Katie Kate - "Buffalo"

"Save me, I can transform you..." Grit-fem tones, self-mutilation, teleportation, a final attempt at propagating a nearly extinct species, memory loss, pyromania, human sacrifice, and a transcendental migration over heavy and haunting pop synths and a powerful hip hop beat. "Buffalo" is Written, Produced and Performed by: Katie Kate

Fresh Espresso - Bossalona - Available June 5th

Fresh Espresso's New Album "Bossalona" will be out June 5th!!! The hard copies of the album will also be available in advance at Sasquatch Music Festival. So if you have a ticket make sure you pick yourself up a copy!

This album has taken a lot of hard work. Half the album was recorded in downtown Seattle and the other Half was recorded in Niles Michigan overlooking the Saint Joseph river and nature galore. It's a triumphant, fun, sexy, epic record, but I think my father said it best when he noted that "It has a sub-plot telling of a struggle between self and celebrity." I think pops is right.

Anyway, mark your calendars cuase Bossalona is coming soon!

-P Smoov

Don't Talk To The Cops! - Let's Quit

DtttC's new album is out today!! You can go to one of these fine retailers and buy it or order one online and get free shipping. CLICK HERE



Alive & Well (Capitol Hill)
705 East Pike Street

Everday Music (Capitol Hill)
1523 10th Avenue

Easy Street Records (West Seattle)
4559 California Avenue SW # 200

Easy Street Records (Queen Anne)
20 Mercer Street

Sonic Boom (Ballard)
2209 NW Market Street

Singles Going Steady (Belltown)
2219 2nd Avenue # C

Wall of Sound (Capitol Hill)
315 East Pine Street

DON'T TALK TO THE COPS!

I am happy to announce that we have a new addition to Out For Stardom! Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome DON'T TALK TO THE COPS! to our family and imprint. It was pretty much a no brainer for us to get behind this project which embraces everything that we are about: being original, pushing boundaries, and grinding non-stop. DtttC! are a part of Mash Hall and there has always been a sense of family and community within, which is exactly how we operate. Over the past few years, it has been great to get to know them as not only musicians, but also as people. In the ever increasing roles of the do-it-yourself artist, they are a great addition to our roster as we look to expand and grow in the future. A lot of the best music coming out of Seattle is a member of OFS and we are going to continue to bring attention and support to those bands that we think you should be paying attention to. Go hard, party smart. Love Family, indeed.



Don’t Talk To The Cops! have just finished recording tracks for their 2nd album, Let's Quit, due out on Valentine's Day 2012. The release pairs deceptively simple lyrics, themes, and break-beats with heart-attack inducing electro-punk-hop production. Let's Quit showcases the talents of djblesOne and emecks along with guests OCnotes (Metal Chocolates), Rachel Ratner (Partman Parthorse/Butts), and Hollywood Holt (Chocolate Industries). djblesOne is an accomplished dj/producer whose influential productions and DJ mixes have helped shape the last decade of b-boy culture. His partner in crime, emecks, clocks in at only half his height but her larger than life style and pro dance moves bring outsized attitude to this dynamic duo. Their combined dance vision is abetted by hype man El Mizell, providing backup vocals and pops of energy to an already tight live setup.



DON'T TALK TO THE COPS! - Swag Treated Treated Swag by djblesOne

To help celebrate this glorious day, please enjoy a free download & video of the song "Swag Treated Treated Swag" off of Let's Quit. This song is especially meaningful to all of us because it was the theme song on the last Mad Rad/Mash Hall tour. Literally every night after leaving the venue, all 7 of us would pile into the stretched out white van, turn this on to full blast, and bang our heads straight for the entirety of the song. Most nights, it stayed on loop until we arrived at the hotel and it was an ultimate pick me up for whoever needed one. We hope it does the same for you!



Let's Quit release show is Saturday, February 4th at The Baltic Room with Portland duo Purple & Green.

Lil Woody's will be celebrating the album by adding a Don't Talk To The Cops! "Murderburger" to the menu from February 4th through February 13th.

Don't Talk To The Cops! Let's Quit will be available on iTunes and in stores on Tuesday, February 14th.

