Vinyl Collective

I noticed that we sold out of Get up Kids “Something to Write Home About”, Thursday “Common Existence”, and Minus the Bear “Acoustics”. I just got ok to post more of each.

And I just found out that I have 100 more My Chemical Romance “I Brought You My Bullets” coming in this week so if you missed out the first time around, get them now. With only 1,000 pressed of the first pressing, these are sure to be gone quickly.

FLOGGING MOLLY “Float” LP picture disc
FLOGGING MOLLY “Float / Man With No Country” 7″
FLOGGING MOLLY ìSwaggerî LP gatefold green vinyl
FLOGGING MOLLY ìWithin A Mile of Homeî LP green vinyl
GOGOL BORDELLO ìSuper Taranta!î dbl LP red vinyl
KILL YOUR IDOLS ìFrom Companionship To Competitionî LP
THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM “The 59 Sound” LP black vinyl
THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM ”The ’59 Sound” 7”

Got some great restocks from our friends at Side One Dummy. I just heard The Gaslight Anthem on Best Week Ever on VH1 and heard that they have sold around 40,000 copies so far. I am so happy for Gaslight that they are doing so well. I am sure most of you have this album, but if you don’t, pick it up!

We have been slow to do a full on relaunch of our Drunk Dial Hotline, because we had run into a lot of technical difficulties. We think we fixed the glitch as seems evident by the handful of drunk dials we have received recently. Here friends is a drunk dial from our friends at Vinyl Vlog.

Drunk Dial – Vinyl Vlog dudes

Although, we don’t plan to do a big relaunch of the drunk dial hotline, it does appear to be working. Please put this number in your cell phone, 303-800-6DUI (6384), and the next time you are drunk and have something to say, give it a call.

I am also toying around with the idea of asking everyone’s opinion in certain matters and having people call in and posting some of those calls. What do you think? I could ask certain questions like, hey should we work out a deal with Red Scare where we license their records for release on vinyl? or Should we do vinyl press runs on 1 or 2 colors? Stuff like that.

Thanks Vinyl Vloggers for the phone call.

Mustard Plug (1-23-09) – It isn’t often that we have 2 visiting bands on the same day, but it happened today (if you were wondering why there were a lack of updates). They had a few boxes of shirts shipped here and came to pick them up. Little did they know that we had just stocked our fridge with a ton of really good beer. They all partook of our beer, hung out, and posed for this picture. I have known most of the Mustard Plug folks for a long time as they were one of the new bands on Hopeless when I worked there over 10 years ago. They are in town for the Ska is Dead Colorado dates and I am bummed I won’t be able to make it out since Drag the River are playing Saturday and William Elliott Whitmore is playing Sunday. I really wanted to see Deal’s Gone Bad who are on the tour as well. It was great seeing Mustard Plug and I hope all the shows are going well. See other visitors to VC here

Anchor Down (1-23-09) – Our new friends, Anchor Down, came to Denver (from Portland) to play the Blackout Pact reunion show tonight. Josh from our office somehow ended up picking them from the airport and brought them down to the office. They bought some records, drank some beer, and watched some Sunny in Philadelphia while at our office and we took them to City O City for some yummy vegetarian fare. They are supremely nice guys. I guess I will be seeing them tomorrow night at 3 Kings for the Drag the River / Andy Thomas show which should be fun. Vanessa of Lubricated Magazine first told me about them and I recognized a few of the guys from the Fest. Check them out.

Check out other visitors to VC here.

Got a ton of great stuff from Revelation, Death Wish, Bridge 9, and more. Restocks include Blacklisted, Intl Superheroes of H/C, New Found Glory, NOFX, Gorilla Biscuits, Wonder Years, No Doubt, Trash Talk, and more.

