Vinyl Collective

PORTUGAL THE MAN “Church Mouth” LP raspberry (solid) with a drop of cream

From time to time, I plan to give you a head’s up about records that will soon be out of print. This edition is a release we put out and after 1,000 copies over 4 colors (250 each of Raspberry, Plum, Chocolate, and Deep Blue all w/ some cream), we only have 13 copies left on Raspberry. I know some of you are big fans and some of you may have held off on picking this up. Here is your last chance to dance.

I think we will repress at some point, but it probably won’t be for a little while.

Today’s installment of “Song of the Day” is brought to you by our own Seabron Ward.

I fucking love Minus The Bear and I have a huge crush on Bloc Party, so when these 2 bands came together and had a baby by the name of Foals I was really really stoked.

This song makes me want to dance and simultaneously chug PBR, which few songs legitimately do to me. Plus guys that have English accents just seem hipper than guys with no accents……

by the way, the whole hipper with accents thing is a completely false myth.

You can find the album in our store here.

The song, “Balloons” is the 6th track off of “Antidote″. You can download the song here.

As the Song of the Day continues, you can find past installments here. You will also notice that each week’s streaming player will have each Song of the Day added so that by week’s end, there will be 5 songs. We hope you like the track. Thanks Seabron.

DALEK “Gutter Tactics” dbl LP 2-tone blue/green vinyl

1000 pressed, glossy gatefold jackets designed by Paul Romano (Mastadon). Black and silver inner sleeves, 2 tone blue and green lps.

As you can tell from the photo, the packaging is absolutely amazing. I know that there are a lot of Dalek fans out there. These will be shipping to us soon, we should have them as soon as next week. There is a test press contest, too. good luck.

MY HEART TO JOY “Seasons in Verse” LP black vinyl
MY HEART TO JOY “Seasons in Verse” LP white vinyl
MY HEART TO JOY “Seasons in Verse” LP blue vinyl
MY HEART TO JOY “Seasons in Verse” LP greenish/bluish/greyish vinyl

The first full length from Berlin, Connecticut’s own My Heart to Joy. On ‘Seasons in Verse’, My Heart To Joy move from a band who, while never having heard of Hot Water Music, kept getting compared to them, to a band who can’t decide if The Promise Ring or Braid is better. (The answer is Braid by the way.) Somehow, in between taking nods from 90’s emo bands, and post-hardcore and Kinsella brothers, My Heart To Joy manage to create a record that is not dated or contrived, but really fucking sweet.

Pressing Info:
200 – Black
100 – white
100 – blue
100 – greenish/bluish/greyish

GG ALLIN & THE MURDER JUNKIES “Kill Them All!” 10″
GG ALLIN “Masturbation Session” 10″

One of our distributors found a few boxes of vinyl they didn’t know they had. These 2 GG Allin titles were in those boxes. Got a couple of each. Go fer it!

APPLESEED CAST “Sagarmatha” dbl LP Maroon with purple splatter
APPLESEED CAST ìMare Vitalisî dbl LP lt blue/white/black/gold vinyl
BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW “Drippers” 10″

I had actually re-ordered all of the Appleseed Cast vinyl through Graveface’s distro, but they seem to be out of many of their titles. Hopefully, they will get in more soon, but at least we have copies of the latest Appleseed Cast vinyl which looks amazing.

AUSTIN LUCAS/FRANK TURNER “Under the Influence Vol 8″ 7″ both colors
AUSTIN LUCAS/FRANK TURNER “Under the Influence Vol 8″ 7″ Red/White color in color
AUSTIN LUCAS/FRANK TURNER “Under the Influence Vol 8″ 7″ White/Bllack half and half

We are excited to announce the eighth 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 his own renditions of the album art that the song being covered originally appeared. For this eighth release, Austin Lucas is covering “To Daddy” by Dolly Parton and Frank Turner is covering “Thunder Road” by Bruce Springsteen. 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 Red/White color in color
700 on White/Black half and half

The songs are up for streaming right now on our Under the Influence player. Check them out.

We expect records by the end of March. Test pressing winner will be announced around this time, too. Good luck.

I know that many of you have been asking, the day has arrived! We finally have copies of the Swellers vinyl and the crew are packing them as we speak. You might notice that the red does look red but the mixed are between the blue and purples you see below. Unfortunately, we have the blues and purples all set up as mixed so like our man Forrest Gump says, “Life (or in this case mixed colors) is like a box of chocolates…..”. Luckily, they will all sound equally great.

