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County Z - Graveyards and Grocery Carts

2012-01-04T12:58:00.000-08:00

At long last, here is the County Z LP for download. Another total turn of the century Minneapolis classic.

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This is among my all time favorite Minneapolis records. I'm really excited to finally have it up on ASS! Members of County Z went on to play in Rotten Living, Mother of Fire, and many other projects.

Naomi - Violin, Guitar, Vocals

Ryan - Bass

Forrest - Drums

Don Godwin - Trumpet

Originally released around 2003 by TRD W/D Records.

Black vinyl with hand stenciled cover and photocopied insert.

Recorded by Don Godwin.

Oaks- "Feathers" Video

2011-12-06T21:43:00.001-08:00

Oaks just released a video for the song Feathers from their self titled tape.
Check it out!

Cinematography by Tiffany Lindquist
Editorial by Carlos Lamas

Check out the Oaks EP at assrecords.net

Split LP Release tonight!

2011-09-08T04:34:00.000-07:00

New records are assembled! Come get one tonight at Medusa!

Split LP Jackets are here!

2011-08-30T10:19:00.000-07:00

I just picked these up from Landland and they look amazing! 4 color screen on a cream cardstock.

Oaks Cassette!

2011-08-18T16:46:00.000-07:00

The Oaks Cassette is here! We got them in the mail today, we'll have them at the Claps LP release show on August 18th!

And here's a secret too-late-to-the-shirt-store picture of the COE shirts:

Terracide/COE Split Vinyl is Here!

2011-08-17T20:34:00.000-07:00

We just got 500 bright green records delivered to Eric's! Record comes out September 8th!

ASS Records Kickstarter!

2011-06-07T21:12:00.000-07:00

Check out the new Kickstarter page for the Terracide/Children of Euler split LP coming out soon on ASS Records!

ASS 19: County Z - There Goes the Neighborhood

2010-07-05T18:02:00.000-07:00

This is second record from County Z, released as a 7" in 2002. A total Minneapolis classic. Members went on to play in Rotten Living, Mother of Fire and many other projects.

1. You Wear it Well
2. There Goes the Neighborhood
3. The Monkey

Listen to You Wear it Well here:

Recorded by Don Godwin on an eight track reel to reel at Marla's House Recording in New Orleans, LA. Art by Naomi.

County Z was:
Naomi: Vocals, violin on "You Wear it Well", Cello on "There Goes the Neighborhood" and Guitar on "The Monkey"
Forest: Drums
Ryan: Bass

Don Godwin played guitar on "You Wear it Well" and "There Goes the Neighborhood"

ASS Records 19: County Z - There Goes the Neighborhood
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ASS 18: Sharp Teeth - Lines and Stars

2010-05-25T15:11:00.000-07:00

Lines and Stars is the second Sharp Teeth full length, self released in 2009.

Their sound is heavy-duty, beautiful in its simple bombast. But these songs communicate something more—an ache and a wistfulness for something that has never been. Without knowing the words, you know these are songs about frustration, the kind found in the most sincere of love songs. And Sharp Teeth offer relief from the roar in the form of candy-coated melodies, which appear for just for a minute at time and waver on feelings of hopefulness, like hopping over a fence late at night to meet that boy or girl you dig so much.
-MICHELLE LEON, CITY PAGES

1. The Light

2. Redwoods

3. Walk on Waves

4. Dead Air

5. Take You Swimming

6. Blood is Safe

7. Long Day

8. Pounding Heart

9. Lines and Stars

Listen to Take You Swimming here:

Recorded by Neil Weir at Old Blackberry Way studio in 2009.

Sharp Teeth are:

Erica Krumm: Guitar and Vocals

Nate Baka: Drums

Adri Mehra: Bass

ASS Records 18: Sharp Teeth - Lines and Stars

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ASS16: Children of Euler - The Failure of Order

2010-04-19T18:33:00.000-07:00

The Failure of Order by Children of Euler
Download for free or buy a physical copy here.
Recorded by Trent in Trent's Basement
Children of Euler is Jim, Dave, Rocky and Eric.
ASS Records 16: Children of Euler - The Failure of Order

ASS17: Frozen Teens - Gas Money Demos

2010-03-18T15:24:00.000-07:00

This is the first CD by the Frozen Teens, featuring members of Friendly, Cortez the Killer and Dirtyard.

