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We’ll have a new Yndi Halda t-shirt available in the online store a little later today. We should have them in time for holiday orders in a wide range of sizes. If you’re in the Philadelphia area, Unwed Sailor will be here on Thursday night, 6 December at the Khyber. This Will Destroy You is with them. They’re also in Wilkes-Barre on Friday, 7 December and New York City on 8 December. I’ll be at their show in Raleigh on 10 December, too. We’re wrapping up the final details for Unwed Sailor’s Little Wars. Everything is on track for the 18 March 2008 release date. We now have a final master for the cd and will be cutting LPs very shortly. It’s sounding great. Bosque Brown have been working hard with Chris Flemmons to finish their record. Artwork for the upcoming Soporus album 24,110 is happening this week. We’re working on some interesting package for this one, too. We’ll see how it all pans out. :::scott:::

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I made a big dent in the order backlogs. We have Unwed Sailor The Faithful Anchor and The Marionette and the Music Box LPs back in stock and shipping pretty quickly. The Starflyer 59 Ghosts of the Future boxes are arriving very soon and they look super awesome. Really. I’m excited. Tomorrow night, the Commissioner, Cakeator, Nicole, and I are going to see Max Richter play as part of the Wordless Music series. Max Richter’sThe Blue Notebooks is a life-changing record. Seriously. Little Wars is being mastered right now. Bosque Brown are working hard to finish the recording of their new full-length this week. :::scott:::

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Unwed Sailor finished mixing Little Wars. The album is 9 songs which clock in at 42 1/2 minutes. The 2xLP version will include a two bonus tracks, one remix and one track recorded as part of the Little Wars sessions. This new full-length has been a concept for several years, the band playing a track or two as part of their live set. “Copper Islands” is a building block for the album and has been part of the live show over the last few years. Little Wars is the band’s most ambitious and complex release yet, building on melodic lessons and recording techniques learned over the last several albums. Not content to follow up with their energetic 2000 debut full-length, The Faithful Anchor, with a mere sequel, the band recorded 2003’s The Marionette and the Music Box, challenging its fan base with a Peter and the Wolf inspired, classically influenced fairytale. In 2006, Unwed Sailor released the Circles ep and The White Ox full-length that further departed from their live performance sound, exploring Eno/Lanois ambient recording techniques, resulting in a brooding, gloomy ambient opus wrapped in southwestern imagery. Little Wars reflects both the depth and breadth that Unwed Sailor has…Continue reading