FAKE PROBLEMS / LOOK MEXICO “Under the Influence Vol 1″ 7″ turquoise/ white half and half vinyl
FAKE PROBLEMS / LOOK MEXICO “Under the Influence Vol 1″ 7″ yellow vinyl
FAKE PROBLEMS / LOOK MEXICO “Under the Influence Vol 1″ 7″ set of both colors

We are excited to announce the first release of our Under the Influence series. The series finds bands we love recording songs that have influenced their song writing. The artwork is being done by the very talented Mitch Clem who has been asked to make his own renditions of the album art that the song being covered originally appeared. For this first release, Fake Problems are covering “I’m A Ramblin’ Man” by Waylon Jennings and Look Mexico are covering “Brandy, You’re a Fine Girl by Looking Glass. The 7″s will come with a coupon that will allow you to download the tracks as mp3s. The 7″ will be pressed as an edition of 1,000 copies (300 on turquoise / white half and half, 700 on yellow vinyl). The Under the Influence series will also be available at your favorite digital retailer on November 4th. You can listen to each band’s cover at their respective myspace pages: Fake Problems, Look Mexico.

We have some really great 7″s planned for this series. Next up is Ninja Gun / Whiskey and Company and a special Drag the River 7″ which will feature two tracks not as a split. .

A LIFE ONCE LOST “Iron Gag” LP grey/black half and half vinyl
A LIFE ONCE LOST “Iron Gag” LP tranparent red w/ black splatter vinyl
A LIFE ONCE LOST “Iron Gag” LP set of both colors
HEAVY HEAVY LOW LOW “Turtle Nipple and the Toxic Shock” LP clear w/ pink, blue, yellow, and orange splatter
HEAVY HEAVY LOW LOW “Turtle Nipple and the Toxic Shock” LP brown / pink half and half
HEAVY HEAVY LOW LOW “Turtle Nipple and the Toxic Shock” LP set of both colors
SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY “Intervals” LP picture disc
SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY “Intervals” LP clear w/ rainbow splatter
SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY “Intervals” LP set of both colors

Another round of Ferret pre-orders. This time around, we have 3 new titles (A Life Once Lost “Iron Gag”, Heavy Heavy Low Low “Turtle Nipple and the Toxic Shock”, and See You Next Tuesday “Intervals”). All 3 records are limited to 1,000 copies with 2 variants (300/700). All 3 also have the option to purchase both colors of the pressing.

There are test pressings for all 3 releases. Your purchase of each title will enter you to win. We are expecting the records as soon as 2 weeks from now, but as late as 3 weeks. All 3 releases have approved test pressings.

Got a good load of restocks in today. Some of the highlights include a tribe called quest, Beck, Beatles, Tom Waits, Black Keys, Rancid, Pennywise, N.W.A., My Morning Jacket, Slackers, and more.

A TRIBE CALLED QUEST “Beats Rhymes & Life” dbl LP
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST “Low End Theory” dbl LP
A TRIBE CALLED QUEST “People’s Instinctive Travels” dbl LP
AVETT BROTHERS “Second Gleam” LP
BEATLES “ABBEY ROAD” LP
BECK “Modern Guilt” LP
BECK “Sea Change” LP
BLACK KEYS ìRubber Factoryî LP
BLACK KEYS ìTHICKFREAKNESSî LP
BUILT TO SPILL “Keep It Like A Secret” LP
COLD WAR KIDS ìRobbers and Cowardsî LP
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE “I Will Possess Your Heart” 7″
FOXBORO HOT TUBS “Mother Mary” 7″
FOXBORO HOTTUBS “Stop Drop and Roll!” LP
MURDER BY DEATH “Brother” 7″ single import
MY MORNING JACKET “Chocolate & Ice” LP
MY MORNING JACKET “It Still Moves” LP
N.W.A. “Straight Outta Compton” dbl LP
NAS “Illmatic” LP
PENNYWISE “From The Ashes” LP
PENNYWISE “Land Of The Free?” LP
PENNYWISE “Reason To Believe” LP
PINK FLOYD “Dark Side Of The Moon” LP 30th Anniversary Edition import
Radiohead “Kid A” double 10″
RANCID “Let’s Go” LP picture disc
RANCID “Life Won’t Wait” LP picture disc
RANCID “Out Come The Wolves” LP
RANCID “S/T” LP 1st album
RANCID “S/T” LP 5th album
THE BLACK KEYS “I Got Mine” 7″
THE SLACKERS “Better Late Than Never” dbl LP
THE STROKES “First Impressions Of Earth” LP
THE STROKES “Is This It” LP
THE STROKES “Room On Fire” LP
TOM WAITS ìALICEî LP
TOM WAITS ìBLOOD MONEYî LP
TOM WAITS ìMULE VARIATIONSî LP
TV ON THE RADIO “DESPERATE” LP
TV ON THE RADIO “YOUNG LIAR” LP
WILLIE NELSON & WYNTON MARSALIS “Two Men With The Blues” dbl LP

