exclaim through multiple songs and various PETA campaigns that meat is, in fact, a murderous act, it’s hard to ignore how cool of a stage prop it can actually be. I mean, who doesn’t like a severed, bloody pig’s head in conjunction with their favorite band? Since 17, Teresa Suarez, aka Teri Gender Bender, founder and guitarist of Mexican garage Punk band, Le Butcherettes, has been using blood and gore for her live performances for reasons that extend far beyond the grotesque, and into the ideals and ethics of the importance of the feminist movement.

With Sylvia Plath, Kathleen Hanna, and Chilean musician and artist, Violeta Parra as ongoing influences. Teri, now 23, has evolved from her days as a teen armed with a guitar and a bloody apron, into a woman who refuses to lose that fiery, teenage angst that continues to spread the word of feminism to whomever is willing to give a shit. Having already completed her sophomore album with fellow band members Lia Braswell (drums), and bassist/The Mars Volta , At The Drive-In guitarist, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, Le Butcherettes’ newest record will be less blood on stage mixed with literary references musically than their debut, SIN SIN SIN, but more references and possible inspiration from living life in a new country on Cry Is For The Flies. We interviewed Teri to find out what’s what.

VICE: You recently played Coachella. How was it?
Teri Gender Bender: It was crazy. We played around 1:55 pm, so it was really hot. I think that the set went by swell. Lia [Braswell, drummer], and Omar [Rodriguez Lopez , who’s on bass now, were fine, the heat didn’t affect them, but the heat got to me. I had a migraine the whole festival and I couldn’t even watch any bands, I had to go lay down in the van and ended up throwing up the whole time, and it happened both weekends.The heat was just terrible. But it was great. I’m not complaining.

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Without warning, it looks like Omar Rodriguez Lopez has dropped a new solo album, today! Check out Un Corazón De Nadie, released on Thursday, May 17, 2012. You can stream the 10-track album via Omar’s Bandcamp. It’s also available for purchase as a $6.99 download. The album is trippy and sexy, with progressive tones and ambient beats that will have you on your toes. You’ll here lyrics in both Spanish and English on this mysterious album. Click below to give it a listen.

(Source: grimygoods.com)