Hi everyone! Happy Holidays, or anti-holidays, or whatever best suits the way you roll at this time of year!
2011 is drawing to a close but we are making sure not to go out of it quietly. For starters, we’ll have AE08, Yip Deceiver/ Kishi Bashi, Split 7″ shipping (as of next week) out to all of you who can’t make it to the upcoming Yip Deceiver shows. Pick that up here. (Or you can wait til next march and grab it “on the streets” but that lacks the fun period of being ahead of the curve and openly judging your friends.) Oh yeah, and those upcoming Yip Deceiver shows? You should go. Here’s the rundown:
12-17 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
12-18 – Phoenix, AZ – The Rhythm Room
12-19 – Tucson, AZ – Plush
12-21 – Austin, TX – The Mohawk
12-22 – Corpus Christi, TX – Threads
12-23 – Houston, TX – Rudyard’s Pub
12-24 – Mobile, AL – Ugly Sweater Dance Party @ Alabama Music Box
12-31 – Athens, GA – Go Bar
01-10 – New York, NY – Piano’s
01-11 – Philadelphia, PA – Fire
01-12 – Washington, DC – the Velvet Lounge
01-13 – Baltimore, MD – the Metro Gallery
01-14 – Richmond, VA – Strange Matter
It doesn’t stop there, though. We’ve also got a digital holiday compilation around the corner with some treats from our catalog and some new stuff you haven’t seen yet. Keep your eyes on the site for the release, which will come shortly. As this article is being written we are doing all manner of digital stuff and compiling. You know, fancy music business stuff. It’s all kinds of glamorous.
And much as the string of Yip Deceiver’s dates runs into 2012, so do all of our plans. We have a full release schedule coming up this year. Here’s the stuff you can be looking for:
AE09 DENA, Boyfriend 7″single w/ download, March
AE10 Kishi Bashi full length CD/digital, April
AE11 Yip Deceiver full length Vinyl/CD/digital, May
AE30 Aerobic International summer compilation, June/July
AE12 Lonely Paul EP, August
AE13 Yip Deceiver EP, September
We’ll probably add some things, probably move some things and some crazy technology will be introduced that changes the way we do some other thing. So, the best strategy is probably to just come by here all the time and buy things. Then, once you’ve purchased the whole catalog, you can start buying it for friends. Right when you think the whole adventure is over, we’ll release something else. Everyone wins.
At any rate, that’s a quick rundown of the things we’ve got in store this month and beyond. Thanks to all of you for making it out to shows and buying things and supporting the wonderful people who make this label a label. We’ll be posting free mix tapes for downloads in the coming weeks and keeping you up to speed on all the stuff we have going on. Stay tuned.