Vinyl Collective

We helped sponsor our good friends at Vinyl Vlog for their shindig last night and Joshua just sent me an email about how the night went and sent me a bunch of rad photos. From the looks of the photos, everyone had a fantastic night and lots of people got some great records. Check out this photo of a brand new Ninja Gun fan. Check out the other photos here. Thanks Vinyl Vlog for having us involved.

1 PORTUGAL THE MAN The Satanic Satanist” LP yellow w/ orange swirl vinyl 84 copies
2 OFF WITH THEIR HEADS “Live at the Atlantic Volume: Two” 7″ yellow vinyl VC 77 copies
3 CHUCK RAGAN/ LOVED ONES split 7″ blue vinyl 45 copies
4 CLASSICS OF LOVE “Walking In Shadows” LP clear vinyl 42 copies
5 BROADWAY CALLS/ RIOT BEFORE split 7″ no idea purple/grey vinyl 36 copies
6 BOUNCING SOULS “20th Anniversary Series: Volume Two” 7″ 31 copies
7 SHOOK ONES “The Unquotable A.M.H.” LP 25 copies
8 NONE MORE BLACK “This is Satire” LP black vinyl 18 copies
9 OFF WITH THEIR HEADS “Live at the Atlantic Volume: Two” 7″ white vinyl 15 copies
10 SCREECHING WEASEL “Wiggle” LP gatefold red vinyl 10 copies
10 V/A “Champions Of Sound 2008″ dbl 7″ clear vinyl 10 copies
10 PORTUGAL THE MAN The Satanic Satanist” LP clear vinyl 10 copies
10 PORTUGAL THE MAN The Satanic Satanist” LP purple w/ red and blue swirl vinyl 10 copies

While I was out at Narm, I met Rob Halford (former and current lead singer of Judas Priest). While chatting with him about his new label, Metal God Records, I asked him if he wouldn’t mind signing a photo for my buddies, TaunTaun. As you can tell from the photo, he wished the guys “Good Luck In Metal”. We still have their album for sale in our store so if you haven’t yet picked it up, this should be a sign from the Metal God himself.  It’s a great metal record which features the singer of the Gamits, Chris Fogal. Pick it up here.

That’s right, Suburban Home turns 14 in September. As we have in recent years, we plan to throw a weekend of festivities that will be sure to leave your ears happy and your liver sad. Unlike some Anniversaries, this is not just another year. Our entire history at Suburban Home has seen its share of ups and downs. We have suffered through declining CD sales, experienced renewed interest in vinyl, and feel throughout all of this that we have been putting out the best records we have ever released. As other labels have been shutting their doors, we continue to eek by. This anniversary finds us celebrating much like I imagine an terminal patient might celebrate another birthday. Who knows how many years we have left? It’s not worth worrying about, instead we are excited to celebrate another beautiful year.

Mark the following dates on your calendar:

Thursday, September 10th – Suburban Home Anniversary warm-up show (either in Ft Collins or Colorado Springs)
Friday, September 11th – Suburban Home 14th Anniversary show #1 at 3 Kings Tavern
Saturday, September 12th – Daytime- Garage Sale/Flea Market, Nighttime- Suburban Home 14th Anniversary show #2 at 3 Kings Tavern
Sunday, September 13th – Suburban Home 14th Anniversary BBQ and Washers Tournament at Wash Park

So far, the following Suburban Home artists have committed to performing: Joey Cape, Jon Snodgrass, Chad Price, maybe Drag the River, Austin Lucas, Two Cow Garage, Mike Hale, Jr. Juggernaut, The Takers, and the Revenge.

We are still awaiting final confirmations from: Look Mexico, Tim Barry, Josh Small, In the Red, Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground, and Ninja Gun. And we are working on a few surprise performers that are a part of the extended Suburban Home family. Stay tuned, it should be one hell of a party.

I am working on a deal at the Towne Place Suites Hotel on 6th and Broadway for people coming in from out of town. I am also working on a few brewery tours, and other fun things to do for people that are new to our fine city. Just mark the dates on your calendar and start pricing out flights!

The highly respected Paste magazine just recently reviewed Two Cow Garage’s “Speaking in Cursive”, here is a snippet of what they had to say, “In a more just universe, Columbus, Ohio’s Two Cow Garage would be playing the big summer festivals. Instead, they detonate their killer live shows night after night in front of mostly indifferent fans in dive bars in the Midwest.

