Hello again from Double Negative HQ. Keen-eyed readers may have noticed a few changes around here, but we figured that we should go ahead and put up some official “news” about all the radness going on. First and foremost, next week we’ll be releasing Kick, the debut album from our favorite Oakland-based lady foursome, The Splinters. Tomorrow night the girls will be celebrating with an official release party at Amnesia in San Francisco alongside Hunx and His Punkettes and Magic Bullets. If you can’t make it out, make sure and pre-order the album as fast as humanly possible.
In other Splinters news, the band recently completed a video for the song “Mysterious,” which you can check out below. It’s spooky.
Hello again! Remember us? Double Negative Records? We know it’s been awhile but we’re happy to report that tales of our demise were greatly exaggerated. In fact, we have a new band to introduce, a new record to put out, and a new sense of excitement about the Bay Area music scene.
First of all, we’d like to welcome The Splinters to the Double Negative family. This all-girl quartet from the East Bay is seemingly incapable of writing anything but adorable garage-pop ditties, so we’re thrilled to be releasing their official debut 7″, Splintered Bridges. The official record release show is happening this Saturday, August 1 in San Francisco (check the shows page for all those details – it’s actually a triple record release party), but those of you who aren’t in the Bay Area are more than welcome to buy yourself a copy of the record right here. The girls are even hand-decorating a very limited number of records, so make sure to grab a copy before they all disappear.
Hello folks. You may have noticed that not a whole hell of a lot seems to be happening around here. Sorry about the lack of updates, but it’s looking like we’re not going to have any proper releases in 2008. Nevertheless, Double Negative is still alike and kicking. We’re working on some things for 2009, promise!
In the meantime, a few of our artists are still playing shows and we still have plenty of items for sale over on the releases page. Keep coming back and checking in…once we get up from our nap we’ll be good as new.
Just yesterday our beloved in-house chanteuse Emily Jane White hopped on a plane for Europe, as she’ll be spending the next couple of weeks gallivanting around France and Switzerland as part of the Les Femmes S’en Melent Festival. We don’t know what that means either, but the festival includes a bevy of female artists from around the globe, including Peaches, The Concretes, The Long Blondes, Lesbians on Ecstasy and a whole lot more. Of course, we’ve always thought that Emily should be rubbing elbows with that kind of elite company so it’s nice to know the rest of the world is catching up.
Go to our shows page for all the latest details of her European adventures. While there you can also find a few shows she’s lined up in May and June after she gets back to her native soil, including the Dark Undercoat vinyl release party on May 24 in Santa Rosa, CA. Our pals at Saint Rose Records are going to be releasing a limited run of the album on wax, so all you vinyl fiends should start counting your pennies now.
Last month everyone’s favorite Oakland post-punk outfit unveiled Red Meadows, a self-released EP stuffed with new songs and remixes. Until now, the EP has only been available for download on websites like the Deli SF and whatever other blogs had picked it up.
As of today, Red Meadows has found a home on this website. Although the EP is not an official Double Negative release, we happen to think that it’s pretty damn good and wanted to make sure that as many Death of a Party fans as possible could hear it.
Go here to find all the details and download the EP. Let’s hope this doesn’t crash our server.
For those of you who would like to catch Death of a Party live, you will be happy to know that the boys have started playing a lot of shows again. Check out our shows page for their full calendar.