Motorboater started this last summer when my buddy Dan Eaton started sending me electropop jams(emphasis on the jams). I loved the songs so much I told Dan to keep making more. As more and more songs came together he played a show with Half-Handed Cloud. Shortly thereafter Motorboater made appearance at our Holiday Showcase. Well here we are 3 months later and we have his P/U Yr Heart debut EP. Motorboater has a few upcoming shows one at The Record Machine Spring Showcase and another at SWSW.

3/12 at The Czar Bar for The Record Machine Spring Showcase w/Cowboy Indian Bear, Capybara, and Max Justus

3/20 at Canvas in Austin, TX at The Midwasteland Takeover 11:30 PM (RSVP at www.midwastelandtakeover.com)

With your support we are hoping to release this album on vinyl this summer. With that in mind we have a few different options for you to purchase:

For $2.00 you get high quality 320k Mp3’s

For $5.00 you get Apple lossless files

For $10.0 you get a Screen Printed Poster and Apple Lossless files

(click for detail)

I am really excited to let you know that our first 7″ for the label is now available for purchase. Since I was in high school I have been collecting vinyl so being able to put our logo’s on this awesome packaging is a real honor for us. I personally had a pretty high standard for this project. I wanted to make sure the packaging and the value was all really worth it. Both bands Cowboy Indian Bear and It’s True are extremely exciting young bands. For both bands this is their first release with a label after only self releasing fantastic ep’s. For fans of these bands you need to own these songs and for people not familiar with them these are songs you will find yourself listening to them over and over again. Each 7″ is unique we went with a production technique that mixed random colors to get the marble effect you see above. Each one is different and unique! You are going to get all this for just $8(including shipping). This is something that you want to own and something your friends will covet once the pressing of 500 is over.

Just so you know how serious we are about the quality of the music we are going to stream the Cowboy Indian Bear Song – Foolish(for a limited time).

As you might have seen on the blog yesterday we released Part 1 to Sam Billen’s Removers album. It is the first 4 songs collected all into one handy place. So if you haven’t already gotten all of them we have a few different ways you can get your hands on these songs:
1) A new way: Become fans of TRM and post a note about ep on your facebook wall with this widget below:

or
2) Just give us your email address:

We knew when we committed to releasing an album every month we had some great new releases in the pipe for everyone to enjoy in 2010. I have to say that while every release in our catalog has a certain special place in our hearts this one does for me for several reasons. Saharan Gazelle Boy – Airplanes Can’t marks TRM’s 20th release in just under 7 years. While that might not sound like much it is pretty awesome for us a label to get to that point. This release is also the first release to have several songs recorded at my own home. For those not familiar with the name Saharan Gazelle Boy it is the solo project of Darin Seal from Capybara. Airplanes Can’t encapsulates everything I love about bedroom pop. As with these releases you will be able to hear a stream of the album and if you can’t afford the $2.00 you can download just a song for your email address.

One Too Many Mornings has been one of the hits of Sundance. We have been excited to have Capybara involved in the score. I had a chance to watch the movie for the first this past weekend and I can genuinely say that it was truly a great film. In addition to being a great film Capybara did such a good job highlighting the moments. This is their first new music that are releasing as a band since Try Brother and it gets me really excited to see what is next. We decided we wanted to make the score as much of an awesome deal as the movie is:

And last but not least please do yourself a favor and head over to:
www.onetoomanymornings.com and pick up a copy of the film.

Download: Capybara – The Wimp (Wimpybara The Cap by John Bersuch)

We are also excited to let you know that One Too Many Mornings is debuting this week at Sundance. A couple of months ago they contacted Capybara and asked if they could write a score for their movie. This is the first new material to be recorded since last years Try Brother. Check out the trailer below featuring new Capybara music:

Unlike many other movies at Sundance One Too Many Mornings will be releasing the movie via their website the day after they premier it at Sundance for a digital download. From the little bits and pieces I have seen and heard it well worth the 10 bucks for a digital download if not more then that for the other packages.

In addition to new material for the movie Darin Seal from Capybara is releasing a solo album with us next month as Saharan Gazelle Boy. It will be part of $2.00 albums special. We will have some previews up of it real soon but till then you can hear some older songs on his myspace.

And you won’t have to worry about Capybara disappearing either. In 2010 they will continue to be writing new material and playing shows. They will also be releasing more tour videos from last years tour.

