Distribution
Blunt Force Trauma 002: The Download
Blunt Force Trauma’s new release, laid bare.
If you’re the lucky owner of a Lord Cry Cry ‘OneStepTwo b/w Raw Fuck’ 7″ with download card, and want to claim all of your free tracks and goodies, all you have to do is type your code in here, and follow the instructions. Easy peasy! Enjoy.
More about Lord Cry Cry here
Listening:
‘OneStepTwo’ / ‘Raw F*ck’ (version) / Lord Cry Cry on Huw Stephens Radio 1 Show
Where to get a copy
Rough Trade, London
If…Music
Phonica, London
Redeye Records
The Factoryroad Shop
Distribution and wholesale is handled internationally by the supremely efficient ST Holdings.
Hand rendered dink.
Factoryroad’s Inkymole has just created this t shirt design for a ‘popular digital art magazine’. Not published till September, we can’t name the mag, but we can give you a sneak preview of the design. A familiar shape? Drawn by hand from the shape of our very own 45rpm adapters. You can buy the mag on September 14th, but we’ll hit you up with details before then.
Any new vinum?
Did you know the word ‘Vinyl’ comes from the latin word for wine, vinum? We recently found this online. The quote goes on to say that ‘Like most organic compounds, it breathes life as it releases the music it was entrusted with.’ We’re not sure about the last bit - bit poetic, that - but we were very interested in reading this: - nerdy, but satisfying to those whole love moles and polymers.
Record Store Day - April 18th
Needless to say Factoryroad is right behind this relatively new movement showing Big Love for record stores. Here’s some bumpf from their website explaining what they’re all about:
The original idea for Record Store Day was conceived by Chris Brown, and was founded in 2007 by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Carrie Colliton, Amy Dorfman, Don Van Cleave and Brian Poehner as a celebration of the unique culture surrounding over 700 independently owned record stores in the USA, and hundreds of similar stores internationally.
This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on. Metallica officially kicked off Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Franscisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is now celebrated the third Saturday every April.
Record Store Day is currently managed by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Scott Register, and Carrie Colliton. Folks wanting to contact Record Store Day are encouraged to email us at information@recordstoreday.com
NOTE:
A Record Store Day participating store is defined as a physical retailer whose product line consists of at least 50% music retail, whose company is not publicly traded and whose ownership is at least 70% located in the state of operation. (In other words, we’re dealing with real, live, physical, indie record stores—not online retailers or corporate behemoths).
