Music Video Day

December 15, 2022 by David Norman

Lots of stuff happened in the last few days, all of it leading up to Friday’s ZBR Fest wave #2 announcement and next set of ticket sales. 10 more bands that you’ll be able to see in one place and it’ll drop your jaw, we promise. Be sure to check out https://www.zbrfest.com/ for all of the updates, lineup, and ticket links. Here’s a quick recap of Day 1 from 2022’s fest.

Our final 2022 released dropped on Tuesday as the Farah Rud + Baudelaire split cassette caught fire and proceeded to burn down everyone’s ears. Emo-violence to the max over 76 tapes. Nab!

Thank You Driver were reviewed by (((((OPENmind/SATURATEDbrain))))) and a brand spankin’ new music video for “Dyer Blueprint” was premiered! It also served as a discography review of the band’s three releases and we now have the band’s entire discography on cds in both stores! Click on this text for the full OMSB review/premiere/links/thoughts/gushing/etc.

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Massa Nera continues their onslaught of sick-ass music videos. This newest one is their best yet and for one of the most intense songs on the record “Eyeless Faces”. Splatter 12”s and some tapes still in stock, white/seafoam 12”s sold out, cds sold out, and some tape variants sold out.

Curtains and New Ruins were the subjects of the most recent Out Past the Rings, this one for ZBR138 released on cassette /75. One rare copy was just put back in the store, then it’s gone!!!

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: SAL MONEY = The new LP from this Australian band draws a lot of influence from I Have Dreams and you’ll likely love the shit out of it. We should be getting 5-10 copies in early 2023.

2022 - 07 - 06 /// Cube reveal!

July 06, 2022 by David Norman

Now that the premiere and bands have been revealed, let’s take a look at those CUBE 12”s shall we? These gorgeous beauties go on sale on Thursday at 3pm PST / 5pm CST / 6pm EST. 250 on “Blue Blob on Clear“ and 250 “Ghostly”. Two new tracks from each band expect Joliette (who has one) and Our Future Is An Absolute Shadow (who has five). This is a co-release with Left Hand Label who has about 1/5 of the pressing, we have 3/5 and the bands have the rest. Jam that new Hawak track below!

Cara Neir is finished at the plant and I’m paying for it today so those will be in hand for our July 29th drop. 275 copies across some absolutely ridiculous variants that we’ll start laying out variant pics in about 1-2 weeks.

We’ve also got a co-release with Heathen Hand coming out on the 19th of July. Here’s one of the variants!

Because of our LOFTUS release of ‘Hugs and Drugs’ on 12”LP, we caught the attention of Heavy Heavy Low Low in a post…so I jumped at that opportunity and asked Robbie (vocals) to come on my podcast. He did. It was awesome. We chatted about HHLL and Loftus a bunch. And we’ve still got Loftus copies left of the handmades in both stores! And HHLL is on tour right now! Click on this text to go to the interview.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: SALT MONEY = This Australian band killed me with their two most recent EPs and I know for certain that a full length is in the works!

2021 - 09 - 27 /// Annakarina 12"s go up on Friday at 9am PST

September 27, 2021 by David Norman

First off, hours of work went into (yet again) the CD and Poster pages, which have been updated to include the letter D. Some stuff you’ll find: Daughters (posters), Daniel Striped Tiger (cds), Dispensing Of False Halos (cd), Deadguy (cd), Dead To Fall (poster), Despistado (poster), Dominic (cd), Downfall Of Gaia (cd), Drowningman (poster), etc.

Secondly, those awesome Annakarina 12”s will go up on our bandcamp and for sale (we only have 20!) so be sure to show up at our regular hour -> 9am PST / 11am CST / 12pm EST.

Lastly, the Karloff music video for “Hibiscus” was released this morning (digitals on Oct. 8th). It’s not for those who can’t handle the heavy or violent. Embedded below.

Johnny’s Reco-mmendations: SALT MONEY = Very cool Austrian screamo with the occasional cleans that really work. Features members of Spear Of Schlonginus.