The other day I was out with a friend and we were making jokes about how 2010 is like living in the future. We were at a movie and we were watching the previews thinking “Man movies in the future are going to suck”. Well the statement has stuck with me and got me thinking about the future of music, and what I want to do with it. I felt like this was a good time to launch some new things for our website. One of the things I have been wanting to do is release albums for $2.00. So we are going to be releasing at least one album a month from our website for $2.00. If we don’t have a new release to do at the moment we will do something from our back catalog. The album will also be streaming from our website and you will be able to post the player on your facebook, blog, twitter or whatever social network you would like. I think this will be a great way for people to pick up something new and not feel too guilty about it.

Our first album that we will be releasing with this new tradition is The Parade Schedule – Seeds To Be Planted, Trees To Be Cut. Even though it came out last month we wanted more people to get a chance to pick up this album at this price. It is the long awaited debut from Louisville singer/songwriter Matt Kinder. The album has been in the works for just over 2 years and I am very excited to help Matt get it out. It is a very honest and mature debut album for someone that I think will be around for a long time.

The Parade Schedule is also going to be out on the road this month to support the album this month here are the dates:
January 8th CD Release Party at the 930 in Louisville, KY w/Peter Bradley Adams
January 29th at Czar Bar in Kansas City, MO w/Oriole Post and Grizzly Hands
January 30th at The Firebird in St Louis, MO w/Owen Pye
January 31st at TBA in Cincinnati, OH

or if you can’t afford $2.00 you can download the song Backyard for free below.

Update: Sale has now ended. Thanks everyone that purchased.

Perhapsy – Perhapsy
Max Justus – No Mercy
Capybara – Try Brother
The Billen Brothers – The Porubsky’s Soundtrack
Sam Billen – Headphones and Cellphones
The Parade Schedule – Seeds To Be Planted, Trees To Be Cut

Such wonderful music there. We also released so many great songs and ep through this website that I am proud of. I think the Song of The Month project is only going to blow up more. Sam Billen’s Remover record will be released as one song a month for the next year. We also have some really great stuff planned over the next year. To look at the future here is what we have in the works: A new Max Justus record, New State Bird EP, Saharan Gazelle Boy(solo record from Darin of Capybara), Split 7″ with Cowboy Indian Bear and It’s True, A physical release of the Porubsky’s Soundtrack. And that is just the stuff we should have out before May! There is a lot more question marks on when things will be finished but I think we should have at least 6 records in 2010 if not more.

As our tradition over the last few years I have been collecting Best Of Lists from all of our bands, graphic artists, and other companies we work with. I always enjoy seeing what others are listening to and end up finding a release or two that might not have heard of otherwise.

Nathan Reusch (co-owner of The Record Machine)
Top 10 Records I didn’t release
(Note- This is the first year we had too many releases to even try to figure out where they are in my list.)
1. Fruit Bats – The Ruminant Band
2. Grizzly Bear – Veckamist
3. Here We Go Magic – Here We Go Magic
4. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
5. Bear In Heaven – Beast Rest Forth Mouth
6. Deastro – Moondagger
7. St. Vincent – Actor
8. Real Estate – Real Estate
9. Washed Out – Life of Leisure / High Times
10. Neon Indian – Physic Chasms

Mike Russo (co-owner- The Record Machine)
10: phoenix
9: hyperdub
8: deloreon
7: underwater peoples comp
6: discovery
5: Salem – we make it good mix series vol. 11
4: pictureplane
3: animal collective
2: Wavves
1: teengirl fantasy
bands I would love to put on this list, but didn’t actually have a full album (I. e. promising for next year): joker, the laze, OoOOo, windsurf, miike snow, torro y moi, yeasayer, and viernes.

More best of lists after the break:


Alex O’Nan – Interstates / of Asaph
Top 25 Albums of the 2000’s
1. Casino vs Japan – Hitori + Kaiso (2004)
2. Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
3. Don Caballero – World Class Listening Problem (2005)
4. Paul Newman – Machine Is Not Broken (2000)
5. Do Make Say Think – & Yet & Yet (2002)
6. Jim O’Rourke – Insignificance
7. Strategy – Drumsolo’s Delight (2004)
8. De La Soul – Grind Date (2004)
9. Wilco – Sky Blue Sky (2007)
10. Elbow – Seldom Seen Kid (2007)
11. Del Rey – Speak It Not Aloud (2001)
12. Zwan – Mary Star of the Sea (2003)
13. The Sea and Cake – One Bedroom (2002)
14. Crime in Choir – S/T (2002)
15. Perhapsy – S/T (2009)
16. Hot Snakes – Suicide Invoice (2002)
17. LPG – The Gadfly (2002)
18. Dabrye – Instrmntl (2002)
19. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People (2002)
20. Cass McCombs – Dropping the Writ (2007)
21. Keith Fullerton Whitman – Playthroughs (2002)
22. Idaho – Levitate (2001)
23. The Sea and Cake – Oui (2000)
24. Mercury Program – All The Suits Bega To Fall Off (2001)
25. Constantines – Shine A Light (2004)

