Pitchfork beat us to the punch this morning, but we’re very excited to announce a super limited Cassette run of a really great tape released this spring by Charlottesville’s Drunk Tigers and Andrew Cedermark!
We’ll post more details as they come. Please be sure to check back for pre-orders.
Don’t forget to grab a copy of the Whatever Brains Nesting 7”, those suckers are moving fast!
Attention people who like the lottery: IT’S GIVEAWAY TIME!
So we ordered one extra test press of the new Whatever Brains 7” Nesting, not really sure why, but we did it knowing we’d think of something cool to do with it. I think I figured it out. WE’LL GIVE IT AWAY!
So, if you’re interested in Winning the last of 8 Whatever Brains Nesting 7” Test presses, buy anything from our store starting TODAY (March 3rd) until March 22nd, and be automatically entered to win this record! Listen to it! Frame it! Put that shit on ebay! please don’t! If you don’t like good music, and you’d rather not win this test press, you can pick something else out of the store and we’ll ship that to you instead.
Also, pre-order people: Don’t get angry! If you ordered a Whatever Brains Nesting 7” pre-order alone, or in a package deal, your name will also be entered to win.
twitter it dog!
Rules:
-Purchase a minimum of one item from the Funny / Not Funny Records Limited Pressing store online and you are automatically entered to win a test press copy of Whatever Brains “Nesting 7”.
-Pre-order people that purchased the Whatever brains Nesting 7” before March 3rd are automatically entered into this contest
-If you don’t want this test press, please specify another item in the store that you’d like. Please note that some items may not be eligible.
-Your order will be shipped as soon as it’s received. The test, if you should win, will arrive after the contest deadline.
-The Winner will be contacted within 72 hours after the contest deadline.
To celebrate the arrival of The Whatever Brains Nesting 7”, we’re posting a special deal, in which you can purchase ALL 3 WHATEVER BRAINS 7”s for $15ppd (US). Head over to the store and check out of the recent additions!
Speakertree Records, located at 522 5th St. in Lynchburg, VA.
Times have been tough for my record collecting friends and I as of late. With Plan 9 Music closing in the spring of 2009, Harrisonburg record collectors have to drive an hour minimum to reach the nearest record store. With Record Store Day approaching, I figured it’s about time I highlight my favorite Virginia shop, Speakertree Records, owned and operated by a really great friend / fellow small-label upstart / DJ / tight dude Blair Amberly. Blair’s shop has a wonderful and diverse selection of new and used vinyl, which I’ve come to appreciate more with every record-store-less month that goes by. Speakertree is well worth the drive! I highly recommend making the trip.
Blair also just finished his first release under Speakertree, the debut LP for Cloud Nothings, a really wonderful rock band from Cleveland that’s currently EVERYWHERE (case and point while I was posting this Pitchfork just put up a review). Head to his site and pick up an LP, the first pressing is about to disappear completely. You can also check in our store, we’ll have a few copies of the first pressing in about a week or so.
Blair also just won a Record Store Day contest! The band Fucked Up held an open submission for photos, and picked the best 10 to go on their Record Store Day 7”. A photo he took of his 3-year-old equally awesome son Zhivan (check out a video of him jamming with The Ultra Dolphins here) mopping the store was chosen! How cool.
Website: http://speakertreerecords.com/
(DT And The Shakes opening for The Replacements at TRAX, Charlottesville, VA)
DT And The Shakes
http://www.myspace.com/dtandtheshakes
“we had a little scene in h’burg, but never later. remember bill callahan (willpower zine and later of Smog) once called us “one of the top 5 bands in VA”, i was like ‘what?’”
Here is a video of DT And The Shakes playing at THE LITTLE GRILL in September 1986:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea … ID=4444284
Here is a photo of The Mystic Den, a venue that used to exist where the Jail is now. 
Does anyone remember any of this, and/or has anyone ever heard stories of this? I moved to Harrisonburg in 2004 so I never saw these buildings and I don’t know anyone that lived her in the early 80s that went to shows then.
DT AND THE SHAKES ARE DOING A REUNION SHOW IN JUNE AT CARDINAL POINT WINERY!?!?
I emailed the person who set up the myspace page to see what the scoop was with their old records, and the records that they say are just sitting in boxes for their bands that followed, if anyone’s interested. I’ll let you know what comes of that.
Thanks Combs and Brent Finnegan for digging this up!
Another band that was brought to my attention was The Skanks. Here’s a video of them playing at The Mystic Den in 1986
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTb5FTMV … re=related
Thanks to Jason for the wonderful review! http://7inches.blogspot.com/
“This just in from another new label out of Harrisonburg, VA, Funny/Not Funny Records, with a couple of bands The Alphabet and The Invisible Hand and I only needed to hear this once to make it a contender for one of the best of 2010. I know it’s early, but something like this makes you just want to remember not to forget.”
Read the full review at http://7inches.blogspot.com/
Today is the day we have been waiting for since late 2009, we got the test presses back for the “Nesting” 7” and we are starting to take pre-orders! When we first heard the rough mp3s for this project, we all agreed that we needed to put out this record. Then when we heard the Test Lacquer about a month ago, we knew we had made the right choice. The Test Presses have once again proven that we made the right decision with this record, so now after three months of waiting, we are taking pre-orders for what we feel is going to be one of the best 7” records of the year.
If you are late on the Whatever Brains train, we are running a special during the pre-order period, where you can buy all three Whatever Brains 7” records for 15ppd.
We are also excited that today we are officially launching our new webstore! We have moved our store to http://funnynotfunnyrecords.limitedpressing.com/. We can now offer more information about our releases and have started stocking a small distro. Go take a look, and don’t forget to pre-order the new Whatever Brains “Nesting” 7”
-F/NF
DEMOS / SONGS FOR AMERICAN TOURIST / THE ALPHABET. DOWNLOAD HERE: http://www.sendspace.com/file/cc6qsr
TEST LACQUERS ARE IN VIA LUCKY LACQUERS THANK YOU DAVE!
TO THE PLANT WE GO. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR A PRE-ORDER IN A COUPLE WEEKS.