BLACKENED “This Means War” LP
BLACKLISTED “Heavier Than Heaven” LP transparent blue vinyl
BLEEDING THROUGH “Declaration” LP white vinyl
CEREMONY “Scared People” 7″ black/white burst vinyl
CRIME IN STEREO “Is Dead” LP black w/ white splatter vinyl
DEADLY SINS/ LEFT ALONE split 7″ blue marble vinyl
DISFEAR/ DOOMRIDERS split 7″ brown/black half and half vinyl
ELLIOTT “False Cathedrals” LP
ELLIOTT “Song In The Air” LP
ELLIOTT “U.S. Songs” LP
ENERGY “Invasion Of The Mind” LP orange vinyl
ENFORCER “Into the Night” LP
FARSIDE “Monroe Doctrine” LP clear yellow vinyl
GLOS “Harmonium” LP grey vinyl
GORILLA BISCUITS ” Start Today” LP
GORILLA BISCUITS “S/T” 7″
HARMS WAY “Reality Approaches” LP
HARMS WAY “S/T” 7″
INTERNATIONAL SUPERHEROES OF HARDCORE “HPxHC” 7″ yellow/maroon vinyl
IRON AGE “Constant Struggle” LP clear vinyl
LIFE LONG TRAGEDY “Runaways” LP white w/ black splatter vinyl
MODERN LIFE IS WAR “Midnight In America” LP clear blue vinyl
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 LOWS “S/T” 7″
NO DOUBT “Tragic Kingdom” LP green vinyl
NOFX “Maximum Rock n Roll” LP yellow orange vinyl
ONLY LIVING WITNESS “Prone Mortal Form/ Innocents” dbl LP
POVERTY BAY SAINTS “S/T” 7″
PYGMYLUSH “Mount Hope” LP clear vinyl
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE “People Of The Sun” 10″
RUINER “Prepare To Be Let Down” LP orange/purple vinyl
SHAI HULUD “A Profound Hatred Of Man” LP pic disc
SHAI HULUD “Hearts Once Nourished With Hope” LP pic disc
SHAI HULUD “That Within Blood/ Ill-Tempered” LP
SHIPWRECK A.D. “Abyss” LP blue/black swirl vinyl
TERROR “Always The Hard Way” LP red vinyl
TEXAS IS THE REASON “S/T” 7″
THE WONDER YEARS “Won’t Be Pathetic Forever” 7″ black vinyl
THE WONDER YEARS “Won’t Be Pathetic Forever” 7″ brown vinyl
THE WONDER YEARS “Won’t Be Pathetic Forever” 7″ orange vinyl
THIS IS HELL “Sundowning” LP white vinyl
THROWDOWN “Venom & Tears” LP blue vinyl
THROWDOWN ìCovered W/ Venomî 7î white vinyl
TIDES / GIANT split LP red/white swirl vinyl
TOUCHE AMORE “S/T” 7″ red vinyl
TRAP THEM “SÈance Prime” 7″ purple w/ black splatter vinyl
TRAP THEM “Seizures In Barren Praise” LP clear vinyl
TRAP THEM “Sleepwell Deconstructor” LP
TRASH TALK “Plagues” 7″ white vinyl
WALLS OF JERICHO “The American Dream” LP red vinyl

My really good friends (and coincidentally 3 former Suburban Home employees) have launched a website for their design firm Legwork. The site is really cool, really easy  to navigate, and their About Video is probably the greatest thing I have seen all week. I urge every one of you to check out the site and if you only look at one thing, make sure you view their About Video. They did such a badass job on it.

Legwork is Aaron Ray, Sean Klassen, and Joey Bullock. Aaron used to be our art director and has done some of our best merch and album arts (Gamits Antidote, Birdman hoodie), Sean made the very first Suburban Home website years ago, and Joey used to work for us for a long time and still helps out quite a bit. If you are looking for someone to handle your print, web, or interactive work, these are your guys. Most recently, they did all the art for Ghost Buffalo’s “The Magician”.

Great site guys!

Legwork Studio site

DRAG THE RIVER “Under the Influence Vol 5″ 7″ YELLOW/WHITE HALF AND HALF
DRAG THE RIVER “Under the Influence Vol 5″ 7″ WHISKEY AND COKE COLORED VINYL
DRAG THE RIVER “Under the Influence Vol 5″ 7″ BOTH COLORS

We are excited to announce the fifth 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 and Nation of Amanda who has been asked to make their own renditions of the album art that the song being covered originally appeared. For this fourth release, Drag the River are covering Sam Cooke’s “Having a Party” and Jeff Black’s “I Know”. 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. We should have copies by the end of February.

Listen to the tracks from this Under the Influence plus the previous 4 volumes here.

1. Having a Party (by Sam Cooke)
2. I Know (by Jeff Black)

PRESSING INFO(co-released with Hometown Caravan in Germany so 120 of the yellow/white and 280 of the whiskey and coke colored vinyl are off to Germany):
300 ON YELLOW/WHITE HALF AND HALF
700 ON WHISKEY AND COKE COLORED VINYL

THE LOVED ONES “Distractions” LP

The Loved Ones return with the follow up to the very good “Build and Burn” with a 6 song 12″. I am really excited to hear this. For those of you wondering, I am pretty certain our copies will be on black vinyl. I was told by Fat that the vinyl was still a few weeks out so my guess is that their pre-order is still a few weeks out. Keep this under wraps, but I recently asked Dave from the Loved Ones if he or the band would be into doing an Under the Influence and he said yes. I don’t want to jinks myself, but I just wanted to share that with you all cause it is going to be amazing.

And I want to apologize now for all the amazing vinyl we have been posting. It has been nuts.

ANDREW BIRD “Noble Beast” dbl LP

Andrew Bird is back with another beautiful album and from what the press keeps writing, Andrew Bird is the 2nd best whistler on the planet next to those dudes Peter and Bjorn. I like the album upon initial listen, but I love “Armchair Apocrypha”. I am sure I will like this a lot more the more I listen to it. We should have this within the next week or so.