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State Bird – Ready to Die Video

Nathan — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:17:14 +0000

Here it is kids, the proof that this songs needs to be your new anthem. Here we see State Bird rocking their hometown Dover Ballroom and bringing it.

Simply put State Bird = Face Melt.

State Bird – Healin The Pain

Nathan — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:47:21 +0000

Here is the brand new album from State Bird! We are excited to release their third full length album Healin The Pain. It was recorded at the Bunker in Brooklyn and then Mixed at John Vanderslice’s studio Tiny Telephone Booth. It is a full on departure of everything you previously had heard from the band. it takes the sound that they started to do last years Holy Spirits ep and takes it a step even further. Gone are the neo-folk sounds before and replaced with walls of guitar fuzz. Jam on!

Pre-order the 12″ for Healin The Pain now:

TRM Deal – Get 6 releases and a Poster for $25!

Nathan — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:14:55 +0000

The past few years we have done a big bundle to pick up a bunch of releases at a great price. Well with the year nearing an end we will have a few of these different variations of this package. Here is the first:

Physical Items
Soft Reeds – Soft Reeds Are Bastards CD
Cowboy Indian Bear – Each Other All The Time CD
Kansas City Skyline Poster (Photo by David Herholz)
Click for bigger image

Digital Items (that you get right away)
Saharan Gazelle Boy – Strange Teen Heart
Continents – Land Of Plenty
State Bird – Holy Spirits
Motorboater – P/U YR Heart
Soft Reeds – Soft Reeds Are Bastards
Cowboy Indian Bear – Each Other All The Time

All this for just $30(includes shipping, but the poster comes folded)
Purchase
Or for $35(includes shipping, but the poster comes in one of those tubes)
Purchase

Coming soon will be an all digital package, a 7″ package and some more surprises. Details soon.

State Bird – Coastin

Nathan — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:56:37 +0000

Here is an acoustic version of Coastin that will be on the new State Bird album coming out next year.

Get the New State Bird EP “Holy Spirits” for just $2.00!

Nathan — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:39:32 +0000

As many of you saw on our twitter and tumblr today marks our 7th anniversary. All this week we will be giving out some new music we are excited about. Today we are super excited to present to you the new ep from State Bird entitled Holy Spirits. For those of you that follow State Bird or the label know that this record has been a long time coming. It was recorded late last year at Tiny Telephone Booth in San Fransisco by Ian Pellicci(Deerhoof, Rogue Wave). The new ep finds State Bird treading new ground and new sounds. After a condensing to a smaller line up they focused and recorded 5 of their best songs to date.

State Bird – Holy Spirits Apple Lossless for $5.00

Get the song Good Vibes and 7 other songs on our new Spring Sampler that can be found at www.therecordmachine.net/sampler.

Update: State Bird – Holy Spirits is now available on Itunes . We are keeping the apple lossless available since it better quality then what you can buy on Itunes.

New Sampler and A Night Of Record Machine-ness

Nathan — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:42:07 +0000

We have launched a brand new sampler where you can stream and download tracks from several of our upcoming records. Check it out over at www.therecordmachine.net/sampler.

Next week is our second A Night of Record Machine-ness in Kansas City for the summer. The last one was a great sucess. We had about 200 or more people packed into Bryce’s house for so much fun they almost fined us. This time we are having it at a proper venue: The Czar Bar. It will be to celebrate Perhapsy coming to Kansas City in support of their new record. They will be joined by Capybara and Sam Billen. It is going to be a great night and hopefully we can pack out 200+ people in Czar Bar so please come out. It also got a nice write up in the Pitch.

