BEEN ABSENT FOR SO LONG..... PEOPLE KEEP SAYING I NEED TO POST NEWS, SO HERE IT IS. (i'll answer a few things real quick though)
1. Not gonna be another Athens PopFest ever. Just way too busy and I don't really think I could ever top what I booked over the years. However gonna be doing a few shows during the year like they do in the UK like all-dayers or weekenders. Just mini events.
2. Singles club for 2014 has been ditched in favor of just doing the singles I want to release and not be stuck waiting for folks to get songs in. I started a singles club to launch last year and kept having singles get delayed to the point I just lost the interest in the project.
3. lots of stuff coming out in 2014 like 3 singles, 10 albums, 3 12"s, new shirts, and some releases being on multiple formats.
TUNABUNNY - Kingdom Technology PRE-ORDER (CDs shipping now / LPs shipping 3rd week of March)
The LP PRE-ORDER DELUXE VERSION comes with a hand painted sleeve by the front cover artist Christopher Nelms. (only making 20 of these) The vinyl is still at the plant, but the CDs are in now. DELUXE PRE-ORDER not available with the CD only the LP. The vinyl comes with a digital download. Here is the link to order CD and LP.
Kingdom Technology is the sound a satellite makes as it revolves around the earth. It?s the sound of falling in love with your eavesdropper.
For a band that?s already created quite a stir over the past several years, always moving forward, always learning, always searching, four albums in four years has brought Tunabunny here?a record so audacious it suggests the band can do anything.
If Brigette Herron & Mary Jane Hassell are, as some UK critics have called them, ?the female Lennon/McCartney,? then Kingdom Technology is Tunabunny?s Revolver, fourteen songs rooted in the intersection between pop and the avant-garde, a kaleidoscope of sound anchored in melody?or is it a series of great songs being ripped apart and destroyed?
The record is coated in ecstasy & death. It charges into the unknown, terrified and inflamed, anthemic & broken, empty & yearning, isolated & alive. You can dance to it or you can die to it. You can grieve to it or fall in love to it.
Recorded in the band?s living rooms by drummer Jesse Stinnard on a slightly-damaged $2500 sound input device fished out of a University of Georgia dumpster by local artist Ted Kuhn, KT may be the first digitally-recorded album to retain the mysteries of lo-fi and analogue tape. Stinnard achieved this by foregrounding the electronic glitches and manipulations of sound, while utilizing a mix of natural warmth and artificial effects.
The lyrics are a mix of poetry & slogans, razors & ointment, songs about asylums both loving & sinister. It?s about no one in the station to stop the glitch, to prevent the breakdown, delineations of power, both personal & political?what does it mean to be strong?
It?s the missing link between Shulamith Firestone and Kylie Minogue.
A triumph, majestic in its power, Kingdom Technology leaves everything they?ve done to this point in the dust. It makes theories about the demise of the album just seem quaint. They no longer sound like anyone except for themselves. At play in a universe of sound, Kingdom Technology runs the gamut from Abba to Alvin Lucier without even leaving the backyard.
NEWS
- Upcoming tours with dates to be announced for Eureka California UK Tour in May, Muuy Biien East Coast Tour in late May, and Cowtown UK tour in May. Full dates announced next newsletter.
- New label signings to be announced soon (six new bands added).
- UK branch of HHBTM opening this spring based in Leeds to make getting orders in the UK and Europe much easier.
- If you are wanting digital downloads of HHBTM releases most will be available via the website shortly with some titles already available for less than most other digital services.
- 5 pre-orders will be launching in the next newsletter with bonus deluxe options.
- 2 day HHBTM Weekender March 28th & 29th in Athens, Georgia at the Green Room. Tickets will be available next newsletter. Bands so far include: Tunabunny, Muuy Biien, Eureka California, Marshmallow Coast, the Visitations, Casper & the Cookies, 63 Crayons, Antlered Antlord, El Hollin, Axxa Abraxas, New Sound of Numbers, Bastards of Fate, and maybe a few more added by then.
- The Athens PopFest will not happen in 2014. Just way too many records coming out this year to make it happen. However there will be HHBTM bands playing at Athfest in June, hopefully a HHBTM showcase at Athens Intensified in October, and a CMJ showcase as well as a Winter Weekender.
- If you want a copy of the Joanna Gruesome 7" , Sweater Girls 7", Eureka California debut 7", all three are down to three or less copies. Get them while you can.
- if you do a radio show, review records, write about music, or do podcasts please reach out to Crashing Through Publicity which I run which handles HHBTM Records, Jigsaw Records, some titles on Cloud Recordings, Wild Kindness, This WIll Be Our Summer, Shelflife, Fika, and Elefant.
- also please check the hhbtm tumblr
New non-HHBTM titles in stock now include.
Joanna Gruesome "Weird Sister" LP $12, Cowtown "Dudes vs Bad Dudes" LP $12, Pottymouth "Sun Damage" LP $8, Fishboy "Albatross" LP $10, Sourpatch "You Knew" 7" $5, Mambo Taxi "Poems to the Underground" 7" $5, The City Is Ablaze Book $45, Shark Toys LP, Creeping Ivies LP, Modern Pets LP, Kleenex Girl Wonder Cassette, American Culture Cassette .... lots of these are very small amount in stock so don't wait too long. Lots more stuff coming to the distro in March.
MEGA SALE DEALS (these sales will end March 1st)
I need to make some space for all the records coming out in 2014. So I'm doing some sweet package deals that can't be beat. This works out super well for all the overseas folks who have been hurt by this postage increase on shipping from the USA.
DEAL #1 - Tunabunny SALE (get all three LPs Tunabunny, Minima Moralia, Genius Fatigue, Solar Sister 7", and the Form a Line 12") for only $25 (that's a $24 saving)
DEAL #2 - Sourpatch SALE (get both LPs Crushin' and Stagger & Fade) for only $15 (that's a $9 saving)
DEAL #3 - Orca Team SALE (get both 7"s, the Restraint LP, and the Week of Wonders 7") for only $15 (that's a $12 saving) ONLY THREE LEFT
DEAL #4 - random LP SALE (pick any 3 Eureka California, Muuy Biien, Sweater Girls, Fishboy, Joe Jack Talcum, Oh OK HHBTM LP) for only $20 (that's a $16 saving)