Southern Lord Artists Dominate New Jim Jarmusch Movie Soundtrack

Southern Lord is proud to announce that three of the label`s artists will be represented in acclaimed film director Jim Jarmusch’s latest tour de force, The Limits Of Control. The film’s soundtrack features music by EARTH, SUNN 0))), and BORIS, all representatives of Southern Lord Recordings.

Responsible for such films as Down By Law, Dead Man, Ghost Dog, Broken Flowers, and Coffee and Cigarettes, Jarmusch is notorious for tying music to his films, previously casting musicians such TOM WAITS, RZA and more as characters. Jarmusch`s films are scored to fit hand-in-glove with the transitions/conflicts within the plot, the songs acting as an actual “soundtrack” to help propel his unique, minimalist character-driven productions, as seen in previous Jarmusch works include NEIL YOUNG’s soundtrack for the movie Dead Man, or with the inclusion of doom-artists SLEEP in the movie Broken Flowers.


Southern Lord is honored to house artists worthy of Jarmusch’s newest work, The Limits Of Control. These acts are contemporary musical heavyweights in today’s doom, drone and ambient genres, and should act as an incredible soundtrack for this artistic drama.


Southern Lord artist songs used in The Limits Of Control:

BORIS - " " aka “Smile” (from the Japanese version of Smile, on Disk Union Records)
BORIS - "Feedbacker I & IV" (from Feedbacker, on Disk Union Records)
BORIS -"Fuzzy Reactor" (from Rainbow, on Disk Union Records)
BORIS -"Farewell" (From Pink, on Southern Lord)
SUNN 0)))/BORIS - "N.L.T." (From Altar, on Southern Lord)
SUNN 0)))/BORIS - "Blood Swamp" (From Altar, on Southern Lord)
EARTH - “Omens and Portents 1: The Driver” (from The Bees Made Honey In The Lions` Skull, on Southern Lord)



About the movie, The Limits Of Control

The new movie from filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers, Down by Law, Dead Man) is set in the striking and varied landscapes of contemporary Spain. The location shoot there united the writer/director with acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle (In the Mood for Love, Paranoid Park). Isaach De Bankole stars in the lead role for Mr. Jarmusch; this marks the duo`s fourth collaboration over nearly two decades, following Night on Earth, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and Coffee and Cigarettes. The film also features several other actors with whom Mr. Jarmusch has previously worked, including Alex Descas, John Hurt, Youki Kudoh, Bill Murray, and Tilda Swinton; and actors new to his films, including Hiam Abbass, Gael García Bernal, Paz De La Huerta, Jean-François Stevenín, and Luis Tosar. The Limits Of Control is the story of a mysterious loner (played by Mr. De Bankole), a stranger, whose activities remain meticulously outside the law. He is in the process of completing a job, yet he trusts no one, and his objectives are not initially divulged. His journey, paradoxically both intently focused and dreamlike, takes him not only across Spain but also through his own consciousness.

The Limits Of Control is out in theaters, June 3, 2009.



The Limits Of Control movie trailer



The Limits Of Control Soundtrack will be available on Lakeshore Records



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Southern Lord Invades SXSW 2009

Southern Lord will be swarming the masses with showcases, in-store performances and tons more at this year`s South By Southwest conference in Austin, Texas:

Friday, March 20
First, a Southern Lord showcase at Snake Eyes Vinyl (outside) at 1101 Navasota St. 3, Austin TX featuring:

12:30 - IT`S CASUAL
1:30 - EAGLE TWIN
2:30 - BLACK COBRA
3:30 - THOU

Then later that night, the SXSW Southern Lord showcase at Emo`s! This is one of the label`s most important and potent showcases ever, featuring some of the label`s most prominent contemporary acts (including WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, WINO), some of the label`s newest signings (BLACK COBRA, EAGLE TWIN, PELICAN) and plenty of other hearty acts including THOU and IT`S CASUAL... A night of massive riffery and debauchery for all!

Emo`s Annex (603 Red River, Austin TX)
7:30 - IT`S CASUAL
8:25 - THOU
9:20 - EAGLE TWIN
10:15 - BLACK COBRA
11:10 - WINO (solo)
12:05 - WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM
1:00 - PELICAN

Saturday, March 21
SCOTT "WINO" WEINRICH will be performing a solo acoustic set at High Times Magazine`s 2009 Doobie Awards party.

The party is from "high" Noon through 6 PM at Red 7; 611 E. 7th Street

Sunday, March 22
Southern Lord artists WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM and newest label signings PELICAN will be playing at Red 7 (611 E. 7th Street).



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PELICAN Signs With SOUTHERN LORD RECORDINGS

Southern Lord Recordings has announced the signing of Chicago heavy-rock instrumental icons PELICAN. Their genre-defying sound and eagerness to explore new musical directions will fit right at home alongside similar bands on the label like EARTH, BORIS and SUNN 0))).

PELICAN is currently at Red Room studios in Seattle, Washington recording an EP that will be the band's first release on Southern Lord. The new material will be heavier, darker and very "riff-oriented," according to guitarist Trevor De Brauw. A very special guest guitarist who has been heavily influential to the band will be making a guest appearance.

In March, PELICAN will play a number of shows alongside new labelmates WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, including making a triumphant return to the South By Southwest music fest in Austin, Texas as part of the Southern Lord showcase.

Upon returning home, PELICAN will focus its sights on the band's fourth full-length album.

Southern Lord Updates

It is with extreme honor that Southern Lord can now officially announce two new inductees to their eclectic, congregation of auditory purveyors. Coincidentally both bands are duos - each consisting of merely a guitarist and a drummer. The similarities don`t end there; they are both mammoth, monstrous, and completely slay! Welcome Black Cobra and Eagle Twin to the mix...

Black Cobra
Rafa Martinez and Jason Landrian have been coalescing Black Cobra`s sonic brew for nearly six years now, yet neither were strangers to heaving heavy riffage prior, with Rafa doing time with Acid King and 16, and Jason in Cavity. But the pair unleash a tone heavier than a trio of both guitar and drums. Their impenetrable hardcore doom chemistry evokes an intensity that sets them apart from the others, both live and recorded. The band have toured seemingly endlessly on both US and foreign soil ssince their 2002 inception, sharing the stage with The Sword, Weedeater, High on Fire, Torche, and countless other bands in the upper ranks of metal and doom, most times blowing the competition away completely. Black Cobra plans to record their first album for Southern Lord sometime in the first half of 2009, with more info and tour dates to be announced very shortly.

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Eagle Twin
Hailing from Salt Lake City, the mighty Eagle Twin has mainly solidified into proper form over the course of this year. Guitarist Gentry Densley is a very old friend whose previous band Iceburn was one of the most interesting and incredible bands of the 90`s hardcore/post-hardcore movement. Gentry and Greg Anderson (Southern Lord, sunn 0))), Goatsnake) collaborated on the Ascend album Ample Fire Within record, released by Southern Lord earlier this year. The Eagle Twin sound is stained with early doom and blues-roots rock backing mythology of epic Old Testament proportions. Drummer Tyler "T-Top" Smith beats the living shit out of his drums and perfectly compliments the thunderous fire that bursts out of Gentry`s antique tube amplification! The band will be recording their debut album with Randall Dunn (Earth, sunn 0))), ) in Seattle this Winter and it should be released before summer of 2009.


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