We got a few more copies than we thought we were getting so if you missed out on pre-ordering it, order it now!

I have been so excited about this tour ever since Tim told me that he was going to ask Austin and Josh to go out on tour with him, I can hardly believe that the tour begins on Friday. This is going to be a very special tour and I really hope everyone can make it out to at least one date. Tim will be supporting Manchester, Austin will be supporting his brand new album, Somebody Loves You, and Josh will be supporting Tall by Josh Small.

This tour, much like the Revival Tour, will see the artists not only playing their own sets, but joining each other for songs throughout the entire night. Most of us have seen Tim and Josh play together and some of us have seen Tim and Austin play together, but seeing all 3 guys on stage together will be a treat.

2/27/2009 Virginia Beach, VA @ The Jewish Mother Buy tickets
2/28/2009 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 But Tickets
3/1/2009 West Columbia, SC @ New Brookland Tavern Buy Tickets
3/2/2009 Asheville, NC @ The Admiral
3/3/2009 Nashville, TN @ The End
3/4/2009 Birmingham, AL @ Speakeasy
3/5/2009 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade Buy Tickets
3/6/2009 Elkton, FL @ St. John’s County Fairgrounds Buy Tickets
3/7/2009 Gainesville, FL @ The Atlantic
3/8/2009 New Orleans, LA @ Dragons Den
3/9/2009 Houston, TX @ Walters on Washington
3/10/2009 Austin, TX @ Emo’s
3/12/2009 Tempe, AZ @ Yucca Tap Room
3/13/2009 San Diego, CA @ Casbah Buy Tickets
3/14/2009 Long Beach, CA @ Alex’s Bar Buy Tickets
3/15/2009 Hollywood, CA @ The Knitting Factory Buy Tickets
3/18/2009 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst Atrium Buy Tickets
3/19/2009 Sacramento, CA @ Blue Lamp Buy Tickets
3/20/2009 San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside Buy Tickets
3/21/2009 Oakland, CA @ The Stork Club
3/22/2009 Reno, NV @ St. James Infirmary
3/23/2009 Salt Lake City, UT @ Burt’s Tiki Lounge
3/24/2009 Denver, Co @ Three Kings Bar Buy Tickets
3/25/2009 Lawrence, KS @ Jackpot Music Hall
3/26/2009 St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway Buy Tickets
3/27/2009 Louisville, KY @ Skull Alley
3/28/2009 Covington, KY @ Molly Malone’s Irish Pub
3/29/2009 Roanoke, VA @ The Water Heater
4/9/2009 Washington, DC @ Black Cat Backstage Buy Tickets
4/10/2009 Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Lanes Buy Tickets
4/11/2009 Pittsburg, PA @ 31st Street Pub To Buy Tickets
4/13/2009 Indianapolis, IN @ Locals Only Buy Tickets
4/14/2009 Bloomington, IN @ Rachel’s Cafe
4/15/2009 Milwaukee, WI @ Mad Planet Buy Tickets
4/16/2009 Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s Rock Club Buy Tickets
4/17/2009 Hamtramck, MI @ Smalls Buy Tickets
4/18/2009 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern Buy Tickets
4/19/2009 Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place Buy Tickets
4/21/2009 New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine Buy Tickets
4/22/2009 Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East Upstairs Buy Tickets
4/23/2009 Ney York City, NY @ Knitting Factory Buy Tickets
4/24/2009 Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s Buy Tickets
4/25/2009 Richmond, VA @ Downstairs Lounge at Canal Club Buy Tickets

Tim will have the repress of Rivanna Junction with him and this time next week, Austin will have vinyl for “Somebody Loves You”.

Christopher Wilkey – DEAR AND THE HEADLIGHTS “Small Steps, Heavy Hooves”
Greg Sinchak – KID DYNAMITE “Cheap Shots, Youth Anthems”
Matthew Corbett – FAKE PROBLEMS “It’s Great To Be Alive” LP
Nicholas DeClerk – LET ME RUN “Meet Me At The Bottom” LP

Congratulations winners. And for those of you wondering, “When am I gonna win a test pressing?”, your time will come. Take a look at our current list of contests here.