Just ahead of btv’s 30th Anniversary, which happens this summer, we have 3 important new vinyl releases. Jetenderpaul’s The Woolen Spires has always been one of the favorite releases in the label’s history. This was originally a co-release with our good friends in Southern California, Velvet Blue Music. Now, so many years later, The Woolen Spires joins The Modal Lines on vinyl. Post-graduate indie pop, with influences ranging from Guided By Voices, The Apples In Stereo, Kleenex Girl Wonder, to Magnetic Fields. This was bedroom pop at its finest, recorded in bedrooms to a digital 8-track, beautifully lo-fi. On coke bottle green vinyl. “Weird and wired without withholding the jams at the expense of some aloof artiness, The Woolen Spires is a mix-and-match, cut-and-paste affair of home recorded oddities and lo-fi rockers, the latter certain to get the toes tappin’ and the former serving to get the head a-scratchin’.  These are perfect pop songs forever gone astray once they leave the boys’ heads and become ensconced on the recorder.  Gems, all.”– Steve Brydges, The Copper Press In the Summer of 2024, I went with Soporus to San Jose, Costa Rica. Soporus played two shows, the first with the excellent A…Continue readingSpring 2026 Releases

In early 2020, HUNTINGTONS were set to release their 8th full-length album, ¡Muerto, Carcel, O Rocanrol!, their 1st in nearly 17 years. They were able to play two album release shows before the pandemic postponed their support effort for the album. Now 5 years later, ¡Muerto, Carcel, O Rocanrol! Renacido, is ready for issue. It’s this full-length album completely remixed by Perry Leenhouts at Point Break Sound (Randells, The Windowsill, Travoltas, Geoff Palmer, The Apers) and remastered with update cover art. The Renacido version finds HUNTINGTONS reborn and ready to bring these songs to the masses in a refreshed way. ¡Muerto, Carcel, O Rocanrol! Renacido! is a career defining album that will bring together old and new fans, symbolizing the possibilities that exist after nearly 30 years. “Muerto” (Dead) is where the band could have been, had they given up on their career completely in 2005, when they played a “final show”. “Carcel” (Jail) is where they would be had they continued using the same 3 chords, playing the same small clubs, covering endless amounts of Ramones songs and never branching out or taking risks. “O Rocanrol” (Or Rock-N-Roll) is where they are: doing what they want, when they want,…Continue readingHUNTINGTONS : ¡Muerto, Carcel, O Rocanrol! Renacido!

Burnt Toast Vinyl is excited to announce the first-ever vinyl release of Stereo Girl by the New Jersey band Element 101. Stereo Girl was originally recorded in May 2000 at The Blasting Room in Ft. Collins, Colorado and produced by Bill Stevenson, Stephen Egerton, and Jason Livermore. The album has been remastered from the original analog tapes by Jason Livermore. Stereo Girl is pressed on 180 gram vinyl and will be available in two limited variants, Jersey Shore Blue & Pink Noise. The album artwork was redesigned by Matt Traxler and includes rare photos from the studio. The Stereo Girl LP will be available for purchase through the Burnt Toast Vinyl Online Store. Additionally, limisted Element101 Stereo Girl T-shirts and prints are available.