Joey Cape and Lagwagon were in town this past Thursday and we had really great time hanging out with him. We took Joey out for lunch at Watercourse foods which he dug, did a little interview with him which we will post as a video and a podcast shortly, took a Visitor to Vinyl Collective photo, and hung out. Joey is one radical dude.

Later that night, we got rocked by Lagwagon where our good buddy Jon Snodgrass showed up and that is when the party began. If the photo above doesn’t give you an idea of the kind of night it was, check out these other photos posted by our good friend Geoff who ended up being the drunkest guy of the night. Suburban Home’s own Andy “Totally” Thomas came in a close 2nd, but we all had a fantastic time.

I took a few videos of the Lagwagon set which will soon be posted on the Suburban Home Youtube Channel. One of those videos is of Joey getting his mustache shaved on stage in front of over a thousand folks and then breaking into “Razor burn”. While waiting for that to be posted, make sure you stop by our Youtube channel anyways where you can see videos of performances by Joey Cape, Jon Snodgrass, and the entire Suburban Home extended family from the 13th Anniversary weekend.

I am almost out the door because I have been asked to do a guest lecture for a Music Business class at the University of Colorado at Boulder about music distribution. Should be a good time. But I wanted to let all of you know a few things before I take off:

• Tomorrow at 2pm, we will have a pre-order for the first Under the Influence 7″ which is a split with Fake Problems and Look Mexico. We are doing 2 colors (300 on turquoise/white half and half and 700 on yellow). There will be sets of both colors as well as individually. Cover art by Mitch Clem turned out great.
• We will also be posting pre-orders finally for See You Next Tuesday, A Life Once Lost, and Heavy Heavy Low Low. Been so busy so we did not get around to posting them last week.
• Joey Cape vinyl should be arriving this week. Two Cow Garage and Useless I.D. vinyl will arrive next week as well all the pint glasses and merch for the deluxe sets. We will begin shipping everything next week.
• The Victory releases got pushed back yet again. I think that we should have them by next week, but this is getting ridiculous. thanks for all your patience waiting for these.
• We have just submitted orders for the Jealous Sound dbl LP, a Takers’ 7″, a Mike Park / O Pioneers split 7″, and the newest Norma Jean album, “The Anti-Mother”.
• If things go as planned, we will have the new Avail re-issues and the new Dillinger Four re-issues in time for the Fest. We are also working on a Dillinger Four deluxe set which will contain 4 records, a Dillinger Four pint glass (doublewhiskeycokenoice theme), a button, a shirt, and a coozie. Should be sick.

I hope everyone is having a nice Monday!

Got in some stuff form SST and form SC distribution. Unfortunately SST don’t always give us the best fills and we get less than half of the items we normally order. SC, on the other hand are really good and so we got planty of Okkervil River, Envy, Antony and the Johnsons (new album soon!), Kimya Dawson, and more.

ALL ìGuiltyî 10” single
ALL ìPercolaterî LP
ALL ìSHREENî 10” single
ANTONY & THE JOHNSONS “I Am a Bird Now” LP
BLACK FLAG “Six Pack” 7″
DAMIEN JURADO “Caught In The Trees” LP
DESCENDENTS “ALL” LP
DESCENDENTS “SOMERY” 2XLP
ENVY “A Dead Sinking Story” LP
ENVY “Abyssal” LP
ENVY “All The Footprints You’ve Ever Left” LP
ENVY “Compiled Fragments 1997-2003″ LP
HUSKER DU ìEIGHT MILES HIGH/MAKES NO SENSE AT ALLî 10” EP
Husker Du- New Day Rising LP
KIMYA DAWSON “Alphabutt” LP
MICROPHONES “Glow Pt. 2″ triple LP
MINUTEMEN ìJOYî 7”
MINUTEMEN ìPARANOID TIMEî 10”
OKEKRVIL RIVER “Black Sheep Boy” LP
OKKERVIL RIVER “Down the River of Golden Dreams” LP
OKKERVIL RIVER “The Stage Names” LP
OKKERVIL RIVER “The Stand Ins” LP
SOUNDGARDEN ìFLOWERî LP
SUFJAN STEVENS “Illinois” dbl LP
SUFJAN STEVENS “Seven Swans” LP
THE BLOW “Poor Aim: Love Songs” LP
WOVENHAND “Ten Stones” LP

Our friend Tony Peters of Nerd Alert Records has started a new vinyl feature for the Punk Site dot com. For their first feature, they did an interview with me about Vinyl Collective and Suburban Home. Obviously, I am a little biased, but I think it is an excellent read and gives a lot of details about our past, our ups and downs, and lots about our future. I had a great time doing the interview and highly recommend you take a few moments to read all about it. Thanks Tony for taking the time to do this. I really appreciate it.

