ZBR Fest Wave #1 & Early Bird Tickets

January 10, 2025 by David Norman

ZBR Fest Wave #1 and early bird tickets are live. Holy fucking shit. Click on this text or the pic above to go to ZBRfest.com. 100 early bird deals, 100 regular 2-day passes. Check the slide show below for more info.

The Återstod / Meißel split cassette releases on Monday on a mere 75 tapes, only 40 of which because CanaDave doesn’t understand math. This is gonna sell out pretty quickly I reckon. Amazing stuff from Sweden (Återstod is Henning from Suis La Lune) and Germany. Jam a song from each band below on the new Zampler. Variants pictured above.

Braininavat is the next Tomb Tree release on February 7th, but you can jam the wicked first single premiere from their debut/self-titled EP! Simultaneously chaotic and groovy, the band features members of CityCop, Lowmeninyellowcoats, Griphook, etc. and is for fans of Bravo Fucking Bravo, Daniel Striped Tiger, and Llewelyn. Click on this text or the pic above for the full premiere post.

Operation X-Ray busted out their best Noise Rock & Post Punk episode and that sonuvagun featured our very own Lower Automation and their latest EP ‘Welcome to My Deathbed’ which we still have some cassette copies of!

This Noise Is Ours featured the new Keratin 7” ‘Death & Rebirth’ in their ZBR Roster Review series. These 50 copies are going pretty quickly (this store sold 80% of their copies in 48 hours) so if epic, noodly screamo is your game you better jump on that shit. Click on the pic above or this text for the review. Jam/buy below.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: THEOPHONOS = This new EP is a reworking of old material and it’s fucking amazing.

2025 - 01 - 07 /// Keratin out, distro update on Wednesday!

January 07, 2025 by David Norman

ZBR Fest 2025 is set for May 2nd-4th with Wave #1 and early bird 2-day passes going up on Friday! Should be $60. Pre-show will be extra at another venue in Chicago. First 10 bands are gonna knock some socks off!!!

There’s a hefty distro update going down tomorrow at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST, more info below.

In case you missed it, Keratin’s ‘Death & Rebirth’ 7”EP released this past Friday and as we’ve only got 50 copies for all of North America I would suggest picking one up now. For fans of Via Fondo, Suis La Lune, and Nionde Plagan.

The Återstod / Meißel split cassette releases in one week on Monday January 13th. 75 tapes, only 40 of which we’ll have as the rest went to the bands. In case you didn’t know Återstod is Henning from Suis La Lune’s new screamo solo project! Jam a song from each band below on the new Zampler (tracks 6 and 15)

Distro update tomorrow with Febuary cds (just a few), Youth Novel 12”s from Dairyland, In Loving Memory/Widowdusk split 7”s and more!!! None of these will be going on bandcamp, they’ll all be in our store under the New Items/Specials section (linked here) and the U.S. store (linked here).

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: SAETIA = New Saetia. What is life?

2024 - 05 - 17 /// Lower Automation stream + early-bird variant

May 17, 2024 by David Norman

Quickies:

1 - Some of our U.S. shipping is currently a bit slower than usual as US Dave attempts to keep afloat whilst shipping off a ton of stuff and closing up the rest of our ZBR Fest obligations. Oh, plus his real job and being a dad/husband. Cut that hero some slack <3

2 - ZBR Fest video should be up late June.

Lower Automation’s new EP ‘Welcome To My Deathbed’ was just premiered by Idioteq.com and you can order the tapes now! The premiere also includes a track-by-track breakdown! Here are the variants, links to order the early-bird variant (2nd one, neon blue/black + yellow/orange) are embedded in the premiere which you can access by clicking on this text or the pic above.

CanaDave teamed up with Josh Jakubowski from Neil Perry, Hot Cross, The Now, Joshua Fit For Battle fame to do this second episode of Not Just Fading Away Like The Rest Of Them featuring Endeavor and La Quiete.

Brooklyn Vegan did a great piece on the new self-titled Demersal 12”LP and tacked on a track-by-track breakdown from the band. Click on the text or pic above to read it in full. Jam/buy it below!

Terry Green’s ‘Provisional Living’ is in hand and ready for the June 3rd drop. 300 copies over two variants. This one was definitely worth waiting 10 years for!!! Check out the closer below.

As Mourn Recif gears up to their two shows with Hillsboro and Bok Suna, the promoters are at work so tickets for Victoria show on May 24th is now active, while it seems like the May 25th show in Duncan will be door-only. Click on this text for the Victoria show info.

Click here for the Duncan show info. Watch a live video from their first show below.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: FOXGLOVE = This new EP was shown to me by my bandmate and I got through 10 seconds before immediately downloading it. Fire.

2022 - 02 - 08 /// Hand-Painted Swirl Set #3: The Endening

February 08, 2022 by David Norman

The final hand-painted/swirl dip sale is here at both Zegema Beach stores! Friday at 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST we will drop the biggest and dopest Swirl Set sale ever, with most glowing in the dark!!! Some things to look forward to:

Lytic

Annakarina

The Ultimate Screamo Band

Infant Island

Darkhansen

Second Guessing

Discounted “90% playable” hand-painted/swirled records

Infant Island ‘Sepulcher’ new edition tapes drop on Wednesday! We don’t have many and they’re awesome glitter/etched cassettes with etched cases and an o-card. Very pretty.

We released the first wave of bands and the early bird which has since ALMOST sold out (5 left at the time of this posting). Thursday will be $40 regular-priced two-day tickets although you still save $10, (for each day is $25 aka $50 for both days) and a big second wave of bands will be listed. >>>Linked here<<<

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: BANDS = ?.