Written by Don Giovanni on 05/16/2013 3:34pm
June 18th, the same day as we are releasing the new Vacation album, Candy Waves, we will also be releasing their incredible Self Titled debut album on CD for the first time. Pick both of them up from the band on tour with Nervosas (dates below). Listen to a song off the album:
Vacation -- 2013 Tour Dates
6/13 - Pittsburgh @ Roboto Project with Zeitgeist, No Time! (all ages)
6/14 - Philly @ Hausu with Roman Holiday and Decade (all ages) *early 7pm
6/15 - New Brunswick @ Cooler Ranch with Black Wine, Night Birds (all ages)
6/16 - Brooklyn, New York @ Fitness with Nude Beach, Survival (all ages)
6/17 - Boston @ Charlie's Kitchen with Dan Webb and the Spiders and
Landline (all ages)
6/18 - Portland, Maine @ 442 St. John Street w/ TBA
6/19 - Quebec City @Le Cercle w/ TBA
6/20 - Montreal @Rats 9 w/ TBA
6/21 - OTTAWA EXPLOSION
6/22 - OTTAWA EXPLOSION
6/23 - Toronto @ The Silver Dollar Room w/ Nude Beach
all dates w/ Nervosas
Written by Don Giovanni on 05/14/2013 4:27pm
We're really excited to be working with Worriers to release their 12" EP, Cruel Optimist, in the Fall. Lauren Measure, the band's leader had this to say about the recording:
Cruel Optimist is Worriers first proper record since our first 7" was released on No Idea Records in 2011. Between then and now I've spent a lot of time working on things in my life that aren't directly related to music. Recently, however, I've been asked how my other interests and politics are reflected in my music. While I wasn't incredibly intentional about merging those things before, this record is definitely an attempt to directly combine those other things I'm involved in - like visual art, feminist/queer activism and organizing - with music.
Most of the songs on this record are inspired by or reference artists and writers that have had a big impact on the way I think about the world, especially in terms of gender, and assumptions about sexuality and the way we structure our lives. I think it's a very "punk" notion to not base your life around what people say you "should" be doing, or one path that leads to some magical settled life. But those ideas, for me, haven't just come from DIY or music or the scenes surrounding it.
The record will be out in time for the band to play The Fest 12 in Gainesville, FL this October.
Written by Don Giovanni on 05/14/2013 4:12pm
We're really excited to be able to announce that we'll be working with Upset on their debut album. The new band is fronted by former New Brunswick resident and longtime friend of the label Ali Koehler (Vivian Girls, Best Coast) who is backed by Jenn Prince and Patty Schemel (Hole). They'll be recording their full length with Kyle Gilbride (Swearin', Waxahatchee) for a Fall release.
Written by Don Giovanni on 05/14/2013 12:29pm
We're really excited to be working with one of our favorite bands of the past few years, Tenement, on a new album later this year. Tenement, from Appleton, Wisconsin have toured extensively over the last 5 years and released two albums in 2011, Napalm Dream, and The Blind Wink. They will be entering the studio soon for an album out by the end of the year or early 2014 on Don Giovanni and we couldn't be more excited.
While we had a policy of only working with bands from our local music scene for the past decade, Tenement were always on our radar and were a major part of the national scene our local bands fit in. They were one of two bands we always thought about changing our policy to work with. While they ended up not being the first non-local band released on Don Giovanni, I can say now that they were the first non-local band we approached to work with.
Written by Don Giovanni on 05/14/2013 10:15am
Brick Mower are going on tour and will have copies of their most recent album,
My Hateable Face. Listen to a song below:
Written by Don Giovanni on 04/30/2013 2:10pm
We're really excited to announce that were going to be releasing the first of what will hopefully be a series of collections of artwork by Marissa Paternoster. The collection is entitled My Body Is A Prison/My Mind Is A Disease and is a 42 page booklet professionally printed on high quality paper.
People familiar with Don Giovanni Records are probably already familiar with both Marissa Paternoster and her artwork. In addition to playing guitar and singing in Screaming Females and Noun, Marissa also does all of the Screaming Females artwork and has done artwork for a number of other bands on and off Don Giovanni.
The first printing of the booklets will include a signed and #d edition limited to 100 for mail order only, as well as a non-signed and numbered edition that will be available at Screaming Females shows and through our website.
Pre-orders for both editions will go up on Thursday on our website.
Here are a few sample pages:
Written by Don Giovanni on 04/18/2013 11:02am
Super excited to share the news with everyone that were going to be releasing Candy Waves, a new full length album and the follow up to their incredible self titled album, from our longtime friends in Vacation on June 18th. Listen to a song off the record called Pyro Hippies below:
Written by Don Giovanni on 04/08/2013 11:23am
Shellshag Forever is out in less than two weeks (April 16th) and we are now taking pre-orders!
We also put together an incredible release show on April 20th at Maxwells:
(poster by Beth Fiedorek)
Written by Don Giovanni on 03/25/2013 11:23am
Pre-orders are up for the new Laura Stevenson album, Wheel! The album is out April 23rd and pre-orders will ship a little before then!
Listen to L-Dopa:
Written by Don Giovanni on 03/05/2013 9:34am
Larry Livermore (Lookout Records, The Potatomen, The Lookouts) has spent the last few years writing a book and we couldn't be more excited to help with releasing it. Gabrielle Bell has also done really great cover art for it and its going to be out June 4th. Here is a description of the book:
In 1982 Larry Livermore, ex-greaser, post-hippie, burnt out and disillusioned by the Bay Area punk scene, journeyed north into an off the map, off the grid mountain wilderness that lay at the heart of California's Emerald Triangle in search of something “real.”
Things got way more real than he’d bargained for, as he ended up confronting blizzards, droughts, floods, fires, marauding bears, skunks, rattlesnakes, and a posse of ornery pot growers, all while launching a magazine, a solar-powered punk rock band, and the DIY record label that introduced the world to the likes of Green Day, Operation Ivy, and Screeching Weasel.
As he learned valuable lessons in self-sufficiency, taking responsibility, and how to avoid (for the most part but not always) getting punched in the face by irate hippies, Larry also found his place and made his home in the far-flung, disjointed and eccentric community he encountered in the anarchic realm that begins where Highway 101’s tattered tarmac dissolves into the dust of Spy Rock Road.
