Holiday Sale in Trekky Records Online Store!

We're getting in the holiday spirit over here at Trekky Records! We just put up a giant Christmas tree and you can bet the egg nog has been flowing at TRK Headquarters. In honor of the season, we're having a huge sale in our Online Store. We've created some sweet package deals and cut some prices to celebrate our favorite gift-giving time of the year. Its a great time to pick up something for your music-loving friends and family, or finally pick up that record you've been meaning to get for weeks. Here's some of the specials we're offering:


Various Artists - Trekky Records Starter Pack
The latest records from 5 Trekky Records artists for just $50!


Butterflies & Embarrassing Fruits - Residual Justice
Butterflies' Residual Child and Embarrassing Fruits' Frontier Justice for just $22!


American Apparel Trekky Records Shirts (Various Colors).
Rep for TRK for only $10


The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra - 5 for $50 Package.
A copy of A New Old Fashioned Christmas for all of your friends and family!


Butterflies - Nothing's Personal.
Now only $8!


Embarrassing Fruits - Community / Exploitation.
Now only $8!


Vibrant Green - Artless Yet Excellent.
Now only $8!


Screen Printed Posters (Including Fleet Foxes, Blitzen Trapper, Bowerbirds, Castanets, and all Trekky Bands).
Now only $3!

The dB's play Christmas at the Cradle, tickets on sale now!

Trekky Records is honored to announce that legendary jangle-pop veterans The dB's will play this year's annual Christmas at the Cradle show. Initially, we were lucky enough to snag dB's member and super-producer Chris Stamey for the show, but he was kind enough to assemble more dB's for the occasion. The dB's join an already stellar bill of extremely diverse North Carolina artists, who will all share their unique takes on Holiday music.

Tickets for the show are now on sale for the show, and we generally sell out every year, so we highly recommend that you go ahead and order tickets online, or pick some up at the Cat's Cradle or any of our fine local record stores. Proceeds benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Full details below:

Christmas at the Cradle 2010
December 16, 2010 at Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC

The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra
The dB's
The Old Ceremony
Filthybird
Phil Cook and His Feat
The Tender Fruit
Yardwork
Cassis Orange
In The Year Of The Pig
Hosted by Billy Sugarfix

Doors at 7PM. Show at 7:30PM.
$8 Advance. $10 Day Of.
Proceeds benefit NMSS.

Butterflies album out today!

We are honored today to release Butterflies' new album, Residual Child! The album is being released in one "everything-you-could-ever-need" package, complete with a vinyl record, a compact disc and an MP3 download code. The whole package is just $12, and as an added bonus, the first 25 copies come with a free Residual Child poster!

We're very excited for you to hear this album, so for a limited time, we'll be streaming Residual Child in its entirety, so you can have a full preview. Click here to hear the whole album right now!


Order Now!

You can also get the record at some of North Carolina's finest record shops, including CD Alley, All Day Records, Bull City Records and Schoolkids.

In case you missed it, here's a lovely video of Butterflies performing "Goodbye (Like A Stranger)", one of the most infectious tracks from Residual Child:



Butterflies have a couple special North Carolina appearances in December, and will be touring the South with Lost in the Trees in early 2011. Those dates will be announced soon. Come say hi to Butterflies!:

12-03 Durham, NC - Motorco Music Hall*#
12-10 Greensboro, NC - Legitimate Business#
12-11 Charlotte, NC - The Evening Muse
01-17 Tampa, FL - Orpheum*

* with Lost in the Trees
# with Veelee

MP3: Butterflies - Goodbye (Like A Stranger) [from the Residual Child LP]

Video: Lost in the Trees on NPR's Mountain Stage

Our resident folk orchestra, Lost in the Trees, has become a true darling of National Public Radio. After NPR music guru Bob Boilen awarded All Alone In An Empty House a prestigious "First Listen" honor, and featured the group on his Tiny Desk Concert series, he invited the group to help lobby for public radio on Capitol Hill. The band recently kept the NPR action going by playing on their Mountain Stage, a concert which was broadcast live, all over the USA. Here's an interesting interview with Lost in the Trees mastermind Ari Picker, including some clips of the band playing the Mountain Stage. Enjoy!

