5/7/2009 SIRHAN SIRHAN FINDS TRUE LOVE IN AUSTRALIAN ROLLING STONE

It was really only a matter of time before the most twisted, repressed sons-of-criminals ever kicked out of England, The Australian Music Press, would discover the blood-drenched, gore-clotted San Diego Blast-punkers of Sirhan Sirhan. Australian Rolling Stone (which is just like American Rolling Stone except for being printed upside-down) gives Sirhan Sirhan's debut album "Blood" 3.5 stars and says, " Great punk rock provides various visceral thrills and inspires revolution and Sirhan Sirhan ticks the first box in blood with tracks such as 'Remove My Eyes' and 'Rise'." The Aussie magazine, People (which is apparently not at all like the American magazine of the same name due to it's not including any photos of Heidi Montag) was also caught gushing about our boys, "...this dirty, punked-up gear mixes spazzed out weirdness with the sort of senseless aggression that sees inbred dogs put to sleep." Here Here! Catch Sirhan Sirhan on tour right about now with The Arcons! Senseless Aggression

5/7/2009 VOX JAGUARS KICK ASS, TAKE NAMES

As you well know, our boys The Vox Jaguars have been on a tear lately. Zooming up the CMJ and Commercial Specialty Radio charts, packing the young miscreants of Santa Cruz into wild, sweaty shows and charming the panties off of music writers who keep comparing singer, Jordy Topf to a young Mick Jagger. Expect to see some west coast tour dates from these boys this summer. Godlike, Yet Waifish

5/7/2009 THE MIGHTY BELLRAYS EMBARK ON U.S. TOUR WITH THE DAMNED!

Wow, sucks to be a legendary, late-seventies punk icon when you have to get up on stage and follow the ferocious, nuclear-powered, whip-ass generator that is The BellRays. Seriously now, we love the Damned and chances are that these shows will be some of the best live performances you will ever see since anyone who dares to attempt to play after the Mighty BellRays had better be bringing their A-game....and "New Rose" is just some sweet classic stuff, so we're certain that The Damned boys will be ok but still..
Buy tickets soon because we're thinking that each and every one of these shows will be some Ali-Frazier, Thrilla In Manilla type shit. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee..

5/7/2009 LITTLE BRAZIL: COURAGE & CONQUEST

Little Brazil's magnum opus album "Son" is like, totally killing it. Sailing into the CMJ Top 50, as though on a magic carpet, this 10 song, concept album about a young family's trials and tribulations is fast becoming a staple of fans, DJ's and music magazines alike. Alternative Press urged readers of it's blog to buy this album at once, giving "Son" 5.5 stars and saying, "I highly highly recommend this record." Meanwhile the old battle-axes at the venerable Billboard even laid singer Landon Hedges side-by-side with Omaha brethren Conor Oberst and Tim Kasher. It would seem that there is nothing that could knock Little Brazil off it's stride. High Fives

5/7/2009 THE ARCHITECTS EMBARK ON VANS WARPED TOUR 2009!

KCMO's The Architects are buying underwear and socks by the case in preparation for the 2009 Vans Warped Tour which begins June 22 in Pomona, CA and finishes August 23 in Los Angeles, CA. Check the tour dates here and check out www.warpedtour.com for details and tickets. Another state of mind...

2/6/2009 VOX JAGUARS FEATURED ON RCRD LBL!!

The prestigious, RCRDLBL website has embraced the Obamian mantle of "change" by reaching far across the aisle and elevating our most exalted, high potentates of epic, garage raunch, The Vox Jaguars to new levels of head-ringing with some truly bipartisan streaming songs. It's morning in America again, son. RCRD LBL

2/5/2009 LITTLE BRAZIL'S SON SET FOR MARCH 24th RELEASE ON ANODYNE RECORDS

Omaha's indie rock purveyors LITTLE BRAZIL have set a March 24th release date for their third album, and first for Anodyne Records, simply titled Son. Recorded at ARC Studios in Omaha with AJ Mogis (Cursive, Bright Eyes, The Faint, Tilly & The Wall, Rilo Kiley), Son boasts 10 deep, layered narratives that tackle topics such as divorce, adultery, custody battles, parental ali enation, abandonment, suicide, and the search of self-affirmation told from a child's perspective.

Son is a ten-song book; Half fiction, half non-fiction, states vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Landon Hedges. The album is a story loosely based on a man and woman who meet, marry, struggle, fight, have a son, resulting in divorce and a custody battle. In the end, the wife commits suicide, but I don't want to give it all away. Hedges continues, The album is filled with topics that I feel many people have to deal with in life. Some of the story line is personal, as I was dealing with almost losing a close family member to cancer, but I focused on telling a story with this album, and although it was tough to tackle, we are all very proud of the end result.

