All Hail The Rosebuds

Wow. The Rosebuds put on a truly stellar show at the Cat's Cradle last night! Kelly, Ivan, and Matt seemed to be having a blast and the crowd was more animated than most of the local crowds I've seen lately. The band played jams off all of their releases, as well as a personal favorite of mine, "Governor's Daughter" from the first Pox Compulation. The night ended in a sing-along, back to back with a full-blown dance party to the song "Get Up, Get Out." During the finale I saw some of the hottest dancing I've ever seen in the Triangle! Try and catch them at one of their upcoming shows:

1.17.08 - Rock & Roll Hotel - Washington DC
1.18.08 - Music Hall of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY
1.19.08 - Maxwell's - Hoboken, NJ

Also, even though it's all over the internet, check out their cover of Salt'n'Peppa's "Push It." That dog is amazing...

New Year, New Jams

So one of my unspoken, pseudo "resolutions" for 2008 is to listen to more new music. I'll periodically post my findings here. I'm not trying to be some cutting edge source for new jams, I'll just post things I found/am into each week. I'll start off with

1. Wye Oak -- They just signed to Merge this past week and their debut, "If Children," will come out in April. Vibrant Green had the pleasure of playing with them this past week and the Local 506 and it was a blast. Jenn and Andy put on a killer show and definitely won over everyone present. I'm sure it helped that their new Merge family was rolling deep and showing tons of support. I'm definitely looking forward to the next time they come through town as well as the record. Check out the song Warning!

2. Fleet Foxes -- In March, Aux House is playing with Fleet Foxes and Blitzen Trapper at Local 506 and we could not be more excited. I got really into Blitzen Trapper's "Wild Mountain Nation" towards the end of 2007, but just heard Fleet Foxes the other day. I've only heard a couple jams, but I'm really in love with what I've heard. Those vocals fucking kill me! Especially the song Oliver James. Take a listen! I'm really excited to play with these guys!

3. Transit Union -- 2008 started out with a bang when Transit Union finally put out some recorded material. These guys are really good friends of mine and I've been waiting for some recordings since the summer. The band is comprised of former Strunken White members Nagendra Jayanty, Noah Howard (also of Tiger Bear Wolf and Marijuana Wolf) and John Booker (also of I Was Totally Destroying It and Erie Choir), as well as Trekky Records manager/Aux House member Will Hackney. Head on over to their myspace and listen to their new demos.

4. Jason Anderson -- My introduction to the wonderful Jason Anderson was the Wolf Colonel record "Vikings of Mint," loved him ever since. I apparently missed out on this live album he put out last year called "Tonight." So far I really love it, pretty Springsteeny and fun. Check Saturday Night. According to the K website, Jason's got a new studio album coming out in April...very exciting. Also check out his pretty much daily song installment on his myspace!

5. Grizzly Bear- "Graceland" -- Found this on the Grizzly Bear Blog the other day. A kind of cool, rough but still pretty take on one of my favorite songs.

Xmas Wrap-up

I know it's been a little bit, but we'd like to thank everyone, once again, that came out to this year's Christmas at the Cradle. It was a huge success and a wonderful time as always. We can't wait for next year! We have a little media from the show we'd like to share. We'll start off with a little video that Lost in the Trees/Trekky Yuletide Orchestra cellist Leah Gibson made. It's just a little footage from rehearsals/preparations/radio promos we did for the Christmas show, set to TYO's original "Christmas Like No Other."



One of my personal highlights of Chirstmas show was Portastatic's killer set. Here's Mac performing Joni Mitchell's "The River." Thanks to Triangle Rock for posting the video.

Trekky Records Adopts a Highway

Trekky Records Adopts a Highway

I'm not sure if they have this all over the United States, but in North Carolina they have the "Adopt a Highway" program in which people adopt a stretch of road to clean up periodically and try to offset the crazy things that people throw out of their windows as they drive. Trekky Records decided to help out and adopt North Greensboro St. in Carrboro, North Carolina. We did our first cleaning last Saturday and it was actually fun! You should definitely consider adopting your own highway. We also found a lot of cool items on the side of the road that we pocketed, including:

-a gun that looks real, but is not
-a full pack of Magnum condoms
-a functional GPS tracking device!

So there you have it, if you adopt a highway you might actually score some sweet gear!

