SpyderPop Records' all-star tribute to the songs of 1970 on CD in a deluxe album gatefold replica sleeve.

The latest compilation of our Singles Series covers the music of the turbulent months of October and November of 2020. Track list: THE A-SIDES: 1. mylittlebrother: Howl (Harris) 2. Nick Frater: California Waits (Frater) 3. October Surprise: Paris 1919 (John Cale) 4. Whelligan: Rabid Hole (Whelligan) 5. The Incurables: Funhouse (Lawson/Kelly/Lawson) 6. D.F.E.: I Say We Take Off And Nuke The Site From Orbit (Broome/Bulbenko) 7. NPFO Stratagem: Back Off Boogaloo (Harrison/Starkey) 8. Popdudes: O-o-h Child (Vincent) 9. The Speed Of Sound: Radio Safe (Armstrong) 10. Allyson Seconds & Anton Barbeau: Tie My Laces (Barbeau) 11. Icecream Hands: No Weapon But Love (Icecream Hands)

THE B-SIDES: 12. mylittlebrother: Song About Amsterdam (Harris) 13. Nick Frater: The Afterparty (Frater) 14. October Surprise: (Just Can't See) The Attraction (Broome/Bulbenko) 15. Whelligan: Anyone Who Never Had A Heart (Whelligan) 16. The Incurables: Muskrat Love (Ramsey) 17. D.F.E.: Yellow River (Christie) 18. NPFO Stratagem: Nazi Punks Fuck Off (Lounge Hallucination Version) (Biafra) 19. Popdudes: Share The Land (Cummings) 20. The Speed Of Sound: No Kicks (Armstrong) 21. Anton Barbeau & Allyson Seconds: Octagon (Barbeau) 22. Icecream Hands: Can You Feel My Love (Icecream Hands)

The first collection of our celebrated Singles Series for 2021! Track list: THE A-SIDES: 1. Dolph Chaney: Be My Old Fart 2. The Viewers: Beautiful 3. Blake Jones: The First Song Of Summer 4. The Persian Leaps: PRN 5. Mike Daly & The Planets: Falling Out Of Love Song 6. Nick Frater: Let’s Hear It For Love 7. Irene Peña: It Must Be Summer 8. The Brothers Steve: Beat Generation Poet Turned Assassin (Unabridged) 9. Rosie Abbott: Hold On 10. Jim Basnight: Prince Jones Davies Suite 11. David Brookings: All I Love is Rock ’n’ Roll (Alternate Mix) THE B-SIDES: 12. Dolph Chaney: If I Write It Down 13. The Viewers: It’s My Time 14. Blake Jones & The Trike Shop: Take a Look at the Stars 15. The Persian Leaps: Chamberlain 16. Mike Daly & The Planets: Star 17. Nick Frater: Alone Again (Naturally) 18. Irene Peña: The Summer Place 19. The Brothers Steve: Beat Generation Poet Turned Assassin (Abridged) 20. Rosie Abbott: I Don’t Mean To Block Your Sunlight 21. Jim Basnight: Best Lover In The World 22. David Brookings: Livin’ Through the Plague (Home Demo) 23. Athanor: Approximately Eternity

The 21 track CD edition of the Big Stir Holiday Singles Collection comes with digital-only bonus tracks as well as a download of the complete album!

THE A-SIDES: 1) The GoAllTheWays: Silly Girl 2) Mod Hippie: Saturday Show 3) The Speed Of Sound: I See You 4) The Stillsouls: Does My Love For You Come From Shakespeare Too 5) Blaine Campbell: Happy Faces 6) The Tor Guides: Just A Smile 7) Lannie Flowers: My Street (North Florida Version) 8) It's Karma It's Cool: Wooden Buddha 9) The Morning Line: Nostradamus 10) The Armoires: Pushing Forty 11) The Forty Nineteens: Tell Me THE B-SIDES: 12) The GoAllTheWays: Tourist 13) Mod Hippie: Shimmering Sound 14) The Speed Of Sound 15) The Stillsouls: Old Guitars Are Ghosts On The Sunset Strip 16) Blaine Campbell: Movin' On 17) The Tor Guides: Make You Mine 18) Lannie Flowers: Summer Blue 19) It's Karma It's Cool: Ghosts of Rome 20) The Morning Line: Nostradamus (Remix) 21) The Armoires: Shame And Bourbon 22) It's For Fun (That's All We're Living For)