Also Perhapsy is going to be tour this week. Here are all the dates

7/30 Nashville, TN at The 5 Spot w/ Natalie Prass, Action!, Denney and the Jets, Daniel Pujol
8/1 Louisville, KY at Derby City Espresso w/ Parade Schedule and Great Grand Sons
8/2 Bloomington, IN at The Pourhouse w/ Parade Schedule and Heavy Hometown
8/3 Chicago, IL at Darkroom w/ Plenum and Distractions
8/4 Iowa City, IA at The Picador w/ The Wheelers and Scheusch
8/5 Kansas City, MO at Czar Bar w/ Sam Billen and Capybara
8/6 Oklahoma City, OK at Sauced
8/7 Denton,TX at Hailey’s w/ Sleep Whale, Dear Human and Eco -Toll
8/8 Jackson, MS at Sneaky Beans
8/9 East Nashville, TN at a House Show

Lawrence.com Podcast and tons of news!

Nathan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:31:15 +0000

On Tuesday I was invited down to Lawrence to share a lot of new Record Machine releases with Richard Gintowt’s Lawrence.com Podcast. I played several new songs from upcoming releases. You can hear songs from State Bird, Max Justus, Perhapsy, Capybara, The Parade Schedule, Sam & Dan Billen, Caleb Winn and new solo song from Sam Billen.

Listen to the Podcast at Lawrence.com

First thing first we have a few exciting upcoming Kansas City shows. One is a not so secret basement show on July 18th with State Bird, Max Justus, Parade Schedule, and Capybara. We aren’t going to release the address for the show for another week. So keep your eyes on twitter for more infomation. We also have another showcase we are throwing on August 5th at Czar Bar with Capybara, Perhapsy, and Sam Billen. So that is 6 of our bands coming to KC in just a short time.

Capybara

We have signed Kansas City band Capybara and are going to re-release a new mastered version of their debut record Try Brother next month. They are going to be on tour for over 3 months from August to December. The tour will cover all parts of the country so you will have plenty of time and options to hear them.

Sam & Dan Billen

Sam & Dan Billen have worked on creating a documentary soundtrack for Porubsky’s Deli in Topeka. The record will also come out next month as a digital only release. Sam has also recorded a digital ep for us that we will be releasing next month as the song of the month.

The Parade Schedule

We are shooting for a September release of The Parade Schedule – Seeds To Be Planted, Trees To Be Cut.They are going to be going playing several shows in July and August. Check the shows page for information. We are going to be launching their first song of the month next week with their song Old.

Check the shows page for more info on all of them.

Whew that was a mouthful!

Stream the new Perhapsy Record & Cobra covers State Bird

Nathan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:05:46 +0000

In case you skipped going to the front page of the website you should return to it and stream the entire new Perhapsy record. It is only going to be up for a limited time so check it out while you can.

Perhapsy – Perhapsy: Full Album Stream

Also earlier this month we shared some Cobra songs for our Song of the Month and I couldn’t help but repost Cobra’s most recent song. It is the original version of one my favorite State Bird songs “I Don’t Luv U Anymore”. He also gives an update that he is almost finished recording the Cobra record and that State Bird is working on their new record. Remember to keep checking his blog for more songs.

Link: Cobra website(www.jacobra.squarespace.com)

Stream the new Perhapsy Record & Cobra covers State Bird

Nathan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:05:46 +0000

Perhapsy – Perhapsy: Full Album Stream

Link: Cobra website(www.jacobra.squarespace.com)

Songs of the Month: Cobra

Nathan — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:55:07 +0000

Video: Cobra – Natural Light Redux

Cobra is an ever evolving solo project from Coby Hartzler of State Bird. Each week Coby posts a new song to his blog(www.jacobra.squarespace.com). The blog is a interesting glimpse into a new project as it develops and prepares for full on debut later this year. At times the songs are a bait and switch evolving from simple lo-fi folk and building into full on post-rock. Other times they are the same complex folk songs that you have come to expect from Coby. You might even see some of these songs turn into State Bird songs as is the case with Uh Oh from their 4 New Songs ep. Here is just a sampling of some of our favorites. Go check out the rest of the songs and bookmark for a weekly visits.

