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August 16, 2006
Smooch Records updates
Lots of Smooch news to report!
The debut solo album from Andrew Douglas Rothbard is scheduled for release on Halloween. He has put three years into perfecting this record & it's well worth the wait. It's good folk music at the root but with layers of very trippy psychedelic sounds played backwards over it all. Many folks are fans of his song writing for years when Mr Rothbard fronted Pleasure Forever.
In November Jesus Let Me Down by Slim Cessna's Auto Club will be released as a proper album to stores, rather than being left out of print as a fan-club type release. The band & label agreed it was too good to be left out of print.
Galvanized Yankee by Munly will hopefully be available in Nov. or December. Like Blurry & Munly De Dar He, Munly's third album has been remastered by Bob Ferbrache.
Next year should be the most busy year for Smooch to date:
In January Introducing The Denver Gentlemen will (hopefully) be reissued. The Annik CD will finally be released in early 2007. Hopefully Ten Songs With No Music by Munly will be repressed early in the year as well. Bob Ferbrache is currently remastering Soul Merchants recordings from the original tapes, which will turn into a CD soon.
Another project the label is very excited to be part of is a CD compilation called Local Anesthetic. Local Anesthetic was the name of the label that current owner of Wax Trax (the record store in Denver, not the label in Chicago), Duane Davis, ran in the early 80s. The goal of the compilation will be to contain all of the singles released by Local Anesthetic as well as recordings from other old Denver/Boulder punk bands circa 77-83. So far most of the bands have excitedly given their seal of approval. Duane Davis is writing the liner notes & the CD will be packaged with all sorts of fun photos. The CD is also being released in honor of the 30 year anniversary of Wax Trax, quite a feat in indie music retail! In conjuction with the anniversary--the label is hoping to schedule a concert with some of the bands reforming to play the show.
Last but not least, Munly & the Lee Lewis Harlots are going on another mini-tour. Here are the times & places:
09/09 - Fairplay, CO @ South Park Music Fest
09/14 - Kansas City, MO @ The Record Bar
09/15 - Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club
09/16 - Chicago, IL @ Soth Union Arts
10/28 - Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater
Posted by mike at August 16, 2006 10:32 AM