3/17/2008: Parks and Records and the newest Sprocket! Congratulations to John and Mini Fee, the duo behind Mijuanito and one fourth of The Rum Diary, on the birth of their baby boy Charlie River! This tuck is sure to be one rambunctious indy rock superstar quoting Back To The Future and just being awesome around the playground! Aside from making babies, Jon and Mini have started their own record label, Parks and Records, dedicated to be an environmentally responsible company. They have a slew of swell releases lined up by some of my favorite indy rockers, including a solo project from Cory of Desert City Soundtrack. Check out their website to learn more of what they're all about. Labels: The Rum Diary [2 Comments]

11/02/2006: News Dump!!! I hope you had a safe and fun Halloween. Things at Springman HQ are BONKERS! Thank you for coming here for your Holiday shopping needs, we have lots of great cheap CDs and we appreciate your keeping our mail-order department super busy. Here is a band-by-band update! The Phenomenauts just announced another round of dates with The Toasters coming up this month! Visit their MySpace page for the details, and check back next week for EVEN MORE shows. The Phenomenauts' Annual Zombie Party was incredible as usual this year, with a surprise appearance by The Teenage HarNuts: Those with a good memory may remember The PhenomeNuts from last-year: Big D And The Kids Table just played two epic Halloween parties in Boston at The Avalon! If you have pictures or video from either show, please post it online for us to share! Big D just got done playing a bunch of shows with The Toasters, I like how they play with our bands on both coasts. Check out Big D on tour with Rancid in December! Visit Big D on Myspace for tour updates. The Groovie Ghoulies are almost done with their own Cramps tour, including their own Halloween show at The Fillmore in San Francisco! Check back soon for LOTS AND LOTS of shows all over California and more Ghoulie news... Updates on their MySpace page. Tera Melos just got back from an epic tour with The Fall Of Troy! There is no rest for the awesome, Tera Melos will be recording for an EP CD this weekend. Three songs, it will be about 30 minutes, I guess that's an EP? They played almost all new songs on this Fall Of Troy tour, if you caught any of the sets, you ARE EXTREMELY EXCITED about these upcoming recordings. Stay tuned to Tera Melos' myspace page for more news and tour updates. The Secretions are in the running to play the "Twisted Christmas" show at the Arco Arena in Sacramento! This would be the hugest show they have ever played, and our boys would get to make total asses of My Chemical Romance and Papa Roach. They won't make fun of Gnarls Barkley though. PLEASE!!!! Click here to vote. You have to register with KWOD first, it only takes a minute and if you click the box, they won't send you any annoying e-mails or ever bug you ever again. Lots of Secretions shows coming up all over CA (and even Reno), visit them on MySpace for show listings and other news updates, and word on Danny Secretions new radio show! Jason Webley just got back from tour Australia with The Dresden Dolls! Check him out this November touring the West Coast with a full band, including Jherek of The Dead Science and Xiu Xiu. If you attend one of the shows, please draw a unicorn for Jherek and tell him it's from me (Avi). This year's big Seattle show will be on November 11 instead of the usual Halloween! Tour dates and other updates are on Jason's website. The Teenage Harlets are laying low, having started a big fight with The Phenomenauts over their "Free Angel Nova" t-shirt.. Just kidding! See them on tour all January and February, including a bunch of dates with our secret crushes in The Rock And Roll Adventure Kids! Add them on MySpace if you're fifteen years old. The River City Rebels just got back from a very strange national fly-away tour of free shows paid for by a big evil cigarette company. I know lots of hippies who smoke, but none smoke independently made cigarettes, so eat a dick. It was a great tour, and debuted a bunch of The Rebels fucking incredible new songs! Stay tuned for more news on that. Listen on their MySpace page! The Rum Diary has been laying low, but has a brand new drummer and will start playing again next month! Stay tuned for news on that too. And check out their limited edition four-way-split 7" with The Jade Shader, Facing New York, and Years Around The Sun!!! Visit them too on MySpace. And check out Daniel's almost finished solo-project, Identical Homes, its panty-dropping music. *PHEW* I think that’s it for now. Our records are still in heavy rotation at the Sacramento post office down-town. PEACE Labels: Big D And The Kids Table, Groovie Ghoulies, Jason Webley, River City Rebels, Teenage Harlets, Tera Melos, The Phenomenauts, The Rum Diary [0 Comments]

9/07/2006: North VS South Another new project! We were going to announce it next week, but punknews.org scooped us: Four way split 7" with brand new exclusive songs from Facing New York, The Jade Shader (members of No Knife and Boilermaker!!!), The Rum Diary, and Years Around the Sun. Limited pressing of 500, hand-numbered, crazy rainbow wax, no two will look the same. CLICK HERE to pre-order, these will ship out over the last week of Sept and first week of October. I cream myself every time I'm reminded that this record is coming out. Labels: The Rum Diary [0 Comments]

