New record pressing – Charlie Millard Band – Pilot Boy. Available June 16, 2025 courtesy of Hattie Jane Music.
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New record pressing – Selken – The Winds.
SELKEN is the bummer pop/indie rock project of Chicago songwriter Heather Styka. Styka writes lyrics-forward songs that “make you feel as if you are peeking into her diary” (No Depression) with a “talent for telling stories and connecting emotionally” (Glide Magazine). While the melodies of SELKEN draw from vintage pop and alt-country, the instrumentation layers indie rock with a shimmer of ambient synths.
After over a decade of touring nationally as a solo folk artist, Styka was grounded like the rest of world in 2020, which allowed her to realize she desired a change — to stay rooted in Chicago, collaborate with a band, and find new sonic textures. Styka teamed up with producer/multi-instrumentalist JG Shadid to create SELKEN’s debut album, The Winds. Shadid’s wide-ranging expertise as an Emmy-nominated composer, educator on YouTube’s Reverb channel, and co-founder/curator of The Red Room paired well with Styka’s introspective approach to song craft.
Having spent her artistic career chasing the stripped-down honesty of folk, Styka wanted to create a sound with more — pairing siren-song vocals with a dash of playful glamour and the fun of a good groove. The result is a sparkling, cathartic exploration of personal and societal sea change, of burying old dreams to make room for new ones.
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New record pressing – Olive Klug – Lost Dog: It’s been a short time since the van-dwelling Olive Klug has fully pursued the life of a touring musician. Their DIY career has resulted in a huge following with over 20 million Spotify streams, nearly 200,000 TikTok followers, and 100,000+ Instagram followers. Self-described as “someone who floats on the breeze, letting the wind take me wherever I’m meant to be,” Klug’s sophomore album and label debut Lost Dog finds them contemplating this propensity for adventure no matter which avenue of love and loss it leads down.
Although still very young, Klug artfully addresses “aging as a neurodivergent free spirit” on the road with a compelling ability to voice honest emotions through captivating storytelling. Audiotree praised, ”equal parts vulnerable and powerful, ebullient and heartbreaking, reminding us how powerful the journey of music can be.” Olive Klug is a singular voice for the future of folk: honest, fearless, often unsure, but willing to try anyway.
(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).
New record pressing – Trevor Something – The Shadow. Available NOW!
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New vinyl record pressing – Isaac Aragon – The Healing: Like sweet nourishment for the soul, Isaac Aragon is a potent soul singer and frontman for the Albuquerque-based band “The Healing”. Determined to inspire movement of both the body and soul, their original music promotes love, tolerance, healing and social justice through the sounds of r&b/soul. An Independent artist, Isaac has received great acclaim with his smooth, soulful vocals and prolific songwriting. His latest release “Brown”, was awarded the Best Rhythm and Blues Song at the 2023 New Mexico Music Awards.
Pre-order The Healing on vinyl now.
New record pressing – Liana Warren – For Now, Forever
Liana Warren: Vocals, guitar, piano, Omnichord on Twin Peaks, Rhodes on Adaline
Geoff Saba: Bass, synth, cymbals on Atoms Colliding
Marissa Deitz: Cello
Recorded at Itinerant Home Studio in Oakland, CA from 2023-2024
Engineered and mixed by Geoff Saba
Produced by Geoff Saba and Liana Warren
Mastered by Philip Shaw Bova
Photography by Paulina Zepeda
Layout and design by Liana Warren
Lacquer cut by Clint Holley & Dave Polster – Well Made Music
Records manufactured by Gotta Groove Records
All songs written by Liana Warren
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New Record Pressing — S.G. Goodman returns from the Western Kentucky bottomland with her latest full-length album, Planting by the Signs, a double LP to be released on Slough Water Records. Composed of songs inspired by love, loss, reconciliation, and the aforementioned ancient practice – how planting a garden, or weaning a baby, or getting a haircut are best timed in accordance with the cycle of the moon. A concept diametrically opposed to the tech-obsessed, profit margin-driven mania swirling around us. Through exploring themes related to planting by the signs, Goodman hopes to help herself and others reconcile this jarring disconnect, as well to pass along the story of the practice.
Pre-order now – street date is June 20, 2025.
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Happy Record Store Day Y’all! As we always say, it’s record store day Every day!
If you can, try to grab one of the RSD records pressed at GGR this year:
Sly & The Family Stone – The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967
Jackie DeShannon – Love Forever – Demo Recordings 1966-1967
Dada – Puzzle
Gorky’s Zygotic Minci – Barafundle
U Roy – Right Time Rockers
Various Artists – Soul Slabs 4
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New record pressing – Josh Krajcik – Epiphaniac:
His first release since 2017’s Oblivion – a life changing event in 2019 jettisoned Krajcik into a new body of work. Deeply personal with universal meaning – EPIPHANIAC explores concepts of death and life, space and time, alternate realities and the trauma and beauty of survival.
(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).
New record pressing – Soul Slabs Volume 4:
We are thrilled to share with you that Soul Slabs Volume 4 has officially been announced! This double-LP compilation is an Official Record Store Day Release, and will be available in retail shops worldwide on April 12th!
The Soul Slabs series is truly a hallmark of Colemine Records, with the anticipation for the next installment being higher than the last. It’s the perfect sampling of each 45 released on the Colemine catalog in the last couple of years:
Track list:
Wesley Bright – Colors Are Real
Parlor Greens – Driptorch
Monophonics – Love You Better
Aaron Frazer – Bring You A Ring
Joey Quinones – There Must Be Something
Doctor Bionic – Expert Witness
Kelly Finnigan – Leave You Alone
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – Cold As Weiss
Orgone – Be Thankful For What You Got
Leroi Conroy – No Return
Durand Jones & The Indications – Witchoo
The Jive Turkeys – Perpetual Stew
Thee Sinseers – For You
The Winston Brothers – Straight Shooter
Alanna Royale – Fall In Love Again
Oliver James – 123
Lizzie No, Ben Pirani – Sweeter Than Strychnine
Tee See Connection – Skyline Chili Churner
Black Market Brass – Rat Trap
Taylor Williams – Dreaming
The Splendids, Eamon – Cry Baby Cry
The Sextones – Beck & Call
The Harlem Gospel Travelers – Hold Your Head Up
(Gotta Groove Records offers vinyl record pressing and EcoRecord manufacturing for independent labels, musicians, and artists – this post features one of the many records pressed at Gotta Groove in the past month).