Nathan Phillips – Solo Musician and formerly of Winston Jazz Routine
2009’s eye-opening discoveries, new and old:
1. fish tacos
2. Judie Sill
3. Ken Kern’s “the owner-built home”
4. mangos
5. Max Richter’s “horizon variations”
6. blueberry-almond cliff bars
7. horse castration
8. Stephen Bishop’s “careless” (cheasy, but good)
9. Rachmaninov’s “vespers”
10. raw oats – good in all things, including yogurt, oatmeal and blended shakes.

Darin Seal – Capybara and Saharan Gazelle Boy
Favorite songs I heard this year in which a girl is presumably singing about a boy:
1. Beach House – Take Care
2. Bat For Lashes – Daniel
3. Karen O – Hideaway
4. Asobi Seksu – Layers
5. Camera Obscura – James
6. Beach House – Used To Be
7. Dirty Projectors – Two Doves
8. El Perro Del Mar – Change of Heart
9. Vivian Girls – Can’t Get Over You

Favorite YouTube videos of the year:
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_BLggf-mqs
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_BLggf-mqs
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_BLggf-mqs
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_BLggf-mqs
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_BLggf-mqs
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_BLggf-mqs
7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_BLggf-mqs
8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_BLggf-mqs
9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_BLggf-mqs

Sam Billen – Solo Artist and The Billen Brothers
Nathan Phillips: Postcard (beautiful – I will never burn out on this album – NEVER!)
Mew: No More Stories are Told Today (also just recently started listening to And the Glass-Handed Kite – amazing!)
Passion Pit: Manners (so fun, but a little whiney)

5 bands that deserve more attention that I’ve stumbled upon:

Hey Penny (http://www.myspace.com/heypenny) – a little hyper, but respectably complex and fun to listen to
the Paper Route (http://www.myspace.com/paperroute) – like Tears for Fears mixed with the Postal Service
the Champion and His Burning Flame (http://www.myspace.com/thechampionandhisburningflame) – highly orchestrated, pockets of magic here and there
Cokiyu (http://www.myspace.com/cokiyu) – spacey, melodic noises from Japan
EPO-555 (http://www.myspace.com/epo555) – reminds me of my brother, lots of twists and turns and tons of cheap synthesizers

Derek Barber – Perhapsy
Favorite Albums of 00’s:
1.) Radiohead — Kid A
2.) Bjork — Vespertine
3.) Flaming Lips — Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
No particular order:
4 The Swords Project — Entertainment Is Over If You Want It
5 The Notwist — Neon Golden
6 Broken Social Scene — You Forgot It In People
7 Unwed Sailor — The Marionette and the Music Box
8 Pedro the Lion — Control
9 Death Cab for Cutie — The Stability EP
10 Daft Punk — Discovery
11 The Streets — A Grand Don’t Come for Free
12 Arcade Fire — Funeral
13 Spoon — Gimme Fiction
14 John Vanderslice — Cellar Door
15 At the Drive-In — Relationship of Command
16 Animal Collective — Strawberry Jam
17 Sufjan Stevens — Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State
18 The Thermals — The Body, the Blood, the Machine
19 Radiohead — Amnesiac
20 The Velvet Teen — Out of the Fierce Parade
21 Air — Talkie Walkie
22 American Analog Set — Promise of Love
23 Death Cab for Cutie — We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes
24 The Mountain Goats — Tallahassee
25 Namelessnumberheadman — Your Voice Repeating
26 The New Pornographers — Electric Version
27 Tristeza — A Colores
28 Godspeed You! Black Emperor — Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
29 Half-Handed Cloud — Halos & Lassos
30 Extra Life — Secular Works
31 The Mars Volta — De-Loused in the Comatorium
32 Dismemberment Plan — Change
33 Deerhoof — Friend Opportunity
34 Xiu Xiu — Women As Lovers
35 Sigur Ros — ()
36 Laura Veirs — Year of Meteors
37 Evangelicals — The Evening Descends
38 The Strokes — Is This It?
39 The Gloria Record — Start Here
40 Cornelius — Point
41 And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead — Source Tages & Codes
42 Every Gentle Air — Pt. 2
43 Thom Yorke — The Eraser
44 Grouper — Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
45 The Appleseed Cast — Two Conversations
46 Marnie Stern — This Is It…
47 Grandaddy — The Sophtware Slump
48 Stephen Malkmus — Stephen Malkmus
49 Mark Kozelek — Little Drummer Boy [Live]
50 Don Caballero — American Don