Building anticipation for the release, Little Brazil stopped by the Futureappletree studio last fall to record three new cuts for Daytrotter.com. Fans can check out the exclusive performances here: http://www.daytrotter.com/article/1457/little-brazil

Anxious fans on the West Coast will be happy to hear that Little Brazil will hit the highway on a four-week tour which include dates with Cursive and Ladyfinger(ne). See all dates below. In the past, Little Brazil has shared the stage with many indie vets, such as Tegan & Sara, Nada Surf, The Appleseed Cast, The Go! Team, Grant Hart (Husker Du), and Black Kids, to name a few.

After playing guitar in Conor Oberst's Desaparacidos, and Tim Kasher's The Good Life, Hedges founded Little Brazil in 2002, and solidified the line up in 2004, joined by guitarist Greg Edds, bassist Danny Maxwell, and drummer Oliver Morgan.
www.myspace.com/littlebrazil
www.anodynerecords.com

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LITTLE BRAZIL tour dates:
March 4 - Denver, CO @ Hi Dive *
March 5 - Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep *
March 6 - Billings, MT@ Railyard *
March 7 - Missoula, MT @ The Other Side *
March 8 - Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge *
March 9 - Seattle, WA @ Sunset Tavern *
March 11 - San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Shop *
March 12 - Upland, CA @ The Wire *
March 13 - West Hollywood, CA @ Troubadour #
March 14 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah #
March 15 - Phoenix, AZ @ Rhythm Room #
March 16 - Albuquerque, NM @ The Launchpad #
March 27 - Kansas City, MO @ Czar Bar
March 28 - Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
* w/ Ladyfinger(ne)
# w/ Cursive

11/19/2008 OMAHA NEBRASKA'S LITTLE BRAZIL SIGNS TO ANODYNE!

Good Midwestern boys emerge from ARC Studios with a great record and hit the road.
Anodyne Announces 3/24/09 release date!

November 7th, 2008 Anodyne Records, the Midwestern home to such indie luminaries as The Meat Puppets, The BellRays and Roman Numerals is proud, pleased and honored to announce that Omaha's catchiest band of the last five years- Little Brazil- has agreed to let us release their newest opus, "Son" a sort-of concept album organized around the travails of dysfunctional families.

Landon Hedges, Gregory Edds, Oliver Morgan and Daniel Maxwell entered Lincoln, NE's world-famous ARC Studios early last month with producer AJ Mogis (Cursive, Bright Eyes, The Faint, Criteria, Tilly & The Wall, Rilo Kiley) to document what are easily the finest batch of songs to date from the hard working, hard touring Little Brazil to say nothing of the project's ambitious nature being carried off so elegantly.

Landon & Greg add, "This album was not necessarily written to raise concern, or a certain feeling or emotion, but more as a general understanding of the anatomy that is a family, drawn from four individuals personal experiences".
"Initially, some of the songs were written about my own family prior to the birth of the album's concept; as where other songs came about through fictional storytelling".
"It is our Son".

Some of the songs in this track list will be recognizable to fans who have heard Little Brazil's fantastic live-in-the-studio session with Daytrotter.com:

1. Brighton Beach
2. What's The Problem
3. Son
4. Wasting Time
5. Nicholas
6. Perfection
7. Wanna Go Home
8. Separated
9. Wedding Glass
10. Gold

Look for Little Brazil's "Son" to be delivered by Anodyne Records March 24th 2009
CONTACT:
http://www.littlebrazil.net
http://www.myspace.com/littlebrazil
http://www.myspace.com/anodynerecords
http://www.anodynerecords.com

10/17/2008 HUGE HOLIDAY SALE AT ANODYNE RECORDS WEBSTORE!!

Click the 'Store" link near the top left and check out the really really low sale prices on tons of great albums!

10/10/2008 THE ARCHITECTS "PILLS" VIDEO JUST KEEPS KICKING ASS...

FUEL, HAVOC AND MTV LATIN AMERICA JOIN THE PARTY

Music Video programmers from around the world are finding themselves awestruck, smitten and utterly spellbound by the four-odd minutes of cinematic brilliance that is the video for "Pills"by THE ARCHITECTS- who are basking in the glow of their hard-earned success with a trip in a golden helicopter to Greece to attend a champagne jam atop Mt Olympus, given in their honor by Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden.

