Chrome Peeler Records has just released the second volume of their unique You've Got Your Orders compilation series. The first volume came about when label owner Jason Ziemniak made up a list of song titles and sent them to various musician friends, requesting that they compose a song around their given title for a compilation. Surprisingly, since artists are renowned for following through on their promises (HOOOOONK-- irony buzzer), many of the solicited musicians failed to complete the assignment.

Ziemniak then decided to reach for the moon (having recently learned from an inspirational calendar that he just might miss and grab the stars instead) and sent the list to various independent music luminaries he admired, many of whom followed through where his buddies assed out. One attempts to imagine the scene. "Hey Jason, sorry I haven't gotten around to doing that song for you..." "Oh, that's okay, pal, I got Mike Watt to fill your spot. " "Mike Wa... hey, I think I can get you a song by the weekend, can I still get in on this? " "Oh, I don't know, the roster's pretty full now, what with Mudhoney's Mark Arm and Thurston freaking Moore on board..."

You've Got Your Orders Vol. 2 is available via the Chrome Peeler website or the upcoming supporting tour. It's limited to 999 copies (if inverting a cross makes it evil, does inverting the number of the beast make it holy?), so you better get in where you fit in, dog. Ziemniak, who must be one hell of a sweet-talker, has amassed another butt-tight roster to flesh out his titles, including members of The Eagles of Death Metal, Swell Maps (fuggin' Swell Maps, dude!), Silver Apples, Dramarama, Fu Manchu, Blue Goblin (i.e. Quasi's Sam Coomes), The Stooges, Shudder to Think, Paradise Island (aka Jenny from Erase Errata), Cave In, Amps for Christ, Swans, and on and on. Perfect guide:

01 Nathan Larson: "Insane Asylum White"
02 Vaz: "Burn Down Baltimore"
03 Brett Rosenberg: "Retire to Stud"
04 Phil Puleo: "Albino Rainbow"
05 Paradise Island: "Waltzing Wildly"
06 Sonny Vincent: "Totally Fucked"
07 Steve Mackay: "You Could Smell the Nightmares on the Pillow"
08 Immortal Lee County Killers w/ Rebecah Boynton: "Dropping Motherfuckers Like A-Bombs"
09 Eddie Angel: "Space Monkey Vertigo"
10 Jesse Everrett Hughes: "Loyal Smoking Gun"
11 Elliott Sharp: "Barbed Wire Hotel"
12 Jim Coleman: "Syringe of Lugosi"
13 Stephen Brodsky: "The Voice Electric"
14 Blues Goblin: "Cesspool Dreams"
15 Brant Bjork: "Cop Mustache"
16 Simeon Coxe w/ Silver Apples: "Empire of Ashes"
17 Black Lipstick: "Throw Some Money at It"
18 Brent Eyestone: "Buscemi Waits"
19 John Easdale: "Listening to a Cassette Tape of the End of the World"
20 The Scheme: "Teenage Millionaire"
21 Amps for Christ: "Molotov Cocktail Hour"
22 R. Hoak: "Song for the Upcoming Mushroom Cloud"
23 Nikki Sudden: "Isle of Wight Blues"

Ziemniak has also gone the extra mile and compiled four super teams to pimp this thing live at four mid-May dates, where you can pick up a copy of the comp for ten bones and get all little-kid excited, like how you used to feel when Marvel and DC would do crossover issues and just rock your world:

05-13 Cambridge, MA - TT the Bear's #
05-14 Albany, NY - Valentine's Music Hall $
05-15 New York, NY - Trash +
05-17 New York, NY - Sin-e *

# Lineup: Nikki Sudden (Swell Maps, Jacobites), Stephen Brodsky (Cave In), The Scheme (members of The Pills), Thee Electric Bastards (ex-Burning Paris), Brett Rosenberg

$ Lineup: Jesse Hughes (Eagles of Death Metal, Nikki Sudden, w/ special guests J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr, Fog) and Suzanne Thorpe (Mercury Rev), Thee Heinous Brothers

+ Lineup: Jesse Hughes, Nikki Sudden, French Doors (members of Black Lipstick), The Scheme

* Lineup: Phil Puleo (Cop Shoot Cop, Swans), Jim Coleman (Cop Shoot Cop, Baby Zizanie), Nikki Sudden, Brett Rosenberg, Bliss Blood (Pain Teens), Elliott Sharp

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