Did you hear? Sundowner - Four One Five Two demos

Sundowner is Chris McCaughan’s solo project when he’s not busy with the Lawrence Arms. I’m guessing most of you have already heard his debut record, Four One Five Two. If you haven’t, let me tell you about it. It’s a mostly acoustic record with touches of viola, keys, and background vocals. Do you own a shitty car that can barely start on a cold Chicago morning? I bet you have this album in your CD player.

These are four demos that appeared on his myspace before Four One Five Two. They all come from the debut, and as expected, they are rougher. The guitar sounds thin, but surprisingly, there are background vocals. All told, these demos are pretty good- a must-hear for Lawrence Arms and Sundowner aficionados. I must add that I downloaded this from LawrenceArms.org, and you can find much more cool shit over there.

Get it here!

Vinyl news #2 - Slapstick, the Broadways

Asian Man Records is repressing a lot of OOP records. In fact, they're putting some records that have never been pressed into the market. I just purchased Alkaline Trio's Maybe I'll Catch Fire and Alkaline Trio on red/white and beige marble, respectively. Now, they're repressing the records that got it all started. Slapstick's 25 songs is my favorite ska-punk record. I've wanted a copy for a long time. I have an OG copy of Broken Star, but the new gray marble press is pretty cool anyway. Also, Broken Van got pressed, but I own that on cd. (I own all those Trio records on CD, but I'm kind of a sucker for the old trio stuff.)

Also! The first two Lawrence Arms records have been pressed twice! I might put photos of those up here if I can get home to take pictures. I bought the second presses.

Buy records here!