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LITTLE TEETH
September 06, 2010
San Luis Obispo, CA
3069 Broad St
September 07, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
McWorld
September 07, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
McWorld
September 08, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
The Smell
September 08, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
The Smell
September 09, 2010
Long Beach, CA
The Prospector
September 10, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
Echo Curio
September 10, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
Echo Curio
September 12, 2010
Irvine, CA
UC Irvine
September 12, 2010
Irvine, CA
UC Irvine
The Affair
Azeda Booth
Bottom of the Hudson
Franklin Bruno
Buttonhead
Chet
The Court and Spark
Rob Crow
The Dead Science
The Dudley Corporation
Eltro
Ex-Boyfriends
The Extra Glenns
Frog Eyes
The Gang
Chris Garneau
Get Him Eat Him
Goblin Cock
The Hidden Cameras
Hometapes
Jack Hayter
The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up
Jukeboxer
Laarks
Life Without Buildings
Little Teeth
The Mountain Goats
Okay
Optiganally Yours
P.E.E.
Pidgeon
Pinback
+/- {Plus/Minus}
The Rollercoaster Project
60 Watt Kid
Sparrow
Summer at Shatter Creek
Sunset Rubdown
The Swords Project
Sybris
Telegraph Melts
The Places
Thingy
Two Guys
Virginia Dare
Wax Fang
The Wrens
Xiu Xiu
Eltro
  
Philadelphia's Eltro recorded their debut in 1997 with Brian McTear at his Miner Street Studio. Information Changer was released in 1998 by Miner Street's brief record label venture. The band and most of the copies of the CD didn't make it outside of Philadelphia, but a copy was given to Absolutely Kosher by Quentin Stoltzfus (then of the Azusa Plain and soon after his own band Mazarin). Since another label was already attached, Absolutely Kosher merely kept the disc in rotation for the next two or three years.

Meanwhile, Eltro had attracted the attention of Simple Machines, the Arlington, VA label run by Tsunami's Kristin Thomson and Jenny Toomey. Simple Machines closes its doors in April 1998. Eltro then attracted the attention of Neil Young's Vapor Records. Vapor asked the band to tour for six months. Eltro declined. Finally, Dave Allen of Gang of Four, now working with the internet music site eMusic, becomes enamored with the band. This was the era of the internet bubble and eMusic was paying large advances for digital rights. Allen surmised that if so much money was being paid only for digital rights, eMusic might as well start their own label

At last, Eltro's long-awaited third album, Past and Present Futurists. The album is unbelievable, a warp ten progression from their first two albums, Information Changer and Velodrome. The album was beautifully recorded by Brian McTear (Bitter Bitter Weeks, Mazarin, Burning Brides) and is the first to feature second vocalist Jenny P. Eltro has evolved their command of a delicate groove to the realm of the uncanny, channeling irresistible hooks with a gentle yet unrelenting bounce. This is the zenith of the band?s journey to fuse the electronic with the organic, the ocean with the dancefloor.
Past and Present Futurists CD (Absolutely Kosher, 2003)
Information Changer CD (Absolutely Kosher, 2002)
Velodrome CD (Absolutely Kosher, 2001)
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Eltro - Past and Present Futurists
CD - $8.00

 
Eltro's third and final album. Should have been huge, but they broke-up shortly after its release. They're still icons of air and water, elementals even, but now they've added another vocalist and layers upon layers of easy groove that just won't quit. The album is gorgeous. It includes the soon-to-be smash "Motorboat" as well as a Quicktime video of the song viewable on your computer plus the excellent "On One" and seven other gems. Far and away the best record yet from an already great band. (AK026)
Eltro - Information Changer
CD - $8.00

 
The reissue of the stunning debut that brought us to this Philly combo's doorstep. Far spacier and dronier than it's follow-up Velodrome, Information Changer hints at the grooves to come in later recordings while delivering the listener a platter of textured, atmospheric bliss. Includes the snappy "long.flat.red" and the heavenly "Orangina." (AK014)
Eltro - Velodrome
CD - $8.00

 
Philadelphia's mesmerizing quartet blends no wave's rhythms, new wave's cool sultriness and space rock's atmospherics into one enthralling whole on Velodrome, their second album. Spouses Diana Nicoletti (bass) and Jorge Sandrini (guitar, sampler) blend easy groove harmonies while Rick Henderson (keyboards) mists the inside of your head and Ted Johnson (drums) keeps your feet moving. Even-tempoed and sexy as all hell. An instant favorite. Includes "Some Vital Function" and "Vera Wang." (AK015)