Trekky Records Best of 2007

Happy New Years everyone! To send off 2007 and usher in the new year, we have compiled some of our favorite records released this year. Check it:
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Jesse Ainslie (Barghest)

R Kelly- “Double Up”
Virgin Forest- “Songs From Virgin Forest”
Deer Tick- “War Elephant”
Earth- “Hibernaculum”
Neil Young- “Live at Massey Hall 1971”
St. Vincent- “Marry Me”
Phosphorescent- “Pride”
Karen Dalton- “Cotton-Eyed Joe: The Loop Tapes/Live in Boulder 1962”
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Martin Anderson (Trekky Management, Auxiliary House)

01. Beirut- “The Flying Club Cup”
02. The Avett Brothers- “Emotionalism”
03. Band of Horses- “Cease to Begin”
04. Spoon- “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga”
05. Panda Bear- “Person Pitch”
06. Bowerbirds- “Hymns for a Dark Horse”
07. Castanets- “In the Vines”
08. Animal Collective- “Strawberry Jam”
09. David Karsten Daniels- “Sharp Teeth”
10. Kevin Drew- “Spirit If…”
11. Bruce Springsteen- “Magic”
12. Megafaun- “Bury the Square”
13. Phosphorescent- “Pride”
14. Feist- “The Reminder”
15. Ryan Adams- “Easy Tiger”
16. Annuals- "Frelen Mas" EP
17. Maritime- “Heresy and the Hotel Choir”
18. Blitzen Trapper- “Wild Mountain Nation”
19. Hammer No More the Fingers- “s/t”
20. Grizzly Bear- “Friend” EP
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Clare Connolly (Auxiliary House)

01. Phosphorescent- “Pride”
02. David Karsten Daniels- “Sharp Teeth”
03. Animal Collective- “Strawberry Jam”
04. Caribou- “Andorra”
05. Jens Lekman- “Night Falls Over Kortedala”
06. White Williams- “Smoke”
07. Feist- “The Reminder”
08. Menomena- “Friend and Foe”
09. Six Parts Seven- “Casually Smashed to Pieces”
10. Beirut- “The Flying Club Cup”
11. Panda Bear- “Person Pitch”
12. Enon- “Gas Geysers... Carbon Clouds”
13. Georgie James- “Places”
14. Les Savy Fav- “Let's Stay Friends”
15. The Sea and Cake- “Everybody”
16. Blonde Redhead- “23”
17. Jose Gonzalez- “In Our Nature”
18. Of Montreal- “Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?”
19. Radiohead- “In Rainbows”
20. Akron/Family- “Love is Simple”
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Deez (Endless Mic)

The Rosebuds- “Night of the Furies”
Chromatics- “Night Drive”
Aesop Rock- “None Shall Pass”
50 Cent- “Curtis”
Redman- “Red Gone Wild”
Snax- “Love Pollution” (UK Edition came out in 06 but whatever)
Prince- “Planet Earth”
D'Angelo- “YODA: Monarch of Neo-Soul”
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Will J. Hackney (Trekky Management, Auxiliary House)

01. Of Montreal- “Hissing Fauna, Are You the Detroyer?”
02. The Avett Brothers- “Emotionalism”
03. Jens Lekman- “Night Falls Over Kortedala”
04. Bjork- “Volta”
05. David Karsten Daniels- “Sharp Teeth”
06. Feist- “The Reminder”
07. Spoon- “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga”
08. Elliott Smith- “New Moon”
09. Kanye West- “Graduation”
10. Phosphorescent- “Pride”
11. The Arcade Fire- “Neon Bible”
12. Menomena- “Friend and Foe”
13. Battles- “Mirrored”
14. Les Savy Fav- “Let's Stay Friends”
15. Panda Bear- “Person Pitch”
16. The Apples in Stereo- “New Magnetic Wonder”
17. Maritime- “Heresy and the Hotel Choir”
18. Bill Callahan- “Woke on a Whaleheart”
19. Adam Thorn and the Top Buttons- “Where's the Freedom?”
20. Castanets- “In the Vines”
21. Blitzen Trapper- “Wild Mountain Nation”
22. The Microphones- “Don't Smoke/Get Off the Internet”
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Josh Kimbrough (Butterflies)

The Sea and Cake- “Everybody”
Maritime- “Heresy and the Hotel Choir”
Joe Norkus- “Livin in the Wrong Times”
The For Carnation- “Promised Works”
Adam Thorn and the Top Buttons- “Where's the Freedom?”
Health- “Where you From?”
David Karsten Daniels- “Sharp Teeth”
Bowerbirds- “Hymns for a Dark Horse”
Joanna Newsom- “Joanna Newsom & the Ys Street Band”
People Dick- “Cock Uh Doodle Doo”
Barghest- “Thanateros”
Endless Mic- “Baby Geniuses”
Hammer No More the Fingers- “s/t”
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Emma Nadeau (Trekky Management, Auxiliary House)

Band of Horses- “Cease to Begin”
Beirut- “The Flying Club Cup”
Bowerbirds- “Hymns for a Dark Horse”
Endless Mic- “Baby Geniuses”
Feist- “The Reminder”
Lost in the Trees- “Time Taunts Me”
Menomena- “Friend and Foe”
PJ Harvey- “White Chalk”
Un Deux Trois- “Lovers”
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Joe Norkus (Embarrassing Fruits, Trekky Graphic Design)

Robert Pollard- “Normal Happiness”
David Kilgore- “The Far Now”
Thurston Moore- “Trees Outside the Academy”
Marmoset- “Florist Fired”
Castanets- “In the Vines”
Dinosaur Jr.- “The Far Now”
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Ari Picker (Lost in the Trees)

Radiohead- “In Rainbows”
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Stephen Tunnell (Vibrant Green)

Radiohead- “In Rainbows”
PJ Harvey- “White Chalk”
Ryan Adams- “Easy Tiger”
Wilco- “Sky Blue Sky”
Jens Lekman- “Night Falls Over Kortedala”
The National- “Boxer”
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See you in 2008!

love,

Trekky Records

Wonderful Press for The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra!