BIG STIR SINGLES: THE FIFTH WAVE crashes on your musical shore Friday, March 6, on CD and Digital Download, and is available for pre-order at www.bigstirrecords.com/store now. It's the first installment in the series for 2020, after the First through Fourth Wave CDs released throughout 2019 debuted to rave reviews and broke new ground for collections of their type, landing on Year's Best lists among proper single artist albums. The series is now firmly established as an ongoing journal of the best new music on the global pop rock scene, beyond boundaries of geography and label affiliation, and a reliably exciting rebuke to the charge that “there's no good music any more these days”. What makes The Fifth Wave special? As always it features an A-side and a B- side from each of the artists featured across the most recent months of the Big Stir Singles Series, this time with an emphasis on artists from our some of our other favorite labels (Kool Kat Musik, SpyderPop Records, Karma Frog Music and our partners at Futureman Records). As always it sports liner notes from a trusted authority on the music scene, as Tsar / Brothers Steve / GoAllTheWays drummer STEVE COULTER, under his crime fiction and pop critic nom-de-plume S.W. Lauden, joins the ranks of noted music writers Carl Cafarelli, Don Valentine and John Borack in doing the honors. And artist Ridley Broome has created a unique cover graphic depicting each of the A- sides in fantasy/superhero personifications, adding the character and quirk that collectors have come to expect from Big Stir's physical releases. The Who's Who of celebrated artists, globetrotting international diversity, and profusion of exclusive tracks are as strong as ever. The collection is bookended by the physical-media debuts of tracks by two Southern California supergroups. It kicks off with THE GOALLTHEWAYS, a rapturously-received punk-goes-pop side project starring members of The Brothers Steve, The Armoires, and Sugarcult, formed to accompany the essay collection GO ALL THE WAY: A LITERARY APPRECIATION OF POWER POP, who delivers chiming harmony- laden re-imaginings of classics from The Descendents and Pink Lincolns. And it closes with the Big Stir debut single from THE FORTY NINETEENS, the garage rock superstars who count former members of The Leonards and Mary's Danish as part of their lineup, with a pair of originals that are already all over independent radio everywhere. In between there's a lot that showcases the diversity of the modern “California Sound”. THE ARMOIRES themselves appear with a new single tied to a video release and a completely new (and unexpected!) B-side. BLAINE CAMPBELL checks in with some freshly-minted tunes that will delight fans of the '60s sunshine sound. Karma Frog Music vets MOD HIPPIE land a pair of epic rockers that stretch the single format to bracing effect. And from farther up the coast, THE MORNING LINE delivers two versions (one an exclusive synth- driven remix) of “Nostradamus”, a song that so thrilled the Big Stir label honchos that they sought Kool Kat Musik's permission to include it. The UK is represented here by IT'S KARMA, IT'S COOL (again on loan from Kool Kat), the ace new project from ex-Popdogs frontman Jim Styring, and a welcome return from THE SPEED OF SOUND who contribute a Byrds cover that we Crosby-ites at BSR adore, as well as an acoustic reading of a vintage tune of their own. Futureman's Swedish sensation THE TOR GUIDES clock in with a giddy cover of Pilot's “Just A Smile” from their 2019 album Backwards In Reverse backed by a previously unheard track that's every bit as good. Back in the US and deep in the heart of Texas, LANNIE FLOWERS is fresh off a round of Best Album list nods for his 2019 SpyderPop release Home (which frequently rubbed shoulders on such lists with LPs fromThe Tor Guides, Campbell and The Armoires). Lannie's tracks here don't appear on that record, though – we instead have an exclusive “North Florida Version” of “My Street” and a previously online-only favorite in “Summer Blue”. And keeping it stateside, it's the first dip into Singles Series waters for New York's THE STILLSOULS, with a pair of witty and passionate rockers – one of which displays more than a bit of Sunset Strip soul, perhaps bringing us full circle on this 22-song journey. The Big Stir Singles Series continues into its Sixth Wave on our official website at www.bigstirrecords.com and on all of our social media platforms under the Big Stir Records name. Previous volumes of the BIG STIR SINGLES collections can be found there, along with full length releases from many of the featured artists... with more to come through the new year!

