Monofonus Press

Shit and Shine Euro Tour
Jun 21 11

The Third Person/Battleberg Ice
Jun 06 11

Some Monofonus friends have been working on amazing, non-Mono stuff.  Check out the premiere of Max Juren’s The Third Person this Saturday at the Dobie Theater.  Watch the trailer HERE.

Local art collective, BoozeFox, is building a giant floating/roaming/floaming Iceberg Battleship sculpture on Lady Bird Lake in Austin TX.  Battleberg Ice will travel up and down Ladybird lake from September 15th through the 18th.

The Rebel The Five Year Plan EP
May 27 11

We couldn’t be happier to present to the world a new release from one of our favorite recording artists OF ALL FUCKING TIME!  Ben Wallers aka The Rebel is the main man behind Country Teasers, and continues to amaze with the near constant flow of material out on a variety of labels including a 2007 release from Austin label Emperor Jones.  Since playing in our garage in March of 2006 we’ve kept in contact (aka drunk g-chatting), and a couple months ago he was generous enough to send us 13 songs to choose from. We’ve selected our three favorites, and pressed them up proper on a 12″ EP titled THE FIVE YEAR PLAN.  full color everything…. label, jacket, and screen printed B Side. Looks/Sounds amazing. Fans of Ronnie O’Sullivan will be extra stoked.  Limited to only 300 copies.  ORDER NOW! Cost is $10

Thor Harris – A Post Apocolyptic Tale of Friendship
May 02 11

Monofonus Press is proud to present the second IF series release by the godly Thor Harris. The book is a collection of drawings that were done during a year plus of touring with Swans, Shearwater, and Bill Callahan. The music was made much quicker than that. Morgan Coy made the music with Thor. Rob Halverson of Tree World Recording, recorded the stuff and mixed it. It’s a twisted package of goods.

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Shit and Shine/Expensive Shit split 7″
Apr 13 11

PREorder the new 7″ now!

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Sun Araw 7″
Mar 31 11

Straight from the heart of the Astrodome: a conceptual broadcast of burnt orange power-pop, radiating with love for the homeland.  First, the conspicuously un-stepped version of “Bump Up:” the original, pre-mangled, all shined up and dubless.  Second, a cover of Teenage Fanclub’s “December” set loose in SUN ARK for blissed wandering.

limited run of 300

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HARSH REALM 2
Mar 11 11

Harsh Realm II from Monofonus Press on Vimeo.

If you weren’t with us this SXSW in the realm, here’s your chance to capture it in all its slow motion grandeur. The bands heard and seen on here are Sun Araw, Blank Realm, Umberto, Expensive Shit and Shine, M. Geddes Gengras, White Hills, Warm Climate, Woodsman, Soft Healer, Daniel Francis Doyle, John Wesley Coleman III, and Ralph White and Tim Kerr. Due to unfortunate recording problems, Cloudland Canyon and the Myrrh did not make it onto this video, but that’s not because they didn’t kill it. They did, we just messed up. Recorded (video and audio) by Morgan Coy. Video edited by the Amazing Scott Gelber.

Soft Healer, tonight at the Mohawk!
Feb 24 11

Soft Healer are playing with YellowFever and TV Torso tonight (Thursday, February 24) at the Mohawk. They’ll be hawking copies of their brand new, limited edition EP!

Professional Seamen
Feb 14 11

New video by Scott Gelber for Soft Encounters’ paranoid, body-twisting track “Professional Seamen,” off their brand new one-sider.

New Releases: Feb. 2011
Feb 07 11

New releases!  Pick up these awesome debut 7″ers from Brooklyn artist Duncan Malashock and Austin duo Sands Hollow.  Also a debut one-sider from Soft Encounters (Yeasayer/Knyfe Hyts/Ex Models), as well as a new one-sider from Austin post-funkers Soft Healer.  Available Feb 15th.

Coming up next: vinyl releases from Sun Araw, The Rebel, and Expensive Shit/Shit & Shine, plus some tapes!