D.J. Miller continues to craft magic in his home studio. Troubled Guest continues where Reshaping a Dream left off, smoldering in the deep woods, looking for a way back home.

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An Accumulation of Toxins

Collar City Records will be putting on a little showcase of sorts as a part of the bash.

While shopping from many local vendors, attendees will hear the following Collar City Records artists:

6PM: IKE SNOPES
7PM: PRINCESS MABEL
8PM: MATTHEW CAREFULLY

This show will be your first opportunity to pick up the brand new Ike Snopes album, Troubled Guest.
Come say HELLO.

How are you?

Friday, June 4th Complicated Shirt CD Release Party
Salon Style
Todd is New Each Moment
Valentine’s – Albany, NY
$5, 9PM

Friday, June 11th marks the return of Brent Gorton to the Albany scene. His new group, Better Pills, is based on a traditional jazz rhythm section of bass, keyboard, and drums and draws inspiration from early new wave, goth and Krautrock (Seventeen Seconds era Cure, Gary Numan, Faust).

Scientific Maps
Better Pills
The Tins
Valentine’s – Albany, NY
9PM

Saturday, June 12th
Saratoga Arts Fest
Matthew Carefully teams up with members of Swamp Baby to improvise music to locally-submitted silent films at the Arts Center in Saratoga.
8PM, $5 or free with Arts Pass

These two songs represent ideas culled and expanded upon by Matthew from folks on his email list. The CD in Eco-Wallet version is for sale here, while the album is available for high-quality digital download here.

Un-Tear

Space Nurses

Today marks the first official album release by Matthew Loiacono, performing under the name Matthew Carefully. His new album is called Community Balloon, and is made up of ten songs that were built out of suggestions from Matthew’s email list.

In November 2008, Matthew started a brand new email list to keep in touch with those folks who are interested in his solo music. After sharing new music and music from his unreleased archive for nearly forty weeks, Matthew had an idea to solicit folks on the list for ideas which would be fodder for songs.

The content that came back after the initial call for entries was nothing short of excellent. Matthew received ideas, lyric snippets, poems, sound samples, challenges, and much more. He began to create songs from this material and delivered them to the list each week.

Seven weeks went by and judging by the feedback he received from list members, he realized that the songs were some of the best compositions he’d written to date.

Thus, Community Balloon was born.

Click here to listen to four songs from the album. While you are there, you’ve got a quick opportunity to pick up one of the last remaining “Community Bundles” which include posters, postcards and the brand new Music To Fall Asleep To Vol. 1 CD from Matthew!

If you’d simply like to order the CD with no bundle, click here.
If you’d like to purchase the album from iTunes, click here.
If you’d like to purchase the album from Amazon MP3, click here.
If you’d like to procure the album from eMusic, click here.

Another surprise release from a shamefully under-recorded Capital Region artist comes from George Muscatello today.

This album is a glorious dissection and reassembly of guitar music; forms and styles are explored, torn apart, abandoned and launched from, carving out a distinct world that clearly encapsulates every disparate element of George’s musical existence.

Metal? Jazz? Doom? Funk? Languid Balladry?

It’s all there.

Read Josh Potter’s excellent profile of George and Angel Dust in Metroland Magazine today.

Then, listen to the first two songs from Angel Dust.

Finally, head to the Collar City Records store to purchase your copy of this monumental album.

The physical manifestation of this album features a gorgeous silk-screened tab-n-slot sleeve designed by Phil Pascuzzo and printed by Sire Press.

All proceeds (after shipping and PayPal charges) go to feeding the hungry.

A magical weekend recording session turned into one gorgeous album; All Fours. The limited edition 6-panel digipak is available here and the high-quality digital download is here.

Seeing Stars

New Year’s Eve

This gorgeous, tremulous home recording is available as a limited-edition arigato pack CD or as high quality mp3 download.

Little Eyes

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