When I think of Coventry, I think of of Delia Derbyshire. She was the underrated genius at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop that plucked the Doctor Who theme song out of the ether and created the most recognisable theme song of all time. Half a century or so later, Coventry has done it again. INDIAN SUMMER is a little less theremin, a little more Shoegaze, and I have been reading about them on music blogs for the last few months. Have a listen!
There is always a frantic battle to claim good new bands as your own. Blogs claim to be the first to spotlight certain bands as a way of justifying their existence, because whats the point of running a music blog if you half a step behind the next guy right? Well in this case I have to thank Blalock’s Indie Rock Playlist (BIRP!) for introducing me to Indian Summer, featuring them on their monthly playlist quite a few times recently, so thank you!
Like most people, I hate Manchester United. They make it really easy to hate them. So it came as a complete shock to me how much I love a song about the former United player, Paul Tierney. I want to hate that song as much as I do the team he formally played for, but its impossible. If a track can make me renege on my very firm belief system, then it’s got to be something bloody special. and it is.
I’m going to keep this sort and sweet as I will be posting ALOT of updates this week with some amazing upcoming releases but thought I should give you guys the heads up.
This is the new POST/POP logo which will feature on EVERYTHING from now on. Every subsequent POST/POP release in all formats, stickers, badges and (the most requested thing of all) t-shirts!
The logo is designed by a great new illustrator named Jamie Taylor from the UK. I was browsing threadless and I saw that he submitted this wolf to a competition and frantically searched for his email address. His floating wolf head (it’s actually a Wolfbra, half wolf/half zebra - notice the slash?!) is the perfect replacement for my rather basic wolf silhouette.
The first release to have the new wolf logo will be “Adventures in Home Taping” out on March 26th.
There is also a colour version of this which is fantastic.
I bet you are wondering why the POST/POP logo is a wolf right? Well that’s a story for another time.
Stay tuned for some big news next week!!
Jed
p.s. if you want the upcoming ltd edition POST/POP tshirts you are going to have to be fast as - like everything on this site - it’s incredibly limited. maybe I should have some sorta mailing list!
SO, I came back from the Weezer Cruise (it was incred btw) and found an email in my inbox instructing me to kindly stop using the name and likeness of the CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURES books. I can understand why they would threaten legal action against a little tape label. I would be scared too. I still love them though. ALOT. Those books kept my imagination fertile and has much to do with the person I am today. It introduced me to all manner of magical things and taught me that uncertainty is the key to making a story interesting.
So let’s make the story interesting.
I put it to the bands involved in this album what we should rename it and there were many great suggestions but the most popular was actually the first one I gave as an alternative…
ADVENTURES IN HOME TAPING.
SO we had a name but the artwork was unusable now. What to do? MAKE IT BETTER. So I spoke to one of my favourite illustrators. The guy I wrote a children’s book with. A guy who is into all the same stuff I am, but has the major difference of being American! I said “Keith, I’m being threatened with legal action by one of my childhood staples. Can you help?” Keith replied “Fuck Punky Brewster Jed, Fuck her. I mean, that one 3-part episode where she met all those monsters in that cave was pretty cool, but don’t let her mess with you. Fuck Punky Brewster“. When I explained to him that it wasn’t Punky Brewster and let him calm down for an hour, I explained the situation. Through red eyes and tear-stained cheeks, he said “I think I can help you out on your quest” and sent me this…
click on image to see it close-up!
It was Norm from our kid’s book! Our ultimate embodiment of adventure. I added all the tape stuff like credits and titles and my howling wolf logo and a few little flourishes and now we have a tape cover again!
ALL THE SAME BANDS. ALL OF THE SAME SONGS. SAME RELEASE DATE OF MARCH 26TH.
It’s time we blazed our own trail, r/cassetteculture. The adventure begins now!
you can still preorder here: https://postpoprecords.bandcamp.com/album/adventures-in-home-taping
My aim with Post/Pop is to continue to release the best music possible while having as much fun as possible. I like adventure and if you are reading this. I guess you do too. As I have been working closely with Reddit’s r/cassetteculture, it was brought to my attention that someone traded one of my tapes for DOGECOIN in r/dogemarket! I’ve read about the amazing work dogecoin did in sending the Jamaicans to the Olympics, and selling TAPES is my Olympic Games!
this is basically how dogecoin works.
SO, as well as taking normal payments, Post/Pop is also offering an alternative payment method.. DOGECOIN! Read all about what this cryptocurrency is and how it works HERE
Also read what MASHABLE has to say about the incredibly fast trajectory of this virtual currency HERE
Currently 1 doge =US$0.0012 so essentially how this will work is if you have signed up to DOGECOIN, send whatever payment you like, as long as its over £5 (a tape + postage and packaging. If you are not in the UK, maybe add a little more!) to:
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and shoot me an email to [email protected] with the tape you want and your name and address and its done! (if there is ann easier way, please let me know!)
If accepting DOGECOIN payments work out, in the next couple of months I will do a DOGECOIN ONLY release where I will put out tapes for a band where I will not accept anything but DOGECOIN.
You are also welcome to donate and help raise DOGECOIN’s profile within independent record labels. Or at least help this little label!
Thanks for reading and please get this message out there by reblogging, tweeting, posting to Facebook, google+ and anywhere else you can think of!
hit me up on twitter @jedshepherd if you have any questions!
thanks,
Jed
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Update: POST/POP is officially the first label to sell a tape using DOGECOIN in history! It’s this one!
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