Happy New Year, everyone! 2012 was a nice start to our label here beautiful Newark, NJ. We released four records in four different formats, booked a few shows and connected with a bunch of like-minded, passionate music folks such as ourselves. We are thankful to everyone who listened to one our bands, attended a show, purchased a record from us and supported our bands in any way. It's been a wonderful learning experience going from running a blog to creating a record label. Thank you to Those Mockingbirds, Melissa & Paul, Boy Things and Bern & the Brights for releasing some awesome music this year. These bands have plenty in store for 2013. While we don't have plans for another release at the moment we have plans to do some booking and marketing for bands.
Some news on our bands now. Those Mockingbirds will be releasing a new full-length we wish them much success with. Melissa & Paul have sadly called it a day and will no longer be performing or creating music together. However, Melissa is working on solo music and Paul is being the creative, busy musical soul with three bands: Atlas, Hell Mary and Killed by the Bull. We wish them the best in their respective endeavors. It was awesome releasing a cassette tape for them. Boy Things is writing new music and will be playing shows in the coming months. They recruited Mat Nguyen, vocalist of The Vigor, to perform synth, guitar and vocals after Blake left the band over the summer. Bern & the Brights is approaching their 5-year anniversary as a band on Jan. 26th. They are always writing and playing shows, so expect to hear from them quite a bit.
Feel free to look around the the website and check out our release here, if you are new and just stumbling on this post: http://www.starbeatmusic.net/p/music.html
Finally, here are some of my favorite records from the year:
Janka Nabay - En Yay Sah
Regina Spektor- What We Saw From the Cheap Seats
Screaming Females - Ugly
Trophy Wife - Sing What Scares You
And EPs:
Atlas- It's Haunting
Boxed Wine- EP
Gatherer- Postcards
Ola Madrid- Distance is Decay
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