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Republishing yesterday’s note to friends and family.

News

• TV Placements: For the TV fanatics amongst you, CW’s One Tree Hill season finale on May 18th will feature both Wakey!Wakey!’s ‘War Sweater‘ and Casey Shea’s ‘Roll Your Windows’ Down (formerly of Heavyweights singalong fame). We’re thrilled about our first (and second) ever TV placements!

• Gabriel Kahane: We are releasing his beautiful new single ‘LA’, which this week is featured as the Indie Spotlight on iTunes. Listen to it in full here. Pick up this Sundays New York Times for a 1,500 word feature article. Additionally, the folks over at Daytrotter will be posting a wonderful live Session this Sunday. For the live experience come join us for the single release show May 1st at Joe’s Pub (tix)!

• Wakey!Wakey!: It’s been a long time coming! We are releasing W!W!’s first ever studio recordings: ‘The War Sweater EP‘. Listen to in full here. It features the talents of Kelly Pratt (Arcade Fire, Beirut) and members of Antony and the Johnsons. Come join us April 30th at the Mercury Lounge (tix) for a joint release show with Casey Shea. Our good friend Bryan Dunn is also on the bill and the EP will be available in a short run of 250 special hand-made copies.

• Pearl and the Beard: Oh my! Their debut album, ‘God Bless Your Weary Soul, Amanda Richardson’, was recorded over many weekends over the last couple of months. We’re very proud of it, and I’m not just saying that because I produced it. Listen to it here. Come celebrate with us this Saturday April 25th at Joe’s Pub (tix). Our very own Matt Singer will be opening and a free copy of the album will come with each ticket. Oh and a free year-long subscription to NY Magazine too!

• Casey Shea is stepping right into the second half of our ambitious one-single-release-per-month-for-six-months plan with ‘ABCs Vol. 4′, to be released April 30th at Mercury Lounge (tix, yes the same night at W!W! release, twice the fun!). We’d love it if you would go download Volumes 1, 2 and 3 for free (here) and send it to as many friends as possible to help us spread the word. They will only be free for two more months, because we have rent to pay! They’re free now as a thank you to all the current early fans.

• Other News: 1. We recently released the debut single for Brooklyn band Dinosaur Feathers. Listen to it here. 2. Obama has been in office now for over 100 days. Are you in need of some extra musical oomph to remember the feelings of optimism from the campaign? Go download the free two-sided single ‘Hope/Change’ featuring a song each by Lacrymosa and Casey Shea. 3. Jeff Jacobson is slowly starting to work on a new EP. We can’t wait either. 4. Matt Singer is rumored to be writing songs for a split EP with another Brooklyn singer-songwriter you may have seen at his shows a lot.

• Help Needed: If you’d like to help us promote these great artists in any way please do get in touch. There’s a lot of ways to help, from time-intensive to easy-peasy. We don’t have money to pay you but there’s fringe benefits up the wazoo and we give realllllly good hugs!

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