1) sparkle*jets U.K.: The Ballad Of El Goodo (Alex Chilton) BSR-0020A Blue Vinyl 45, July 20 2019 2) Broken Arrows: Behind The Eight Ball (Bill Ryan) BSDS-0036A, July 26 2019 3) The Reflectors: Teenage Hearts (The Reflectors) BSDS-0037A, August 2 2019 4) Carol Pacey & The Honey Shakers: Crumb (Pacey) BSDS-0038A, August 9 2019 5) Shplang: Spanish Galleons (Marston/Krause/Cannizza) BSDS-0039A, August 16 2019 6) Dolph Chaney: It's OK (Chaney) BSDS-0040A, August 23 2019 7) The Vapour Trails: Sonic Wave (Roberson/Robertson) BSDS-0041A, August 30 2019 8) Armstrong: Love Hate Passion And War (Julian Pitt) BSDS-0042A, September 6 2019 9) The Hangabouts: Who Wants Cilla? (Gregory Addington/John Lowry/Chip Saam) BSDS-0043A, September 13 2019 10) Blake Jones & The Trike Shop: My Soft Rock Girlfriend (Jones) BSDS-0044A, September 20 2019 11) The Persian Leaps: Catnip For Cupid (Drew Forsberg) BSDS-0045A, September 27 2019 12) The Walker Brigade: Tower (Jeff Charreaux) BSDS-0046A, October 4 2019 13) Joe Normal & The Anytown'rs: Even Now (Joe Normal) BSGT-0001 Giving Tuesday Benefit Single, December 3 2019

THE B-SIDES: 14) sparkle*jets U.K.: You And Your Sister (Chris Bell) BSR-0020B Blue Vinyl 45, July 20 2019 15) Broken Arrows: Shroomitized (Chevalier/Lee/Penner/Ryan/Storms) BSDS-0036B, July 26 2019 16) The Reflectors: Desert Crusader (The Reflectors) BSDS-0037B, August 2 2019 17) Carol Pacey & The Honey Shakers: Add It Up (Gordon Gano) BSDS-0038B, August 9 2019 18) Shplang: Pickles Are Fun (Marston/Krause/Cannizza) BSDS-0039B, August 16 2019 19) Dolph Chaney: I Am The B-Side (Chaney) BSDS-0040B, August 23 2019 20) The Vapour Trails: Drowning As I Fall In (Home Demo) (Roberson/Robertson) BSDS-0041B, August 30 2019 21) Armstrong: September Skies (Julian Pitt) BSDS-0042B, September 6 2019 22) The Hangabouts: Mrs. Greene (Gregory Addington/John Lowry/Chip Saam) BSDS-0043B, September 13 2019 23) Blake Jones & The Trike Shop: Disentangled (Jones) BSDS-0044B, September 20 2019 24) The Persian Leaps: Sweet Nothings (Drew Forsberg) BSDS-0045B, September 27 2019 25) The Walker Brigade: I'm Tired (Mel Brooks) BSDS-0046B, October 4 2019

BIG STIR RECORDS is extraordinarily proud to wrap up its banner year with a very special CD and digital release. BIG STIR SINGLES: THE FOURTH WAVE arrives on Giving Tuesday, December 3 2019. With five dollars from each CD or download being donated to THE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER and a generous helping of the exciting and often-exclusive pop rock jewels audiences have come to expect from the series, THE FOURTH WAVE sums up the BSR's generous and community-based ethos in grand style while making a difference in the lives of those with special needs and their families. The 25-track compilation will be available as of Giving Tuesday and can be pre-ordered at www.BigStirRecords.com/store now!

The first three compilations in the BIG STIR SINGLES series, collecting the label's ongoing weekly releases of A- and B-sides from a celebrated cast of bands and artists worldwide, have received rave reviews from the likes of SHINDIG! MAGAZINE, LOUDER THAN WAR MAGAZINE, THE BIG TAKEOVER MAGAZINE and more. As a collection, THE FOURTH WAVE goes far beyond offering more of the sublime same. Its literal and spiritual centerpiece is a brand new track from LA's JOE NORMAL & THE ANYTOWN'RS, “Even Now”, written especially for the Giving Tuesday event with the Asner Center's mission at its heart. It also boasts the CD and digital debut of the previously vinyl-only SPARKLE*JETS U.K. Big Star/Chris Bell tribute 45 (recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis and featuring Big Star's Jody Stephens on drums) and celebrates BSR's newly-minted partnership with FUTUREMAN RECORDS by featuring exclusive tracks from the label's flagship artists THE HANGABOUTS (Ann Arbor, Michigan) and THE VAPOUR TRAILS (Aberdeen, Scotland). It's anointed with heartfelt liner notes from pop rock authority CARL CAFARELLI of This Is Rock 'N' Roll Radio and Boppin' (Like the Hip Folks Do) and showcases the artwork of all of the original digital releases.

