Things Are Really Weird Right Now is the 7″ follow up album to You, Me, And Everyone We Know‘s critically acclaimed debut LP Some Things Don’t Wash Out. This first pressing of this record is limited to 1,000 records split between 100 White, 150 Translucent Blue, 250 Clear, and 500 black. Thank you so much to Topshelf Records for hitting us up on this project! Pre-order a copy for yourself — one random pre order will receive a FREE Test Pressing of this release!
We got to press Megachurch‘s last LP in 2010, and we just learned that we will be pressing their new album coming out soon….thanks guys! Megachurch are funding the new record via Kickstarter, and you can pre-order a copy of the new album while assisting them with their Kickstarter funding.
Among other options, supporters of the Kickstarter campaign can get an exclusive pre-release copy of the new album, a free MEGACHIP EP (the entire first Megachurch album recreated using only sounds generated from a Nintendo Entertainment System), and a few other limited edition items. Every pre-order will receive the album 2 weeks prior to release. Hit them up!
Finally available on wax (courtesy of Electric Mountain), Raised b/w Drunken Hearts was originally released only digitally in July 2010. You can soon grab a copy of the limited edition wax from Asylum Digital or Electric Mountain! Stay Tuned!
Thanks to Paper & Plastick for another pressing! This special limited pressing of Rustbelt Lights‘ These Are The Good Old Days features no-label records!
With 12 brand new tracks, These Are The Good Old Days is a record about overcoming, outlasting, and moving on. “It seems like people as they get older are always reflecting back on a previous time in their life with nostalgic feelings instead of moving forward and doing everything they can to make their present days their best ones.” says guitarist Tom Mayer. “We are all guilty of it. We are guilty of it in songs on this record. Responsibility is inevitable as we get older, but the title is about how we are going to make these days we spend together now our best ones and put the past where it belongs.” If you like catchy punk rock in the vein of this band, that band, and that other band you’ll want to be sure to have a listen to Rust Belt Lights. Catch them on tour now!
The lead single from Kindest Lines‘ forthcoming debut LP, ‘Destructive Paths to Live Happily’, is nothing short of a small Southern miracle. This New Orleans trio knows exactly how to craft a dance-floor anthem, and this track announces their darkly elegant arrival into the Wierd Records family with thumping rhythms, seductive vocals and chiming dream pop guitars. The b-side, ‘Colors Treasured,’ adopts a slightly more abstract and apocalyptic industrial approach before opening up into a lilting, almost hopeful refrain.
This is the follow up EP to Oakland’s Big Kids amazing debut LP Hoop Dreams (also pressed here at GGR — thanks guys!). This 7″ features three brand new tracks! The first pressing of this album is limited to 500 and is split between three limited edition colors. Hit up Topshelf Records to pre-order yours (available individually and as a package deal).
Snake Oil consists of members of Titles and Weigh Down. John from Titles says, “The band started as a recording project Jason Labbe from Weigh Down was working on. He reached out to a bunch of us and after a few months of recording and tweaking we ended up with an album. It has been said that “Snake Oil causes spasmodic rapture, unexpected pregnancy, and existential certainty. Be with it.” The LP will be officially streeting in June…thanks to Jason for letting us press it!
Available from Lujo Records!
Confetti, the life-affirming debut from Chicago’s quintet, A Lull, grabs your attention from its first explosion and deconstructs you further with each subsequent, colorized blast. The band has spent glorious ages supplementing layers of guitars, bass, electronics and vocals by banging on drums (as well as recording rustling bags of trash, throwing bottles against walls and pounding away at anything in sight), eventually coming to the cacophonous percussion and everything else wall of sound that makes Confetti’s sound unmistakable. The fervor of these endlessly layered, volatile songs is cooled by the voice and lyrics of Nigel Evan Dennis, who covers the grandiosity of each track with his emotionally entangled lyrics. Though the aural tone of Confetti is one of almost overwhelming joy, a sense of longing and regret is palpable between the lines. It’s as if every song is being sung to the face of a loved one at their breaking point. Though their sound is unmistakably their own, the concise romanticism harnessed by A Lull can at times conjure the songwriting ethos of Bon Iver, the instrumental indulgence of Sufjan Stevens or the garishly sensual emotional lift of Explosions In The Sky. Confetti’s sense of hope and musical perfection captivates.
Chicago acid-punk trio Vee Dee started out a decade ago as a straightforward garage band influenced by the likes of DMZ, Crime, and the New York Dolls. On RSD2011, they released a special limited edition 7″ entitled Miss Lucy. This is the third release by the Chicago-based Blvd Records who, in their own words, are “a collective of three Logan Square friends who are really into Chicago, awesome music, vinyl and getting weird in the DIY spirit.” Who wouldn’t appreciate that? Thanks guys for having us press this record!
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Axe & The Oak 7″
This is the first vinyl release by Radio-Active Records, an independent record store in South Florida, as well as Miami band Axe & the Oak. This double a-side 7″ is culled from their CD-only EP which was released earlier last year. Both tracks show excellent craftsmanship in both the playing and production, creating a truly engaging and cinematic experience. Their sound can best be described as post-punk twang, displaying both the gothic undertones of bands like the Damned or the Birthday Party with the twang of instrumental surf rock. Pounding drums, dark bass lines, reverb-soaked guitars, and a brooding vocal style equal parts Lux Interior and Dave Vanian. Not just a sum of their influences, Axe and the Oak have created a solid and powerful record worth repeated listens. Black virgin vinyl with a stark and minimal sleeve.
