The Physics of Meaning Daytrotter Session

Our dear friends over at Daytrotter are the best website on the internet for great exclusive session recordings from the best bands around. Trekky's newest addition, The Physics of Meaning recently stopped by the Daytrotter Studio in Rock Island, IL for a session and we have the wonderful result for you right here. The session includes two songs from the upcoming Trekky/Bu Hanan release Snake Charmer and Destiny at the Stroke of Midnight, as well as
a song from Physics' self titled debut and an unreleased song called "Annabelle Lee" which is an Edgar Allen Poe poem set to music in honor of the Day of the Dead. All four songs are available for free download at Daytrotter.


The Never have also done a Daytrotter Session, one of the first that the site ever released, actually. You can scope that here.

Trekky Records welcomes The Physics of Meaning

We are thrilled to announce that Trekky Records will be releasing the next record from one of our favorite bands, The Physics of Meaning. The band is led by violin virtuoso Daniel Hart, also a frequent member of St. Vincent, John Vanderslice and The Polyphonic Spree. More details to come, right now we just want to welcome Daniel and Physics to the Trekky Family and let you know to look out for a new record from Physics, to be released by Trekky and Daniel's own Bu Hanan Records on September 16.

Video: LIVE! from Trekky House: Embarrassing Fruits

To celebrate the announcement of Embarrassing Fruits' new EP, The First Time, we are proud to present the next installment of our weekly LIVE! from Trekky House online video series. Here we see Embarrassing Fruits playing "Bicycle", a track from The First Time around the fire pit at Trekky House where we like to start fires and stare at the flames for hours and hours. Drink up:

Embarrassing Fruits has a new EP!

Listen up! We would like to humbly yet boldly anounce the release of a new 5-song EP from Embarrassing Fruits, widely known as one of the "hardest bands around". It is called The First Time and is packaged in a beautiful, 3-color screen printed digipak made by Embarrassing Fruits and The Trekky Records Printing Company. The EP is the first release of recordings made in The Owl Room, the official in-house studio of Trekky Records. The CD will be available 08.05.08, but here's the title track to get you PUMPED:

MP3: Embarrassing Fruits: First Time [from the upcoming The First Time EP]

Video: LIVE! from Trekky House: Butterflies

For this week's edition of LIVE! from Trekky House, we have Josh Kimbrough of Butterflies in the forest. These are the woods right next to Trekky House. Unfortunately a lot of the trees around Josh have been cut down because the neighbors were afraid they would fall on their house. You should plant a tree at your place to offset this forest destruction. Anyways, Josh plays a beautiful alternate version of his song "Forklift" while sitting on a stump and it is just gorgeous. We hope you dig:

Video: LIVE! from Trekky House: Wil Donegan

The hits keep rolling in with our LIVE! from Trekky House video series. This week we have Wil Donegan, troubadour. Wil sings his song "I'll Be Fine" through the door of the Blue Bird, our trusty tour bus. Wil frequently plays live and full band with the Apologies, but here we have an intimate solo performance. Mmmm!

Video: LIVE! from Trekky House: Vibrant Green

Time for the third installment of our LIVE! from Trekky House video series. Every Sunday the director of these videos, Jon Mackey, delivers a new episode to us and every time we are thrilled with the product. We hope you like them, too! This week's video is a haunting yet pleasantly jovial performance of "The Barn Dance" by Vibrant Green, live from the darkness of the attic of Trekky House. Vibrant Green is led by Stephen Tunnell and filled out by his two younger brothers, Jonny and Joah. This song is actually about Joah, which is great!

Video: LIVE! from Trekky House: Barghest

Here we are with the second episode of our new video series, LIVE! from Trekky House. As you might have guessed, the series involves the artists of Trekky Records playing live at the home of Trekky Records. Last week we heard from Lost in the Trees and the response was wonderful. Now we present to you: Barghest. The band is fronted/led/masterminded by one Jesse Ainslie, who is also a member of Castanets. The song he plays in the video is called "There Is No Hiding" and it is an acoustic version of the song that will be appearing on Barghest's upcoming LP. Enjoy!

