Here is a song for you. Here is the original.

In Memoriam: Samantha Jane Dorsett (Plan-it-X Records)

The dedicated fan community at Plan-It-X Records are reporting that label co-founder Samantha Jane Dorsett has passed away. Details are sparse at this time, but Sam recently suffered a 50-foot fall in Berkeley which resulted in broken bones and extensive spinal injuries. Earlier this year the Plan-It-X community released a benefit tribute to raise money for her recovery.

Dorsett (the “Sam” from the label’s slogan “In Sam We Trust”) co-founded the Plan-It-X in 1994 with Chris Johnston. She also released music on the label under the name Peanucle. Dorsett was credited as a founder of Boxcar Books and a member of the Long Haul Infoshop.

Our deepest condolences go out to Sam’s family and friends.

All we’ve got is each other.

In Sam We Trust.

The Hard Girls have posted a music video PowerPoint Presentation for the song “Punkers, Too.” The video presentation dispenses helpful information about Punkers while dispelling popular misconceptions.

The song is from the San Jose band’s debut split CD with The Albert Square, recently released on Silver Sprocket!

The Silver Sprocket Bicycle Club is proud to present Andrew Jackson Jihad: The Pillowcase!

Snuggle with your favorite Andrew Jackson Jihadist, screen printed in actual size right on your new favorite pillowcase! If you get tired of touching, flip it over to sleep side by side!

We made a batch of 120 to start on high quality 180 thread-count pillow-cases.

Who knows how long they’ll last or if we’ll make more? Available for mail-order right here for just $14, and on tour soon from Andrew Jackson Jihad!

Send in your pictures of the pillowcase in action. Our favorites will get posted online.

Credits: This one was a big team effort. Eoin came up with the idea, Jessie made the sleeping caps, Elise wrote the words, Avi organized everything and took the pictures (using Brooke’s camera after smashing his, in Sacramento at Kevin Second’s coffee shop after hours), then Steve at Contagious Graphics did the color separations and screen-printing on oversized equipment he built by hand just for this project.

Coming soon: A split 7″ with Andrew Jackson Jihad and The Gunshy! They’ll be recording it together in Chicago as one big super-sized jam-band, holy crap I can’t wait!

In the News:

• Kansas City Pitch – 6/4/2009

What’s Bullit looking at?

A Box?

OH HEY i KNOW!!!

After fifteen years, it’s finally here! The Shang-A-Lang / Brickfight split!

Mitch Clem (of Nothing Nice To Say fame) presents a split EP between Shang-A-Lang and Brickfight, serving up a heaping dose of gritty pop-punk from two of our favorite up and coming bands today. The debut release from Clem’s new label, Facepalm Records, these six tracks are instantly catchy, with hilarious song titles like “I Don’t Want To Hear a Song About Junkies Unless It’s Sung By Jeff Ott …and Even Then Not Really,” with original cover and inside artwork by the man himself and a limited pressing of 550 records worldwide on clear wax.

Buy it right here for $4.50!

The first 50 orders come with a New Kids On The Block backstage pass! Yes, I am serious.

Also available from: It’s Alive!, Interpunk, Vinyl Collective. And once they update their catalogs: No Idea, Fast Crowd, Lets Pretend, Dirt Cult, and Dead Broke Records.

P.S. We are almost out of the Nothing Nice To Say Days Of Future Past shirts, go get one if you want one! Combine orders, save on postage, Tru Punx!

and when its over, there will be a big gay rainbow.

Dont take no guff.

Presenting our first collaboration with estimed indy artist Attaboy, the Gooberry is a designer plush measuring 12.5 inches tall, complete with pull-string voice box and squeakers!

Each Gooberry has been freshly picked from a secret Gooberry Patch before ripening just for you!

Photo by Brian McCarty

Like a newborn’s skull, their soft skin has yet to be fully formed, so a Gooberry is very impressionable and extra-sensitive to your each and every touch!

Please, please, DO NOT attempt to eat a Goobery, as they taste like strawberry whipped crème.

DO NOT pull a Gooberry’s string, as each pull, although wholly satisfying to you, brings the Gooberry that much closer to a most painful death.

*The first 45 talking Gooberries will be available exclusively at Attaboy’s “A Touch of Evil” art show June 13th in Los Angeles, CA, at the POV Evolving Gallery where folks can pick their own unripened Gooberry direct from the Gooberry Patch.

