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Customer Highlight — The Mural and The Mint

The Mural and The Mint are dedicated to releasing all recordings for free in some format, because they believe that this is the only way for them to be heard as music. The name for the project came from the city of Philadelphia, home to more murals than any other city in the country, and to the Franklin Mint.

We were honored when Michael Kiley approached us to press the latest release by The Mural and The Mint, As The Eyes of The Seahorse on extremely limited white vinyl.  You can grab a copy at their shows, several of which are this coming weekend.

Customer Highlight — Aggrolites

Thank you so much to Alex Lalli and Young Cub Records for hiring GGR to press the brand new Aggrolites album — Rugged Road. You can pre-order the album now, and it streets on 02/22/11 (on limited edition red vinyl).  Perfect timing for some raw reggae beats to warm us all up during the freezing winter doldrums!

The Aggrolites are Jesse Wagner (vocals, lead guitar), Brian Dixon (rhythm guitar), Roger Rivas (organ), and Jeff Roffredo (bass).  Check them out at www.aggroreggae.com.

PS– there are still a few copies left of the Rugged Road 45’s (Trial and Error and Dreaming On Erie) too!

Customer Highlight — The Gary

The Gary are ringing in 2011 with a 6 song EP called El Camino. It was recorded in Chicago by Steve Albini and mastered by Bob Weston. With these gentlemen at the helm, you know it is sure to be a handsome document.

You can get a quick preview here, and then grab a copy from Cedar Fever Records.

Customer Highlight — All Dinosaurs

We had the pleasure of having Joe Willis and Dave Gibian of All Dinosaurs as our guests yesterday.  They came by to pick up their hot-off-the-press copies of their latest album, Paranoid Indiginous.

If you are in Cleveland on Feb 26, be sure to hit the LP release party at Beachland Ballroom (just announced)  w/ HotChaCha / Trigger Effect (montreal) / the Strutting Cocks.

GGR 2011 Customer Survey

In an effort to see how we are doing for our customers, and also to get suggestions on improvements/additions you would like to see from us, we invite you to participate in our quick 10-question survey below.

You have the option to take this survey completely anonymously; or if you want to leave your name, we’ll give you a $25 credit on your next GGR order if you complete the survey by February 10, 2011!

Click Here For The GGR 2011 Survey

As always, feel free to give us a call at (800) 295-0171 or email Matt at matt@gottagrooverecords.com

Reminder – Record Store Day 2011

Hey There-

Just a quick reminder that the deadline over at Record Store Day to get your commercial RSD2011 pieces registered on their list is tomorrow (Feb 1, 2011)!

Also, here’s some rough timeline info for getting your RSD releases pressed here at GGR — please note these are just rough guidelines….please contact Matt at (800) 295-0171 or matt@gottagrooverecords.com before placing your order for more specific info.

RSD Vinyl Pressing Orders submitted 2/1 should ship by 3/15

RSD Vinyl Pressing Orders submitted by 2/7 should ship by 3/22

RSD Vinyl Pressing Orders submitted by 2/14 should ship by 3/29

RSD Vinyl Pressing Orders submitted by 2/21 should ship by 4/5

RSD Vinyl Pressing Orders submitted by 2/28 should ship by 4/12

* Please note that delays in test pressing/art approvals/other circumstances can alter these timelines.

RSD2011 is April 16, 2011!

Customer Highlight — Buried Beds

Phew! We finished pressing the brand new LP for Philly-based Buried Beds just in time for their extensive tour starting TONIGHT in DC, at the 9:30 Club.  They will be touring with Dr. Dog throughout the next couple of weeks, and then with Murder By Death through the end of March.  Check out a list of their tour dates here.

Formed as a warehouse duo in 2003 by old friends Eliza Jones and Brandon Beaver, “Buried Beds” grew over several years into a chamber group of banjos, string quartets, electric guitars, broken glass, and aching harmonies. Their Americana influenced melancholy won them “Best Band” in Philadelphia Magazine’s “Best of Philly 2004” issue and a spot on the Believer Magazine’s yearly music compilation. They went on to record the lush and beautiful “Empty Rooms” in 2005.

Be sure to grab a hot-off-the-press copy of this brand new album, Tremble The Sails!  On the album, Buried Beds trades delicate banjos for dueling guitars to create a landscape where love, death and your future-self throw a party. After recording drums and bass on the awesome tape machine at the Dr. Dog studio, the album was recorded almost entirely in their pajamas in Eliza’s living room. It was mixed by Nick Krill of The Spinto Band and came to life. The album is more alive than the first; maintaining a focus on careful arrangements but summoning the chaos and energy of Rock and Roll.

Customer Highlight — Shark?

We are extremely excited to announce that Oops Baby Records chose GGR to press their very first release —  the very first U.S.  7″ by the Brooklyn-based buzz band, Shark? !   The 7″ won’t be available for purchase for a couple of weeks, so stay tuned to the Oops Baby website for updates.

By their own definition, Shark? sounds like “the briny deep. Songs soaked in ocean mist. Business in the front, rows and rows of razor sharp teeth in the back. Vague and unsettling. Perpetual forward motion. Or death.”  You can judge for yourself by checking them out here.

Customer Highlight — Ultimate Fakebook

Thanks to Rocket Heart Records for enlisting GGR to press their Kickstarter-backed reissue of the seminal first album by Kansas rockers, Ultmate Fakebook.  The album, Electric Kissing Parties, is available as a limited edition black vinyl package, or an ultra-limited (only 100 copies) RED vinyl package.

You can grab one form Rocket Heart while supplies last!

Customer Highlight — Fujiya & Miyagi

After two years experimenting in the shadows, cutting edge minimalist-funk heroes Fujiya & Miyagi are back with their darkest and most propulsive set yet. The band’s fourth full-lengther, Ventriloquizzing has a dark heart, via its throbbing electro-glam beat and menacing lyrics. “I think there’s an underlying anger, or perhaps just annoyance, at institutions and people in general, and probably ourselves too,” says singer/guitarist David Best. “And it also seemed like the right time to work with someone else to help us avoid going to our default setting,” which the band combated by bringing in a co-producer for the first time in the form of famed producer Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Pernice Brothers) –their first time not self-producing.

Paste magazine calls the album “another installment in their ongoing British beach dance party.” Click HERE to read the full review now.

You can preorder the album now at the Yep Roc Webshop — Every pre-order includes a bonus MP3 of the long-player mix by Fujiya & Miyagi titled “Different Blades from the Same Pair of Scissors” in your Stash available on street date along with the full digital album.

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