Video: LIVE! from Trekky House: Lost in the Trees

As the first installment in our new LIVE! from Trekky House online video series, we present Lost in the Trees, a folk orchestra led by Ari Picker. Here we see Lost in the Trees in full force with guitar, bass, drums, tuba, euphonium, cello, viola, violin, mandolin and accordion, playing in the meadow behind Trekky House in Chapel Hill, NC. Enjoy, and look for a new edition of LIVE! from Trekky House every monday!

Trekky Records presents: LIVE! from Trekky House

We are proud to announce a new online video series filmed by our dear friend Jon Mackey. It is called LIVE! from Trekky House, and as you might have guessed it involves the artists of Trekky Records playing live at our house. You'll see all sorts of terrain and environs, and lovely acoustic and alternate versions of songs from Barghest, Butterflies, Embarrassing Fruits, Lost in the Trees, The Never, Vibrant Green, Wil Donegan and more. The first video will be released next Monday! Scope the teaser trailer:

Video: Jesse Ainslie (Barghest) in Castanets' Tendrils Film

We told you a few weeks back about the upcoming release of the Castanets Film, titled Tendrils. Well, its out now so go pick up a copy. The DVD features friends of Castanets re-interpreting the songs of Castanets. Our very own Jesse Ainslie of Barghest is a frequent member of the band so its no surprise that he is featured in the film. Pitchfork.tv, a wonderful new internet music video channel, is streaming the film this week, so check out our boy Jesse singing "Three Months Paid" and telling a dirty joke.

Trekky Records announces TRKfest

We're getting into that special time of year: Outdoor Festival Season. We here at Trekky Records are not ones to sit out on anything, so we're throwing our own!
We've named our extra-special one day outdoor festival "TRKfest" which we are pronouncing "trek-fest" but really you can call it whatever you like as long as you come. We've asked the excellent bands in our collective as well as some of our friends bands from the Triangle to join us for 10 hours of glorious music on May 31. Here's the bands:

The Never
Bowerbirds
Endless Mic
Megafaun
Embarrassing Fruits
Hammer No More the Fingers
Butterflies
The Future Kings of Nowhere
Barghest
Wil Donegan and the Americans
Vibrant Green
Sweet By & By

We'll kick things off at 2PM and roll right on thru Midnight. There will also be food, snacks, games, giant chess, crafts, art and all sorts of other things. The event will be held at a wonderful little biofuel plant in Pittsboro, NC, called Piedmont Biofuels. Click here for directions. Can't wait to see you there!

Joe Norkus (Embarrassing Fruits) on Screen Printing and Design in The Daily Tar Heel

Diversions, the excellent Thursday section of The Daily Tar Heel, published a very nice article about local screen printers that featured Joe Norkus of Embarrassing Fruits, Nice Guys Design and The Trekky Records Printing Company.

Barghest on New Castanets DVD

Asthmatic Kitty's Castanets are releasing a DVD in May and it looks awesome! The DVD will feature Jesse Ainslie of Barghest, as Jesse is a frequent touring and recording member of Castanets. Check out the trailer here:


Castanets: Tendrils [Trailer] from Asthmatic Kitty on Vimeo.

Adopt A Highway #2!

The Trekky Mafia loves Carrboro, North Carolina, and we thought the best way to show it would be to clean up the streets! We adopted North Greensboro St. in the heart of Carrboro, and every few months we are charged with the responsibility of picking up people's bottles, cans, plastic wrappers, cigarettes and other random refuse. Its actually a good bit of fun, and we highly recommend that you get involved with yr local Adopt A Highway program.

We started out near Weaver Street Market on a beautiful, sunny April morning:


About 20 minutes later, the heavens opened up and poured gallons and gallons of water on us, and that pretty much continued for the next couple hours. It was great! Here's how we looked afterwards: