Announcing, Laminar Excursion Monthly
Laminar Excursion Monthly is a 3″ subscription service starting January 2010 and made available through the collaboration of Crossroads of America Records and Flannelgraph Records. The intimacy of its sparsity and the intentionality of its medium promise to make this an even more fulfilling investment than a jelly-of-the-month club.
Subscribers will receive two new 3″ cds at the beginning of every month in the year 2010. A unique box will be sent with the initial shipment. Even if the rest of your world falls apart, you can still count on having two new compact discs arriving to your mailbox each month for the entire year.
Each disc will hold 20 minutes of brand new, unreleased material from the artists. The joint effort is bringing together the rosters of both labels as well as such notable artists as Richard Swift, Damien Jurado, Cotton Jones, J. Tillman, Desolation Wilderness, Bexar Bexar, Danny Grody (of Tarentel and The Drift), Saxon Shore, and a host of others.
Laminar Excursion Monthly will be limited to 100 subscribers.
The yearly subscription fee is $45.00 until January 1st. If any subscriptions are still available at that point, the fee raises to $50.00.
Subscriptions will be available here at www.xrarecords.com beginning Monday, November 2nd.
Pre-Orders for Be One of Us and Hear No Noise
Here’s the deal – we’re now taking pre-orders for METAVARI‘s brand new full-length album Be One Of Us And Hear No Noise. Not only does preordering the record secure your place in metvari/xra history as one of the first people to have this beautiful record in their hands, but anyone who preorders the album (orders placed before 8/18/09) will also receive a FREE copy of Metavari’s debut Ambling EP!!
Seriously, get them while they last.
also, in conjuction with the release of their new record the guys in Metavari are curating an art exhibit in Fort Wayne NEXT WEEKEND! More info on the band’s MySpace page.
Rodeo Ruby Love on Tour
Rodeo Ruby Love is hitting the road, once again, this week with good buddies Traveling By Sea. These shows are only in the midwest, and are going to be tons of fun. Don’t miss ’em. And please, help spread the word! (maybe you could link to this?)
Metavari Signs to XRA
XRA is very, very pleased to announce officially that we’ve just struck a deal to release Metavari‘s debut full-length album, Be One Of Us And Hear No Noise. The fellows in Metavari have been friends of ours for a while now, and after a few shows with them on husband&wife tours, and hearing the mixes of their new [fantastic] record, it became obvious that we should be working together. Metavari has also had the pleasure of being exclusively invited to participate in the relaunch of the famed muxtape.com.
Chemic on LaundroMatinee
Neat! XRA’s south-of-the-Ohio brethren in Chemic recently did a video session for the esteemed laundromatinee.com, and it has been posted here. Take a stroll through the other sessions on the site to see a ton of cool stuff.
We’ve also opened up pre-orders for Alexander the Great’s Faces Change, coming out 5/19/09. I previously posted an incorrect date. It’s okay now. All is well. Also, this is pretty funny.
Official Release Date and Release Shows for Faces Change
Hot on the heels of our Starflyer 59 reissue (which is selling like a certain proverbial breakfast treat), we’re thrilled to announce that Alexander the Great‘s long-awaited full length, Faces Change, finally has an official release date: May 19, 2009. The guys are celebrating with a release party on May 5th at 9pm at Bloomington’s Bluebird. Also on the bill is the ever-fabulous Mock Orange.
Pre-Orders for Starflyer 59’s Silver
Exciting news! We now have a release date for our vinyl reissue of Starflyer 59’s classic debut LP, Silver: March 31. We’ve started taking preorders. It’s only $15 (international orders have an extra $3 shipping cost, so please select the right option in the drop-down menu). Visit the catalog to place your preorder now! You will not regret this decision.
Dark Dark Woods + Husband&Wife on Daytrotter
Today brings the release of the third full-length from Husband&Wife, Dark Dark Woods. Check out streaming MP3s and video of a couple of the songs below, and check out the recent Husband&Wife Daytrotter session.
