This month we talk to Videodome (Rebecca, Tobey, Keenan, & Killian)! We talk about what we’re listening to. We talk about the formation of the band and the direction that band has taken and where it may go. Some reminiscing on less recent CT bands occurs. Conversation veers off here and there. It’s a good time. Check it out!
Music on this episode: Continue reading RSR PC 086 Videodome (Rebecca, Tobey, Keenan, Killian)
We have our (Rick & Josh’s) favorites of the year as usual. We have the Redscroll employee favorites also as usual. We’ve expanded beyond that even! Favorites from some folks in bands on our record label and folks we closely associate and collaborate on the regular! Friends! Most of those folks have recorded their own list and introduced themselves plus there’s a few that have submitted a list that we’ve creatively included. You can go on the web post to peruse their lists (redscroll records dot com) as well. They’ve all but a couple (yet) been on the podcast too so we’ll include their respective episode links on the site as well.
Happy New Year!
We generally feel too close to them ourselves (Josh & Rick) to include the Redscroll releases as favorites, but of course they are. We wouldn’t release them otherwise! So, firstly, here’s a quick round up of what we’ve released this past year (and it’s been a good amount of great stuff)!
In chronological order:
February 2nd: Intercourse “Egyptian Democracy / Bum Wine” 12”
February 2nd: Doom Beach / Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop Chop (split) 12”
March 1st: Tongue Depressor & Austin Larkin “Landau Bar” LP
April 5th: The Knife Kickers “Nameless” LP
April 8th: Dirt Devil “Desert Moon” CS (SOLD OUT)
June 18th: Intercourse “Bag Fumblers Incorporated 2021-2024” CD
July 5th: Trance Macabre “Trance Macabre” LP
August 2nd: Dissolve “Burnt” CS/LP
October 29th / December 6th: Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean “Sisyphean Cruelty” CD/CS/LP
We’ve got a couple slated for next year already so we’re not slowing down! Stay tuned for announcements on those!
A couple more we were associate with with exclusive colors this year too!
Kidnapped “Disgust” (DAZE) – would absolutely work with again, Lumpy is great. Kidnapped is great.
Craven Faults “Bounds” (Leaf) Electronic experimental ambient act out of the Yorkshire, UK. We were contacted by Leaf about splitting a color (Lime Kiln Grey) with Norman Records in the UK and to have a unique OBI strip and it came out great. The record is really a great record and we’re happy to be associated with it and it’s our first overseas collaboration of any kind so that’s pretty exciting and we’re absolutely chuffed with how it turned out.
We’ve got our lists first. Staff picks follow. Then the rest will be in no particular order other than I will try to mix it up in the edit and put different ends of the spectrum back to back to keep y’all on your toes and hopefully interested in it all! Like I said before you’ll be able to check them all out on our web post. Links, pictures, etc. up on the site. I’ll assemble a playlist as well to publish with this so you can check all these things in more depth in your own time. That link will be on the web post as well.
Ben Levesque joins us at the shop to talk shop about shows, concerts, gigs and such! Ben has been with Manic Presents for about as long as we’ve had the store now (over 17 years!), but recently made a huge jump from working essentially 2 full time jobs to dedicating all his time to Manic Presents in a yet to be named position. When it comes to running and booking shows he’s a jack of all trades. We talk about some inside baseball – the inner workings of things without blowing up any spots.
We talk about music in general and we push out in all directions pertaining to Manic Presents and its venues and what Ben hopes to do with all of those and more!
You can buy tickets to all their shows at the store with no online extra fees (they are emailed and not physical, but no fees). You can also check them out online (and buy tickets) through their site:
https://manicpresents.com/
Music on this episode: Continue reading RSR PC 084 Ben of Manic Presents
Nick & Tim helm a relatively new project called Disfigure. So far, they have just one tape release though they are working on more. Nick worked on many of the songs in relative isolation while living in New Hampshire and then recorded them with Tim once back in CT.
We start as usual talking about what we’re listening to. We recorded in October which lent itself to some opening talk about horror movies and bake off. We quickly veer into how the band started and what inspired it to happen; how they were inspired by Godflesh, d-beat and black metal to create their sound.
Conversation continues down that path and veers off until we finally trail off talking about the first Redscroll release after becoming a store, Hostage Calm‘s Lens – a record Tim is on and a band Nick later joined and also a band that bares little other connection to this current project sound-wise other than the people who made it. Anyway! Fantasy battle metal madness!
Links:
https://disfigurebandct.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/disfigure_ct Continue reading RSR PC 083 Disfigure – Nick & Tim
We are joined by a man, Byron Coley, who has more stories than we could fit into every past episode of our podcast and we surely packed as much as we could into a single sit down. We start off with some talk about what we’re listening to as usual and we move on to record fair talk (don’t forget about our Record Fair at Counter Weight Brewing Co. on October 13th featuring Byron selling upstairs!).
Byron tells tales of driving John Fahey around looking for classical records, his process for listening to 10 new records everyday, writing for weekly publications and magazines like the Wire, Forced Exposure, Spin and on and on. We talk about the label and store he runs with his friend Ted in Florence, Western Massachusetts.
We go back to his start writing a tour diary with Devo, but this is yet a scratch on the surface and this podcast is our longest yet for good reason! Check it out!
Links:
https://feedingtuberecords.com/
https://feedingtuberecords.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.facebook.com/FeedingtubeRecords
https://bsky.app/profile/byroncoley.bsky.social (Blue Sky)
https://www.instagram.com/feedingtuberecords_rozztoxart (run by Ted)
Music on this episode: Continue reading RSR PC 082 Byron Coley