New Mad Trucker Gone Mad song for mp3 of the month in January
To start 2009 we are giving away a brand new and topical track from Mad Trucker Gone Mad entitled "The Land of the Fee". From the desk of Del Monte Carlo, founder, guitarist and singer for Mad Trucker Gone Mad:
The song “Land of the Fee” was written in April of 2007 under the tongue and cheek working title “Magical Happy Land”, but we couldn’t figure out an arrangement so it just kind of bounced around from rehearsal to rehearsal and never got off the ground. The song is sung from the point of view of the fee lusting re-financier, shady car dealer, unscrupulous mortgage broker, title and payday loaner or any of the multitudes of greed driven quasi-criminal individuals that have made our country what it is today. Broke. The hero of the song isn’t the only villain. It’s the foolish consumer, living on credit cards, cash advances, home equity loans, etc. Living well beyond their means, they don’t know it yet, but are on their way to default, foreclosure, and repossession. Towards the end of the summer of 2008 when financial giants started dropping like flies and major industries were going belly up, the timing was perfect to put this song together and record it. Mark at DNA Studios did a great job engineering and helping produce this song. We’re very happy with the way it turned out.
You can download the mp3 throughout the month of January from the Crustacean Records music page, from our myspace page or by clicking on the button in the upper left hand corner of this very webpage.
2008-11-11
New Giraffes album has arrived
Prime Motivator is finally out worldwide today. Today the Giraffes play on Radio K in the Twin Cities before destroying Big V's in St. Paul. You can listen to the performance archived on the web right here. You can also preview the CD by checking out all the press they are getting and you can view on the web from the likes of Metal Injection, Aversion.com, Blender
and CMJ just to name a couple.
2008-07-13
Drown Out The Daylights DVD presale
By the weekend we will begin shipping our first mailorders for our long awaited DVD project, Crustacean Records: Drown Out The Daylights, which can be bought in stores beginning on Tuesday July 22nd. In the
Crustacean webstore we will have it on sale for only $12 until August 4th. That price includes shipping in the US and Canada and we will send along a free label sampler. Go right right here to order a copy right now.
Also there is a web trailer available for viewing if you wish to check it out before buying. The trailer can be viewed and downloaded in hi-resolution at the Hinckley Design website or viewed in its youtube format right below.
Don't miss the parties to celebrate the release. The premiere party takes place this Saturday, July 19th at the Majestic Theater screening the main feature of the DVD followed by musical performances by Mad Trucker Gone Mad, The Skintones, The Gusto and Screamin Cyn Cyn & The Pons. The DVD release party at the High Noon Saloon on Tuesday July 22nd at 6 PM showing the DVD extra features and a rock and roll intermission set from Ladybeard.
Then on Saturday July 26th we have our Minnesota premiere party at Stasiu's Place showing the main feature and then live sets from Droids Attack, Awesome Snakes, Ouija Radio, Birthday Suits and Drunk Drivers.
2008-07-04
The Way It Is
The debut full length album by The Gusto is at our offices and ready to ship. You can go direct to the catalog page in the Crustacean Records webstore right here to purchase it for $12 which includes shipping anywhere in the US and Canada. Join us on Saturday July 5th for the Gusto’s CD release party taking place at the Corral Room in Madison. Also our local alternative weekly paper, The Isthmus, is hosting a free download of “Auburn” from the The Way It Is at this webpage
2008-03-20
SXSW Footage
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Molotov Lounge last Thursday, visited Crustacean reps at the Indie Village or saw any of our bands in Austin last week. We got a great response our first year having a formal presence at the conference. Hinckley Design was there to capture footage and edited together small segments of The Gusto and Screamin Cyn Cyn & The Pons for your viewing pleasure.
2008-03-08
Birthday Suits/Peelander-Z split 7 inch ready to ship
The vinyl arrived last week and we are assembling the packages today. Shipping them early this week arriving before next weekend to most customers. $6 postpaid anywhere in the US and Canada with additional copies of the 7 inch only $3 extra. Foreign orders add $3 shipping per order. You can order right now on the catalog page. They will also be available soon at B-Side Records, The Exclusive Company, Mad City Music, Earwax Records, CheapO Records, Interpunk, Electric Fetus, Extreme Noise and others.
Don't forget to attend the release party on Thursday the 13th at SXSW if you happen to find yourself in Austin next week.
2008-02-28
Crustacean Records invited to Indie Village at SXSW
Crustacean Records is proud to announce its participation in the 2008 Indie Village at the South by Southwest Music Conference and Festival on March 13, 14 and 15. The Indie Village sponsored by NAIL Distribution and takes place in the Austin Convention Center as part of the SXSW Music Trade Show and Exhibition. The Indie Village facilitates visibility and a presence for independent labels at the trade show as well as providing a place to meet with representatives from independent record labels.
