While I am sure many of you have listened to this EP before, I welcome all of you who haven’t heard Red City Radio to give it a listen. As I’ve said before, these guys are becoming one of my favorite bands playing punk rock and if you ever meet them, they are some of the coolest guys, too. Next time you see them on tour, make sure you buy them a beer as they will surely be poor but could use a beer. They will soon be doing dates with The Riot Before.

And while the Gold vinyl is officially sold out, I really hope that doesn’t stop anyone from picking up this release. The record will sound great regardless of the color it is on and before long, the white will be sold out, too.

Garret from Red City Radio called me the other day to just say how stoked he was at the reaction towards the pre-order. Everyone’s enthusiasm has surely got him and the band really stoked.

Listen to the stream and share it if you like what you hear. And pick up the LP here. I love this band.

I just noticed this mentioned on our message board, but for the first time in Suburban Home’s history, one of our artists is the Featured Band of the Week on Insound. The feature explains that “To Bed to Battle” deserves a lot more recognition than it has received (we could not agree more), and that they bridge the gap between 90′s Midwestern emo like Get Up Kids and Braid but put their own spin on it (we agree!). Read the write up on Insound here. Thanks Meghan.

Like I mentioned just one post earlier, you really need to listen to this album. Do so for free and honestly, it could not be any easier. Just click this link. Then drag the Look Mexico record cover into our player.

I can’t wait for everyone to give Suburban Home’s newest release, I Can LIck Any Sonofabitch In the House “The Sounds of Dying” a listen with our full album streaming player and/or our listening station. Regardless of any pre-conceived notions, I hope you will just give the album a listen. To me, SOB are the Murder City Devils or Motorhead of Americana. I actually can’t think of a more heavy, more rocking Alt-Country act out there. I love this album and have been a long-time fan of the band. I still can’t believe that I get to release an album by I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House. Please give it a listen and if you like what you hear, please share the streaming player and/or link to our listening station.

Suburban Home Records Listening Station

Tomorrow, Thursday, July 14th, we will be posting a pre-order of the album digitally and on CD with the vinyl pre-order to be announced soon.

Thanks for checking out this release.

We are happy to share with you the full album stream of Austin Lucas’ Collection record. The album compiles tracks from previous vinyl-only tracks from Austin’s “At War With Freak Folk” 10″, and his splits with Chuck Ragan, the Takers, and Frank Turner. An unreleased track rounds out the 11 track album. I absolutely love these songs as the At War With Freak Folk tracks were the first new tracks I heard from Austin prior to putting out “Somebody Loves You”. Between you and me, I favor a number of these tracks due to their raw, warm recording qualities. The album is the perfect record to round out your Austin Lucas collection and to hold you over til his next album which he is working on now. While it isn’t yet available on vinyl, it will be soon. You can buy it from Interpunk and your favorite indie retailer on CD though.

And later today, we will be announcing the Austin Lucas Mix Tape. We will let you know how you can get it FREE by purchasing any Suburban Home full length from Interpunk or by sending us a few dollars for postage.

Please give the album a listen and please share it with someone you think might like it. thanks.

THE SIRS “She Gets Me High” 7″

Our friends at Devildance have a brand new 7″ from the Sirs (their 2nd 7″). Influences are cited as The Misfits, Jay Reatard, and the Buzzcocks. I might add the Ramones and on the 2nd track, I hear a little bit of the Dead Kennedys. Take a listen and on our streaming player and let us know what you think. Share the streaming player, if you like what you hear.

The 7″s is being pressed out of an edition of 1,000 copies. 100 on Gold available directly from Devildance. 900 on black available at Interpunk and other retailers.

Yesterday’s Ring “Chasers” LP

We were carrying Chasers in the VC store and sold out of both variants we had. This is a great 12″ which was self-released by Yesterday’s Ring in time for their tour with Leatherface. The album was pressed out of an edition of 500 copies, 100 on Green (out of print) and 400 on black. If you have not yet picked up this album, you should; it is now available through Interpunk. Get this record before they are gone forever.

You can listen to 4 songs from “Chasers” with our streaming player

Find other Yesterday’s Ring vinyl here.

We posted copies for sale yesterday, today, you can listen to the first release from Gruff Beard records. Our buddy Charles runs this label and we are honored to have received an exclusive version of this release. We have sold 8 of the 16 we have in stock. Get it before it is gone. And regardless, give the record a spin.

Austin Lucas performs “sleep well” from Panic Pulse on Vimeo.

Yesterday, I posted a video of Look Mexico performing “Take It Upstairs, Einstein” shot by Panic Pulse at this year’s Harvest of Hope Festival. Austin Lucas just sent me over a link to a video (also shot by Panic Pulse) of him performing a brand new song called “Sleep Well”. The track is amongst a handful of demos Austin sent me recently (which are all absolutely amazing), but I didn’t know he was playing those songs live. Check out the video, not only does it sound fantastic, it looks great.

I am so damned excited to see Austin playing at SXSW.

Thanks Panic Pulse for shooting and posting these videos. Check out their other videos on vimeo especially this video of Tim Barry performing “500 Miles”.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 16th, is the official release date for the re-release of Micah Schnabel’s “When The Stage Light Goes Dim”. Today though, AOL’s Spinner has a full album stream of the album as part of its CD listening party. Visit this link to listen to the album. I had the opportunity of seeing Micah play another solo set when Two Cow Garage was recently in Denver and man, you have to see him perform the songs live. I plan to post a video this week of a few of the songs.

Starting tomorrow, you can purchase the album from Itunes, Emusic, Rhapsody, Amazon, etc. We will begin shipping the CDs as soon as the beer cozies show up and the vinyl will ship closer to the end of March. You can order the album from us now and receive an instant link to download the entire album.

If you haven’t picked up the album yet, make sure you give the stream a listen. It’s a fantastic record.

THE RIOT BEFORE “Fists Buried In Pockets” LP blue vinyl

I just got off the phone with our friends at Say 10 who offered us the final copies of the first pressing of The Riot Before’s “Fists Buried in Pockets” LP. The pressing of 500 copies was pressed on blue vinyl and we have the final 60 copies coming our way. This is perfect timing as the band is about to release a brand new album on Paper and Plastick which I have heard is some of their best material yet which I can’t wait to hear. “Fists Buried in Pockets” is one of my favorite discoveries over the last year. This record is absolutely amazing and has that It factor that got people really psyched about bands like Against Me and Gaslight Anthem when those bands were first getting buzzed about. I have yet to see these guys live but hope they make it out to Colorado sometime. We have actually been talking to them about doing an Under the Influence 7″ which would be amazing. We will keep you posted.

Whether you picked up a copy of this record already or not, make sure you pick up a copy before it is out of print. I know that some folks will be buying multiples to flip later so don’t get caught on the receiving end of Ebay prices. The record is only $9.99 and is well worth every penny.

We have a test pressing (first run of test pressing which were rejected due to too much time between songs) to give away with orders of this record. Good luck.

Stream the album in case you haven’t heard it yet.