Favorite Food Dishes:
3. Fish Tacos — Joe’s Taco Lounge, Mill Valley, CA
2. Neopolitan Shake — In/Out Burger
1. Caramel Apple Empanada — Taco Bell

Mark Harrison – Capybara
Top 20 musicians (or show bills) of 2009 I inadvertently saw / met who made a distinct impression by incorporating something unique into their live show that inspires me.” (Ordered chronologically, not by rating.)

1. Megan Burns (of Flamingo Pink) > March @ Backroads Pizza in SANTA FE, NM
2. Dan Deacon > May @ The Foundation in KANSAS CITY, MO
3. Natalie Prass > May @ Exit/In in NASHVILLE, TN
4. Fancie > May @ The Church in KANSAS CITY, MO
5. mewithoutYou > June @ Bowery Ballroom in NEW YORK CITY, NY
6. Gil Mantera’s Party Dream > July @ The Record Bar in KANSAS CITY, MO
7. Sam Billen / Perhapsy > August @ Czar Bar in KANSAS CITY, MO
8. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone > September @ Off Broadway in ST. LOUIS, MO
9. Royal Osprey / Distractions > September @ The Ball Hall in CHICAGO, IL
10. Cedarwell > September @ his house and the YNot3 in SHEBOYGAN / MILWAUKEE, WI
11. Themes / Total Babe > September @ Eclipse Records in ST. PAUL, MN
12. Paper Brain / Patterns > September @ The Woods in PORTLAND, OR
13. The Builders and The Butchers > October @ Rontoms in PORTLAND, OR
14. Poppet > October @ some house in DAVIS, CA
15. TM Band > October @ The Habitat in SAN DIEGO, CA
16. Video / Mad Gregs > October @ Echo Curio in LOS ANGELES, CA
17. Moth!Fight! / The White White Lights > November @ The Mohawk in AUSTIN, TX
18. Dead Sea Choir / Dignan > November @ The Mohawk in AUSTIN, TX
19. Cowboy Indian Bear > December @ Riot Room in KANSAS CITY, MO
20. Max Justus > December @ Czar Bar in KANSAS CITY, MO

Dan Eaton – Motorboater and Queens Club
Best Grabass Songs of 2009
1. “My Girls” – Animal Collective
2. “Moonson” – Delorean
3. “Goth Star” – Pictureplane
4. “Feel It All Around” – Washed Out
5. “Little Secrets” – Passion Pit
6. “Crown on the Ground” – Sleigh Bells

Beau Jennings – Solo Artists and Cheyenne
Top 5 Most-Listened-To Records of 2009 (That Is To Say, Not Necessarily The Best Of 2009, But The Most Enjoyed Of 2009):
Alela Diane – To Be Still
Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard – One Fast Move Or I’m Gone
Spooklight – Spooklight
Bob Dylan – Together Through Life
Sun Kil Moon – April

Marty Hillard – Cowboy Indian Bear
The Only Physical Releases I Purchased That Were Released in 2009
1. Health, Get Color (CD), Lovepump United
2. Major Lazer, Guns Don’t Kill People Lazers Do (CD), Mad Decent/Downtown
Two Albums That Stood Out That I Managed Not To Purchase in 2009
1. Wild Beasts, Two Dancers, Domino
2. Talvihorros, Some Ambulance
Runner-ups:
1. The Horrors, Primary Colours, XL
2. FOOL’s GOLD, s/t, IAMSOUND

My Favorite Singles in 2009

1. Wolf Gang, The King And All of His Men, Hit Club
2. The Horrors, Sea Within a Sea, XL
3. These New Puritans, We Want War, Domino

The Album(s) I’m Looking Forward To Most in 2010
1. These New Puritans, Hidden, Domino
2. Yeasayer, Old Blood, Secretly Canadian/We Are Free