Sounding either like Steve Earle fronting The Replacements or Paul Westerberg fronting Drive-By Truckers, take your pick, these four lads rock and lope, but mostly they bash the hell out of their instruments and sing their rough and ragged but literate tales of the lost and the losers, kids who were raised on Jesus and Disney movies and meth labs, bored and lethargic and intermittently, furiously committed to busting out of their dead-end farm towns.”

Read the rest of the review at this link. I must say that I love the Steve Earle/Replacements and Paul Westerberg/Drive By Truckers comparisons.

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It is always an honor when someone thinks I am interesting enough to interview. It is even more of an honor when that someone is the former singer of Honest Dons/Fat Wreck act Diesel Boy. Dave Lake who runs YuppiePunk was the singer of Diesel Boy. He contacted me the other day, and late last week we spoke about everything under the sun. I highly recommend checking out the interview and while at it, ask yourself if someone can be both a Yuppie and a Punk. I think one can and I feel like I am living proof. I feel like I learned a lot from D.I.Y. punk rock, it instilled in me values I still carry with me. But I am not gonna lie, I love nice restaurants, I love sushi, I get brunch occasionally, and I do lots of shit “real punk rockers” can’t stand.

Q&A: Virgil Dickerson of Suburban Home Records and Vinyl Collective

Thanks Dave for taking the time to interview me.

We just got the following in stock for the first time and with some of them, we got more in than we originally had posted for pre-order. I urge you to pick up the Young Widows/Pelican split if you haven’t already.

BUSDRIVER “Jhelli Beam” LP
DINOSAUR JR. “Farm” LP
FOREIGN BORN “Person To Person” LP
FUTURE OF THE LEFT “Travels With Myself And Another” LP
GOD HELP THE GIRL “S/T” LP
NEKO CASE “Middle Cyclone” 180 gram double LP
OF MONTREAL “For Our Elegant Caste” 7″
PAVEMENT “Brighten The Corners: Nicene” 4xLP box set
ROYAL CITY “S/T” LP
SUNSET RUBDOWN “Dragonslayer” LP
THE AGGROLITES “IV” LP
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA “With Roots Above And Branches” LP
THE SA-RA CREATIVE PARTNERS “Nuclear Evolution: The Age Of Love” LP
TORTOISE “Beacons Of Ancestorship” LP
YOUNG WIDOWS / PELICAN split 7″

Pretty much every week is out of control busy here at Vinyl Collective, but this week is extraordinarily crazy busy. We have some killer Pre-orders to announce this week and we are expecting a ton of records to arrive that we have been waiting long and hard for, and we have a few ideas to run by you. Without further ado, here are the haps on the craps:

PRE-ORDERS

• You already know about the Broadway Calls “Good Views, Bad News” LP which we will be posting pre-orders for tomorrow, Tuesday, June 23rd. I just wanted to remind all of you because this is a record that is certain to sell out and I don’t want you guys to miss out. This is gonna be a big year for Broadway Calls as they are about to release one of the great albums of 2009. Pre-order commences at 2pm Mountain Standard time.
• On Thursday, June 25th, we have 2 Suburban Home pre-orders to share with you. First off, we have the repress of Josh Small’s, “Tall by Josh Small”. The first pressing of 200 copies sold out and as we were thinking about repressing it, we asked our friends at Hometown Caravan if they wanted to co-release it. They agreed so with this repress, we are putting out 500 copies on Frosty Green Vinyl w/ silk-screened jackets. Hometown Caravan are getting 250, we are getting 250. We should have copies in hand by next week.
• The other pre-order we have is a 4 way split 7″ with In the Red, Anchor Down, Bastards of Young, and Drunken Boat. These bands are touring together in July and it was agreed that we should do a record. The songs are all great and for those of you curious, the In the Red track was recorded in between Volume 1 and Volume 2 so as you might wonder, the song finds that middle ground between the sound on volume 1 and volume 2. It is a great song. The pressing is out of 1,000 copies (300 on Red, 700 on Black) w/ 4 different jackets (corresponding to each band on the split). More info will be announced on Thursday.