From the MRR Blog:

On a recent road trip I had the great fortune of happening upon a totally awesome new band: FROZEN TEENS. Since they’re from Minneapolis, I can’t help thinking they sound a bit like the great SUICIDE COMMANDOS with a little early REPLACEMENTS vibe… but with very much their own unique sound. The ‘Teens infectiously memorable demo sounds strangely timeless — like it was recorded in the far past — or on another planet. And the lyrics make you shiver with their simple brilliance. This CD was on constant repeat for the whole trip home, and if you don’t know: it takes a really, really long time to drive from Minnesota to California.

1. Hopeless City

2. Short Testament

3. New Year

4. She's Cute

5. Bury Me Alive

Listen to Hopeless City here:

Recorded by Frozen Teens at Ass Castle in 2009

Frozen Teens are

Will Simon: Guitar/Vocals

Wil Olsen: Bass/Vocals

Ski: Drums/Vocals

ASS Records 17: Frozen Teens - Gas Money Demos

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ASS15: Potty Mouths S.T.

2010-02-20T01:19:00.000-08:00

This is the first and only Potty Mouths recording, never before released. The Potty Mouths were a Minneapolis pop-punk band active in 2009 with Tiffany from ASS, Nate from Sharp Teeth and Zack from Olsen Twin Suicide.

1. Soft Orange White

2. Broken Stereo

3. Dry Heaves

4. Springtime Jamboree

5. Punk Rock Show

6. The Worst Part

7. Look Who's Talking Never

8. It's a Trick, Get an Axe!

9. Hidden Track

Listen to Soft Orange White here:

Recorded in 2009 by Trent in Trent's Basement.

Potty Mouths were-

Tiffany - Vocals and Guitar

Zach - Vocals and Bass

Nate - Drums

ASS Records 15: Potty Mouths - S.T.

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ASS14: Friendly - EP CD

2010-02-20T01:11:00.000-08:00

This is the first EP from the totally inspiring Minneapolis band Friendly. Members of Friendly went on to be in The Agenda, Question, Cognitive Dissonance, Frozen Teens, Terracide, ASS and more.

1. ...They Don't

2. Dreamers

3. Fog

4. Love

Listen to Dreamers here:

All songs written by Friendly. This was released as a self produced cd-R in 2003.

Friendly was on this recording was:

Joe B - Drums

Teddy - Bass

Wil - Guitar

ASS14: Friendly - ST

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ASS13: Ganglion Discography

2010-01-13T23:41:00.000-08:00

This is it, everything that Ganglion ever released, now with full audio commentary.

The first link is the complete discography, the second is the discography with full real time audio commentary recorded in 2009 at Trent's, and the third is ridiculously high quality scans of all the art and liner notes from everything we ever released.

There will be a 4CD box set of all this coming out soon.

Demo:
1. Ageless Formless Hollow
2. Thinning the Herd
3. Numbers
4. Choking on it
5. Gears and Wires
6. I Wept, It Burned my Rotten Flesh
7. The Earth Gives Way

Of the Deep:
8. Shadows Lengthen into Blades
9. Numbers
10. Dry Rot
11. Temple Walls
12. Thinning the Herd
13. Ageless Formless Hollow
14. Harvest
15. Internal Combustion
16. The Well
17. The Earth Gives Way
18. Aftermath
19. Choking On It (unreleased)

As Steel Takes to Flesh:
20. Far Beyond the Reach of Earth
21. As Steel Takes to Flesh
22. Cannibalized
23. No Sound buy our Victory Howls (unreleased)
24. Aether Void
25. Culling Sun
26. Shrine of Withered Flesh

Astride the Loathsome Night:
27. Astride the Loathsome Night
28. Over Boiling Seas
29. Carnage of Despair
30. In the Walls
31. The Will of Life Undone

Final CD:
32. Their Shattered Pipes Sing Our Victory

Life Of Monotony Tape:
33. Far Beyond the Reach of Earth
34. As Steel Takes to Flesh

Medusa I Tape:
35. Their Shattered Pipes Sing Our Victory (Live at the last show)

Ganglion was Jim Trent Angie and Eric. Thanks to everyone who ever helped us with anything, Hello Asshole Records and Bevery's Favorites Tapes.

ASS13: Ganglion Discography

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Discography .zip with art here

Discography with Commentary .zip here

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ASS12: ASS - Sink

2009-11-01T11:11:00.002-08:00

This is the last ASS album. Remember when ASS got best new band in City Pages after we broke up for a song we didn't write? Members of ASS went on to be in Ganglion, The Potty mouths, Kill the Runt and Children of Euler.

