Hey everybody! I have no new release type news to announce this week but I thought I would take an opportunity to remind everyone about the ANTiSEEN / Blowfly Gray Trash West Coast Extravaganza, kicking off one week from today at the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles. (The full list of dates is, of course, listed on the shows page.) This particular show is going to be quite the par-tay too! As if a double bill of those two bands weren't enough entertainment in itself, opening the festivities will be two super sexy supergroups, Angus Khan & Suckerstar, battling it out for the title of... well, they won't be battling it out for anything really. I just made that up. But they will be playing.

And, in the name of full disclosure, both of these opening bands feature at least one person who has also been in at least one Steel Cage related band. Angus Kahn, for example, features the lovely and talented Mr. Bruce Duff of ADZ (etc) fame. This band also features a number of guys we've never worked with in terms of the label but whose previous bands have been written about a bunch in c14 over the years - Frank Meyer (Streetwalkin' Cheetahs), Derek Christensen (B-Movie Rats) and a couple other dudes, whose names I don't know off the top of my head, who may or may not have been in the Streetwalkin' Cheetahs or B-Movie Rats. (Sorry! LA band guys can be hard to keep track of.)

Suckerstar, on the other hand, boasts an impressive three out of five lovely and talented ladies who have been in three different SCR related bands. Or, wait... Wendy Lee "Sparkle Plenty" Gadzuk is actually only one person (with many different names); who has been in two different SCR related bands to date - the 440s and Whiskey Bitch. But Suckerstar also features Blare N. Bitch & Punky, who were both in Blare Bitch Project; and the group is rounded out by Blare's ex-Betty Blowtorch bandmate Sharon Needles and Lanie Fire, who has drummed for way too many bands to mention here.

Anywhoo, my point with that whole thing was to say, if I were you, I'd get there early. While you're there you can stop by the merch table(s) and admire the festive glory of the hot-off-the-presses ANTiSEEN / Blowfly split 7" we issued in honor of this momentous tour. (Pressed on gray vinyl, natch!) PS: if there are any copies left after the tour ends we will be listing them for sale here - and I'm sure the bands will be selling them on their respective sites as well - so, if you're interested, check back in a few weeks.

'til next update,
xo,
leslie

Hello people! And welcome to our first ever (I think) new release Tax Day Tuesday! Of course the Tax Day part kinda sucks, and this page seems like the wrong forum for political discourse anyway, so let's move right on to new release part.

Today we are pleased to welcome the newly expanded, newly fluorescent version of Hammerlock's Barefoot & Pregnant CD to our ever growing, yet still humble, catalog of full contact rock & roll. Although we have re-issued a few records at this point, this is actually the first time we've re-issued one of our own releases and I think that's pretty cool. More information on this edition can be found by clicking on the title above or by visiting the catalog page. And, in case you were wondering, yes - that means that SCR-010 is officially sold out.

Anywhoo, as you can see from the flyer at the right of this news post, they are playing a show at Your Hauz next Saturday; it isn't a CD release show per se but I am sure they will have copies on hand at the merch table. (Tell 'em Mrs. Steel Cage sent you. And that she says hi!) And, of course further information on this and oh so many other shows coming up over the next few months can be found on the shows page.

'til next update,
xo,
leslie

Hello people! If you've been following the trail of news updates over the past month or so you already know what we're here to do today... and if you haven't been following along that's fine. Just keep reading, it won't be hard to get caught up.

Anywhoo, I've been waiting for months (literally!) for this day to come so let's get on down to business. On this kinda warm, kinda damp new release Tuesday - the first official SCR new release Tuesday of 2008 - I am oh so pleased to finally, officially, welcome the Armazilla / Polecat Boogie Revival split 7" to our most humble catalog of full contact rock and roll. Yay! More information on this fine release can be found by clicking on the handy link earlier in this paragraph or by visiting the catalog page. And while you're clicking around maybe you'd care to mosey on over to the newly updated shows page; updated by yours truly this very morning and chock full o'tour dates.

In other news, the Steel Cage mail order department will be on Spring Break from March 8th - 16th so any orders that come in before, say, noon-ish on Friday March 7th will be mailed out on or before that day; orders placed in the week that we're away will be sent out on Monday March 17th. Cool? Cool.

'til next update,
xo,
leslie

For those of you who have been paying attention, tomorrow was supposed to be our first new release Tuesday of the year; and I have been looking forward to this occasion. But, as the saying goes, shit happens. In this case the shit that happened is that there was a glitch on the Armazilla side of the split 7", causing their otherwise loud and rowdy rawk tune to sound kind of muddy and weird, like you were listening to the song underwater. So, obviously, we had to reject the pressing and make the plant re-run the whole thing. The PBR side sounded f'in good though so, hopefully, they will fix whatever they did to screw it up in the first place - quickly - and both sound sides will sound good. Or rather, they better!

Anywhoo, let's plan on getting back together for that first new release Tuesday of 2008 two Tuesday's from tomorrow, okey dokey? In the meantime you can check out the newly updated shows page & start planning your Spring social calendar accordingly.

'til next update,
xo,
leslie