Video: LIVE! from Trekky House II: Butterflies

Back in 2008, we started a live video project called LIVE! from Trekky House, the purpose of which was to capture musical performances taking place at our homebase, a giant complex in Chapel Hill that was our home, office, recording studio and workshop. We captured some wonferful moments: Lost in the Trees in the meadow, Embarrassing Fruits by the fire pit, Vibrant Green in the attic. We've since relocated to a new giant house, and now that we're settled here, we've decided to revive the series. So here's the first installment of LIVE! from Trekky House II: a lovely, acoustic, backporch rendition of "Goodbye (Like A Stranger)", the infectious new song from Butterflies. Butterflies' new album, Residual Child will be released on November 23 in our signature LP+CD+MP3 package, but you can get your copy sooner by attending the album release show, a packed-bill blowout occuring at Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC, on November 20. The show is free, and will feature performances by The Strugglers, Erie Choir, Cassis Orange and Wes Phillips as well as Butterflies. For now, enjoy the video, and please feel free to download the studio version of "Goodbye (Like A Stranger)".

MP3: Butterflies - Goodbye (Like A Stranger) [from the Residual Child LP]

Fullsteam Brewery to unveil Lost in the Trees beer

Fullsteam Brewery in Durham, North Carolina, announced today that it would unveil an original, custom made, Forager beer in honor of Lost in the Trees, our resident folk orchestra. The Belgian Session Ale will be brewed with local figs picked from Raleigh's New Grass Gardens. Ari Picker of Lost in the Trees is a home-brewer himself, so this is an exciting honor for the band. The brew will be unveiled at Lost in the Trees' upcoming hometown show with Veelee at Motorco Music Hall on December 3. Starting that date, it will also be available at Fullsteam Brewery itself, so plan to stop by this winter to try it out!

Christmas at the Cradle 2010!

We are very pleased to announce the details for this year's Christmas at the Cradle celebration, our fifth annual Christmas show. We think we have the most exciting bill we've ever had and can't wait to see how these excellent bands interpret Christmas tunes. As always, we'll have The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra, our 25+ member Christmas super-group, as well as free snacks and drinks, a charity raffle with prizes from wonderful local businesses, classic holiday films, and a visit from the Bearded One himself, Santa Claus. Every year the show is a benefit for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and we are proud to keep that tradition alive this year. Here's the bands and details:

Trekky Records presents:
Christmas at the Cradle 2010
December 16, 2010 at Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC

The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra
Chris Stamey
The Old Ceremony
Filthybird
Phil Cook and His Feat
The Tender Fruit
Yardwork
Cassis Orange
In The Year Of The Pig
Hosted by Billy Sugarfix

Doors at 7PM. Show at 7:30PM.
$8 Advance. $10 Day Of.
Proceeds benefit NMSS.

Embarrassing Fruits' "Vanishing Frontier" Music Video Premiere!

The time has come. Here is the world (wide web) premiere of the music video for "Vanishing Frontier", the swampy second single from Embarrassing Fruits' brilliant Frontier Justice LP. The video features a trio of skateboarding grim reapers causing havok in all sorts of places. Filmed and edited by Trekky Records' Will Hackney and starring Ross Connolly and TJ Maiani of Butterflies and Thomas Costello of Mount Weather, the production was extremely DIY: an in-house project made by friends. We hope you enjoy it, and after you're done watching it, please download the MP3 for free! You can also order the album, a beautiful LP+CD+MP3 package, for just $12 from the Trekky Records Online Store.

Catch the Fruits live all over the Triangle:

11-11 Durham, NC - Motorco Music Hall (w/ Aminal and Duncan Webster)
11-18 Raleigh, NC - Tir Na Nog (w/ Americans in France and Kid Future)
12-04 Durham, NC - The Pinhook (w/ Cassis Orange, HOG, Hammer No More The Fingers)
01-07 Chapel Hill, NC - (w/ Wesley Wolfe and Wood Ear)

MP3: Embarrassing Fruits - Vanishing Frontier [from the Frontier Justice LP]
MP3: Embarrassing Fruits - Long Distance Breakup Summer [from the Frontier Justice LP]