1. Monument

2. Sink

3. Revolution / Self Destruction

4. Four More Years

5. ASSKICKATRON

Listen to Monument here:

This was released on CD by Profane Existence in 2005. All songs by ASS except ASSKICKATRON by Faggatron. Recorded by Brad at Melvin Rae. Thanks to Dan at Profane for letting us release this for free and not being all record-label-y. Fuck yeah.

ASS was on this Recording:

Jim ASS: Vocals

Tiff-O-Knee: Guitar

Mark Exclamation!: Bass

Klause Dakota: Drums

ASS12: ASS: Sink
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ASS11: Thumbs Down

2009-10-29T16:30:00.000-07:00

This is the demo from Thumbs Down, with Trevor from Totally Harsh and Andy from Class of '86 and recording fame.

1. All My Heros are Angry

2. Maybeus Corpus

3. Don't Hassle Me, I'm Local

Listen to Don't Hassle Me, I'm Local:

Music and Lyrics by Thumbs Down, Recorded by Andy Mathison. This was released in 2009 as a limited hand stenciled CDR.

Thumbs Down is:

Trev: Drums

John: Bass

Andy: Guitar

ASS11: Thumbs Down: Demo
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Children of Euler Lyrics

2009-10-10T12:43:00.000-07:00

The footnoted lyrics to the Children of Euler preview are here.

ASS10: Awesome Snakes - Snake Cake

2009-10-01T13:32:00.000-07:00

Total Party! It's a Summertime Birthday EP from Awesome Snakes, featuring members of Awesome Snakes.

1. Moola

2. You Got Another Thing Comin'

3. Birthday Party Sally

4. Fist Fight

Listen to Fist Fight here:

Music and lyrics written and stolen by Awesome Snakes. Snake Cake was recorded by Neil Weir at Old Blackberry Way in the Spring of 2009. Snake and Cake art by Konrad Purski.

Awesome Snakes is Annie and Danny.

ASS10: Awesome Snakes: Snake Cake

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Children of Euler Preview!

2009-09-17T20:03:00.000-07:00

**The final version of Children of Euler: The Failure of Order is now available on ASS Records, right here! **

These are a couple of songs from our upcoming tape, recorded by Trent in Trent's basement.

1. Divergent at Infinity

2. Poison of Mind

3. Spectre of the Incomplete

4. Into the Grasp of Man

COE is

Jim: Vocals

Dave: Guitar

Rocky: Bass

Erric: Drums

Download the .zip here

View lyrics here

ASS09: Terracide- Cursades

2009-05-29T15:46:00.000-07:00

The new Terracide tape! Following the story lines and characters of the Dead with some of the smartest lyrics I've ever heard. Totally crazy, epic instrumentation to match. Holy crap.

1. The Crew

2. The Shadow

3. The Abomination

4. The Worms (listen)

5. The Pilgrim

6. The Emperor

This was released as a limited self released tape by Terracide in 2009. All music and lyrics by Terracide, art by Andy. Recorded by Trent in Trent's Basement.

ASS09: Terracide- Crusades

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ASS08: Pocket Pu$$y- Teen Dream

2009-05-25T20:33:00.001-07:00

This is the only Pocket Pu$$y release. Totally raw and vicious, with members of DCM, Kitten Forever, Thunderthighs and a fucking xylophone.

1. We Made Out in 1st Grade & Now Yr Married & it's Weird. (listen)

2. Hey Cool!

3. Sausage Party

4. Pu$$y Party

5. Sorry I Didn't Answer Yr Call (My Anxiety is Off the Hook)

6. Make Me Cum (So I Can Break Up with You)

7. Double or Nothing

8. Be Yr Dog

9. Walkin in the Sand (bonus!)

This was released as a tape by Pocket Pu$$y in 2008.

All songs by Pocket Pu$$y except Be yr Dog and Walkin in the Sand

Cover Photo by Summer Michaud-Skog

Pocket Pu$$y was:

Leah Coldheart: Screams and Tambourinez

Molly Berzerk: Guitar

Tina Capricorn: Bass

Rose Karnage: Xylaphone

Corrie Kathleen: Drumz

ASS08: Pocket Pu$$y - Teen Dream

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ASS07: ASS/DCM Split tape

2009-05-25T20:03:00.000-07:00

This is the second ASS release and I think the first DCM release.

