October Recap: New Store, Records & What's Ahead

Posted on October 30th, 2014

Hope y'all are having a spooky Halloween week. We've been busy over here and just wanted to let you know what we had going on!

AIR001, AIR002, and AIR004 are in the store, and absolutely worth checking out! Newly up for purchase in the store:

AIR001:

Said Goner - S/T 12"

Said Goner is the brainchild of Adam Ciresi, an artist, both visual and musical, that you may know from his heavier bands, Carrion Spring and Logs. This 11-track LP (transparent with black smoke) is in a completely different realm than that of the aforementioned bands, but still maintains the stylistic characteristics that are distinctly Adam's. The amalgamation of folk, punk, emo, grunge, and alt-rock present on this record is nothing short of amazing. An impressively strong debut LP. Go pick one up in the store and get the two unreleased tracks that go along with it!

Released by Ancient Injury, Zegema Beach, and Sieve and Sand.

AIR002

Things Fall Apart/Tall Ships Set Sail/Infro/Shizune - Split 12"

Each of these four bands delivers two brilliant tracks, and they are available here, in a few different variations. An electric blue/pink split was paired with a mixed color lot, and luckily they kept the split system going. We have some really cool split mixed color records, so definitely go and pick one up. Tall Ships and Shizune are both working on new releases, and from the live tidbit I've heard from Shizune, it is going to be amazing. Easily one of my most anticipated records.

AIR004

Monoliths. / WOUNDED KNEE - Split 7"

Dang, talk about riffs. I've been friends with Monoliths. vocalist Kehan for quite some time, and Jake, WOUNDED KNEE's vocalist, is actually one of the people who helped release the Districts split back in 2012. This one was a no brainer. Available as a one side electric pink, one side blue 7" or a 70g black variant, you can pick it up here.

In other news…

The Nous Étions LP, entitled La Manière Noire, should be arriving at my doorstep TOMORROW. I'll post some pics when they get here! I'm so excited about this release, and the fact that I get to see my dear Canadian friends again as they tour down this way in a couple weeks. The vinyl release of Old Soul's first 2011 release should be in our hands soon as well.

Distro

We know that it is looking a little bare with the lonesome Districts / Regret, the Informer Split 12, but much more is on the way. In a few weeks time we will have plenty of savory records and tapes up in there for you to check out.

Logo

The amazingly talented Dave Watt of GIRLFIGHT is working on sketches as we speak. It will be a little different that what you may be accustomed to seeing on the back of AIR releases, but this final edit is really set in the direction I've always wanted. Dave was the one who did the "hand" poster for ALS FEST II, while my friend Justin (who did the current AIR logo) did the "ring" ALS FEST II poster. These guys are great and I can't thank them enough.

On the realm of thanks, I want to extend a huge thank you to Dave over at Zegema Beach. In our chats I had brought up how I'd always wanted to start a label, and he was there to help me do that with a slew of great releases. You're the man, Dave!