You heard it here first!
In a joint effort, Crossroads of America Records and Flannelgraph Records (both from Bloomington) are releasing a series of records on 3″ CDs that will be released monthly (2 releases per month) as a year long subscription service called the Laminar Excursion Monthly. Sales will open up on Monday, November 2nd and they are EXTREMELY limited to only 100 copies. Each 3″ CD will be approximately 20 minutes of new, unreleased music from each artist. Lots of the bands involved frequently play here in Louisville, so it will be a real treat for the first 100 people who decide to purchase it. Some of the incredible bands involved will be Damien Jurado, Richard Swift, Cotton Jones, Desolation Wilderness, J. Tillman, Saxon Shore, Bexar Bexar, and a host of others that will be announced in the coming days! With a roster like this and as cheap as it is (only $45!?), I cannot imagine this being around for more than a few hours before it sells out. Make sure to put this on your calendar and get ready to enjoy one of the coolest things to have come down the pipe in a long time.
With the labels both being in Bloomington, there are a ton of regional bands involved with the subscription service as well such as Everything Now!, husband&wife, Vollmar, Rodeo Ruby Love, Bro. Stephen, Metavari, Osteoferocious, Homecomings, Frank Schweikhardt, Alexander The Great, Chad Serhal, and more!
LEM = Most Perfect Christmas Present Ever.
From the horses mouth:
The intimacy of its sparsity and the intentionality of its medium promise to make this an even more fulfilling investment than a jelly-of-the-month club.
Subscribers will receive two new 3″ cds at the beginning of every month of 2010. A unique box will be sent with the initial shipment. Even if the rest of your world falls apart, you can still count on having two new compact discs arriving to your mailbox each month for the entire year.
Laminar Excursion Monthly will be limited to 100 subscribers.
The yearly subscription fee is $45.00 until January 1st. If any subscriptions are still available at that point, the fee raises to $50.00.
Subscriptions will be available at www.xrarecords.com beginning Monday, November 2nd.
