Rise:Kinghorse Tribute, Straight A’s:Self Help
Straight A's - Self Help
I’ve been spamming Facebook about these two releases, so I’m going to take a break for a sec. And I’m just going to say – PICK THESE GODDAMNED RECORDS UP, POSER.
Little Heart Records Welcomes SaySomethingHugeonFire
Growing label adds one more to their expanding roster
SaySomethingHugeonFire, the brainchild of Braun (The Oxford Farm Report, Jar) Dabney, has signed with Little Heart Records. The act, which describes their mix of folk, punk, rock and alt-country as ‘Skronkity!’, will be recording this summer with plans for a 2010 release of their debut.
“It’s funny,” says label founder Bryan Puckett, “this all started with Braun and I recording some demos of him playing songs acoustic for no real reason accept to put them down. A lot of it was stuff he had been sitting on for a while. We’d play them for people and they’d all seem to really like it. Next thing you know, Braun had a whole band and we were hammering out tee shirt ideas.”
Joined by drummer Brian Shank (formerly of Red Letter Days and the New York punkabilly act The Shirley Temples) the Louisville based 3-piece’s ‘fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants’ attitude has already grabbed the attention of several local promoters. Their DIY work ethic and brazen personalities keep Little Heart on their toes.
“Seriously, SaySomethingHugeonFire will either be the greatest band on our roster– or the death of us,” says Puckett with tongue firmly pressed in cheek.
SaySomethingHugeonFire will be appearing with Crime in Stereo, The Swellers and This Time Next Year later this month. While the band only plans on regional and local touring at this time, expect more in the coming months.
For more on SaySomethingHugeonFire, visit http://saysomethinghugeonfire.com
For more on Little Heart Records, visit http://littleheartrecords.com
Little Heart Records is a Louisville, KY based record label. Boasting a roster with such acts as Rock ‘n Roll Television, California, The Gravetones, The Royal Tees, Chris Karrer and many more, their goal is to cram good music down your throats. Fer serious.
Press contact: puckett@littleheartrecords.com
Frontiers 7″ preorders up now
Via Matt Wieder and Chris @ No Sleep:
Pre-orders for the debut 7″ from Frontier(s) are now up at NoSleepStore.com. First pressing is limited to roughly 1,000 copies and comes in Green, White or Black. All pre-orders include a download available the Thursday before release.
The Plains is in stores and online on June 29th, 2010
Frontier(s) features Chris Higdon of Elliott and Falling Forward fame, as well as members of Mouthpiece, The Enkindels, Stay Gold and more! Look for their debut full length this August.
Frontiers -The Plains
Xerxes – Twins preorders up now
Xerxes - Twins
Since the Xerxes 7″ was delayed, pre-orders are just now available. So jump over to the Mayfly Records store and reserve your copy of Twins while you can. For $7 you can get both colors, or for $4 you can just grab the gray (400 recycled gray/100 purple). No idea what the shit ‘recycled gray’ is. Swirlie? http://www.mayflyrecords.bigcartel.com/
The new offical release show for the record will be on May 8th at Skull Alley. The lineup is Xerxes, Touche’ Amore’, The New Mexico, Voices of Arida, and Open Fields. 7pm, 3.75 Euros.
For more Xerxes info and to listen to some jams, check out http://www.myspace.com/xerxeshc
From the label’s description: “Louisville’s Xerxes play a mix of traditional hardcore and 90’s screamo that blends the best of bands like American Nightmare or Have Heart with the best of You and I or Orchid. With a raw sound and intelligent lyrics these high school seniors are prepared to make their mark! For fans of Touche Amore, Pianos Become the Teeth, and La Dispute.” Oh, BTW, Xerxes still has CD versions of the 7″ that they released back in March in case you don’t have a record player. And according to Will, they will have purple available at their shows as well as the online store thing.
Skull Alley live 7″ series
Announced yesterday, Skull Alley is looking for you to back your boys on their newest endeavor, the Live at Skull Alley 7″ series. In conjunction with the First Saturday show series, Skull Alley is looking to release a 7″ record from each of the shows. For more details, see the Kickstart Project site or continue reading below.
“Back in January we started an ongoing monthly show series called the First Saturday Show at our all ages music and arts venue Skull Alley. We started the series to begin each month at the space on an exciting note by getting the best bands from the region we could and keeping the ticket prices as low as possible. On a whim we decided to record the shows off of our board with the help of our friend Trip who runs an awesome donation based studio called Studio K.
The recordings turned out 1000% better than we could have ever imagined and we immediately knew we should do something with them. After getting a couple more of the First Saturday shows under our belts we finally decided that we should release these recordings as a limited vinyl 7” singles series that has a couple of live songs from each band on the show as well as a digital download of the entire show.
Our goal with this is to help document the history of the space in a permanent format, raise our general notoriety level in town and elsewhere, give the bands an awesome new item to sell at their merch tables, raise a little extra money to fund the space, and most importantly help document the work of some local bands that may never record otherwise.
Sounds awesome, right?
Well the problem is we don’t really have the cash right now to get these out immediately, so we thought we’d start up a Kickstarter project for this to see if we can raise the funds to get the first one or two out into the world, and to help gauge interest in the project and see if people would even care if we did this.
The recordings for the first three shows are all ready to go, and obessively mixed by Studio K . They sound really, really awesome. In fact, they sound better than a lot of band’s professionally recorded studio records. Add in the hilarious in-between song banter and heckling from the crowd, and we’ve got a winner.
The money from this Kickstarter project would be used to immediately send the first of the series off to be plated at Aardvark Mastering for vinyl production (approx $275), then sent directly to the vinyl plant for production (approx $500). It will also pay for basic packaging for the records and the digital downloads. We’re setting the goal for the project at $1000 to cover the first record completely, but if we can reach $2000 or even $3000 we can send the first 2-3 records in the series off to press at the same time, which would mean supporters would find a barrage of new music to check out arriving in their mail boxes all at once.
Any profits from these records will be used to of course release the rest of the series, and to put towards overhead for the venue and improvements to the sound/recording equipment we have in house.
Recorded shows, ready for release:
First Saturday show #1 – COLISEUM, STRAIGHT As, ZCFOS
First Saturday show #2 – Fork In Socket, Rest Assured, Houses In Motion
First Saturday show #3 – ALGERNON CADWALLADER, Mountain Asleep, Wise Blood
First Saturday Show #4 – PAUL BARIBEAU, Evil Grimace, Egret, Teenage Angela (pending artist approval)”