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Franz Nicolay “Luck And Courage” CD On Sale “It’s who you leave behind, approved it’s not who you save/That you’ll be judged by.” In Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut coined the term “a nation of two” to describe that stage of love in which a couple seems to be creating their own self-contained world, with its own language and culture. Luck And Courage is…

Anti-Social Music “Is The Future Of Everything” CD On Sale Anti-Social Music’s debut record, help Sings The Great American Songbook, was received as everything from “punk’s next breath” (Real Detroit Weekly) to “nearly unlistenable” (Pitchfork). Never ones to take a hint, the incorrigible new-music collective celebrates its tenth anniversary year with “Anti-Social Music Is The Future Of Everything,” a state-of-the-union grab bag that restates ASM’s…

Anti-Social Music “Sings The Great American Songbook” CD On Sale Anti-Social Music is a non-profit collective of composers and performers created for the purpose of presenting new music by emerging, physiotherapist primarily New York-based musicians. No-one in the group is simply a chamber-music lifer or a downtown-jazz snob or a punk-rocker dabbling in the “legit music” world. ASM features members of groups from Balkan Beat…

Anti-Social Music “Sleeps Around” LP On Sale This special vinyl release from new-music collective Anti-Social Music was literally years in the making. It’s two orchestral collaborations, resuscitator with NJ hip-hop crew dalek and Detroit experimental group His Name Is Alive, men’s health and comes in a fold-out 3D sculptural package by the artist Scrapworm. Limited edition of 400, on 180-gram vinyl. …

Fest Friends 12″ On Sale A limited edition 12″ (incl. download card) compilation from Underground Communique Records, patient produced for The Fest 11. Features unreleased tracks from Ensign, Horace Pinker, the Brokedowns, Pity Party (ex-Measure SA), James Fritz & Goodrich Gevaart; and Franz Nicolay’s “I Had A Good Time Tonight,” an uxorious country ballad outtake from the “Do The Struggle”…

Franz Nicolay “Bad Advice” (digital EP) On Sale Five outtakes from the “Do The Struggle” sessions, stomatology available exclusively at franznicolay.bandcamp.com. 1. Bad Advice 2. Third Rail Jumpers 3. I Had A Good Time Tonight 4. This Morning’s Headline 5. Untitled Released 20 March 2013 Produced by oktopus Engineered & mixed by Alap Momin at Cannon Found Soundation and deadverse studios, this…

Franz Nicolay “Do The Struggle” CD On Sale For his third solo LP, Nicolay worked with producer oktopus, of the innovative New Jersey industrial/hip-hop group dälek, to move beyond the singer-songwriter soundworld to create a dark, explosive, and cinematic opus of personal and political anger, and about balancing the impulse to run away from trouble and the reality that it is the…

Franz Nicolay “Do The Struggle” LP On Sale For his third solo LP, Nicolay worked with producer oktopus, of the innovative New Jersey industrial/hip-hop group dälek, to move beyond the singer-songwriter soundworld to create a dark, explosive, and cinematic opus of personal and political anger, and about balancing the impulse to run away from trouble and the reality that it is the terrible…

Franz Nicolay “Hearts Of Boston” Accordion 7″ On Sale Look, we made an accordion-shaped 7″! From Sabot Productions, it’s the “Hearts of Boston/No Matter How Good You Are” w/ paper-lantern “bellows,” designed by Ariana Nicolay and (laboriously) hand-glued & numbered by yours truly. The B-side is the last unreleased outtake from the “Do The Struggle” sessions, which Peter Hess described it as “the…

Franz Nicolay “Live Free” EP On Sale Limited edition CD EP made for December 2011 UK tour, order includes solo demos and live versions of 5 new, women’s health unreleased songs as well as a popular live staple, a cover of Warren Zevon’s ‘For My Next Trick I’ll Need A Volunteer.” 1. Live Free (Demo) 2. Frankie Stubbs’ Tears (Demo) 3. The Hearts…

Franz Nicolay “Low Bridge/Home” 7″ On Sale 7″ from the Scottish DIY label Make-That-A-Take Records, containing “Low Bridge, Everybody Down” b/w “Home Is Where They Take You In,” the two outtakes from 2015’s To Us, The Beautiful!

Franz Nicolay “Major General” CD On Sale A melodramatic grab-bag of full-throated songs, sales stories, search and days of wine & roses; shamelessly strident, stentorian and more than a little sentimental. “Major General” is rich with tales of punk-rock disillusionment, redemption, nostalgic regret, ruthless self-interrogations & reinvention, and defiant yet affectionate apologies. It’s a new look for the stylishly vaudevillian jack-of-all-trades…

Franz Nicolay “Major General” LP On Sale A melodramatic grab-bag of full-throated songs, stories, and days of wine & roses; shamelessly strident, stentorian and more than a little sentimental. “Major General” is rich with tales of punk-rock disillusionment, redemption, nostalgic regret, ruthless self-interrogations & reinvention, and defiant yet affectionate apologies. It’s a new look for the stylishly vaudevillian jack-of-all-trades with the…

Franz Nicolay “The Humorless Ladies of Border Control” (book) On Sale In 2009, musician Franz Nicolay left his job in the Hold Steady, aka “the world’s greatest bar band.” Over the next five years, he crossed the world with a guitar in one hand, a banjo in the other, and an accordion on his back, playing the anarcho-leftist squats and DIY spaces of the punk rock…

