August - Bring It On Home 7":
Bring It On Home // On My Mind
black vinyl (no PS)
Underground Sound 45-US001, 1977

Lineup: John Piette / Darrell Breeden

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Recording Info: Recorded at Underground Sound.

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My copy of this is warped and beat to hell--anyone have one in better shape (or a copy of the August LP) for sale or trade? If so, email me!

August - S/T LP:
All Night Long / Now I'm Ready / Here I Am / I Remember When / I've Got Your Number // Time To Party Again / Just A Working Man / Keep on Trying / It's Been So Long / Love in My Dreams
black vinyl with printed inner sleeve
Rising Star API01, 1978

Lineup: John Piette - guitar / Bill Weisband - vocals / Nick Pizzola - drums / Ray Brand* - guitar, slide / Mike Smoot* - bass / Bette Ojala - backing vocals / Peter D'Antonio - backing vocals

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Recording Info: *Appears courtesy of Buckeye. Recorded at Underground Sound, Largo Maryland, Summer of 1978. Engineered by Peter D'Antonio, Jerry Ressler. Produced by August Productions, Inc.

Notes: The printed inner sleeve says the "New" August lineup is: Jerry Bozic - drums / Howard Brundage - bass, vocals / John Piette - guitar, vocals / Steve Allison - guitar, vocals

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Acrylix - Waiting / Dancing 7":
Waiting in the Car (For You) // Dancing in the Middle of Inflation
black vinyl
Chi Chi R100, 1982

Lineup: Marcus Maroon - vocals, bass, rhythm guitar / Ken Crayola - vocals, lead guitar / Jim Magenta - vocals and keyboards / Helly Sienna - vocals and drums

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Afrika Korps - Music to Kill By LP:
Jailbait Janet / Fox Lane / Too Cool to Fool / Everyday / Buzz Stomp / Make Her Know / Juvenile Delinquent / Wild Mouse / Refrigerator Rappin' / Till the End of the Day / Breaking Out // NY Punk / You're a Tease, Baby / Creep Skin / Happy Person / Heartful of Soul / Iggy / Ellen, No / I Laffed Out Loud / Crazy Jill / Lorraine / Death to Disko!
2000? copies on black vinyl w/insert
Iron Cross 4001, 1977

Lineup: Solomon Spector - lead, rhythm, vocals / Ken "Gizmo" Highland - lead, rhythm, harp, bass, vocals / Jay "the Jett" Bruce - bass, lead, vocals / Kim Kane - rhythm, vocals / Ken Kaiser - drums, rhythm, bass, vocals, piano / Martha Hull - vocals (guest) / Marshall Keith - rhythm, lead, vocals (guest) / Thomas Kane - bass (guest) / Howard Wuelfing - bass, vocals (guest) / Max Bialistock - lead, rhythm (guest) / Christ Thompson - drums (guest) / Patricia Ragan - vocals (guest) / Barbara Q Ribbs - vocals (guest) / Charles Eichert - vocals (guest) / Tommy Bonham - vocals (guest) / Laurie Hoch - vocals (guest) / Karen Hoch - vocals (guest)

Label notes: Distributed by Dacoit. I think Iron Cross actually did another record, but I can't remember who/what it was.

Recording Info: Recorded at: Sound Heights, NY, Jan. 1977 / Sound Box, VA, Feb. - May 1977 / Twain, NJ, May 1977. Engineered by William Murray (Sound Box), Questar (Sound Heights). Produced by Solomon Spector, Kim Kane, Ken Kaiser.

Notes: I read the 2000 figure somewhere. It's certainly plausible. Sleeve construction is very shoddy, and most copies suffer from massive splits on all three closed sides (their second LP suffered from similar, though less dramatic, problems). Most copies came with a blue insert. Mine came with a white 8.5x11 insert that reads like a press release.

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Art Frontier - Circus Earth LP:
Once in the Wild / Golden Days / Forever and a Day / Circus Earth // So Far / How Many Roads / Virgins + Dust / All I Want to Do
black vinyl
Stronghold SH1001, 1987

Lineup: Glenn Kellner - vocals, guitars, acoustic guitar, bass / Rob Dresing - vocals, bass, acoustic guitar / Chip Goodall - drums, percussion, backing vocals / Karyn Kellner - keyboard, vocals

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Recording Info: Produced and engineered by Eric Copeland. Co-produced by Glenn Kellner.

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Reviews: I knew this was bad just from the band name. Art Frontier. It really says it all. Terrible "progressive" new wave band fronted by a guy who can't sing and his wife? sister? playing keyboards. Really pretentious, awful garbage. Highly recommended.

My copy comes with a promo insert from 1989 or so that says the band had just finished recording their second album and were busy shopping it around. Anyone know if it was actually released?