At this once-in-a-century celebration of musical greatness, THE ARCHITECTS and Mr. Dickinson will drink strawberry-champagne punch from the skull of Darby Crash, play "Sunshine Of Your Love" on guitars, cavort with imps and seraphim and dine on savory meat pies made from Sting.

Tune in to Havoc TV, Fuel TV, MTV Latin America and The ClubCom Network to see the "Pills" video!

10/10/2008 THE BELLRAYS "INFECTION" KEEPS SPREADING!

THE BELLRAYS "INFECTION" VIDEO SPREADS LIKE TYPHUS ACROSS THE NETWORKS!!

MTV LATIN AMERICA, FUEL & HAVOC TV JOIN VIDEO JAM, ROCK CIRCUS &THE OTHERSIDE EMBRACING THIS POTENT NEW CLIP

The mighty and fearsome roar of The BellRays post-modern Rock & Soul, Rhythm & Bruise, critic-crushing, voice-shredding, buttock-pumping, heart-throbbing single "Infection" has been further enabled, ennobled and empowered to spread the good word of the bad mofo by the giant megaphone of worldwide cable networks MTV Latin America, Havoc TV and Fuel TV. In addition, grassroots programmers like Video Jam, The Otherside and Rock Circus have been fulfilling prophesy, spinning this video and thereby opening franchise BellRays ministries across America from Lennox Avenue to The PCH.

CATCH THE BELLRAYS IN EUROPE THIS NOVEMBER!

9/23/2008 THE BELLRAYS TO HEADLINE 'SATURATION FEST'!

Riverside California?s 8th Annual Saturation Festival will feature a Friday night 10/17 headline performance from the mighty saviors of Rock and Soul, The BellRays.

FROM THE SATURATION FEST PRESS RELEASE:

The Saturation Art & Music Festival is happy to announce six consecutive days of live music, visual art, performance, film, and workshops in several different unconventional venues in Downtown Riverside, CA Tuesday, October 14 ? Sunday, October 19, 2007. The complete festival lineup and schedule are at SaturationFest.com.

Now in its eighth year, Saturation will be curated by several organizations: among the many, organizers from The Riverside Art Museum, college radio stations KUCR and KSPC, and Division 9 Gallery are planning blocks of the festival. Saturation?s art, performances and events are diverse, representing a wide range of sound, media, and art within an incredibly raw and thriving local culture.

The garage and soul atom bomb The BellRays will perform in their hometown for the first time in seven years, between sold-out rock tours around the world.

The Saturation Festival will also feature workshops with the likes of Ian Mackaye, screenings of films such as ?Breakfast With Hunter? and ?Space is the Place? and scads of other musical performances as well as visual arts exhibits.

The BellRays perform at the stroke of midnight at The Grind in Riverside, CA on Friday October 17 2008.

SATURATION FEST WEBSITE

9/19/2008 HOORAY FOR "BLOOD"!!

Sirhan Sirhan's brutal debut, "Blood" has won Best Hard Rock Album at the San Diego Music Awards!! Congrats, Boys! SDMA

9/11/2008 THE BELLRAYS NEW VIDEO "INFECTION" !

On Behalf of Anodyne Records and The mighty BellRays, we are both pleased and honored to bring you- in many formats, across many platforms and with all appropriate pomp and circumstance- The BellRays video for their single ?Infection?!

The single, ?Infection? is a perfect distillation of the classic ?lust-leads-heart-down-a-painful-path? theme in every sense. From the bumping, grinding, shimmy-shaking rhythm-and-bruise backing track to the nuanced cooing, growling and near shrieking of Lisa Kekaula?s lead vocal. (to say nothing of the damn-near Hendrixian shred-fest guitar solo!) Naturally, the thing to do here was to make a video in which a giant fuzzy bear engages a giant fuzzy eagle in a breakdance battle before wooing and winning the heart of still another giant fuzzy bear.
Check it out!

9/11/2008 THE ARCHITECTS "PILLS" VIDEO!!

The new music video for The Architects single "Pills" is already making the rounds on TV and the Web! This video rocks! CHECK IT OUT!

9/11/2008 THE VOX JAGUARS SIGN TO ANODYNE RECORDS!

Ladies and Gentlemen?in this corner?making their featherweight debut?hailing from Santa Cruz, California?the indomitable?the incomparable?the soon-to-be kings of new-millennium teenage lust?THE VOX JAGUARS!