*A second batch is available direct through pre-order starting today, right here at Silver Sprocket (to be sent in July)

*A small amount will then be available at the Hi-Fructose booth at the Sandiego Comic-Con and then at select retailers.

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The New Trust are going on tour with one of our other favoritest local bands, The Action Design!

Visiting California, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and California again.

Get their new split EP with Pteradon here, and click below for details on tour dates and such!

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I got a little stir-crazy in my room here (pictured to the left) and updated all sorts of poop on this website. 

A new catalog page now lists everything we put out!

And lots of new additions to the artist page!  Artists we haven’t even announced projects with yet!

What are we doing with Jesse Michaels? Attaboy? Andrew Jackson Jihad? The Gunshy? I’ll tell you later.

Brickfight is one of the best punk bands you haven’t heard of yet.

Mitch Clem turned me on to them last year, and I eagerly agreed that we should put out a split EP with them and fellow pop-punk hero’s Shang-A-Lang.

Fifteen years later, Rainbo Records has lost shit, broken plates, forgotten about us, won’t return emails… But swears I’ll see the finished records “this week” (which they told me last week). Seriously, I’ve lost all hope, but will throw a big party once (if ever) these EPs show up at my door.

But you should throw a big party all May long, because holy fuck, Brickfight is going on tour!

May 4 @ Lost Cross w/ The Dopamines, The Copyrights. Carbondale, Illinois
May 5 @ Audrey’s House w/ The Dopamines. Murray, Kentucky
May 6 @ The Nuthouse w/ The Dopamines. St. Louis, Missouri
May 7 @ Infoshop w/ the Dopamines, The Needlepoints, Sleeper. OKC
May 8 @ 1919 w/ The Dopamines- EARLY SHOW!. FT. WORTH, Texas
May 8 @ Chat Room Pub w/ The Dopamines. FT. WORTH, Texas
May 9 @ Cafe Revolucion w/ The Dopamines, Something Fierce, Capatalist Kids. San Antonio, Texas
May 10 @ The Burnside House w/ The Dopamines, Shang-a-lang, Buckeye. El Paso, Texas
May 11 @ Trunk Space w/ Rumspringer, The Dopamines. Phoenix, Arizona
May 12 @ Radio Room w/ The Dopamines, BreakerBreakerOneNiner, TBA. San Diego, California
May 13 @ Characters w/ The Dopamines, TBA. Pomona, California
May 14 @ Juanita’s w/ The Dopamines, The Uglysticks. Los Angeles, California
May 15 @ 924 Gilman w/ The Dopamines, Canadian Rifle, Anchor Down, Emily’s Army. Berkeley, California
May 16 @ Mafia House w/ The Dopamines. Portland, Oregon
May 17 @ Funhouse w/ The Dopamines, TBA. Seattle, Washington
May 17 @ Late show @ FBK House w/ the Dopamines. Seattle, Washington
May 18 @ The Boulevard w/ The Dopamines. Spokane, Washington
May 19 @ The Filling Station w/ The Dopamines. Bozeman, Montana
May 20 @ Pangea House w/ The Dopamines, ?. Minot, North Dakota
May 21 @ Getthefuckouttamyhouse w/ The Dopamines, Banner Pilot, Strait A’s, Pretty Boy Thorson. Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 23 @ Windy City Sound Clash at Reggie’s with every band ever.. Chicago, Illinois
May 23 @ Windy City Sound Clash AFTER PARTY @ Lucky Gator Loft w/ Liarbirds, The Dopamines. Chicago, Illinois
May 29 @ Ronny’s w/ Sass Dragons (?), Rumspringer (AZ). Chicago, Illinois

New split EP with Shang-A-Lang, coming out eventually, hopefully, maybe, oh fuck it, we quit.  

If you live in the SF Bay Area, hang out with us May 15th at the 924 Gilman St show. Come early and we’ll have a party with sidewalk chalk and free vegan BBQ!

My buddy Aaron Davidson designed this postcard to spread a little cheer.

Send it to those you love, just to make sure they know. Also great for discreetly handing off on the bus or flashing across a crowded bar. Printed on recycled paper with soy inks, just because. Get a pack of 5 right here for $2, and check out Aaron’s band, The Brilliant Red Lights (with lots of free music downloads!), and his blog, Brilliantism!