Interview with Me about Vinyl Collective/Suburban Home [thepunksite.com]

Just got in the 3rd pressing of sink or swim. If you ordered more than 1 copy, you will get both colors. If you ordered 1, you will get one at random. We now have 50 of each color available in our store so get them while you can. thanks.

HONOR SYSTEM “Rise and Run” LP set of all 3 colors
HONOR SYSTEM “Rise and Run” LP black vinyl
HONOR SYSTEM “Rise and Run” LP blue vinyl
HONOR SYSTEM “Rise and Run” LP white vinyl

Our friends over at I Hate Punk Rock have partnered with our good buds at Grey Flight Records to bring you the vinyl for “Rise and Run”, my favorite Honor System album. I hate punk rock licensed the album from Grey Flight and we are all really excited about the fact that this is finally out on vinyl.

With the release of this record, every Honor System album will have seen the light of day on vinyl. It was a true bummer when these guys called it a day as I loved the direction they were heading in. The album is grittier than their past recordings and featured a D.C./Dischord vibe that fit their sound well. It is unfortunate that this band is no longer, but I am glad that this recording has forever been immortalized on wax. Get this while you can as it is very limited:

100 on white, 100 on blue, 300 on black.

Got in a number of Revelation/Bridge 9/Deathwish Restocks. Godo stuff from A Wilhelm Scream, Ceremony, Crime in Stereo, New Found Glory, Bleeding Through, Verse, H2O, and lots more.

A DAY IN BLACK AND WHITE ìMy Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboysî LP
A WILHELM SCREAM “Ruiner” LP grey marble vinyl
AUXES “Sunshine” LP
BITTER END “S/T” 7″
BLACKLISTED “Heavier Than Heaven” LP blue/black vinyl
BLEEDING THROUGH “Declaration” LP
Boysetsfire “Live for Today” LP “10
CEREMONY “Scared People” 7″ black/white split vinyl
CEREMONY “Still, Nothing Moves You” LP white vinyl
CEREMONY “Violence Violence” LP White/Grey split vinyl w/splatter
CRIME IN STEREO “Is Dead” LP blue/white marble vinyl
CRIME IN STEREO “The Troubled Stateside” LP
CURL UP AND DIE “Unfortunately We’re Not” LP
DEATHCYCLE “Prelude To Tyranny” LP
ELLIOTT “False Cathedrals” LP
ELLIOTT “Song In The Air” LP
ELLIOTT “U.S. Songs” LP
ENGINE DOWN “S/T” LP
EXMORTUS “In Hatred’s Flame” LP
GORILLA BISCUITS ” Start Today” LP
GORILLA BISCUITS “S/T” 7″
H20 “Nothing To Prove” LP clear vinyl
LADYTRON “Light & Magic” dbl LP
LANDMINE MARATHON/ SCARECROW split LP
MORNING AGAIN As Tradition Dies Slowly LP
NARROWS “S/T” 7″ brown / black vinyl
NEW FOUND GLORY “Tip Of The Iceberg” 7″ white w/ rainbow splatter vinyl
NEW FOUND GLORY “Tip Of The Iceberg” picture disc 7″
NO TRIGGER “CANYONEER” LP clear vinyl
NOFX “Maximum Rock n Roll” LP red vinyl
POVERTY BAY SAINTS “S/T” 7″
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE “People Of The Sun” 10″
RUINER “I Heard These Dudes Are Assholes” LP
SHAI HULUD “A PROFOUND HATRED OF MAN” LP (PICTURE DISC)
SLOPPY SECONDS “Endless Bummer” LP green vinyl
TEXAS IS THE REASON “Do Yo Know Who You Are?” LP
THE BLOW “Paper Television” LP
THE WONDER YEARS “Won’t Be Pathetic Forever” 7″ brown vinyl
THOUGHT CRUSADE “Common Man” 7″
TRASH TALK “Plagues” 7″
VERSE “Aggression” LP color vinyl
YOUNG WIDOWS Settle Down City LP