The friend ship.
I have had a bit of an absence from the internet from February on to this very month of March. In fact, I wouldn’t even limit said absence to the web, but to real life as well. What to blame it on? Usually, I would say music but this has been a bit of a dull year/I don’t seem to be as interested and active in that community as I have been in the past, so I couldn’t be that. Is it love? Is it my non-stop recent obsession with reading? Drugs? Who knows, but with a new computing machine and Spring’s sun and flower children on the way, I feel my interests will return to their original placing.
Not much on the label front other than prep for the vinyl release of Bears’ “Shortest Day Of the Year” ep is going swimmingly. The band was recently featured as on of Alternative Press’ “100 Bands to Watch” and are currently on the cover of the newest Cleveland Scene Magazine, so we’re not the only ones who love them. Here is their update on our relationship:
And, in what is slowly becoming a tradition of releasing things on vinyl that were released on CD a while ago, the Shortest Day of the Year EP will be reissued as a delicious white 10″ very soon with one extra song by Pink Teeth Records! We’ll have a pre-order up for that as soon as there is a definite release date. Also in the near future is the Who Knows 7″, which will be released by Impose Records. More news soon!
Excited for that 7 inch.
If you’re looking for something to read, I’d suggest “Kirby: King Of Comics” by Mark Evanier. I’m still reading through it, but thus far has been beautiful to look at and informative. I always appreciated Jack Kirby growing up as a boy with a love for comics, but I never super got it as I was raised in the era of 90’s modern age of dark, grim, big muscles and bigger tits in my funny books. However, entering my twenties, I learned to love the art of the past and admire greatly Kirby’s work. This book is full of amazing art, so it would look mighty fine on your coffee table. The hardcover should be in bookstores everywhere or to order direct from the publisher right here.
HUGE friend to the label and one of our house designers, Japayork, has released a zip file of his home recordings from 2005-2008 called (fittingly enough) “Home Recordings: 2005-2008″. You can download that here and please, please, please donate some cash to his worthy cause and/or at least email him your thoughts. You’ll never correspond with a sweeter fellow, I swear it.
My current listening output is that Japayork collection of course, the new Sword record “Gods Of the Earth” (probably my album of the year), Juvelen’s “Don’t Mess” single, the new Neva Dinova record, the new El Perro Del Mar, random Built to Spill records, Fuck Buttons and I’m sure more. Not very exciting, but I also appreciate being able to focus on a select amount of truly exciting and wonderful music.
Alright, I’ll wrap this up. Hopefully I’ll be back soon, there are some things in the works that are blog specific, I promise. Good night and happy easter if that’s your bag (it’s not mine).
