Monofonus Press

Happy to announce the first couple of releases for this new year are available for PREORDER. Up first is a John Wesley Coleman/Morgan Coy joint titled Nightmare on Silly Street. Back in 2008 we unleashed John Wesley Coleman on the world with his first ever full length release, American Trashcan. Before coming back to us with his fifth album he put out LPs on Daggerman, Certified PR, and Goner. As an experiment for this LP, Wes brought Morgan Coy some 4 track recordings of new songs (these appear as Side B), and Morgan rebuilt them into a multi layered cake (Side A). As usual you can preview the LP in it’s entirety right HERE!

Up next we have the follow up to last years killer 7″ we put out. Half the Night is Candlelight is Sands Hollow’s debut full length LP! It’s a super limited run on a silkscreened sleeve.

Sands Hollow smoothly jump to the long format and still leave us wanting more with Half the Night is Candlelight. Keeping the sun in even their darker corners, they’ve made an excellent debut that plays out not as a “psych” album, but as a folk record that accidentally got weird. Check it!

Behold, the companion video game for a Michelle Devereux’s series of drawings “Dudes on Pizza”. Surf your pizza to save the future of humanity? The music is by SssstormshelterrrR (the band which Michelle drums in). The game was made by Morgan Coy.

We have a new LP at the pressing plant that John Wesley Coleman and Morgan Coy made together titled Nightmare on Silly Street. You can preview some of the tracks within the Wild Zoo!

Daniel came over to our compound last week. We spent an hour with him, and recorded him playing one of the two songs on our new release. The new record is a split with Dikes of Holland. It is part of our one sider series and features artwork from Dan’s brother Tim on the non music side. Pick it up here!

We like to make small books. Here is a batch of small packages that pack a lot into their few pages. Bad Jobs #1 by William Z. Saunders is the first of a series of punk in the deep south memoirs. Palm by Grant Cross is the first of three sharp haiku books that we’ll be putting out. Amber Rademacher brings the fourth of her radical Picture Book series to our roster. And Morgan Coy gives us a vision of the street art from Valencia, Spain. Flip through all of the virtual pages online RIGHT HERE! Then get a real copy for $5. We’re only making a few real books, so they’re precious.

Two new one-siders coming September 27th.  Chicago-based Flower Man (aka Caboladies’ Chris Bush) gives us his latest, an electronic suite weaving motorik vibes into Badalamenti ambience.  Dikes of Holland and Daniel Francis Doyle give up two tracks each for a killer one-sided split, Dikes pounding rock giving way to DFD’s dynamic, one-man acrobatics.  (photo by Lilah Shepherd)

In the midst of an unrelenting heat wave, Dry Hump: The Game offers you a weirdly cool escape from this sweltering reality. Choose your Avatar and venture forward through multiple levels of play, with the goal of psychedelic dry humping waiting to reward your correct life choices. Is it weird? Yes, but it’s also pure in a way that abstinence-only-education will applaud. Filmed and made in the lovely hot Austin summer.

Featuring an equally epic soundtrack by…. The Rebel, Soft Healer, Soft Encounters, Diagonals, Thor Coy, Sands Hollow, John Wesley Coleman III, Duncan Malashock, DYX, Secrecy, Over the Hill, Ralph White, and The Pillow Queens.

Remember, Keep It Dry!

Here’s also a great write up that we got about the game!

“Computer Chess” is a narrative feature film to be written and directed by critically-acclaimed filmmaker Andrew Bujalski. The movie takes place circa 1980 at a tournament of chess players and computer programmers. A majority of the film’s budget has already been raised via private investors and they are seeking your help to raise the remaining funds to complete their budget and begin shooting August 19, 2011 in Austin, Texas.

Andrew Bujalski has written and directed the feature films “Funny Ha Ha,” “Mutual Appreciation,”and “Beeswax”. All three have played on screens (big and small) worldwide, and appeared on multiple “Top Ten Film of The Year” lists, including those of The New York Times critics A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis. In 2010, “Funny Ha Ha” was named by The New York Times as one of the Ten Most Influential Films of the Decade.
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Here’s the trailer to the video game that’s coming soon. It’s an interactive video game sort of like a choose your own adventure where the goal of each level it to dry hump the other characters. You pick your avatar and then the game begins.