I'm re-designing our whole website this week! Feel free to leave comments (that is a new feature) and let me know if you have any ideas, suggestions, or anything on your mind. And PLEASE speak up if any of the links don't work or you find any other bugs here. It will take a few days before the entire sight is updated to this new snazzy layout. 12/27/06 Update: Major construction is complete! More new features are on the way, but everything should be working now.
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Thank you for being such a great person and buying Springman Records things for your friends over this holiday season!!! The post-office definitely got sick of seeing me twice a day as this has been our busiest holiday mail-order season ever!
I would also like to thank my property manager for not fixing the heater, since my fingers would be bleeding right now from packing so many orders if they weren't frozen solid.
But now: Stop ordering! We're done!
Mail-order is closed until January 3rd. You can buy stuff if you want, but it won't ship until January. Actually, please do buy stuff, we could use your money and you could use our great things, just be patient as we go on break. Interpunk.com might be open if you want to try them, but they only have 43 of our 70+ things in stock right now for some reason.
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Check out Big D And The Kids Table on tour in Europe with The Dropkick Murphies and then all across the USA with Anti Flag, Alexisonfire and Set Your Goals!
Europe with The Dropkick Murphies!
Thurs. January 25th Brussels, Belgium @ AB Fri. January 26th Tilburg, Netherlands @ o13 Sat. January 27th Essen, Germany @ Westadthalle Sun. January 28th Osnabruck, Germany @ Hyde Park Mon. January 29th Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso Tue. January 30th Leipzig, Germany @ Werk 2 Wed. January 31st Heidelberg, Germany @ Halle 2 Thurs. February 1st Vienna, Austria @ Gasometer Fri. February 2nd Hohenems, Austria @ Event Center Sat. February 3rd Bologna, Italy @ Estragon
USA with Anti Flag, Alexisonfire and Set Your Goals:
3/8/2007 New York, NY @ Irving Plaza 3/9/2007 Philadelphia, PA @ TLA 3/10/2007 Boston, MA @ The Roxy 3/11/2007 Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom 3/13/2007 Cleveland, OH @ HOB 3/14/2007 Detroit, MI @ Majestic Theatre 3/15/2007 Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave II 3/16/2007 Chicago, IL @ Metro 3/17/2007 Minneapolis, MN @ Trocaderos 3/20/2007 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox 3/21/2007 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theatre 3/22/2007 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore 3/23/2007 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern 3/24/2007 San Diego, CA @ SOMA 3/28/2007 Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee 3/29/2007 Salt Lake City, UT @ In the Venue 3/30/2007 Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre 4/5/2007 Clifton Park, NY @ Northern Lights 4/6/2007 Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom 4/7/2007 Washington, DC @ 930 Club 4/8/2007 Norfolk, VA @ Norva 4/10/2007 Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle 4/11/2007 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade 4/12/2007 Orlando, FL @ The Club @ Firestone 4/13/2007 Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution 4/14/2007 St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theatre 4/17/2007 San Antonio, TX @ The White Rabbit 4/18/2007 Dallas, TX @ Gypsy Tea Ballroom 4/19/2007 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre 4/20/2007 Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart’s 4/21/2007 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre 4/22/2007 Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theatre
Stay tuned for more Big D tour information, including shows in Japan and China! Their limited edition split LP with Brian Failure will be out at the end of February on Springman Records.
The Phenomenauts video for "Mission" is now featured on the front-page of YouTube.com!!! Please go give it a "five star" rating.
If you just found us from that video, thanks for visiting! Here are the Phenomenauts things we have for sale:
Update:DEAD & DEADER starring Dean Cain has it's world premiere on the Sci Fi Channel this Saturday, December 16 at 9PM. "Galactic Pioneers" by The Phenomenauts plays over end credits, check it out!
Check out our holiday deals! Lots of music is listed to the right, including special low-prices for compilation and Phenomenauts related packages. Our prices are low, the music awesome, and mail-order is getting sent out three times a week, so hurry up and purchase your friend's love for the new year!
