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David Horvitz knows him some bands. And the dude behind the Xiu Xiu and Sunset Rubdown Polaroid projects has assembled a smattering of these music-makers for a new parade of subscription-based seven-inches.

No Age, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Mika Miko, Abe Vigoda (the band, not the actor), Parenthetical Girls, and the aforementioned Sunset Rubdown will partake of the "David Horvitz 7" Picture Disc Series", which has its home on Brooklyn's Aagoo Records.

In addition to music (check out the tracklists for the first two singles below), each picture disc, being a picture disc, will feature, yes, a picture. The photos in question were taken by Horvitz himself, and indeed that's a Horvitz portrait of Casiotone's Owen Ashworth up there, looking all painfully alone on his celly.

"Now wait a minute!" you say. "A Casiotone picture disc with a David Horvitz photo? That sounds awfully familiar..." And you'd be right. This particular Casiotone release was originally discussed in these pages a few months ago. Good eye, my friend.

Each 7" in the bi-monthly series is limited to 500 copies, with a portion of that number allotted for subscribers, and the rest available in select stores and at merch tables. The Casiotone offering is out now, with Parenthetical Girls following in May, Abe Vigoda in July, Mika Miko in September, Sunset Rubdown in November, and No Age in January 2009. Viva la 7"!

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone:

A1 Old Panda Days [ft. Nick Krgovich of No Kids]
B1 Lesley Gore on the TAMI Show (version) [ft. Jenny Herbinson]

Parenthetical Girls:

A1 GUT Symmetries (Remix)
B1 Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans) [Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark cover]

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone dates:

04-02 St. Louis, MO - Bluebird
04-03 Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone
04-04 Denton, TX - Hailey's
04-05 Austin, TX - Emo's *
04-06 Houston, TX - The Backroom
04-07 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon
04-08 Birmingham, AL - Bottletree
04-10 Atlanta, GA - Drunken Unicorn
04-11 Durham, NC - Duke Coffeehouse
04-12 Baltimore, MD - Talking Head #
04-13 Philadelphia, PA - Unitarian Chapel
04-15 New York, NY - Knitting Factory
04-16 Brooklyn, NY - Death by Audio
04-17 Cambridge, MA - Middle East ^
04-18 Purchase, NY - SUNY Culture Shock Festival
04-19 Rochester, NY - Bug Jar %
04-20 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Tavern $
04-22 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen
04-24 Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry
04-25 Northfield, MN - Cave at Carleton College
04-26 Kansas City, MO - The Record Bar +

* with Tre Orsi
# with The Cotton Jones Basket Ride, These United States
^ with Pants Yell!
% with Gaybot
$ with Battery Collection
+ with Ghosty, Ad Astra Per Aspera