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06.24.08 RESTAVRANT Music Featured in New Films: "Nixon Hide Tide Hold 'em" is a new surfing lifestyle movie based in Fiji featuring top professional Surfers along with Restavrant's song "Joe D." (June 11th, 2008) "Red Bull Fiji" is a BMX lifestyle movie sh... (Read More)

06.19.08 Thursday June 19th @ 7pm - Reggae Scrapbook Book Signing @ Hollywood & Highland Virgin Megastore - Hollywood, CA - Roger Steffens, the world's premier archivist and collector of reggae memorabilia brings us "Reggae Scrapbook," which covers topics such as “R... (Read More)

06.19.08 Loveline to premier Lee "Scratch" Perry's sexy new single, "Pum Pum"! Andrew will make his 3rd special guest appearance on the famous,"Loveline" radio show, this Thursday night, June 19th, 2008. The nationally syndicated radio program is hosted by Stryker... (Read More)

06.18.08 LIONSGATE SIGNS DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITH NARNACK RECORDS DEAL INCLUDES GRAMMY® WINNING REGGAE ICON LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY BEVERLY HILLS, CA, and SANTA MONICA, CA (June 5, 2008) – Lionsgate continues to expand and diversify its music roster with the addi... (Read More)

05.27.08 Bonnie "Prince" Billy's project "Lie Down In The Light" received an 8.7 rating on PitchforkMedia.com today. The Cairo Gang's Emmet Kelly, part of Billy's band receives mention as well. See the article here: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_revi... (Read More)

05.09.08 THETRIPWIRE.COM Presents: On The Cover - LANGHORNE SLIM - Normally when we introduce you to a new On The Cover artist, we sit down and do a bit of research in order to prepare a bit of a biography to help familiarize our readers with their background. W... (Read More)

05.07.08 - Pitchfork.tv Presents Lee Scratch Perry & Andrew W.K. -"When we heard Andrew W.K. was producing a new album for dub legend Lee "Scratch" Perry in New York, we thought the scene inside the studio was gonna be like spring break for crazy people. It kind of wa... (Read More)

04.21.08 Yellow Swans Break Up: The mighty (and mightily prolific) noise-drone duo Yellow Swans have called it quits after six years and upwards of 70 releases. In an e-mail to Pitchfork, band member Pete Swanson writes, "There have been some murmurs floating ... (Read More)

03.26.08 LANGHORNE SLIM will be performing on The Late Show with DAVID LETTERMAN Wednesday March 26th at 11:30pm ET/PT. Hear more from Slim on his critically acclaimed album "When The Sun's Gone Down" available at iTunes and NarnackRecords.com.

03.21.08 Narnack Loves "The Slits"-- Wanna give a shout out to Ari, Tessa, Holly, Ana & Michelle. Great to see you in Austin... good luck on the rest of your tour.

 
Lee Scratch Perry

Grammy-winner, consummate performer, and legendary producer Lee “Scratch” Perry needs little introduction. In the ‘60s and ‘70s Perry helped create and bring to the world’s attention the chugging beats and pulsing rhythms of dub and reggae music. And in his almost mythical Black Ark studio, Perry launched the sounds of Bob Marley & the Wailers, the Heptones, and Max Romeo. With the simple recording equipment available to him, Lee “Scratch” Perry made a sonic innovator of himself, becoming reggae’s premier record producer through analogue alchemy and unending experimentation....
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Restaurant

The band Restaurant was born out of a fundamental misunderstanding of the term "pince-nez" and a shared love of all things Wu-Tang. Word around the campfire is that Bobby "State" Penn was conceived behind the walls of a Huntsville, Texas maximum security prison. Shortly after, Bobby's mother, Denise, would escape in a sanitation truck and migrate East toward the Atchafalaya River Basin deep within the swampland of Louisiana. Legend has it that Denise carved what the Creole people call a "pirot" out of a dried alligator carcass and rowed it to shore on the banks of Bayou Chene, far from the watchful....
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