Candice Jones – Team Clermont Publicity
30. Dan Deacon – Bromst
29. Pontiak – Sea Voids
28. Japandroids – Post Nothing
27. Double Dagger – MORE
26. Capybara – Try Brother
25. Blank Dogs – Under and Under
24. The xx – The xx
23. Omar Souleyman – Dabke 2020
22. Pride Parade – Dose
21. Health – Get Color
20. Circulatory System – Signal Morning
19. Akron/Family – Set Em Wild, Set Em Free
18. Cymbals Eat Guitars – Why There Are Mountains
17. Vitalic – Flashmob
16. Real Estate – Real Estate
15. Micachu & the Shapes – Jewellry
14. Cass McCombs – Catacombs
13. Jookabox – Dead Zone Boys
12. Deer Tick – Born on Flag Day
11. Pissed Jeans – King Of Jeans
10. Megafaun – Gather, Form And Fly
09. The Dodos – Time to Die
08. Atlas Sound – Logos
07. The Antlers – Hospice
06. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
05. Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
04. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
03. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros – Up From Below
02. Kurt Vile – Childish Prodigy
01. Bear In Heaven – Beast Rest Forth Mouth

Jenn de la Vega – Mushpot PR
J Arthur Keenes Band – Pamplemousse
Starscream – Future and It Doesn’t Work
La Roux – S/T
Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
railcars – Cathedral with No Eyes
sylcmyk – Heartbroken.
Little Boots – Hands
starPause – AKID EP
Ganglians – S/T
The Lovely Eggs – If You Were Fruit

Bands with no albums: Surfer Blood, The Twelves

Chetan Patel – Photographer
music that makes you cooler (no particular order)

drake – so far gone (mixtape)
beyonce – i am…sasha fierce
the dream – love vs money
raekwon – only built 4 cuban linx 2
j dilla – jay stay paid
eminem – relapse
maxwell – black summer nights
fashawn – boy meets world
ugk – ugk 4 life
lupe fiasco – enemy of the state (mixtape) – i recommend it

Danny Gibson – DJG Design
DJG’s Top 12 Movie Moments of 2009 (so far…)
01. Mouth-gaping, internal howling, theater massacre climax of
“Inglourious Basterds”
02. Deeply emotional moving montage of aging in “UP”
03. Up-close iguanas with the blues in “The Bad Lieutenant: Port of
Call New Orleans”
04. Max leaving the Wild Things to go home in “Where The Wild Things Are”
05. Opening wow-wow credit sequence in “Watchmen”
06. Goose bump weeping fireworks and “Don’t Dream It’s Over” by
Crowded House in “Adventureland”
07. Fast-paced, grin-inducing “Heroes & Villians” portion of “Fantastic Mr. Fox”
08. Greatest cameo appearance EVER in “Zombieland” (I won’t spoil)
09. Marvelous Meryl Streep as Julia Childs chopping a gigantic pile of
onions in “Julie & Julia”
10. Emotions on high as the band Anvil records “This is Thirteen” in
“Anvil: The Story of Anvil”
11. Stupid-Cute Kevin the Dog with Betty White in “The Proposal”
12. The lens flairs of “Star Trek”

Things DJG Realized in 2009
-Slimming shirts make me look fatter.
-It is hard to leave a series phone message when impaired with the hiccups.
-Coca-Cola outside of the can is better, but still not better for you.
-Diet Coke and banana do not work well together.
-I am realizing when I need to drink water instead of other beverages.
-Prunes are just plums.
-Yes, please, to blueberries.
-Raspberry pie is quite genius.
-Pesto makes certain foods amazing.
-Smaller portions of very rich sweets.
-I don’t care for hot desserts, but I’ll politely wait for it to cool
if given one.
-When talking with head phones on, I talk really loud. I’ve always
known this, but cannot teach myself to stop.
-I re-realized my liking for Wynona Judd songs.
-Before this year I would go to art walks and end up disenfranchised
by art for a week or two.
-I really love the energy of professional baseball playoff crowds on T.V.
-I realize that all people are weird and complex.
-Unless it’s on “Pee-wee’s Playhouse”, I don’t prefer songs with robot vocal distortion.
-I’m not a fan of remix songs or remix graphic designs.
-I respect the work of French New Wave films more than I actually like to watch them.
-Pedestrians who stand right on the curb while traffic passes make me extremely nervous.

Ben Chalpek – Never Sleeping Design
favorite movies to watch in the winter of 2009.
heima
eternal sunshine
weather man
die hard
ice harvest
vanilla sky
christmas vacation
wicker park
home alone
die hard 2

Feel Free to post your own best of list in the comments. Thanks for a great year!

