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6/26/09
THE PHENOMENAL HANDCLAP BAND's DEBUT ALBUM OUT NOW!
The Phenomenal Handclap Band's debut album is finally out! And it's
insanely good. Rolling Stone just called the track "15 to 20"
"summer's first party jam... wildly catchy", and the New York Post
says it is "musically diverse, incredibly melodic, and dance-floor
ready. It's the kind of album that gives cookie-cuter pop the
thrashing it deserves". Pick it up from our webshop or at your
favorite local record store. The album is also available on iTunes,
eMusic, and Amazon.
And while you're at it keep up to date on the latest Friendly Fire Recordings goings-on by following us on Twitter.
5/18/09
PRE-ORDER THE PHENOMENAL HANDCLAP BAND
You can now pre-order the upcoming debut record by The Phenomenal Handclap Band on our order page.
Huzzah!
4/24/09
NEW SIGNING - THE PHENOMENAL HANDCLAP BAND
We are so very pleased to introduce you to our latest signing, The Phenomenal Handclap Band.
They're an NYC group led by veteran producers Daniel Collas and Sean Marquand, and featuring contributions from
L'Trimm, Calla, Sí Se, TV on the Radio, The Dap Kings, & The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
PHB blend psychedelic space disco & smooth 60s-style soul perfectly with early hip hop, and moody, synth-soaked hooks.
We'll be releasing their debut album this summer.
FAUNTS DIGITAL EP AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY ON ITUNES
Hot on the heels of their Feel.Love.Thinking.Of. full length, Faunts have issued a iTunes exclusive digital EP.
The EP features remixes of the title track by up and comers Mexicans with Guns, Leaf & Giraffe and Faunts themselves do a little re-working.
All this for the budget friendly price of $2.97.
2/2/09
WIN FREE T-SHIRTS!
From now until Tuesday February 17, anybody who preorders a copy of Faunts Feel.Love.Thinking.Of. here will be entered into a drawing to win free t-shirts from Faunts and Friendly Fire. Yay!
1/27/09
Happy new year! We're long overdue for a news update, aren't we?
FRIENDLY FIRE FEATURED IN BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
Ok, can we brag? We don't really read Billboard Magazine that much - but it's still a tremendous honor to be listed as one of the "next big indie labels" in their most recent issue. We're a member of the "Indie Class of 2009" alongside such distinguished company as Barsuk and Frenchkiss - pretty exciting considering that, until not too long ago, the label was run out of a bedroom in a fourth-floor walk-up in Brooklyn. To paraphrase the cigarette ad: we've come a long way, baby. And we have lots and lots of exciting stuff in store for 2009.
PRE-ORDER FAUNTS FEEL.LOVE.THINKING.OF. NOW!
We've been quivering in anticipation of getting to unleash the extraordinary new Faunts album Feel.Love.Thinking.Of.
upon the world for a while now, and now we're almost there - the album comes out February 17, and it's really, really, really good.
At once symphonic and sprawling; ambient, yet driving, Feel.Love.Thinking.Of. is the culmination of a year of touring,
recording, and meticulous exploration of the band's transcendent imagination. With its effervescent guitars, mathematic loops
and synthesizers, surging drums, and seemingly nomadic bass lines, this album is a beautiful expression of Faunts' painstaking
attention to instrumentation and arrangement. We think it's their best album yet.
Check out an mp3 of the title track!
Pre-order the album!
ASOBI SEKSU CITRUS AVAILABLE ON DELUXE 180-GRAM GATEFOLD VINYL
Ever since we put out Asobi Seksu's second album Citrus, people have been asking us if we'd be releasing it on vinyl. Well, the day is finally here! For all those who want to experience Citrus in all its hi-fidelity, technicolor glory, we've put it out as a limited-edition, 180-gram, gatefold-cover LP designed by artist Sean McCabe - and because we love vinyl *and* digital music, it also comes with a digital download code for the full album, plus bonus MP3 remixes by CSS and Ulrich Schnauss. Order it here.
FAUNTS REMIXED AVAILABLE NOW
Also currently available (and at a damn good bargain, if we may say so ourselves) is Faunts Remixed, a 4-track, 80+ minute long digital-only assembly of reworked songs from Faunts' first two records, spanning the gamut from four-on-the-floor dancefloor bangers to absract electro-acoustic soundscapes, courtesy of folks like Cadence Weapon, Mark Templeton, Brightest Feathers (aka Saxon Shore), Paronomasiac (aka Nik from Shout Out Out Out Out), Boy in Static, San Serac, Saxon Shore, and many more - including a sparkling reinterpretation of "Gone With the Day" from Faunts themselves. It's out now on iTunes... and did we mention it's only $5.99? Order it here.
More news soon!
Love,
Friendly Fire
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