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Half A Cow January 2010 News The Missing Links are driving you insane...
The Missing Links Driving You Insane (hac76) has been re-released and is available now! The Eastern Dark Where Are All The Single Girls? re-issue due out late February 2010. Just finalising new artwork.

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Recent Releases

BRENTON MANSER & THE DISCIPLES OF ZEN Strange Notions Led by Swayback frontman Brenton Manser, this five-piece Adelaide band incorporate bluesy rock, rootsy folk, 60s psychedelia on their debut album. Read More . Buy Now .		EL MOPA The Metal Years The third album from Sydney four piece el Mopa has been described as 'Sydney soul'. While the band endorses that description, we are all world citizens now, aren't we? Read More . Buy Now .
PYTHON LEE JACKSON Sweet Consolation 1966-73 Following on from the Missing Links, Purple Hearts and the Wild Cherries, the latest 'classic reissue' from Half A Cow Records is from one of the most popular live Sydney bands of the 60s beat era - Python Lee Jackson. Read More . Buy Now .		AGNES KAIN Across The Ocean Grey It has been an eventful two years since the release of our debut album, Keep walking or I'll kill you, and 525 days since we've been home. We are in London and about to release our second album Across the ocean grey. Read More . Buy Now .
WE GROW UP Night Kitchen This is a real find, this one. An entire album of fully focused and well thought-out pop songs that come straight out of the School of Colourful Whimsies - whose first graduate was the Beatles and last one Darren Hanlon... Read More . Buy Now .		NIC DALTON Last Seen Near Trafalgar 87-89 Following on from Nic's first collection of home recordings Romolo 86-88 and the Love Positions Billiepeebup album are seventeen never-heard-before songs firmly entrenched in Sydney of the late 80s when Nic was about 23-24... Read More . Buy Now .
THE MISSING LINKS Driving You Insane 10th anniversary edition of the long-out-print reissue of the 1965 album by 'Australia's wildest garage-punk band'. Read More . Buy Now .		BERNIE HAYES Homebody Third album from Sydney singer-songwriter. Produced by Brendan Gallagher and featuring the Bernie Quartet, 14 new songs! Read More . Buy Now .

Coming soon

Valentine's Day 2010
THE BRUTALS
the Honeymoon Period
The gang, a group, four people making sound, taking their time to get it right. Songs about what we know - girls, friends, pizza, the death of the Roaring 20s. Things fall down and get rebuilt. Pop'n'roll detritus from Melbourne with summer on the brain and winter in their wallets. Hearts on their sleeves, dust on their jackets, sails up and steering straight for the wall. Not without knowledge, but na•ve enough to know better. Read More .

May 2010
SMUDGE
This Smudge Is True
A 30 track 'best of' Smudge is currently being put together and is going to be the smash hit of the new decade. So overwhelming it looks like we are going to licence it to a bigger label to release! Fear not, you will still be able to get it here.

Ten Years On...
BERNIE HAYES
Every Tuesday, Sometimes Sunday
In October 1999, Bernie Hayes released his debut album and it has gone on to be seen as one of the greatest albums ever...by anyone...anywhere! To celebrate, if you buy the cd direct from us, you get both singles from it - 'Matchbox Cars and Marbles' and 'Mission In Life'.

ALMOST FAMOUS

cd of the week!
AFXJIM

I'd played this album a couple of times and enjoyed it immensely - all before I read the cd slick and discovered that I'd seen (or heard) the maker - one Travis Baird - in a whole legion of Sydney-based bands. Read More...