8/24/2006: HELLA TIGHT Get your pre-order on!!! HELLA TIGHT will be shipping NEXT WEEK! $5 including postage. Nine-way split CD featuring hella tight exclusive recordings from some of my favorite local bands: Bridges, Identical Homes, Calling All Monsters, Shinobu, Brilliant Red Lights, Teenage Harlets, Pteradon (ex November Trials), Tera Melos, and Worker Bee. Limited hand-numbered pressing of 1,000. Labels: Teenage Harlets, Tera Melos, The Rum Diary [0 Comments]

2/08/2006: Dance, Punk, Dance This is what really happens backstage at the Warped Tour [Click for video] Notice the great dance moves from Springman employee Rob, along with Doug from the Punk Rock Holocaust DVD. In other news, Congratulations to The Rum Diary on their stellar new album We're Afraid Of Heights Tonight, already getting air on Live 105! We are all sold out on the vinyl, but have the rest of their catalog available in very limited quantities right here, much of which will soon be out of print. Labels: The Rum Diary [0 Comments]

12/30/2005: The Rum Diary back-catalog We have the very last of the Rum Diary back-catalog from Substandard Records. Act quick if you want any of these essential classics before they're gone for ever! Labels: The Rum Diary [0 Comments]

11/29/2005: We're Afraid Of Heights Tonight Here is an update incase you are still waiting on your copy of the new Rum Diary LP: [link] We don't have any left, but the band will have a very limited amount available at their upcoming shows. Labels: The Rum Diary [0 Comments]

11/08/2005: Winter Is Coming First I want to thank everyone who mail-ordered over the past two weeks for their patience. We got robbed recently and the related BS landed us about a week behind on filling mail-orders. Keanu Reeves was right, we are far to dependent on computers.. But the new one just showed up, I've been working for the past sixteen hours straight, and we are once again on-line and all caught up! (Don't worry, we didn't get more than five days behind, and if you don't have your loot yet -- it will be there soon!) Some updates: **TERA MELOS played a kick-head show at a warehouse in ghetto-Sacramento earlier this week! I would say "kick ass," but this time it was "kick head" as my lovely girlfriend Jessica was on the receiving end of Jeff's patented guitar-shredding-cart-wheel and blacked out from it. It was pretty awesome though, and the new Tera Melos songs will blow your mind even more than their album blows your mind already. **BIG D AND THE KIDS TABLE just had the most amazing Halloween show ever with sixteen foot jumps, costumes, a packed house with over 1,500 people.. Wow.. I'm bummed that I missed it, but next year for sure!! With Dave's jumps, Jeff's cartweels, and Danny Secretions - er, top secret, - we really should just start a Springman pro-wrestling league.. **THE PHENOMENAUTS just played a private party in New York City to celebrate the release of a children's book written by this rad Grammy award winning chick. OK it is 4am and I forgot all the details, but my point is that Weird Al was there, along with the Spin Doctors and I think Hootie from that blowfish band, and I guess they're all cadets now? (WTF) I'll post news about the book in a bit, it is quite awesome and The Phenomenauts are on the CD soundtrack along with all the bands I just mentioned. **THE SECRETIONS celebrated Danny's birthday party with all Sacramento bands doing Sacramento band covers, in an all-girls catholic school auditorium!! It was ridiculous, even an all-star Groovie Ghoulies cover band, with cake and unicorns. **THE RUM DIARY just played some shows with THE APPLE SEED CAST!!! And we finally have their LPs in stock!! They were to ship last week, but we didn't have proper padding for the envelopes to make sure you would get them safe.. but we just got a bunch of FedEx boxes that are the right size and easy to turn inside-out, so your LPs will be there very shortly.. And for making you wait, we are now throwing in MORE LOOT!! Not only do you get a totally awesome 45 minute DVD, but also a copy of The Rum Diary's split CD with The Killowathours (limited pressing of 2,000)!! If you already have it just give it to a friend and share the rock. That's enough for today. Don't forget to vote!! XOXO =AVI= Labels: Groovie Ghoulies, Secretions, Tera Melos, The Rum Diary [0 Comments]

8/28/2005: Jon Fee Gets Married! Congratulations to Jon (of The Rum Diary) and Mimi who will be getting married on September 4th on the tropical island of Molokai, HI! They had an OFF THE HOOK 80's theme wedding party last night in San Francisco, such cuties!!! Labels: The Rum Diary [0 Comments]

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