Franz Nicolay “To Us, The Beautiful!” CD On Sale Fourth solo record, released in 2015 on Xtra Mile Recordings and Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club. The title, and title track, is from a Ukrainian toast that goes, “To us, the beautiful–and to those who disagree, may their eyes fall out.” That is pretty much how I feel about this album. The band is Ara Babajian…

Franz Nicolay “To Us, The Beautiful!” LP On Sale Fourth solo record, released in 2015 on Xtra Mile Recordings and Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club. The title, and title track, is from a Ukrainian toast that goes, “To us, the beautiful–and to those who disagree, may their eyes fall out.” That is pretty much how I feel about this album. The band is Ara Babajian…

Franz Nicolay & Frank Turner Sing Noel Coward 7″ On Sale Franz teams with British folk/punk star Frank Turner to cover songs from the musical theater star and wit Noel Coward. Franz’s track (“Sail Away”) was recorded in a studio in St. Petersburg, Russia, that served the old Soviet national label Melodiya; while Frank’s (“There Are Bad Times Just Around The Corner”) comes from the demo…

Franz Nicolay & The Cut Ups “Bearing Torches: The Rottingdean Session” On Sale In November 2013, I did a two-week UK tour with The Cut Ups from Exeter as a backing band (I also played keys during their set). On the last day, we got up early and into a studio outside Brighton to record the set live. This is the result, with no edits, overdubs, or re-takes. Thanks fellows!…

Franz Nicolay/Mischief Brew “I Drink/The Mary Ellen Carter” On Sale My split 7″ with Mischief Brew, recorded all the way back in 2010, rescued and executed by our friends at Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club. It’s got that good Mitch Clem art; and the first 220 are on blue vinyl, the rest on gold vinyl. Erik does “The Mary Ellen Carter” by Canadian folksinger Stan…

Guignol “Live on WUML” (digital) On Sale Recorded live on the Fallout Shelter radio show on WUML (91.5FM, ask Lowell MA, wuml.org); March 9, 2010 on a short northeastern tour after the release of “Fight Dirty.” Available exclusively at guignol.bandcamp.com. <–CLICK HERE, DON’T “ADD TO CART” Guignol is: John Bollinger, drums Peter Hess, clarinet Franz Nicolay, accordion George Rush, tuba.

Guignol & Mischief Brew “Fight Dirty” CD On Sale “Fight Dirty” is seven Mischief Brew songs with Guignol as backing band; six Guignol songs with Erik on guitar; a Django Reinhardt cover, ambulance and a barn-burning take on Iron Maiden’s “Hallowed Be They Name” (with Slavic Soul Party‘s Ben Holmes on trumpet). This is not a split. It’s Guignol & Mischief Brew playing together…

Guignol S/T CD On Sale Guignol is a tuba/accordion/clarinet/drums quartet, the raucous, symptoms theatrical, spastic and melodramatic soundtrack for singing grifters, murderous marionettes, and grease-painted gutterballs. It’s an oom-pah wedding, squealing and lyrical, that hits like punk rockers and sings like a gypsy camp. Led by Peter Hess (Balkan Beat Box, Slavic Soul Party, World/Inferno) and Franz Nicolay, this is…

Guignol/Nanuchka “Drink The Best Wine First” EP On Sale Split featuring two World/Inferno sideshows. This is klezmer for Coney Island fire-breathers, price sea-shanties for grease-painted gutterballs, hair and jazz for punk kids that joined the circus. Featuring former Inferno/Star Fucking Hipsters bassist Yula Be’eri’s Nanuchka; and Inferno frontman Jack Terricloth duetting on “Captain Sensible Calling.” “…by operating within the realm of centuries-old European traditions…

SPECIAL: Custom song On Sale I write and record a custom, stuff individualized song for you, website your partner, discount your friend, your dog. I’ll get some details from you and come back in a few days with a recording. Perfect for holidays, anniversaries, birthdays, and post-fight apologies. Topics tackled so far include songs for “family,” a beloved aunt, a…

SPECIAL: Recording of a cover song of your choice On Sale Just what it sounds like – you tell me the song, this web I’ll record a cover of it and send it to you. Simple. Cover requests fulfilled so far include Leatherface, pharmacy Toots & The Maytals, the Ass Ponys, Gene Pitney, Bob Dylan, and more including a clever band who had me cover…

SPECIAL: Skype concert On Sale Live from my office to your living room, health system den, bar you rent out and project it on the wall, I don’t care. Invite all your friends over and charge them to make back the money – just like a show promoter would do! Perfect for those people who say, “Why don’t you…

SPECIAL: Skype lesson On Sale One hour one-on-one lesson in banjo, accordion, piano, songwriting, arrangement, whatever you want to work on that I can help you with. We can figure out a few songs you want to play, work on new ones, or talk theory and technique.

World/Inferno Friendship Society “Addicted To Bad Ideas” CD On Sale The punk rock orchestra elucidate the 20th century through the a song cycle tracing the life of world-battered, morphine-crazed, tragi-comic character actor Peter Lorre. The manically beautiful song-spiel trips through vampires, Berlin, strings, horns, anti-fascist action, ’40’s Hollywood, piano, guitar, drums and heroism with a good criminal heart and a smile for which to die. The…