Sundowner’s Four One Five Two was an important record for Red Scare Industries, and after years of delay, the album is finally being released on vinyl!
The release is an extremely limited run with an official street date of August 9th, but if you want to grab one early, you need to come down and join Red Scare for the “LP Release Party” on July 9th. The release part with be the first Red Scare Presents show in the Volcano Room; which is the upstairs at Bottom Lounge. RSVP for the party here.
Thanks to the folks at Western Vinyl, we just completed pressing EDM‘s Night People.
Night People is a series of character studies. Alienated and out of fashion, these people stay up all night, stumbling through isolation to explore trauma and ecstasy in search of their own glamour. The boundaries of reality dissolve in their environment, and the light from within transforms street lamps at last call into beacons towards infinity. Guided through fuzz and fog, truths emerge, as the knots binding sensuality and spirit unravel. In a world defined by EDM’s music, the Night People’s stories are projected, as reality turns into a film. Like the characters in his songs, songwriter and guitarist Daniel Burton has experienced a rebirth and transformation. Night People punctuates his catalog of work under the Early Day Miners moniker. Additionally, this release finds the band coming full circle, transitioning back to the Western Vinyl label, home of Early Day Miners’ first record, Placer Found.
Just as the band’s name has been abbreviated, their process of recording and producing has been been stripped down for this album. Unlike the meticulous self-production that defined Early Day Miners’ albums, their first effort under the EDM moniker finds the band relinquishing engineering duties. Recorded and mixed by engineer Mike Bridavksy at Russian Recording in just five days, the Night People sessions have yielded the most expressive vocal and instrumental performances of Burton’s career.
You can pre-order the album now, or stay tuned to your favorite indie record store!
Thank you to our friends at BLVD Records for having us press another fine quality 7″ — this time from Chicago’s Population!
The official release date for the record (which will include the ultra-limited white-vinyl edition) is July 5, at which time you can order from BLVD directly or get a copy at your local record store. Pre-sale copies will also be available at Laurie’s Planet of Sound in Chicago!
East Coasters can pick up the record at any of Population’s mini-east-coast tour dates:
Saturday, 6/25: NYC @ 538 johnson, 8pm
Sunday, 6/26: Philadelphia @ philly moca, 538 e. 12th st, 8pm
Monday, 6/27: Baltimore @ penthouse gallery, 1511 guilford ave, 9pm
Tuesday, 6/28: Pittsburgh @ the shop, 4314 main st
Magic City has been performing around St. Louis since January 2009, and is composed of experienced musicians spanning a generation — Larry Bulawsky, Adam Hesed, Anne Tkach, Jonas Hamon, and Sam Meyer. The band has been touring the US and Europe with different groups since 1997.
They return with their album release party celebrating Les Animaux Épouvantables on July 23 with Warm Jets USA and The Ransom Note at El Lenador in St. Louis. Be sure to hit them up if you are around!
Hot Tuna is back with Steady As She Goes, their first all-new studio album in 20 years! Founding members Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady masterfully blend Americana rock with blues and acoustic folk on a record that hits their full spectrum of styles from electric and acoustic Hot Tuna to their days in Jefferson Airplane.
During their more than four decade long career Jorma and Jack have created some of the most significant music of our time and Steady As She Goes proves that they remain one of the most innovative bands in American music. Recorded at Levon Helm’s studio and produced by Grammy-winning producer Larry Campbell, the album captures the energy of their live performances with Barry Mitterhoff on mandolin, drummer Skoota Warner (Cyndi Lauper, Matisyahu, Santana) as well as Campbell joining them on guitar, fiddle, organ and vocals.
With their amps turned up to eleven, Hot Tuna rips into the blistering opener “Angel of Darkness” and puts the wind in your sails with the ‘hop on your Harley and take to the road’ free-spirit jams like “Easy Now Revisited” and “A Little Faster.” Steady As She Goes tastefully mixes in the acoustic side of Tuna with folk tunes like the moving “What Might Have Been” and the reflective “Second Chances.” Along with masterful covers of the blues-rock infused “If This is Love” and a funky rendition of Reverend Gary Davis’ “Children of Zion”. The record is half-speed mastered and pressed on 180 gram vinyl, with etched art on the fourth side. The record is available from Red House Records and indie retailers everywhere beginning July 12!
A pairing of two legendary bands celebrating their joint twenty year history within the Punk/Hardcore genre.
Both songs were recorded at Kurt Ballou’s God City Studios in early 2011, and mastered by John Golden (Neurosis, Melvins, etc). “Runaway” from Converge is an instant classic for the band, unrelenting in its speed and emotional ferocity from beginning to end. While Dropdead’s “Paths of Glory” is an unforgettable political punk/hardcore anthem, that proves that the years behind the band have only strengthened their hold on the battlefront of the true underground.
We used our “vinyl bong” technique to press literally thousands of color variants of this release. Hit up Deathwish to grab a copy before they are all gone!
Coming soon from Blood & Ink Records (for the first time ever on vinyl) – Figure Four’s Suffering. You can pre-order any of the three limited edition vinyl colors now!
Figure Four still stand as one of the heaviest hardcore bands to ever come out of the Spirit-filled scene. Featuring members who would later form such fan favorites as Comeback Kid and Grave Maker, Figure Four were distinctly treading their own path with releases on Facedown Records and Solid State Records.
Talking Helps Records is excited to be releasing a new collaborative album by four amazing musicians on the brand new Your Heart Breaks LP. Ryan Woods (Defiance, Ohio), Toby Foster, Theo Hilton (Defiance, Ohio & Nana Grizol) and Clyde Petersen (Your Heart Breaks) come together on one album to present brand new songs and revisit a few classics.
Theo, Ryan, Toby and Clyde bring you songs of adventure, travel, love, loss and heartbreak with special emphasis on survival and change.
You can pre-order the album now, or it up one of the tour stops near you! Pressed on 100% recycled black vinyl.
Praised by Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Stereogum, Filter and Entertainment Weekly among others for his experimentation with contrasting musical sounds, Sondre Lerche‘s self-titled album is the artist’s sixth full-length and his first on his own label, Mona Records. An artistic statement of purpose, this fittingly self-titled album contains not only Sondre’s most interesting arrangements and catchy songwriting to date, but also some of his most somber and introspective.
You can buy this record at indie stores across the country now!
This project has been in the works for a while, and we were pumped when our buddies at Fast Weapons approached us about pressing a Thurston Moore / Talk Normal three-song 7″. They shipped out this week, just in time for the Talk Normal U.S. tour starting next week. Hit them up if you can!