Representatives from Crustacean Records have committed to be available at the Indie Village from 1 to 2 PM on Thursday the 13th, 3 to 4 PM on Friday the 14th and from 2:30 to 3:30 PM on Saturday the 15th. Those are the base minimum hours, but Crustacean reps will likely be present before and after their scheduled time. We are very honored to be invited to this year’s Indie Village and to be placed on equal footing with some of the biggest independent labels in existence such as Bloodshot, Ryko, Saddle Creek, Relapse and many others.
2007-08-26
Things Fall Apart Opening Night at the Talent Show. Live available on iTunes
The live web only Things Fall Apart release is now available for on iTunes and will be on other download and streaming services as well. Fourteen songs recorded in 2006 and 2007 at the High Noon Saloon and Inferno Nightclub in Madison as well as three song broadcast on WORT 89.9 FM. It features two unrelased new songs and energy galore.
You can bring it up in your iTunes by clicking on the phobos link below
Or you can hear samples of it on the CD Baby page for the release.
2007-04-11
Screamin' Target Heart Rate ready for mailorders
This Wednesday afternoon we will have copies of Screamin' Cyn Cyn & The PonsScreamin' Target Heart Rate at our office and be ready to fill mailorders. The Pons second album, and their Crustacean Records debut, featuring 20 tracks full of sharp humor, catchy songwriting and their trademark cabaret punk madness. Such well loved staples from their live shows as 20% Gay, Set the Table, Pedros, Slumber Party and many more. Vastly improved fidelity over the debut record with production from Wendy Schneider at Madison's renowned Coney Island Studios.
We are selling copies of Screamin' Target Heart Rate in the Crustacean Records catalog for only $12 postpaid anywhere in the US and Canada. You can also get the new album this weekend on the Screamin' Cyn Cyn & The Pons CD release minitour with the Mathematicians. They play Minneapolis on Wednesday the 11th at the Hexagon with Ouija Radio as well. Thursday the 12th they play the Beat Kitchen in Chicago. Friday the 13th they play Madison at the King Club also with Ouija Radio and Saturday the 14th at Uncle Festers in Bloomington, Indiana.
2007-01-28
Fatal/Error available for order
We just got copies of the second Droids Attack album at Crustacean offices. We can't say enough about the new record. Both the blitzkrieg rockers as well as the sprawling metal epics. Get it delivered to your doorstep for only $12 postpaid anywhere in the US and Canada. As of today our webstore and Droids Attack shows is the only way it can be acquired.
Speaking of which come out to Droids Attack CD release party on Saturday February 10th at the Annex in Madison, Wisconsin. SIV and Thundersnake are opening.
2007-01-04
End of Year Accolades
2006 was quite a year for our little label. A dozen additions to our catalog in as many months and all records we really like. We lost or about to lose a few this year such as SevenOneFive, echo-static and Below the Sound whose last show in Albuquerque on January 12th. On the flipside we saw the rebirth of Mad Trucker Gone Mad as well as new relationships blossom with Awesome Snakes, Hazard County Girls, IfIHadAHiFi, John Kruth, Ouija Radio and Rocket Fuel is the Key.
Thanks you to everyone who supported Crustacean Records and it's wonderful bands last year. Whether you came out to a show, paid for a download, played us on the radio, requested something from us on the radio, bought a CD or wrote something nice about our music in the press. Especially if you did that last one.
Speaking of which our artists have been receiving their share of praise in end of year retrospectives. Ouija Radio’s Oh No…Yes! Yes! was picked at about.com as one of the ten best albums of the year. The City Pages in the Twin Cities picked Awesome Snakes Venom as one of the 10 best albums this year, so did Pulse of the Twin Cities and it was voted #22 by KUOM’s DJ’s, staff, volunteers and listeners.
2006-12-01
John Kruth Eva Destruction in office and available for web order
Just arrived today here in Madison and ready to ship with domestic orders arrriving to customers by mid-week. Shipping is included for orders in the US and Canada and every purchase includes a free label sampler. Everybody not living in the US and Canada add $3 per order and $2 for each additional item. Go to the general Crustacean Records catalog or to the Eva Destruction page.
2006-11-01
This is Science!
That is the name of the new Skintones album; their third full length on Crustacean Records. This is Science continues to refine their unholy trifecta of punk, metal and dark humor with just enough pop and classic rock sensibilities to appeal to the masses. It features hard rocking staples of the Skintones live show such as SLA, Freak on Me, Down South, Aegean Breeze and others.
It comes out officially on Saturday November 11th with a CD release party at the High Noon Saloon in Madison. An amazing four band bill with Cats Not Dogs, Bible of the Devil and the Pimps opening. Only $6 for a 21 and up show starting at 10 PM. Be there!
2006-10-11
Oh No...Yes! Yes! out now
Finally Ouija Radio's amazing third album is released in stores as of Tuesday the 10th in addition to its previous availability on this very website and via digital download sites like iTunes and its many cousins. It is aleady burning up the CMJ radio charts with it being #11 on the Top Adds chart last week and a debut ranking of #108 in CMJ Top 200 chart this week. As good as the record is, it can only go higher. Another thing to check out is this well written review on about.com for the new album.
