Restorations, “Strange Behavior” EP
Restorations Strange Behavior (Paper + Plastick) At first, I thought the fact that I’d just had a bad day influenced my listen of Restorartions‘ EP, Strange Behavior. It’s only four songs, but it...
View ArticleRiverboat Gamblers / Off With Their Heads / Dead to Me at the Record Bar
It’s a rare occasion that I’m glad to choose one show over another, but it appears last night, I made a wise choice. I’d originally planned on seeing Cinderella at the Crossroads, but passed, due to a...
View ArticleSupport the Humanoids
When I saw St. Louis pop-punk act the Humaoids opening a show at the Record Bar this summer, it’d just been announced that they’d signed to Paper + Plastick, the vinyl/digital label ran by Vinny...
View ArticlePaper + Plastick releases comic book; Silver Sprocket smirks
I’d be totally thrilled about a record label starting to put out a comic book if it hadn’t been done before. I mean, granted – yeah, Silver Sprocket‘s put out both Turnstile Comix and the Phenomenauts’...
View ArticleVarious Artists, “Are You With the Band?” LP
I rather wish the new compilation from Paper + Plastick, Are You With the Band?, featured more bands that were still in existence. The Measure [sa], PS Eliot, and Cheeky are all broken up, but we’ve...
View ArticlePaper + Plastick offers a free acoustic album from Ataris frontman Kristopher...
The Ataris have a new album, The Graveyard of the Atlantic, due out this fall on Paper + Plastick. In order to hold you over until then, the label’s got a free acoustic album from Ataris frontman...
View ArticleYoung Skin’s Liz Unfair on “The Sticky Pages E.P.”– the medifast diet
Young Skin features members of The Ergs!, Lemuria, Hunchback, Failures’ Union, Black Wine, Full of Fancy, For Science, et al, performing under pseudonyms, and rocking some garage-y tunes. They...
View ArticleEx Friends, “Rules For Making Up Words” LP
We’ve talked about asthetics I’m not down with before — the whole Hot Water Music thing being beyond my comprehension, for example — and I’m trying to figure out what it is about Ex Friends‘...
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