DCM:

1. Dance Party Explosion (listen)

2. Tony's Song

3. Rag

4. Mitochondriarama

5. Jesus Fuck

6. The Greatest Song Ever

7. Oi! Song

ASS:

8. WWIII

9. Hate Breeder

10. Black and White

11. My Brain is Fucked!

12. Rotting

13. Burned Out (listen)

14. Buy Out

15. ASSKICKATRON

This was released as a home dubbed tape in 2003.

DCM Side (insert/lyrics) :

All songs written by Daisy's Compact Mice. Recorded at Savage Audio.

DCM on this recording:

Tina Marie: Vocals

Corrie K: Guitar

Taylor: Bass

Erica: Drums

ASS Side (insert/lyrics):

All songs written by ASS except ASSKICKATRON written by Faggatron.

ASS on this recording:

Jim ASS: TOPHAT

Tiff-O-Knee: High Fructose Corn Syrup

Corry: Bass

Klause: Drums

ASS07: ASS/DCM Split Tape

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ASS06: Totally Harsh Demo

2009-05-18T21:29:00.000-07:00

The first Totally Harsh demo,

1. Bring me the Head of John Conner
2. Acid Rain
3. Build Them Well
4. Shark Blook
5. FTL of Die!
6. Battle Stations (listen)

All songs written by Totally Harsh. Recorded by Andy at Man Cave in 2008. Released in 2008 on however many tapes and CD-rs we ended up making.

Totally Harsh is:
Jim- Vocals
Mary- Guitar
Russ- Bass
Trevor- Drums

ASS06: Totally Harsh- Demo
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News

2009-05-11T10:37:00.000-07:00

Just put up the Sharp Teeth demo and the Terracide lyrics. I also switched from gross MediaFire to Dropbox, so downloading now happens directly from this site. More art, demos and tapes coming soon!

ASS 05: Sharp Teeth Demo

2009-05-11T10:17:00.001-07:00

This is the first Sharp Teeth recording, released in 2008. This has the only recording of Lines and Stars!

1. Water

2. Let Me Stay Alive (listen)

3. Lines and Stars

4. Mink

5. Blood is Safe

All songs written by Sharp Teeth. Recorded by Trent in Trent's Basement. This was released as a limited CD-r by Sharp Teeth in 2008.

Sharp Teeth is:

Erica: Guitar, Vocals

Adri: Bass

Nate: Drums

ASS05: Sharp Teeth- Demo

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ASS04: Terracide- The Dead

2009-05-03T00:09:00.001-07:00

The first tape by Minneapolis epic sci-fi crusaders Terracide. These guys are fucking amazing. Lyrics are here, or download in .pdf here.

1. Climate Control

2. The Feast

3. Lycanthropy

4. The Disciple

5. The Virus

6. The Pit

7. The Living Dead (listen)

All songs written by Terracide. Recorded May 2008 by Trent in Trent's basement. This was released as a tape by Terracide in 2008.

Terracide on this recording:

Mike Pudd'nhead: guitar, vocals, lyrics

Eric: Drums

Scorpiaon: Guitar

Noah: Bass

ASS04: Terracide- The Dead

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ASS03: ASS Self Titled

2009-05-02T23:40:00.000-07:00

This is the first full length by Minneapolis band ASS. There was also a pressing of 500 on pink vinyl and 500 CDs. Released in 2004.

1. No Escape

2. Hate Breeder

3. Burned Out

4. 21

5. My Brain is Fucked

6. Sex Ed (listen)

7. Buy Out

8. Blood and Oil

9. WWIII

10. Rotting

Recorded by Brad @ Melvin Rae.

ASS on this recording was: Jim, Tiffany, Corry and Klaus

ASS03: ASS- ASS

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ASS RECORDS!

2009-04-30T15:50:00.000-07:00

This is the first ASS records digital release, the ASS side of the first split tape with Colon Pipe. Unfortunately, a few songs were lost when losifer.net went down, but this has:

1. Hate Breeder

2. Burned Out

3. Number One is a Lie

4. Black and White

5. WWIII (old lyrics)

This was the first ASS release, recorded by Even on a four track at Xanadu, our practice space.

ASS on this recording:

Jim, Tiffany, Corry and Gabe.

ASS02: ASS/ :| split tape (ASS side)

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