Don't forget to come out to support Ouija Radio this weekend for their record release/tour kick off shows in St. Paul, Minnesota on Friday the 13th at the Turf Club and in Madison, Wisconsin at the High Noon Saloon on Saturday the 14th. After that Ouija Radio will be touring North American until mid-December. Please check Ouija Radio's myspace or Crustacean Records myspace for the most up to date tour info.
2006-08-22
We Will Bury You: A Tribute to Killdozer available for preorder!
We will finally have our long awaited Killdozer double disc tribute CD, We Will Bury You, in our offices at the end of next week and begin shipping them as soon as we do. With that in mind it is officially time to begin preorders. As a special preorder sale we will be selling copies for only $12 postpaid in the continental US until the official release date of Tuesday September 5th. Go right over here to order it.
On September 5th they go up to their permenant price of $14 which still is a steal for a action packed double disc with nice packaging. And the music you ask, well we got two previously unreleased Killdozer tunes in the form of a bad ass cover of Disco Inferno and a Butch Vig remix of the old Killdozer classic, King of Sex. Also features 26 Killdozer covers from Red Max, Powerwagon, Cash Audio, Kung Pao, Mt. Shasta, Season to Risk, Scrid, The Ed Gein Fan Club ft. Tom Hazelmyer, Leopold, Elvis '77, Ninja School, Haze XXL ft. Paddy Costello, Meatjack, Brainerd, Wendy Bugatti, No Moss, The JJ Paradise Players Club, Gorch Fock, Corruption is King, Droids Attack, Rocket Fuel is the Key, Hunchback, IfIHadAHiFi, Sppedloader, The Skintones, echo-static and liner notes by Butch Vig.
What better way is there to celebrate the upcoming Killdozer reunion show at the Touch and Go 25th Anniversary Party coming up on Saturday September 9th? We are doing a big mailing for We Will Bury You so look for upcoming glowing reviews and request tracks at your local college or community radio station.
It is distributed to stores in North America via Carrot Top and Electric Fetus in North America and by Sonic Redezvous in Europe. We are also to do direct sales to individual stores at wholesale for multiple copies. We Will Bury You can be downloaded exclusively thru iTunes beginning in September.
2006-07-07
Awesome Snakes "Venom" CD available for preorder. Right now!
That's right ladies and gents, we got Venom arriving in Madison on Thursday and we want to ship a bunch of them out to you folks that Friday the 14th. $12 postpaid in the U.S. for a wonderful, catchy and unique blast of weirdo pop garage punk.
Come out Midwest peeps to support the Snakes at their CD release parties. Friday the 14th they are in Madison at the King Club playing with fellow Crustacean act Mad Trucker Gone Mad. Sunday the 16th they are doing their thing at the Note in Chicago. The weekend after on Friday the 21st they do their hometown CD release party at the Turf Club in St. Paul with a full bill of great of Twin Cities locals.
2006-05-02 Crustacean Records is proud to announce the release of the new Things Fall Apart 4 song CD EP entitled We Are All… coming out on Friday May 12th. That night Firecracker Studios presents the Things Fall Apart CD release show at the Inferno Nightclub on the north side of Madison. Showtime is 10 PM for the release show and Gusto and Straight to Your Brain are the opening acts.
We just added it to the top of our new catalog for only $9 postpaid in the continental US. If you want to hear a couple songs we have them streaming at Crustaceans Record's MySpace site and and you can download one of the songs, Mired in Lockstep, on our music page on this website.
2006-04-02
Hot Nuggets is here!
We got copies our IfIHadAHiFi and Modern Machines split release, Hot Nuggets at the office and ready to ship. You won't find it in stores until the street date of Tuesday April 18th, but you can order it from our catalog and get it well before the 18th.
It is available on CD for $12 and as a breathtaking and great sounding 12" vinyl picture disc for $14. Those prices are post paid in the continental US and include a free Crustacean records label sampler with 23 tracks.
Hot Nuggets release parties:
4/13 New Moon Coffee House in Oshkosh with Modern Machines, IfIHadAHiFi and Southerly
4/14 early show 8th Note Coffee House in Milwaukee, all ages show with Modern Machines, E=MC Hammer, Electric Pants and IfIHadAHiFi
4/14 late show Onopa Brewing Company in Milwaukee, 21 and up with SevenOneFive, The Awesome Snakes, IfIHadAHiFi and Modern Machines
4/15 UW Madison Memorial Union-Rathkellar, free and all ages show with The Awesome Snakes, IfIHadAHiFi and Modern Machines
2006-01-17
We are proud to announce that our friends at Carrot Top in Chicago have picked up Killdozers The Last Waltz on CD and red vinyl for national distribution. Carrot Top is a great distributor whose main niche are small chains and little indie stores, which is exactly where we want to be anyhow. Long story short, start asking for Killdozers The Last Waltz at all the finest independent record stores and if it is not in stock they should be able to order it for you.
