hi Everyone...
it's been a while since the last Double Agent newsletter.... we've
been saving some BIG announcements....

The Telescopes "Auditory Illusions" enhanced CD w/ video
out February 28 - LIMITED TO 500!

Rose Melberg "Cast Away The Clouds" digipak CD
all-new album out April 25!

Double Agent 1980 : A Tribute to the 1980's
rare indiepop compilation re-issued for the 10 year anniversary, only
on iTunes
(includes My Favorite covering David Bowie's "Modern Love")

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The Telescopes "Auditory Illusions" enhanced CD w/ video
out February 28 - LIMITED TO 500! (only for sale online and at shows)
http://www.doubleagentrecords.com/telescopes

Includes a free-drone re-working of their biggest single, 'Flying,'
with a hypnotic new video by Dan Hopkins.
watch a video clip of "Flying (2006)" at video.co.uk:
http://www.video-c.co.uk/videovaultwatch.asp?vidref=thet008

ColourSonic review: 'Flying' is one of the Telescopes most well known
tracks and here it is in all its glory, reinvented and redefined like
you've never heard it before... alongside their very best work... the
highlight of the EP for me is the Dan Hopkins video; eerie, intense
and anonymous.

After a decade's journey across the universe, legendary Creation
Records astronauts, The Telescopes, triumphantly splashed down on
Earth in 2002 as an 11-piece with a new album of alien compositions,
Third Wave. John Peel broadcast his favorites announcing, "The
Telescopes have resurfaced, and I am amazed and glad that they are
still practicing their mysterious art."

Stephen Lawrie and his group of sonic architects have since toured
the UK and Italy as a 4-piece improvising free-drone noise, supported
by Sonic Boom's EAR, Füxa, Vibracathedral Orchestra, and more.

The all-new Auditory Illusions is a mesmerising 25-minute live
session recorded for Double Agent using an assortment of improvised
acoustic and battery operated instrumentation to create new and
exclusive versions of material past and present.

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Rose Melberg "Cast Away The Clouds" digipak CD
all-new album out April 25!
http://www.doubleagentrecords.com/rose

That's right... the angellic leader of The Softies, Tiger Trap and Go
Sailor is back with her most amazing work to date!

Rose Melberg has always been a productive overachiever - giving us a
seemingly endless avalanche of mellifluous albums to treasure - but
the past 5 years have been uncharacteristically quiet. After moving
to a small Canadian lakeside town, she started a family, developed
into a mature singer/songwriter akin to Nick Drake, Tracey Thorn,
Elliott Smith and Isobel Campbell / Belle & Sebastian, and created
her solo masterpiece, "Cast Away the Clouds", the spellbinding
continuation of an impressive career.

Straight out of a Sacramento high school, Rose Melberg entered the
indiepop 7-inch scene in 1992 with her first of many successful
bands, Tiger Trap. Crunchy guitars and punk attitudes couldn't hide
Rose's velvet voice and painfully honest lyrics, and the all-girl
foursome quickly became stars of a burgeoning indiepop/punk movement
centered around Olympia, WA and record labels like K and Kill Rock
Stars. Too good to last, Tiger Trap split after their second US tour,
leaving just one classic album and an EP on K Records. Wondrously
prolific, Rose quickly teamed with uber- fan Jen Sbragia to form the
The Softies, possibly her best-known project. With just two guitars
and two angelic voices, The Softies debuted with a 7" and mini-LP on
the wonderful Slumberland Records, toured the US 5 times (once with
Elliott Smith) and released 3 amazing albums and singles, also on K
Records from 1994-2001.

At the same time, Rose somehow managed to front Go Sailor who
collected their sold-out and sought-after pop singles on Look Out
Records in 1997, and had two songs featured in the campy film, "But
I'm A Cheerleader". Never stopping, Rose also played drums on two
albums with Gaze and recorded various duets and solo tracks while on
tour. Those stray tracks were compiled on "Portola" released by
Double Agent Records in 1998. All-Music Guide gave it 4 stars and
declared "Even in light of the uniform brilliance of Rose Melberg's
past work with Tiger Trap and The Softies, her solo debut is still
reve- latory -- never before has her voice been so disarmingly honest
and vulnerable... 'Portola' is a small miracle."

Having long since graduated from Indiepop University, Rose re-emerges
mature and confident with the most deeply personal album of her
career, "Cast Away the Clouds".

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Double Agent 1980 : A Tribute to the 1980's
rare indiepop compilation re-issued for the 10 year anniversary, only
on iTunes
Released in 1996 and sold out for many years, we've now made this
rare compilation available exclusively via iTunes for just $7.92 to
celebrate the anniversary!

Includes exclusive tracks from My Favorite, Bunnygrunt, Holiday,
Class, The Softies, Push Kings, #Poundsign#, and Tullycraft !!
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=108775260

"Probably a lot of thrash/trash versions of obvious-target songs,
right? Wrong. The result is surprisingly poignant, and it's enough to
make you think that we didn't get our sensitivity from Morrissey or
R.E.M.; we got it from Rick Astley or even Bonnie Tyler." Brett
Milano, Boston Phoenix

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