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
Being released by Hippies Are Dead Records, Grand Lake‘s Blood Sea Dream is a listening experience not to miss.
According to the band’s bio, Grand Lake makes music about something gigantic, something awe-inspiring, something sublime. They sink their anchor and it can’t touch the bottom; they look back and can’t see the shore. The music starts the voyage and they depart from the certainty they’ve once known. The mast unfurls and they set sail on the gigantic body of aqueous self, leaving behind concrete docks, concrete buildings, and concrete ideas.
White records look sweet, don’t they? The Fitt recently contracted GGR to press their new LP, When The Fitt Hit The Shan on all white vinyl. If you are a classic Sabbath, Motorhead, or Bat Out Of Hell I fan, you will definitely want to check this album out. Grab a copy here!
Pat from The Fitt
GGR just finished shipping out the killer max-single (in limited edition all white vinyl) for My Robot Friend (Feat. Alison Moyet). This package is really amazing (if we don’t say so ourselves) — all white vinyl, white art jackets, white labels, and a digital download bonus. The 12″ EP features seven different mixes of the track entitled “Waiting”. Grab a copy here!