On to the news:
Check out Big D And The Kids Table's website for studio updates as they record their upcoming full-length for our friends at Side One Dummy! The demo's for their new songs are incredible, come March or April when that record comes out, we will all be in for quite a treat. To hold us over until then, their split CD with Brain Failure (from China!) will be released on February 20th on Bad News Records. We are pleased to announce that the vinyl version will be on Springman with a limited pressing of 1,000 on colored wax! More info on that one soon.
Thanks to everyone who gave "five-star" ratings to The Phenomenauts music video for "Mission" over at MySpace.com, putting us on their front-page for a week and getting over 110,000 full video views!!! I still can't believe that happened, and would like to welcome all the brand new cadets to this here lovely website. The Phenomenauts have just a few shows booked right now that we will be announcing very soon, but will be back with a very triumphant return in March or April with loads of new material and effects! And hey, with all these new songs, you never know whats just around the space-corner...
The Teenage Harlets will be doing a little west-coast tour in January with our idols in The Rock And Roll Adventure Kids! Also in the works is a series of super-sweet split 7"'s that we'll be telling you more about going into 2007.
Tera Melos is doing a shit-load of shows all over the country with The Fall Of Troy! They just got out of the studio too, and if we can get our shit together on time for this tour, well, I'll tell you later, just be excited. Be very excited.
And finally, thank you to TUK Shoes for hooking up The Phenomenauts, Big D And The Kids Table and The River City Rebels! When you see us looking all bad-ass and tall, its TUK's fault.
I just got these pretty red ones:
OK Happy Holidays everyone. I will now go back to filling your mail-orders and finishing my homework (The semester is almost over! I have 60 more pages to write!) -- OH, and if you live in Sacramento and happen to be coming out for KWOD's "Twisted Christmas" concert at the Arco Arena later today (Friday), I will personally be dressed up like that guy from My Chemical Romance and doing some WWE shit that would make Andy Kaufman proud up on stage during The Secretions' set! They play first, so get there early! We will be bringing the real Black Parade. If you don't have $35, don't worry, we'll post it on YouTube. I'm excited about seeing Gnarles Barkley and MCR.
Check out Tera Melos on tour all January and February with Fall Of Troy!!! Final dates coming soon, but for now check out the tentative info on the Fall Of Troy website. == We've gotten way to much e-mail about this:
Big D And The Kids Table's next album will be on Side One Dummy Records. This is GREAT news for both us and for Big D. We are incredibly stoked on what we were able to accomplish for the band over these past two years and glad we were able to be such a great launching point for them. Our involvement with the band is far from over, and some of the band's best material ever is in the process of being recorded.
As a personal note, I started going to college full time about a year ago, and began very actively searching out new label homes for our bands, labels that could do more than we could. Springman by no means folding or closing down, but with my #1 priority for two years being school instead of the rock-n-roll, it wouldn't be fair for me to hold anyone back. Over this time, our entire roster has made incredible leaps and bounds. Big D is the first band to have some pretty rad announcements in this field, but look out for the rest of our roster to be graduating very shortly, and we couldn't be happier with our accomplishments. And don't worry, there is a new generation of absolutely incredible bands that we are working with full time, and the old guard won't be disappearing anytime soon. == I'm glad organizations like Google are doing things like this. I'm not sure if it really means anything so far, but they have resources and are thinking about it. In related news, the Logan Whitehurst website is back online at this temporary URL while Michael gets the .com back: http://www.loganwhitehurst.net We would be glad to host any MP3s or anything else if we can be of service. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you very seriously need to find out. Scroll down, and click/click/click.
Logan was an incredible special, and endlessly gifted, person. Possibly the most grounded and mature person I have ever met, Logan also had the pure joy of a child, always approaching life with a inspiring since of optimism, despite how downright unfair (my words, never his) things can become. I speak for everyone involved with this label, its bands and those associated with us, when I say that Logan will be missed terribly.
2. The "Mission Transmission" EP by The Phenomenauts is back in print for a very limited time only! This is the final pressing ever, hand-numbered to 500 on supernova-White-hot Wax.
3. Livin' On A Prayer, as performed by Jason Webley and The Dresden Dolls, with bonus philosophical discussion:
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