Due to the horrific tragedy of the school shootings in Connecticut today, Alternative Press has respectfully gone quiet for the rest of the day to show respect and to honor the victims. As a result, the Brave Bird album stream will be postponed to a later day. We hope you can understand. We placed the pre-orders up on our website last night, so for those of you eager to grab the album, it’s there. Our heart goes out to all those who suffering from this horrible ordeal. You are in our thoughts.
Every Thursday from here until the end of time shall now be hailed as Innards Day! Why is that, you ask? Because today you can finally officially order AND stream the new Innards! Here is the stream, hosted by our dear friends over at the always amazing Absolute Punk, and here is the link to the pre-order in our webstore.
For those of you unfamiliar with Innards, think skramz meets twinkle meets shoegaze in a glorious explosion of noise. Think awesome.
You can choose the sleek and sexy Black or Electric Blue, which seems to be the official color of Count Your Lucky Stars these days. The records will ship sometime in early to mid-October.
Today, our new queue is filled with all things Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate). The biggest news is that Empire! Empire!/Mountains for Clouds/Two Knights/Driving on City Sidewalks split 7″ is now in! Take a look at how beautiful it is:
We know everyone is itching for the new Empire! LP, but in the meantime we have a lot of releases to keep up happy! In fact, two new splits will be up for pre-order later this week! The first of which is a co-release with a label from the stretches of Austria called Goddamn Records, so those of you in Europe, it will be cheaper ordering this gem from them. The band featured on the other side of Empire! is a band called Rika, who are an amazing band that will blow you away. The entire split will be up for streaming via Punknews.org this Thursday, and available for pre-order right here in our store and in Goddamn’s too.
You won’t have to wait long for your next fix, because on Friday Alternative Press will be streaming the Empire! split with Arrows, an outfit from Australia that are so good, it won’t be long before they are a household name. This split is a co-release with their Australian label, Hobbledehoy Records, whom we’ve been looking forward to working with for a long time now. This split will also be up for pre-order on Thursday, and those of you down under would do well to pick it up from Hobbledehoy.
As far as the 4-Way pre-orders, most have already made their way out in the mail, and we are ferociously working on getting the rest out this week! We also picked up a lot of cool new distro items this past weekend, so in the coming days we will be posting those items up in our store.
The time has finally come to stream and pre-order the fabled CYLS 4-Way split #2 featuring Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate), Mountains for Clouds, Two Knights, and Driving on City Sidewalks. You can stream it at Absolute Punk and pre-order it in our store! Take a looksie at the cover:
We also placed the pre-order up for the Youth Pictures of Florence Henderson. Alternative Press will be streaming the whole album starting Friday, but get a head start and order it now.
The Dowsing records have arrived, and we are busily packing your orders. Look for it in your mailbox in the coming week. They look and sound great.
The time has finally come! We are now officially launching pre-order for the incredible self-titled effort from Certain People I Know (featuring members of Braid, Hey Mercedes, and The Bomb). We can’t say how much we love this album. What’s that? You want to hear the WHOLE THING? Well, you can stream it all at one of our favorite websites ever, the A.V. Club section on the Onion. Then rush back to our store and pre-order it! It will be coming in mid to late July. On a side note, last year the Onion had a show on Comedy Central called the Sports Dome and it was one of favorite shows. It was a true shame it only ran a season, and I am publicly calling BS!
For those of you wondering what the status of your Joie De Vivre and Dowsing pre-orders, here is your update! The Joie De Vivre LPs (We’re All Better Than This andSummer Months) have come in, and they look beautiful. Take a gander:
We have already packed up and shipped all those pre-orders, so if you haven’t gotten it yet, it’s on the way. We’ve seen some Facebook/Tumblr posts about it arriving already, and we can’t wait to see some more. The We’re All Better Than This CD should arrive next week, so any order containing that will go out then.
The Dowsing albums are currently en route to CYLS HQ and should also arrive some time in the next week or so. As soon as we get them, we will bust our butts to get them to you ASAP. IF YOU ORDERED A DOWSING ALBUM WITH YOUR JOIE DE VIVRE ORDER, THEY WILL ALL SHIP WITH THE DOWSING PRE-ORDERS. Keep that in mind if you haven’t gotten your Joie De Vivre album yet. In the meantime, you can find both LPs for sale on iTunes, Amazon, etc, as well as our Bandcamp.
It’s been a very busy night, but we have a lot to show for it! First and more important:
The new Joie De Vivre album We’re All Better Than This will be up for full streaming onAlternative Press today! While you are listening to that, head over to our store and pre order it! You will also find their quintessential emo-revival EP Summer Months up for pre order. This is the first time it is available on vinyl! There are several Joie De Vivrebundles, so choose the one that’s right for you.
Tomorrow, you will be able to stream the whole Dowsing full length It’s Still Pretty Terribleat Absolute Punk. Whether you buy it on good faith today or wait until tomorrow, the pre orders are now available. There is also a deal that includes every Dowsing release in one package, so catch up now if you haven’t already.
The repress of Penfold LP Amateurs & Professionals is also on it’s way, so if you missed out on that classic or you want all the new colors, go pick that up. Pick everything up!
Finally, you may have noticed, but we gave the website a huge overhaul. It isn’t quite done, but it feels good to have it looking and functioning better. We are working hard to get everything finished, but we figured it’s close enough to share, and still fully operational.
Enough talk, go get those new records! <3
The time is finally approaching! We are happy to announce that Alternative Press will be streaming the entire new Joie De Vivre album We’re All Better Than This, starting Thursday. Then on Friday, jump over to Absolute Punk for the full stream ofDowsing‘s new album It’s Still Pretty Terrible.
On Thursday at our website, we will be launching both pre-orders, along with some cool package deals so you can grab almost complete discography’s at a nice, low price! Summer Months by Joie De Vivre will also be up for preorder- on vinyl for the first time ever!
In the meantime, we added a cool little area to our shop called the Scratch ‘N Dent section. This section of our store is reserved for items that have been shipped damaged, somehow dinged up by carelessness, etc- like that section in IKEA just past the 50 cent all beef hotdogs and weird berry soda pop. All of the records are fully playable, but the jacket is dinged a bit or the CD case is damaged, etc. Maybe a shirt has a small scuff or wasn’t screened properly. So don’t expect these items to look perfect- if you want that, you can find them for sale in the other parts of our store. Now, get to shopping!
The first one is Ape Up!‘s new 10″ entitled Kemosabe, which, as of 4 o’clock, is streaming exclusively and in it’s entirety at Punknews.org. Give that a whirl, then pre-order it here in Black or White! For fans of Small Brown Bike, Get Up Kids, and Hot Water Music.
The second new album is the sophomore release by Perfect Future- a WWI concept album called Old Wounds: Warmth in the Winter of 1914-1915. The biggest concept of this album, though, is that it kicks major ass. Watch a video of a new song right now if you don’t believe us!
You will have to wait until a little bit later this week to hear the streaming of the entire album, but this song along should be enough for you to head over to our store and pre-order it! Get it here.
While you are ordering both these records, you might as well add the repress of Dowsing‘s All I Could Find Was You and the Reptilian‘s Full Health to your cart. They are both officially in their second pressing with fancy new colors! Get them here and here, respectively.
Head to our site to order! http://www.cylsrecords.com
Happy Leap Year Day!
Celebrate it by preordering the new Dowsing/Parker split! Two new tracks by each band, this one is a scorcher. Available in Black, Brown, and Cyan.
Order it here! Remember, one lucky person will get a FREE TEST PRESSING WITH THEIR PREORDER! Ebay gold, people!
Source: cylsrecords.com