GonerFest 10 is fast approaching and two Spacecase bands are playing on Saturday, September 28th: C.C. Riders and Talbot Adams.
SUPER EXTRA SPECIAL NEWS!!! We've pressed a limited GonerFest edition of the C.C. Riders LP on green vinyl. It'll be available from the band on Saturday at Hi Tone if you're keen on grabbing one.
See ya in Memphis!
Click on the pictures for more info on each release.
We are very, very, very excited to bring you our newest release, The Axemen's Sac Tap Nut Jam LP, up for sale now. First 25 orders from our website get the GOLD VINYL version. Click the cover to buy!
For more information on the Axemen, be sure to visit http://theaxemen.org/. The band is currently planning a New Zealand tour in support of Sac Tap Nut Jam.
Spacecase Records is pleased to release Sac Tap Nut Jam—the first new Axemen full length in twenty-one years.
Originally from Christchurch, New Zealand, The Axemen formed in 1983. Shortly afterwards the band solidified around the core of Steve McCabe, Stu Kawowski and Bob Brannigan. (More than two dozen musicians have played in the Axemen, notably Johnny Segovia, George D. Henderson, Mick Elborado and Peter Gutteridge). Initial Axemen releases came out on Steve McCabe's cassette label, Sleek Bott. The Axemen signed to Flying Nun in the mid '80s, releasing the label's first double album, Three Virgins (1986). Like The Swell Maps, The Axemen sound is hard to define—Three Virgins runs the gamut, from country to punk to avant-garde. The Axemen released their second Flying Nun record Derry Legend in 1987. The band put out further cassettes on Sleek Bott, notably Scary (Part III) and Three Rooms (An Elton John Tribute Album), before going on hiatus in the early '90s.
In 2009, The Axemen caught their second wind thanks to Tom Lax at Siltbreeze who reissued the band's cassette-only releases Big Cheap Motel and Scary (Part III). The Axemen toured the United States with Times New Viking the same year. In 2011 The Axemen visited Australia and put out a tour 7"— a label split between McCabe's Sleek Bott and the late Brendon Annesley's Negative Guest List Records. Siltbreeze came through again that year, reissuing Three Virgins on vinyl (original pressings were going for well over fifty dollars).
Sac Tap Nut Jam finds Steve McCabe and Stu Kawowski reuniting with Dragan Stojanovic (who played on 1987's Derry Legend); rounding out the lineup is William Daymond. Recorded in early 2013 in Wellington and Taita, Lower Hutt, Sac Tap Nut Jam—like all Axemen releases—defies easy categorization. There's The Beatles/Dylan pop of Stojanovic's "These Days"; McCabe's post punk-influenced "Doctor's on Speed Dial"; Steve McCabe's inimitable voice and stream-of-consciousness lyric writing comes to the forefront on "Google That Girl".
500 vinyl copies of Sac Tap Nut Jam were pressed up—400 on black, 100 on gold. The Axemen are currently planning a tour of New Zealand in support of Sac Tap Nut Jam.
Sac Tap Nut Jam is the sixth release from Camarillo, California-based Spacecase Records.
We're proud to announce our new webzine, Bored Out! We started it for new interviews, reviews and photos that are independent of our label. Check out Ryan's interview with Talbot Adams, an unreleased shot of UV Race, and a review of the new Oblivians record, Desperation.
Much more to come, so keep checking back!
We've been working like madmen over at Spacecase HQ getting ready for our upcoming release: Axemen's Sac Tap Nut Jam LP. The band put together is short interview about the record for their blog. Visit http://theaxemen.org/2013/06/07/up-front-with-the-yub-nubz/ and check it out!
Image courtesy of Stu Kawowski
Two new 7"s just listed in our mail order for your listening pleasure! We have five copies of the Charlie and the Moonhearts 7" and one is on orange vinyl. First person to pick the record up gets it! Click on the pictures below to buy.
UV Race plays Los Globos in Silverlake, Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, May 4th, 2013. They killed it. We were happy to be in attendance.
All photos by Mor Fleisher-Leach
Recognized as one of the nicest guys in show business, Talbot Adams has played in some of the finest bands out of New Orleans, Memphis and Oxford, Mississippi in his nearly fifteen-years in music. Talbot started his career in New Orleans, playing bass for scene mainstays THE ROYAL PENDLETONS (2000-2002). In 2001 he played bass and sang lead and backup for THE DARKEST HOURS (lineup included Peg O'Neill from The Gories and Jason Craft of The Persuaders). Talbot teamed up with Eric Oblivian in THE DUTCH MASTERS and had the incredible honor of playing bass for the late Paul Wine Jones for two shows.
Talbot fronted the fine JENNY JEANS from 2002 to 2006. The band played GonerFest 2 and appears on the accompanying CD/DVD. Talbot's last band THE BLACK AND WHITES wound down last year. The group was incredibly productive, releasing singles on Jay Reatard's Shattered Records as well as Douchemaster, FDH and P. Trash. Recently Talbot Adams has released material under his own name where he records himself and plays all of the instruments. An amazing singer-songwriter/power-pop EP was released by Douchemaster in 2010 entitled Jack and Jesse. "Red Diamonds" b/w "Not Even Europe" is the second solo release from Talbot. It's the fifth release from Camarillo, California-based Spacecase Records.
Limited to 300 copies on black vinyl.