In case you didn't know, The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra is a 20+ symphonic Christmas band made up of members of The Never, Lost in the Trees, Auxiliary House, Embarrassing Fruits, Butterflies and Vibrant Green. They've gotten some press for their band and their big event "Christmas at the Cradle" (December 19 @ Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC) which features Christmas music from:

The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra
Portastatic
Ivan Rosebud (of The Rosebuds)
Annuals
The Moaners
Midtown Dickens
I Was Totally Destroying It
Schooner
Hammer No More the Fingers
Robo Sapien
Sweater Weather
Hosted by Billy Sugarfix

Here's links for all of the wonderful press!

Pitchfork Media
The Independent
The News & Observer
The Herald Sun
The Daily Tar Heel

The Never Tour in Blogs

The Never recently finished their tour, and a few lovely bloggers wrote about it. We share:

Bootleg Magazine
BBQCHICKENROBOT
Ryan's Smashing Life
Lunch of Champions
Philadelphia Style
Faronheit
Lowdown
Wildcat-Watch
Veritas Lux Mea

The Never Tour in Pictures

The Morning After in Oberlin, OH
Originally uploaded by trekkyrecords

Check out our Flickr account for some lovely pictures from The Never's recent tour with Annuals and Manchester Orchestra. All photos are by either Alyssa Reichardt or Laura Taylor.

[TRPC] Barghest w/ Castanets, Deer Tick and The Extraordinaires

The Trekky Records Printing Company strikes again with our finest work yet: a poster for the upcoming Barghest show at Nightlight.

We started with a screen of intricate, green foliage on gold cardstock.


Next, we added a Carolina Blue layer of show information. In this case: Castanets, Deer Tick and The Extraordinaires are playing!


We topped it off with hand-painted white and red flowers, making this our first 4-color project!

The final product! Come to the show to pick one up for cheap!

Building a Rehearsal Space

Here in the Trekky Mansion we've been doing some amateur construction as we complete our sweet rehearsal space. We put in drywall and plywood on the floor and built some risers for amps and drums. Now its a lovely space where The Never, Lost in the Trees, Butterflies, Embarrassing Fruits, Barghest and The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra all rehearse. Stay tuned for Trekky's Public Access video clips of how to build things, cook things, make things and trash talk.

The Trekky Records Printing Co.

The most recent branch of the Trekky Records Empire is The Trekky Records Printing Company. The company is in full swing screen printing posters for every show for all Trekky Records artists. We also can print on shirts, bags, wood blocks, tax returns and anything else. Just let us know if you want to patronize our services. Below are some samples of a recent poster!

Posters lined up to be spray painted.

The robin's egg spray paint pattern.
The final product!

An Interview with the Babies

The Carolinian just published an interview with the boys of Endless Mic. Read it here

It's a Boy!! Endless Mic Births an Album!

Endless Mic and Trekky Records are proud to announce the release of Baby Geniuses, the new album from your third favorite rap group! We're so proud that we're making the entire new record available for stream on Last.fm!! Check it out here! Once you're done with that, head on over the the Trekky Online Store and pick up the record or download it! If online is not your thing, go on down to your local record store and pick it up. If they don't have it, make sure they order some copies. The best part of releasing a record is the people listening, buying, loving, hating, and all that good stuff. So thanks for letting us have this little communion with you and share something we all really love!

Two Awesome Shows this Weekend

Sweater Weather will be playing a show celebrating the release their brand new, self-released album Now, Everyone Can Sing TONIGHT at Local 506 in Chapel Hill, NC. Sweater Weather also features Auxiliary House member Jon Mackey! Also playing are our good friends Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers and Kapow! Music. The show starts at 10p and is free!!

...and then on Saturday...


Trekky's favorite beer-drinking rappers will be the celebrity guests at DSI Comedy Theater's show Mister Diplomat. Make sure to come macaroni necklace of art rap perform with the diamond-in-the-rough of southern comedy. Afterwards, Endless will perform a set of material from their soon-to-be-released album Baby Geniuses!!

TRK Slip'n'Slide 2007

So summer's coming to a quick close, but us over here at Trekky lead the season out with a bang at our annual Slip'n'Slide party!

Jesse tends to the fire

Terpsikhore teaches us how to look like cartoons

Illuminati

Wil Donegan and Jonny double-team it.

My camera stopped working really early in the night, so there aren't a ton, but you can view the rest of the pictures here.