Durham, NC-based Churchkey Records is releasing the debut album from Last Year’s Men on 11.09.10….but, you can grab a copy for yourself ahead of the retail street date if you happen to be around Durham on October 23 for a record release party at the Duke Coffee House at 10pm. (Incidentally, the release party will also be in celebration of the [also ggr-pressed] Spider Bags (Let’s) Take it Easy Tonight 7″).
For more info, hit up Churchkey at info[at]churchkeyrecords[dot]com.
If you haven’t heard of the Chicago group Gaberdine, you need to check them out. In their own words, they are a “quiet indie rock band that colors melodic, bittersweet songs with lush textural sounds. The conception of mark federighi, gaberdine creates artful music with subtle hooks and intriguing instrumentation.”
The band hired GGR to press their new LP last month– Stay tuned to their website for updated live shows, and for where you can grab a copy for yourself!
Boyd Shropshire grew up on a swath of eastern Florida land on the Atlantic known as the Space Coast. Since then he has been piecing together collages of sound from a seemingly bottomless well of psychedelic pop and noise-folk imagination. He recently hired GGR to press his first full-length vinyl LP, Color The Years on clear wax.
You can hit up his official release show on Saturday, October 16 at Bruar Falls in Brooklyn [NY].
Kane Ikin (b. 1982) and Paul Fiocco (b. 1984) live and work out of separate states in Australia. Solo Andata began in 2006 with their debut album Fyris Swan on Chicago label Hefty Records. Solo Andata’s compositions are created through the collaboration of sound from organic materials, field recordings, and instruments. Their last record was recorded for 12k in Perth, Melbourne, Yallingup, Mundaring, and New York between 2007 – 2009 and was released in September 2009. GGR is proud to have pressed their third album, Ritual for Desire Path Recordings last month. You can grab a copy here.
Here comes another amazing release from Deathwish Inc. (cd is available through Epitaph) — Converge‘s 2006 album entitled No Heroes came hot off the presses here at GGR a few weeks ago. The LP (available in three different vinyl colors) is available for purchase from Deathwish, and select retailers around the country.
No Heroes, is known for how the band brilliantly combines the textural sonics of 2004’s You Fail Me with the brutal assault of 2001’s Jane Doe.
The Hot Seats were formed eight years ago (2002) in Richmond, VA as a good-time band between new friends, many of whom were exploring a genre unknown to them on equally novel instruments. It started with weekly gig, rapidly followed by trips out of town, festival appearances, longer tours, new music, new influences, competition-winning performances (both individually and as an ensemble) three critically acclaimed trips to the UK, and five albums.
The band’s Graham DeZarn enlisted GGR to press their latest EP on black 7″ vinyl. You can grab a copy from the band at one of their shows, or reach out to them at thehotseats[at]gmail[dot]com.
Recently, we were approached by the Chicago-based record label Graveface Records to press a special glow-in-the-dark 7″ by the band The Marshmallow Ghosts. As a bonus, Ryan and Michael from Graveface happened to be driving through Cleveland when the records were finished, so we got to meet them in person…we always love that. Thanks guys!
Stay tuned to the Graveface Records website for when this extremely cool 7″ release comes out in October!
Ryan and Michael from Graveface Records
Our first time pressing a comedy record! On this brand new 180 gram vinyl release from Redeye/Yep Roc, Margaret Cho collaborates with artists such as Andrew Bird, Tegan and Sara, Jon Brion, Fiona Apple, Brendan Benson and others on comedy songs. Available at indie retailers (and the official Margaret Cho website)!
Count Your Lucky Stars is a really cool label, and we are fortunate enough to have been hired to press two of their 7″ releases (with one more currently in the cue too).
The first was the Into It Over it / Pswingset split 7″, which happened to be the second installment in the 12 Towns series by Into It Over It (see 9/7/10 GGR post for another installment in the series). The second was the Football, Etc. self-titled 7″, released in early September.
Definitely watch for the official launch of the NEW Count Your Lucky Stars online store, launching TOMORROW (09/22/10)! You can grab these two 7″, along with a whole bunch of other records and merch there.
Jukebox the Ghost have passionate fans. Fans who’ve gone so far as to tattoo the band’s name on their body or drive for days to see their shows, or post lovesick monologues dedicated to their glory on YouTube. Through a dogged work ethic and near-obsessive touring — headlining and alongside heavyweights like Ben Folds and Adam Green (The Moldy Peaches) — the band managed to sell over 10,000 copies of their debut album and cultivated the aforementioned rabid fan base. Now, with a fully developed sound and a songwriting and live performance approach seasoned by hundreds upon hundreds of gigs, the band are set to turn heads with sophomore effort Everything Under the Sun, produced by Peter Katis (Interpol, The National).
Proudly pressed here at GGR on 180 gram wax…..will be available nationally at independent record stores on 09/21/2010!