2009 has been one of the biggest years in Record Machine history and we wanted to celebrate that with an awesome offer for you. From now until the end of the year we are running a special where you purchase all 5 full lengths we have released this year in one special download for just $15. That is a cost of just $3 a record and that is a saving of $35 dollars. You will get these really great releases:
1. Perhapsy – Perhapsy (Released in June)
2. Max Justus – No Mercy (Released in July)
3. Capybara – Try Brother (Released in September)
4. Sam Billen – Headphones & Cellphones (Released in November)
5. The Parade Schedule – Seeds To Be Planted, Trees To Be Cut (Released in December)
Or if you want an old fashioned cd feel free to head over to our online store and pick up any of our records with this 10% off coupon: “record10friends”

Click here to buy TRM’s 5 2009 Releases for just $15

Also Popwreckoning sent out a writer to review our showcase last week at Czar Bar. She has way too many amazingly nice things to say about us and even more amazing words about our great bands:

To sum it up, everyone, everything, every instrument and even every piñata was brimming with life Friday night for The Record Machine’s Holiday Showcase. Kansas City and its wide range of musicians and the people who love them pullulated with energy, indeed making it a holiday night to remember

Read the full article and see some pictures here: Popwreckoning

Also RIP Winne the Pooh and Hipster Ethan piñatas that we had that night. You are sadly missed.

Click here to buy TRM’s 5 2009 Releases for just $15

For More Info Go Here

Tomorrow is our first Holiday Showcase. We are quite excited about having Capybara, Max Justus, Sam Billen and Motorboater all together on one bill. It is the perfect way to start off your holiday season. Please come out and support everyone.

Capybara – Magpies

When Capybara was out on tour they realized that they were going to be in the same place as our above capybara buddy Caplin Rous. They thought it would be perfect opportunity to have some capybara convergence. So they sang him their song Magpies.

This week we have had all sorts of great promotions with them first off 96.5 The Buzz had them come in and do an interview on Sunday night for the local show. We had a great time and they invited them to come back Today and play a few songs on the air. So we have acoustic versions of 2 songs below. They also were featured this week in the Pitch.

And finally Tuesday was the release of The Parade Schedule’s debut album Seeds To Be Planted, Trees To Be Cut. We are offering Backyard as the first single as a free download above. Please check it out and feel free to post the mp3 player on your blog or myspace if you like it. You can pick it up over on itunes.

Purchase a physical copy for $10.00

For this week and this week only (12-1 till 12/11*extended) you can stream and purchase the entire new Sam Billen record for only $2. And if you can’t afford that give us your email address and get the song Different Lives for Free!! Please share these widgets with your friends on facebook, myspace, twitter or whatever you might do.

The Record Machine Holiday Showcase

(poster by Rob Mitchell)

Also we are throwing our very own first Holiday Showcase here in Kansas City on December 11th. It is at The Czar Bar and will feature Max Justus, Capybara, Sam Billen and Motorboater. In celebration of the show we are giving away a holiday showcase sampler where you can download the show poster and a song from each band TRM band playing the show.

Over the weekend our band Capybara got to meet up with the one and only Caplin Rous. I couldn’t resist posting a picture of this magnitude. Beware more Capybara convergence is coming.

Capybara recently got invited to play some songs at KRUX in Las Cruces, NM. They decided to do a more somber take on Cutaway Kid. The video shows some of the beautiful scenery that they have been experiencing in the southwest. If you are in Austin, TX this week check them out.

Nov 12 2009 HOUSTON, Texas at Super Happy Fun Land
Nov 14 2009 AUSTIN, Texas at KVRS 91.7FM In-Studio 7:45PM
Nov 14 2009 AUSTIN, Texas at The Mohawk – Converge ATX
Nov 16 2009 AUSTIN, Texas at Dobie Theatre with Range Life Ent.
Nov 17 2009 AUSTIN, Texas at Dobie Theatre with Range Life Ent.
Nov 17 2009 AUSTIN, Texas at Dobie Theatre with Range Life Ent.
Nov 18 2009 RICHARDSON, Texas at a House Show sponsored by UT Dallas
Nov 19 2009 HOUSTON, Texas at Mango’s
Nov 20 2009 AUSTIN, Texas at Dobie Theatre with Range Life Ent.
Nov 21 2009 AUSTIN, Texas at Dobie Theatre with Range Life Ent.

Max and I have just returned from the whirlwind time in NYC. Max played 3 fabulous shows and we had blast. Check out the Culture of Me for some photos and nice little write up. We want to thank everyone who came out to the shows and big hugs and kisses to Mushpot for helping set up everything. I already miss being in the city.