NEWS
Solid Home Life LP out now (members of Graves and LAKE)
Hey! Did you know that the Solid Home Life LP is out now?! BECAUSE IT IS.
Co-released by People In A Position To Know, Fin Records, and Curly Cassettes!
It’s the debut album from Greg Olin (Graves) and Lindsay Schief (LAKE), with accompaniment by friends like Karl Blau, Nate Ashley, and many others. An instant classic. I honestly can’t stop listening to this record.
Limited to 500 copies on “sea-blue” vinyl. $12 + shipping.
We’ve got 100 copies for sale. Get it from us, any of the other record labels that co-released it, or fine record stores around Seattle and Olympia.
Buy it in the Lost Sound Tapes online shop!
Here’s a really nice review: http://www.secretly-important.com/solid-home-life/
Don’t be fooled
Despite a lack of blog posts in the 2012 calendar year, Lost Sound Tapes is working hard on some exciting releases! Solid Home Life! Madeline! Your Heart Breaks! Neighbors! Blanket Truth! Zachary David Jammin! and more!
Do you wanna get some more frequent LST updates? Just head over to the
Lost Sound Tapes Facebook page.
In the last few days we’ve posted new music videos for James Rabbit, Math The Band, and a classic video for Madeline as well as an event for an iji, Generifus, Procrastihontas show at Hollow Earth Radio this coming Saturday.
If you haven’t picked up the Winnie Byrd/Glass Cake split tape yet, I highly suggest it!
Purchase it here.
Madonna has nothing on Michelle Shofet.
Favorite albums of 2011
It’s almost the new year!
2012! 2012! 2012!
So here are my favorite 11 albums of 2011. It’s been a good year for music.
(in alphabetical order, click on the band name to watch a video.)
Angelo Spencer et les hauts sommets – World Garage (K Records)
Dogbreth – Chookie (Skulltula Records)
French Quarter - Desert Wasn’t Welcome (Off Tempo Records)
LAKE – Giving And Receiving (K Records)
Little Wings – Black Grass (Marriage Records)
Madeline – Black Velvet (This Will Be Our Summer)
Pangea - Living Dummy (Burger Records)
Shotgun Jimmie – Transistor Sister (You’ve Changed Records)
Tune-Yards – WHOKILL (4AD)
Watercolor Paintings – These Arms (Lost Sound Tapes)
White Fang – Grateful To Shred (Marriage Records)
Lost Sound Tapes 10% OFF SALE
What better time than now for the first ever Lost Sound Tapes sale!
If not now, then when?
If not us, then who?!
10% OFF EVERYTHING ‘TIL 2012!
That’s right, 10% off til the end of the year on all Lost Sound Tapes released cassette tapes, records, and lathe cuts, including the brand new Winnie Byrd/Glass Cake split tape (listen), as well all ~150 items in our distro.
Ho, Ho. Ho! Tell yr friends.
New items in the shop
There are some new items in our store that are very much worth checking out!
Check out the store page to view descriptions and links to audio samples.
+ Bird By Snow “Subtle Body” Cassette (Gnome Life) $5
+ Cats in the Basement “Doo Bee Doo La Dee Day Dum Be Dum Drink Your Blood” Cassette (Finch House) $5
+ Feeding People “Feeding People” LP (Burger Records) $14
+ French Quarter “Desert Wasn’t Welcome” Cassette (Wizards of the Ghost) $5
+ French Quarter “Desert Wasn’t Welcome” LP (Off Tempo) $12
+ La Panther Happens “Witch Hunt my Dust Bowl Heart” CDR (Self Released) $5
+ Little Wings “Made It Rain” Cassette (Gnome Life) $6
+ Little Wings “Black Grass” Cassette (Gnome Life) $6
+ Lovely Bad Things, The “New Ghost/Old Waves” Cassette (Burger Records) $5
+ Madeline/Karl Blau/Your Heart Breaks “Tour EP” 7″ (Orange Twin) $5
+ Mega Bog “Okay Human” Cassette (Gnome Life) $5
+ Nodzzz “From Bleak to Blech” Cassette (Selection Records) $5
+ Pangea “Living Dummy” LP (Burger Records) $14
+ Quick Attack/Hi Ho Silver, Away! “Split” CD (Skulltula) $5
+ Sandy City “Surfin’ WA” One-Sided LP (Rok Lok Records) $8
+ Sundance Kids/Margy Pepper “Split” Cassette (Erefutre Records) $4
+ Watercolor Paintings/Madeline Ava “Split” 7″ (Skulltula/Sidejar Records) $5
Winnie Byrd/Glass Cake tape out now
Split Tape Shipping Now
Winnie Byrd/Glass Cake tapes are shipping now,
you can purchase it from the store page for $5.
We all know that Oakland has a thriving, long running punk scene. Well did you know there’s a healthy folk community there too? Winnie Byrd and Glass Cake are certainly at the forefront of that. I played a Blanket Truth show with both of them around Christmastime 2009 at Michelle (Glass Cake)’s house and it was a blast.
Winnie Byrd is the side project of Davyd Nereo of Beatbeat Whisper, a carefully crafted sibling folk duo. It differs from Beatbeat Whisper by bouncing around through folk pop, country twang, and classical baroque.
Glass Cake writes some seriously heartbreaking yet catchy and uplifting songs. Her voice makes you feel like you’re riding a rollercoaster that hits a dip in the track. Recommended for fans of Watercolor Paintings. It’s no coincidence Michelle Shofet of Glass Cake and Rebecca Redman of Watercolor Paintings are in Girl Band together along with Mallory Watje of Mammary.
First edition of 100 copies, with digital download, hand stamped covers and full color labels on clear purple tapes. Cover illustration by Jeff Stratford.
Up Next
Madeline “Black Velvet” Tape (CD/LP on This Will Be Our Summer)
Stephen Steinbrink “Yellow Canary Jumpsuit” Tape (reissue of the tape originally on Le Horror Records)
LST at the DIY Holiday Fair on Dec 10th
Winnie Byrd/Glass Cake preview
Winnie Byrd/Glass Cake split cassette tape
This tape is sooooo close to being done. The cover is designed, the tapes have been duplicated. I just need to design the labels, print it all out, stamp the covers and assemble them.
First edition of 100 copies, clear purple tapes, full color printing, and a download code.
Sneak preview of the whole tape over at Bandcamp
We’ll start taking orders for this one on or before November 15th.
Lathe-Cut Subscription 7 inches now available individually
VERY FEW LATHE-CUT 7″s LEFT
Lost Sound Tapes lathe-cut 7″ subscription series records are now available for individual sale. Some people had asked me about this awhile back but I had said no. Well, I’ve still got some, so I might as well make them available for people who just want one or two of them. They are $10 a piece.
There are only 8 COPIES LEFT of most records available, and only 3 COPIES LEFT of Stephen Steinbrink’s 7″. 50 copies each were made of all 6 records that feature these bands:
Charlie Mcalister
Sandy City
Math The Band
Tyson Ballew
Weakness
Stephen Steinbrink
iji new album Kickstarter project
Zach Burba aka iji is looking to release his new full length album “YERSELF” on vinyl!
So he’s created a Kickstarter fundraiser campaign to let people help make it a reality.
Donate money and get a digital copy of the album before it’s released regardless of whether the project gets funded or not.
There are some other nice incentives for donating too.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1032440610/help-release-the-new-iji-album-on-lp
“A song from the new iji album ‘YERSELF’ performed with LIVE SINGING and DEEP SNACKING.”
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