The Vox Jaguars wryly romantic lyrics and lusty dance floor tempos will transport you to the most righteous basement parties of your youth- when we were all spitting our ADD meds into the toilet and sneaking out the kitchen door to get loaded on box-wine, suck face and be awash in music that informed the urgency of our shared adventure. The Vox Jaguars musical DNA bears traces of the epic teen-raunch rock and roll genes of The Troggs & The Standells passed through the lineages of Bowie & Bolan, recapitulated by The Verve and Blur and then seeded and sown into the soil of present-day Santa Cruz by The Yeah Yeah Yeah?s.

Look for the as-of-yet untitled debut EP from the Vox Jaguars in early 2009 on Anodyne Records.

CHECK IT OUT!!

6/1/2008 TOTAL INSANITY:
THE BELLRAYS "Hard, Sweet and Sticky", THE ARCHITECTS "Vice", and SIRHAN SIRHAN "Blood" AVAILABLE NOW!

Get yours now at the Anodyne Store.

5/15/2008 Architects Get 3½ Stars From Spin

Architects, 'Vice' (Anodyne)
Midwestern punks take their badass riffage on the lam.
BY CHUCK EDDY 05.15.08 12:04 PM

These meat-and-potatoes Missourians spend their third album returning to the scene of the crime: murders on the Jersey Shore, outlaws in Oklahoma, Salinas jailbirds' daughters on the lam, MILFs seducing future MFAs in Orange County. They wear black and carry guns like Dad did, but so do the crooked cops. Their riffs aim for Angus Young as their shouting shoots for BTO and the Clash and Hüsker Dü. And if the vocals are mixed too low to keep the choruses consistently rousing, energy and emotion buoy the barrage regardless. Click here to visit the Spin.com review.

3/27/2008 Sirhan Sirhan/Prize Country split 7"

We will be releasing a split 7" featuring Sirhan Sirhan and Prize Country(Portland, OR) to celebrate their upcoming tour together. These will be available at the shows only for the time being but will also be a free addition to the Sirhan Sirhan pre-order package available in early May. Check the tour page for dates near you..

2/21/2008 Anodyne at SXSW 2008

Hello All - Just a heads up on our plans for SXSW this year. We will be hosting a day party at Room 710 - 710 Red River St. on Thursday, March 13th starting at 1:00pm. Still working out the time slots but we will be featuring: THE LIFE AND TIMES, ARCHITECTS, ROMAN NUMERALS, SIRHAN SIRHAN, THE VALLEY ARENA and intermittent performances by BACON SHOE. oh, and of course, Free Admission, Free Beer, and merch giveaways! See you in Austin..

1/2/2008 Happy New Year!!

Lots of exciting stuff brewing here at Anodyne HQ for your 08 listening pleasure. New releases from: The BellRays, Sirhan Sirhan, Architects, and more. Also, keep an eye out for the vinyl version of Meat Puppets - "Rise to Your Knees" Which will include a pin code to access the Hearers - "Flowers & Flames EP absolutely free!! Release dates and more coming soon..

10/27/2007 The Valley Arena Sesso.Vita Available on iTunes Today

10/9/2007 Anodyne Welcomes The Valley Arena

Thus, the unstoppable Anodyne Records Juggernaut of Independent Rock and Roll marches on, led this fall by the newly appointed Generalissimos of Indie-Sexy, THE VALLEY ARENA. Who, on November 13th will unleash their super-weapon titled "Sesso.Vita" upon an unsuspecting world and then march their sexy army from hamlet to dell turning our own libidinous urges against us in a display of heretofore unimaginable psychic jujitsu, leaving charred earth and moist undies in their terrible wake. Long Live the Rebellion and LONG LIVE THE VALLEY ARENA.

9/18/2007 Anodyne at CMJ

We will be co-hosting a split label showcase at CMJ this year with Sidecho Records on Wed. Oct 17th at the Lion's Den - 214 Sullivan St.(Between Bleecker and West 3rd St.), NYC. We will feature the Meat Puppets (11:00PM) and the Valley Arena (8:00PM) Tickets are available here.

(only 150 tix available to the public so act fast!) - otherwise, CMJ badge is required.

The following evening, Thurs. Oct 18th, Meat Puppets and Roman Numerals will be performing across the way at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ This is not a CMJ sanctioned event. Tickets available here.

On Sat. Oct 20th, Roman Numerals will perform at Fat Baby - 112 Rivington St., NYC at 8:00PM as part of a multi-label showcase featuring the Matches, the Spores and more. $10.00 w/ out CMJ badge.

Hope to see you somewhere!

9/17/2007 The Hearers are slated to release digital e.p.