Link: Cobra(www.jacobra.squarespace.com)

2008 Year End Sampler and Wrap Up

Nathan — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:20:45 +0000

2008 has been one of the best years for Record Machine since we started this record label 5 years ago. We had really great releases from State Bird, Interstates, and Max Justus. Our plans for 2009 are even more ambitious. We already have 6 really great records lined up for next year. As a little early Christmas present we put together this year end wrap up and preview for next year. Some of these songs have been floating around for awhile but we decided to put them all together for you. You can also download the songs from Max Justus and Sam Billen.

2009 Record Machine Releases:

Perhapsy- Perhapsy (The solo debut of Derek Barber from The Winston Jazz Routine and Every Gentle Air)
Sam Billen – Untitled. (The second solo record and first on Record Machine from former Billions front man Sam Billen)
Caleb Winn- Untitled (The solo debut from Caleb Winn from The Winston Jazz Routine, State Bird, and Every Gentle Air)
Max Justus- No Mercy (Max Justus already has a follow up to last years Five Leaping Leopards. From the songs we have heard so far the title is pretty fitting)
State Bird – Untitled (State Bird is also ready to follow up their last record Mostly Ghostly)
Of Asaph – We Draw Crowds(Anthology) (An anthology of songs from the pre-Interstates band from Alex O’nan and Kyle Noltemeyer)

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New State Bird video – The Golden Glowing Mask

Nathan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:13:10 +0000

Over the long weekend we found this fan video made for The Golden Glowing Mask and wanted to share it with you. Enjoy.

November Video of the Month- State Bird- I Saw The Light

Nathan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:49:22 +0000

State Bird – I Saw The Light from Mostly Ghostly

Here is a moment we have been wanting to share with you for a long time. You can even go over to Pitchfork.tv and check this video out with several others(yes that pitchfork). This video has been several months in the making. Countless hours were put into the stop animation of the video by TRM partner Mike Russo. Hopefully the song and video make you want to get out of your seat and dance right along with us.

State Bird- 4 New Songs

Nathan — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:45:59 +0000

For the August Song of the Month we actually have 3 songs! It is the rest of the new State Bird EP entitled 4 New Songs. They recorded the songs live with a few overdubs before their appearance at a summer festival. Originally there was only 50 copies made but we all loved the songs so much we wanted everybody to get their hands on it. Feel free to download and pass around the ep. If you want to support the band please purchase their full length Mostly Ghostly.

4 New Songs as a zip file is available at: Download

Each song is available to listen and download individually at the songs of the month page.

Press: State Bird, Interstates, and Max Justus

Nathan — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:19:38 +0000

We have been getting some reviews of State Bird’s new single and MP3 of the month. We are going to be releasing the entire 4 New Songs ep on Monday August 18th from our website.

From Tuneage

“I Don’t Love U Anymore” comes off their upcoming EP 4 New Songs and does a great job of showcasing what the band does well. Plus, for a title that implies downtrodden subject matter, the song is surprisingly bouncy, and I think it’s a great song for the pre-Friday blues.

Full Review: Here

From Mixtape Maestro:

Sampling musical textures from the Caribbean, South Africa and other sources of exotic noise, “Anymore” makes the always-awkward confessional ring with a jangly, effervescent glee.

Full Review: Here

Interstates debut record Run Run was reviewed by our French friends Beehave.fr

In French:

Run Run illuminera votre été de moments forts dans n’importe quel contexte, et il y a fort à parier que vous deviendrez vite accros aux souvenirs qu’évoqueront pour vous les géniales mélodies de cet album.

Translation:

Run Run will illuminate your summer(s) with powerfull moments whatever you go through, whatever you’re up to, and wherever you are. And you can bet you’ll get hooked to all the memories those marvelous tunes will print into you.

Full Review: French / English Translation

Our newest artist Max Justus got a review of his first single called Seven. A Limmerick Ox called it:

With backbeats steadier than the Rock of Gibraltar, synth pads glowing like sharp, glittering neon, and keystrikes coming at you like laser beams, it’s your smooth, sunglasses-at-night theme for whenever it’s just you against the naked city.

Full Review: Here