You'll also find two tracks each by artists from as far afield as Wales (ARMSTRONG, appearing courtesy of our friends at Canada's THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC label), Minneapolis (THE PERSIAN LEAPS with two sizzling cuts from their brand new album), Illinois (DOLPH CHANEY's first new music in years), and Kansas City (BROKEN ARROWS with a pair of exclusives). Phoenix, Arizona roots-rock favorites CAROL PACEY & THE HONEY SHAKERS also check in with a raucous original backed with a surprise – a cover of The Violent Femmes' “Add It Up”. Like all of the collection's music, they've already received worldwide airplay and independent radio chart placements attesting to their strong hooks and immediate appeal.

Naturally Big Stir's home base of California is amply represented. In addition to the Joe Normal and sparkle*jets U.K. contributions, label mainstays BLAKE JONES & THE TRIKE SHOP (Fresno) are here to demonstrate their mastery of art-infected pop. Two generations of the Los Angeles pop scene are represented by SHPLANG, celebrating 25 years of finely-crafted melodic rock, and the supercharged quintessential power pop of THE REFLECTORS, widely hailed as the great young hope of the genre. Meanwhile, THE WALKER BRIGADE roars back with a brand new A-side and caps the collection with, of all things, an art-punk rendition of a tune from the soundtrack to Blazing Saddles. As the UK's IAN CANTY has remarked of the BSR compilation series, “Something is definitely happening here, something special indeed. A real community of different artists coming together in a true DIY spirit to achieve their mostly noisy, sometimes more serene, but always stylish pop goals.”

Making that something even more special this time around, and thanks to Joe Normal, is the chance for fans to show their support for a worthy cause. Compilation curators Christina Bulbenko and Rex Broome (of THE ARMOIRES and founders of the Big Stir collective) are music teachers by day have seen the uplifting effects of both music and caring education on the special needs children in their care. They're especially honored to be partnering with THE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER, which offers arts and vocational enrichments and health and wellness programs including counseling services, as a one-stop shop for those with special needs and their families seeking wholeness in all attitudes of life. The Center acts as an oasis of balance and thought, of interaction and education. We're proud to announce that five dollars from the purchase of THE FOURTH WAVE in any format will be donated directly to the Center. Details about the Center's work can be found in the attached press release.

More about Big Stir Records, The Ed Asner Family Center, and Joe Normal can be found at the following links and on most social media platforms under the expected names:

www.BigStirRecords.com www.edasnerfamilycenter.org www.joenormalusa.com

Track List: 1. Karla Kane, “Goodguy Sun” 2. Michael Simmons, “This Is Most Certainly True” 3. Kai Danzberg with Lisa Mychols, “Let Me Know” 4. The Ex Teens, “Mikey & Murdercat” 5. Lannie Flowers, “Day Glow All Night” 6. mylittlebrother, “Love Song for an Island” 7. Trip Wire, “Act Fast” 8. Blake Jones & the Trike Shop, “String Lights and Hold On” 9. Kai Danzberg, “If Santa” 10. Plasticsoul, “The Ghost In Between Us” 11. Addison Love, “Endless” 12. Sons of Morning, “Cold and Blue” 13. The Newds, “Through the Dark Side” 14. Karla Kane, “Sisters of the Pollen” 15. Michael Simmons, “Singles Are Weaker” 16. Kai Danzberg, “Let Me Know (Instrumental)” 17. The Ex Teens, “I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better” 18. Lannie Flowers, “Lost in a Daydream” 19. mylittlebrother, “Love Song for an Island (David Teasdale Remix)” 20. Trip Wire, “Golden Gloves (Stringless Version)” 21. Plasticsoul, “Laughing Boy” 22. Addison Love, “Unsolicited Phone Calls” 23. Sons of Morning, “Evangeline” 24. The Newds, “Drawing a Line”