ARRIVALS

• On either Tuesday or Wednesday, we will be receiving In the Red’s Volume 1.5.1 7″, Lemuria / Off With Their Heads Under the Influence 7″, and the repress of Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground’s s/t double LP. Let me tell you now that once we send out pre-orders and fulfill distributor orders, the Lemuria / Off With Their Heads UTI will be out of print. Pre-order one now to ensure you get a copy.
• We just got all the parts for the Jon Snodgrass / Cory Branan split cassette and more than likely by week’s end, we will be getting the vinyl for Jon Snodgrass / Cory Branan split LP.
• We just got in the Young Widows/Pelican split 7″, Aggrolites LP, Pavement Boxset, Devil Wears Prada LP, Dinosaur Jr double LP, Green Day 21st Century Breakdown LP, Future of the Left LP, and more.

IDEAS

• Are any of you on Blip.fm? I have been messing around with it and love the site. It is like Last.fm mixed with Twitter. I highly encourage all of you to check it out and sign up. It is a great way to recommend music and to share your thoughts on certain songs. Check out my profile at http://blip.fm/Suburbanhome
• I was curious if anyone thought it would be cool for us to film us playing cuts from our recently arrived vinyl and/or test pressings as we play them for the first time. I thought it might be a cool way for people to experience the sound and sight of records we have recently received. Thoughts?
• Have you checked out Kickstarter.com? I recently set up an account and think this could be a great way to gauge interest and raise funds pressing limited edition vinyl. Expect a few experiments shortly.

ANCHOR ARMS “Cold Blooded” LP black/grey marble vinyl
ANCHOR ARMS/ WHY I HATE split LP blue vinyl PRE-ORDER
ANCHOR ARMS/ WHY I HATE split LP clear vinyl PRE-ORDER
ANCHOR ARMS/ WHY I HATE split LP VC exclusive green vinyl PRE-ORDER
ANCHOR ARMS/ WHY I HATE split LP red vinyl PRE-ORDER
ANCHOR ARMS/ WHY I HATE split LP white vinyl PRE-ORDER
ANCHOR ARMS/ THE ANCHOR split 7″ red vinyl VC exclusive color PO

We are so honored to bring you our full album stream where you can listen to pretty much Anchor Arm’s entire catalog. It isn’t everything that the guys have put out, but the streams starts with their debut album, “Cold Blooded”, their songs from their splits with Why I Hate and the Anchor. I have been a fan since first listening to “Cold Blooded” and know that this is a band that many of you at the Vinyl Collective community would likely get into.

The guys call Gainesville home and with that said, you may already have a few assumptions as to the band’s sound. It isn’t a bad place to start to lump them up with “the Gainesville sound”, but in my opinion, they take that sound and take it into slightly heavier and more technical realms. I have always likened them to a cross between Against Me and Seaweed or maybe Motorhead and Quicksand. Regardless of the comparisons, the band is great and I highly recommend you lend an ear.

If you like what you hear, you can always embed the streaming player on your Myspace, in your blog, or anywhere you can post html. If you are so inclined please consider retweeting this post. I think the band are onto good things and with their recent signing to Kiss of Death, I think their future will be brighter and brighter. They are currently recording a split with Madison Bloodbath which will be their debut for Kiss of Death. Expect an album later this year and if all goes well, we will be putting out a split 7″ with Anchor Arms on SH/VC and at some point an Under the Influence split 7″.

Please take a listen and if you really like what you hear, pick up a few records. We still have some copies of the Vinyl Collective exclusives of their split with the Anchor and their split with Why I Hate.

One of our favorite labels on the planet and some of our best buds, Side One Dummy, are allowing us to post the pre-order for “Good Views, Bad News”, the latest album from Broadway Calls. The pre-order will commence on Tuesday, June 23rd at 2pm Mountain Standard time zone. We are getting a Vinyl Collective exclusive color on Opaque Green vinyl (out of an edition of 400 copies). We will also have some on black vinyl.

I want to add that this is blows away anything Broadway Calls have ever done. If you like their other releaeses, this will blow you away. If you have seen their amazing show live, this record does the best to capture that energy. And the songs are so fucking good. This might be the best pop-punk/melodic punk record of 2009 so far as I can tell. Get our exclusive color or forever be sad!