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

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.

After years of playing under-the-radar art gallery performances, sprawling library derailments and genius fits of beauty, the four members of Swamp Baby set their minds to commit their music to recorded form. Nick, Frank, Mike and Meg spent a few days in August 2009 holed up in a multi-faith temple just outside of their Albany homes and returned with a recording of epic proportions.

All Fours exists in its own space, where the surroundings played a dominant role in shaping what you hear in the final mixes. Buzzing crickets, natural reverb, quiet whispers as to not disturb other meetings in the temple and other wonders await you on the first of what we hope will be many recordings.

The album is now available in physical form housed in a gorgeous 6-panel EcoWallet designed by Phil Pascuzzo for PepCo Studio.

Click here to purchase the album directly from the band, which will then give you an immediate download of the album while you wait for the physical copy along with three bonus tracks and a slideshow of images set to one of the songs on the album!

If digital is your thing, head to the band’s Bandcamp storefront,
or you can procure it at iTunes,
or you can grab it at Amazon,
or possibly even eMusic (link coming soon), if you’d like!

Oh, “What does it sound like?”, you ask. Stream away!

Check out the free Digital 7″ of “Little Eyes” b/w “Off the Handle (4x4mix)“!

Then, grab the Limited Edition Two-Color Silkscreened Arigato Pack CD version for $5 in the Collar City Records store – while they last!

If you prefer buying digitally, click:
here for iTunes,
here for Amazon mp3,
here for eMusic!

This music is for fans of New Order, Galaxie 500, Sebadoh, the Album Leaf and many more.

Since MMX‘s completion, Paul has been cranking out a series of “Lunch Hour Recordings” that range from strange video game music, to COPS-like reggae jams. Bizarre, but unfolding in a great way.

Stay tuned for more from Mount Mole…

What’s that you say?

Win EVERY single release from Collar City Records in 2010?

How can I do that?

Easy.

Click here to subscribe to the new Collar City Records Email List. (Or sign up in the sidebar to the lower right of this page…)

That’s all you have to do.

Subscribe.

• You’ll get first-hand knowledge about all of our releases planned for this year.

• You’ll get exclusive downloads which will be for email list members only.

• You’ll get the first opportunities to purchase very limited-edition physical copies of our albums before anyone else even knows about them.

• Most importantly, you’ll be entered in the drawing which will award TWO winners every single album we will be releasing this year! (Current count = 6 confirmed, with many more on the way!)

And of course, our undying love and gratitude.

We will be picking the winners on Wednesday, March 3rd – so please subscribe now! All subscribers between Sunday, February 21st and Tuesday, March 2nd at 11:59PM will be entered!

Winners have been notified!

Collar City Records 2010 First Season is ON.

Thank you very much!

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Things might be a little different this time around.

Gone is the two month build-up before an album is released.

We will be announcing the albums as they become available, so please stay tuned to our Twitter, Facebook and RSS Feeds!

Tune in tomorrow (Saturday, February 13th) between 7-7:30PM (EST) on WEXT (97.7FM in the Capital Region or streaming online from their website); Matthew Carefully will be on-air as a part of a pre-game broadcast for the EXIT Dome 3 concert. Matthew will be sharing the air with Chris Wienk and Michael Eck and will be sharing a song from the first Collar City Records release for 2010.

Stay tuned, please…

Follow along with Sean on his blog and Twitter account as he weaves and bobs through a hectic few weeks!

See also: Nippertown