Best of: XRA news updates 2009
For some reason, this year, 2009, has seen an abundance of “Best of…” lists popping up all over God’s green internet. Not to mention the influx of people belly-aching all over the place about all of the “Best of…” lists. Either way, we’re always excited when someone likes our records, and we like it even more when they tell other people that they like them! So, in order to celebrate word-of-mouth advertising, the democratization of the internet, and good, independent music we thought we’d publicly congratulate husband&wife and Frank Schweikhardt for making #’s 25 and 11 respectively on Backseat Sandbar‘s “Top Albums of 2009” list! great work fellas!
And, also, too, as a friendly reminder, the few remaining LEM subscriptions will be jumping up to $50 in just a couple of days. get them cheap while you still can.
Buy One, Get One FREE!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! So, in order to celebrate, we’re making you this special seasonal gift offer. Buy one XRA title, and you’ll get another absolutely free! Every XRA order you make during the month of December will get you another XRA title of your choosing (of equal or lesser value) for FREE! The only rule is that it has to be a different title than the one you already ordered.
Just put the name of the free record you want in the comment section of your paypal transaction. It’s just that easy.
LEM on Pitchforkmedia.com
The fine folks over at Pitchforkmedia.com made mention today of our very own Laminar Excursion Monthly series! That’s big news for us because, as you well know, Pitchforkmedia is like our generation’s Rolling Stone + Will it Float? put together. So, today, we kind of feel like what would happen if Cameron Crowe (finally) had a baby with Biff Henderson.
Still a few subscriptions left…get them fast!
XRAfest on the road?
You’ve probably already noticed that fantastic scrolling banner at the top of the page (thanks be unto Nate) but in case you didn’t, here’s the skinny…
XRAfest (sort of) is hitting the road! This weekend, Saturday November 21 to be exact, at Molly Malone’s Irish Pub (3rd floor) in Covington, KY, at 9pm, husband&wife, rodeo ruby love, metavari, alexander the great, and the atriums will be playing a fine rock n roll show to show the greater cincinnati area what XRA has got going on. Come on out and hang!
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.
