Added a TAPES section to the Asian Man website for these two bad boyzzzz.

Today, we grace our page with a top 10 list of various things from Mr. Jesse Michaels of Classics Of Love and Operation Ivy.
1) People who were nice in L.A. my new home
2) Hunger Games (the book- new to me)
3) The car it took forever to get
4) The apartment it took forever to find
5) Ursula Heise, Science Fiction lit professor, genius
6) Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep (Book, Blade Runner Novel, Philip K. Dick)
7) Moxyland (book, South African Cyberpunk novel, Lauren Beukes)
8) Korean Son Buddhism (studying it, not a Buddhist)
9) The most overrated poet in history: Alexander Pope for helping me to define for myself what bad literature is
10) L.A.

*this is a personal list that reflects moving to L.A. to go to school for literature, I wanted to give something to Mike but I don’t know anything about new records or any other media so I just did this…

Mike from Classics of Love/Hard Girls/Shinobu just released a solo album and made this awesome video. Check it out!

We got a bunch of new 7-inches in our webstore, including:

Lemuria - Varoom Allure

Classics of Love - World of the Known

The Wild / Worthwhile Way - Just the way you are Split 7”

Dangerous Intersections V compilation (feat. Andrew Jackson Jihad)

Check out that awesome etching on the Lemuria record!

Stream the entire self-titled CLASSICS OF LOVE LP on PureVolume right now!

Click on the album cover to listen, or click here.

Click here to order the new album.

Interview with Jesse Michaels from Classics of Love/Common Rider/Big Rig/Operation Ivy on Giant Robot

On the upcoming, self-titled Classics of Love LP, Jesse Michaels declares, “Life is a game where you see who gets the most money/Life is a game where you see who gets the most power.” Those are some cool punk lyrics on their own but the ex-frontperson of Common Rider, Big Rig, and Operation Ivy backs up the sentiments by starting rad bands that never get played on the radio, play huge tours, or cash in. Instead, Michaels just makes totally honest, somewhat trashy, energy-packed, and supremely melodic ’70s punk-inspired music with touches of hardcore and ska. So I was stoked when our mutual friend Mike Park asked me if I wanted to contact Jesse about his band’s latest release on Asian Man Records. Cramming 13 songs into 23 minutes, it’s loaded with raging punk with touches of The Specials (“Castle In The Sky“) and Bad Religion (“We Need a Change”). Of course, the breathless, humanist, blue-collar lyrics are pure Jesse Michaels. Here’s how the conversation went…

Click here to read the rest of the interview with Jesse at GIANT ROBOT.

CLASSICS OF LOVE — Castle in the Sky

Here is the music video for “Castle in the Sky,” a new song off of the new self-titled CLASSICS OF LOVE LP! Read the interview that Jesse Michaels did with AMP Magazine HERE.

Click here to preorder the record

The colored copies of the new self-titled CLASSICS OF LOVE LP have arrived!

Click here to listen to “Dissolve”
Click here to preorder the record

Preorders ship on January 31st and is available in stores on CD and LP  on February 14th!

In case you missed it…

Here is a stream of the song “Dissolve” off of the new self-titled CLASSICS OF LOVE LP (out on February 14, 2012). Now available for preorder!

PREORDER THE NEW CLASSICS OF LOVE LP!!!

The new CLASSICS OF LOVE (members of OPERATION IVY, HARD GIRLS) full-length is up for pre-order. There are 200 sets of each bundle available. The vinyl bundle comes with a random colored self-titled vinyl LP (limited to 500), a download code, a 12x18” poster and a limited edition t-shirt (illustrated by JESSE MICHAELS)! The CD bundle comes with a copy of the self-titled CD (with a six page insert) and a limited edition t-shirt (illustrated by JESSE MICHAELS)! All LP orders will come with a 12x18” poster. Orders will ship on January 31st. 

CLICK HERE to preorder the new album!
CLICK HERE to listen to a new song from the record, “Dissolve”

Here is another upload of the new CLASSICS OF LOVE song, “Dissolve”. In case you forgot, CLASSICS OF LOVE is Jesse Michaels (OPERATION IVY, COMMON RIDER) and San Jose’s sweethearts, HARD GIRLS (members of PTERADON and SHINOBU).

You can pick up their debut EP, “Walking in Shadows,” Art of the Underground single, the HARD GIRLS’ split with KUDROW, and tons of other good stuff in our webstore.

STREAM NEW TRACKS FROM CLASSICS OF LOVE, KEPI GHOULIE, AND DAN P. AND THE BRICKS

Just in case you missed it, there is a brand new CLASSICS OF LOVE song streaming on the newly-established Asian Man Records Bandpage on Facebook. Also available for your listening enjoyment are tracks from KEPI GHOULIE, DAN P. AND THE BRICKS, and THE WILD.

Don’t forget to pre-order the KEPI and DAN P. records in our webstore! You could order them while streaming both albums in their entirety over at Punknews.org!

KEPI GHOULIE “I Bleed Rock N Roll” PRE-ORDER // STREAM
DAN P. AND THE BRICKS “Watch Where You Walk” PRE-ORDER // STREAM 

• MONKEY is headed to Europe in a couple of days and need help with some shows! Sept 15 (North - Germany/Luxemborg/France) and Sept 26 (Italy - Northern) are the days with which they need help. They will play anywhere—Houses, backyards, cafes, etc… Please get in contact with the band on Facebook or with Mike on the Asian Man Facebook page.

And from last week’s Newsletter…

• KEVIN SECONDS has set up a Kickstarter page to help fund his quest for a new touring van. You can help him out here!
• CLASSICS OF LOVE are almost recording their first full-length record. Fans of Operation Ivy and punk music should prepare themselves accordingly.
• SPRAYNARD is opening for Kid Dynamite this coming weekend. They are excited.

Also up for pre-order is the HARD GIRLS/KUDROW split 7”, “Boo”!!! HARD GIRLS are from San Jose, California and KUDROW is from Brooklyn, New York. There will be 400 of these records pressed, and there will NOT be another repress! Pre-order the record HERE.