The Hearers will release their new e.p. titled "Flowers and Flames" via your favorite virtual store on November 20, 2007. There is talk of a very limited run of special edition discs to be pressed as well. Stay tuned for more details and show dates..

7/17/2007 Meat Puppets - 'Rise to Your Knees' is now available!

Rise to Your Knees is available for order from the Anodyne Store, iTunes or whatever your favorite digital store may be. Or you can always do it the old fashioned way and buy it at your favorite record store:) Click here to visit the Anodyne Store.

6/17/2007 Meat Puppets Preorder and iTunes

Rise to Your Knees is now available for preorder from the Anodyne Store or for immediate download via iTunes! Click here to visit the Anodyne Store.

6/8/2007 JUNE 17th - Meat Puppets Pre-order and iTunes

Pre-order will begin for 'Rise to Your Knees' on June 17th. Included in the pre-ordered package, along with the CD, will be a signed poster of the band, buttons, stickers and other random Pups memorabilia. Items will ship on July 11th. June 17th also marks the official iTunes release of the record for those of you who just can't wait. All orders can be placed right here at our store.

3/7/2007 Anodyne Welcomes Meat Puppets

The brothers Kirkwood (Along with new drummer Ted Marcus) have reunited for a new record and we are thrilled to have this opportunity to release it. The release date is scheduled for July 17, 2007. Extensive touring to follow. Meat Puppets will be making several appearences at this year's South by Southwest music festival in Austin, TX. Check their band page for tour dates and more info as it comes in... Click here.

2/16/2007 Anodyne Records day party at SXSW

We will be hosting a day party during South by Southwest week in Austin, TX this year. The event will take place at the Parish Room - 214 E 6th St.(Above Jazz)on Thursday, March 15th from 1-6 pm. Free Admission.

Here is the official line up:

• MEAT PUPPETS -(4:30-5:30)
• ARCHITECTS - (3:15-4:00)
• THE HEARERS - (2:30-3:00)
• THE VALLEY ARENA -(1:45-2:15)
• PEACHCAKE(SideCho Records) - (1:00-1:30)

1/18/2007 We're off to MIDEM

We will be making our first trek to the MIDEM music conference in Cannes, France this Saturday. More details soon...

1/16/2007 Shiner - Making Love E.P. Re-issue

We are happy to announce that we will be re-releasing Shiner's Making Love E.P. Some updates to the original include an updated package design - Standard digipak w/ new cd artwork and Proper level adjustments! Due to an error in mastering of the original, some of you may have received a low level version. This problem has been corrected. The official street date is 03/13/07. We will begin accepting pre-orders on 02/26/07.

1/14/2007 Video Page Online

Our video page is now up. Check out the Roman Numerals' "The Rule of V" and the Architects' "Don't Call it a Ghetto." More videos coming soon. Click here to visit the video page.

10/6/2006 Anodyne Receives Props from The Pitch

A local label is often nothing more than a clever name that some unsigned band slapped on the back of its self-released CD. Not so Anodyne. For years, it was hard to tell just what Anodyne was doing outside of the immediate area, but now this little imprint has made its mark, thanks not only to owner John Hulston's organized ambition but also to one major factor: distro. Click here to read more.

Our ultimate party: We're headed out to visit a friend in Brooklyn. We take a few shots of Grand Marnier, and in our jacket pocket is this CD from a Kansas City band that was repeating on our iPod the whole flight over Click here to read more.

The Architects don't stop. Because nobody can stop them -- not indifferent music-industry lackeys and not a teenage American market enamored of black bangs and screamo. The Architects will still play a limited Warped Tour run, open for Rancid, headline at tiny KC venues and hold four-hour rehearsals several times a week so that every show they put on is an exercise in jackhammering the shit out of rock and roll's front porch and trampling its rose bed. Click here to read more.

9/27/2006 Architects photos available

We've got some photos posted over on the Architects band page. More pics from other bands, mp3's, and videos coming soon. Click here to see the pictures.

9/5/2006 Roman Numerals CD Release

The Roman Numerals self-titled debut will hit the streets on September 5th, 2006. We're pretty excited about this one and you should be too! There will be some regional release shows prior to the street date. Here they are:

• Aug. 18th - Hi-Pointe - St.Louis, MO


• Aug. 19th - recordBar - Kansas City, MO


• Aug. 26th - Opolis - Norman, OK


• Sept. 1st - O'leavers - Omaha, NE


• Sept. 2nd - Club Underground - Minneapolis, MN

9/5/2006 New Website Layout

Welcome to our new site!