To update or not to update

I've been able to talk myself out of updating this blog or whatever for over a year.  Today, however, I feel compelled to update.  First, there was the English Singles 7".   The band still had some copies the last time I saw 'em, but I'm all out -- you can still stream it over here along with some other stuff.  Among the other stuff is a live cassette of Stockton, CA's Godspeed 209 playing on KDVS in Davis, CA.  Finally, I got the chance to co-release Monster Treasure's debut six-song tape.

Don't know what's next, but it will probably show up either here or here before it shows up here.

Bricks, Mortars, and webstores

You can now get the Saturdays record from Bright Ideas at Thrillhouse Records in San Francisco, 1-2-3-4 Go! Records in Oakland, and Phono Select in Sacramento (Phono has the Dirty Marquee 7" and some Bright Ideas 7"s, too)!

Also, I put up some new items in the Squirmy webstore. You can now get 7"s from Sopors, Homeowners, and Bright Ideas, as well as the Dirty Marquee tape and CD-R.

More to come...

Saturdays available through Slumberland

A limited quantity of Bright Ideas' Saturdays and the Turning Tide LP is now available through Slumberland Records!

Love for Dirty Marquee from MRR!

In the latest issue of Maximum Rocknroll, the contributors list their Top Tens from 2011. While the Dirty Marquee 7" didn't quite make the Top Ten of any single contributor, two of them (Fred Thrillhouse and Langford) both gave Dirty Marquee a mention. Always rad to find that others appreciate that record!

You can pick up issue 345 of the venerable zine here to read about all sorts of great punk records from the last year (and an interview with the stellar Terrible Feelings)! Or pick it up if you see it in person.

Bright Ideas - Saturdays and the Turning Tide

Now available—description coming soon.

Download Saturdays and the Turning Tide

Buy the LP

Also available at Phono Select in Sacramento!

Dirty Marquee - Self-titled 7"

   I kept seeing Dirty Marquee play when I moved back to Northern California in 2009. I liked them more each time I saw them, which had a bit to do with the fact that they kept getting better each time I saw them. Tony and Gaylen told me that they had recorded some material, and directed me to it online. I thought that the songs were great. I offered to do a 7", and this here record finally materialized in 2011 after about six months of various struggles.
   I have never been quite sure how to describe Dirty Marquee. Though I would consider them pop punk, I have always been a bit hesitant to tag 'em with that because the connotations that label has with all the Ramones clones and whatnot. They are more pop insofar as they have melody, but they are still rough around the edges. Lyrically, I think my friend Daryl put it best when he said the songs were from the "street-level perspective of a crumbling society." Tony says that some of the songs he scribed are just fast country songs. I think that they are closer to power pop than country, but you can make the call for yourself.

Download the Dirty Marquee 7"

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