Don't Talk To The Cops! Let's Quit
TRACKLIST
1. I Like Nerds (feat. Rachel Ratner)
2. Hey... Don't Eat Those
3. Murderburger Official Motion Picture Trailer
4. Murderburger (feat. OC Notes & Rachel Ratner)
5. I Don't Like Rachel
6. LAOS! LAOS! LAOS! LAOS!
7. Swag Treated Treated Swag
8. Tip Toe Right By Em
9. Girls Buy Me Drinks Remix (feat. Hollywood Holt)
10. Tattoo My Name
11. Someday I'm Gonna Be Rich
12. Puke Party (feat. Rachel Ratner & El Mizell)

I See Dead People

Take some of your favorite albums and photoshop out the members that have passed. This is way too brilliant to me today. CLICK HERE


via Line Out

Silver Jackson Cover Art

Just finished the album art for Silver Jackson's debut album due out in the next few months. Silver, aka Nick Galanin, is the homie up in Alaska that runs Homeskillet and has helped get a lot of Seattle talent up into the North Northwest. He is also a very talented fine artist ranging from sculptures to paintings to jewelry. I'm real excited for him to get this music out to the world after making it during such trying times. The project was created as a way for him to get through some very dark times which included divorce and the loss of loved ones. The alterna-folk psychadelic thing is working for him musically and I wanted to embrace that visually.



He just recently dropped a video for his song "On A Boat" which is gorgeously shot on Super 8 film.

On a Boat by Silver Jackson from Cassandra Bull on Vimeo.

Here's a song he did on his upcoming album with our very own OCnotes.

Silver Jackson - "Our Love" by RPMfm

Katie Kate - Flatland

Kate's moment has finally arrived!! Her album Flatland comes out today and I must say I am so excited for my sister from another mister. You can find it on all iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp, and at Everyday Music in Seattle. You can listen to it here, but you must go cop that so you can bump it always. Buy the album because the artwork is actually functional. We celebrate the release of this record this Thursday.

P Smoov Face Scrunchers Vol 2

Hi,

I'm P Smoov.

My new record is out. Right now.

Learn, listen, love, fuck, fag, friend, die, pay, live, hate, kill.



Download here.

Here are some words about it (for idiots):

Face Scrunchers Vol. 2 is a ride through the hard drives and psyche of Seattle based mega-producer P Smoov (Mad Rad, Fresh Espresso). Half songs, half instrumentals, it’s a production album ranging from open, psychotropic compositions to tightly wound, frenetic beat concertos. All tracks are written, arranged, performed, and fondled by P Smoov himself. This album will tell you you’re pretty, love you tender, then punch you in the kidneys and throw all your shit out in the front yard.

Guests on Face Scrunchers Vol. 2 include:

Terry Radjaw, Buffalo Madonna, Rik Rude, Fatal Lucciauno, Shaprece Renee, Grynch, El Mizell, Trent Moorman, Darwin, Sharlese Metcalf, Brent Amaker, OC Notes, Slow Dance, and more.


Yours in Christ,

P Smoov

Flatland Album Art

Katie Kate's album is coming out October 18th and we are celebrating the release of her album with a gigantic party at Neumos October 20th. Make sure you get your tickets now before it's too late. Below is the cover for her album Flatland in which I used some photos that Janae Jones took. I think it's truly most gorgeous.

Love Is A Business

The Physics are coming back August 6th with a new album. And so far from what I've heard it sounds great. "Red Eye" is my shit!! Thig is one of my favorites in the town and all three are just some of the nicest people you will ever meet. Check them at The Crocodile for their album release show. More info on that HERE.

Shaprece - Scatterbrain

Shaprece is dropping her EP tomorrow night. You can listen to it now, but you gotta buy it and support our homegirl. She has put it in so much work, she's been on team since day one, and I personally couldn't be happier for her. We celebrate tomorrow night at The Crocodile with Fresh Espresso.

Black Up

Shabazz Palaces new record is out today on Sub Pop. "Black Up is the new sonic move from Shabazz Palaces. Like rich velvet hijabs or gold threaded abayas. Luxury as understood by the modest. Shabazz Palaces. If Bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in Seattle instead of the Atlas Mountains, this would be their album. Forward thinkers but nostalgic for a sparer time when ancient astronomers only recognized five planets. Hip hop. Black light uses electromagnetic radiation to eradicate microorganisms, but shabazz didn’t come to kill a sound, just to shine their own incandescent lamp on this. Hear. Hard and clear. Fifty thousand years in the making. Honorable.—palaceer pink gators."



Shabazz Palaces - Swerve... by subpop

Christian Marclay - Body Mix

In 1991 Christian Marclay began to use album covers as a medium, resulting in a group of work called Imaginary Records. Drawing on a vast collection of album covers and modifying them, Marclay began to explore the way music functions socially. Notions of nostalgia and sexual stereotypes are exposed in the smart and visually powerful album-cover collages from his Body Mix series.

MSHVB - Where The Messengers Meet

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band has a new record coming out today... so support our friends and go buy their record. Congrats, guys! We will be partying with you this evening.


Jared, Traci, Benjamin, & Marshall looking good.


"En Fuego" Live at SXSW 2009

Reva Devito Art

Reva Devito is the sultry singer on the new DTS video and she hit me up after finalizing the Dark Time Sunshine album art and she really wanted me to do some work for her while keeping in mind the vibe of the DTS art. You can see both and see how they work together.