COMING SOON

May 31st 2009

Full steam ahead as summer approaches. Ex Wives (RID-015) due early July. Cripple and Casino (RID-016) due early August. Wisdom Teef (RID-017) due early August. Check back soon regarding our participation in a release by Louisville's Straight A's. Best wishes from Oly!

May 3rd 2009

Wisdom Teeth are now Wisdom Teef. Check it accordingly.

Fucking Dutch is mastered and about to be pressed. Still shooting from the hip for a late spring street date. More soon...

Cripple and Casino's debut has just been mastered by Ben Adrian of Replicator / Guitar vs. Gravity. Estimated street date soon...

We're now on Twitter! Fuck if we know what to do from here.

April 18th 2009

Says Andrew Fetter of Ghettoblaster Magazine...

Okker - Two Axes

Score: 4 out of 5
Scotland's Okker is made up of a bunch of other Scottish bands you've never heard of. That will not matter at all after listening to their debut, Two Axes. It will become obvious very quickly that these guys know their shit and also don't like to sit still. Simply put, this is a 28-minute mess. It flies all over the place and takes no prisoners. All ten of the very short songs change from fast to slow quite often and very few parts repeat themselves. Very reminiscent of June of 44 and Slint, which is always good. Others are very difficult to put your finger on, which is even better. Definitely in the post-punk genre (whatever the hell that means anymore) so if that's your thing, get this as soon as possible.

Tiger Shower Caps - S/T

Score: 4 out of 5
The first track is a short dance intro that doesn't really fit, but was kinda funny so I'll let it slide. What follows is a half-hour of noisy indie-rock that's been done a lot, but is still done well in this case. This has plenty of fast moving, treble-heavy guitars that remind me of No Knife a lot. In spite of all familiarity, this never gets repetitive or loses momentum start to finish. A difficult feat to reach.

Wisdom Teeth - S/T

Score: 4 out of 5
This 15 minute EP from Olympia, WA's Wisdom Teeth feels even shorter than it is. You just start to get into it and all of a sudden it's done. It's moved on. Get over it. All five songs have high energy from start to finish, which is good, but at times, the music feels a bit scattered, like they're not really playing together. The production is very raw, but it's definitely more of a positive. Most of these songs would actually sound worse with a more polished sound. The highlight of this EP has to be frontman Forrest Peaker's voice. The vocals aren't really sung or screamed, but more so wrenched out. It would be very interesting to hear what they would do with an entire album.

March 21st 2009
Bhava's "Double Jump Carpiato" is NOW AVAILABLE via our store page. Keep in mind that this is the english language version of the release. We're very pleased to offer this to the masses. This release would be best described as an honest-to-goodness mind fuck. Art-rock collides with post-hardcore at a pace, and for a duration, that's geared toward those at an attention deficit. We'll be making arrangements to purchase copies of the italian language version for distribution here in the states. More on that soon...

March 3rd 2009
Bhava's "Double Jump Carpiato" is just days away from being available through our store. This here is the english language format. An Italian label collective has put together a fine package for the Italian language format. We're going to be importing some of these for fans who have gone nuts for the english format. Check back soon...
Glasgow's EX WIVES have submitted tracks and artwork for their forthcoming "Fucking Dutch" 7". Here at RID we're well aware that this release is already two months late. For those waiting, rest assured knowing that this will be well worth it.
Zagreb's Cripple and Casino are putting the finishing touches on what will be their debut full length recording. We'll be offering this fine recording in the compact disc format later this year.
Considering that this label was modeled after the circa-90s Touch & Go Records, we'll take our collective hats off to the staff responsible for some of the greatest releases we music enthusiasts have ever heard. Great work by all!

January 9th 2009
Hits 2008
1.) Suzanne'Silver / Wisdom Teeth West-Coast tour, March 20th - 29th
2.) Young Widows - Old Wounds CD (Temporary Residence)
3.) Replicator - "Baby I Want To Terraform Your Planet" (Whangbar Province EP, Radio Is Down)
4.) Tiger Shower Caps - S/T CD (Radio Is Down)
5.) Okker - Two Axes CD (Radio Is Down)
6.) Skyscraper Magazine
7.) The Economist
8.) Monotonix at The Brotherhood Lounge
9.) Norma - Book of Norma CD (Novoton)
10.) Straight A's, Louisville
11.) Ghettoblaster Magazine
12.) The Last Record Store, Santa Rosa
13.) Ghosttown Gallery, Oakland
14.) Neil Diamond at Key Arena, September 24th

Shits 2008
1.) Moment Trigger, L.A.
2.) Evangelista
3.) NKOTB reunion tour

Please welcome Bhava, Cripple and Casino, and EX WIVES as additional members of our active roster. Check our 'bands' page for more info. We're quite pleased to welcome these fine folks to the RID family. They're likely to make 2009 a great year release-wise.
Wisdom Teeth are currently in the studio working with Bob Schwenkler on the follow-up to 2007's debut EP. This will be the band's first full-length. More info available soon...

November 29th 2008
Okker's "Two Axes" is finally available in our store. Sorry for the delay, folks. This release is top shelf. We hope you'll enjoy it as much as we do.
Says Jonathan from Built On A Weak Spot...
I really had no idea what to expect when going into this album from the Edinburgh, Scotland based foursome Okker. The only little blurb I had to go with was a pretty abstract one at very best, however in hindsight that probably should have told me something right there. Despite that, Okker’s new album, Two Axes, turned out to be a very pleasant discovery. I would be pretty shocked to find out if someone in Okker wasn’t a big supporter and listener of Polvo. I think that was pretty much an instantaneous thought once the first few notes came trickling out of my speakers. Strangely enough though, that’s about as close as the band gets to any sort of reference throughout the rest of the album. Although still using warbling and odd guitar tunings to their advantage here and there for the remainder of the disc, Okker venture off into other art-rock inspired territories that seem to draw from bands like Sonic Youth, Trumans Water, and Swirlies. One thing that I found very impressive about Two Axes was that despite numerous winding turns, stop/starts, and the apparent refusal to repeat itself, the album still remains very tuneful at its core as a result of solid songwriting. Okker are definitely not a band that has trouble putting those fractured pieces together into something more fluid but yet just as mind boggling as they were before. I definitely recommend Okker and their album Two Axes for those who enjoyed the weirder side of nineties indie-rock.

Check back soon for our year-end hit/shit lists as well as a brief list of what's to come from RID in 2009.

October 22nd 2008
Okker's "Two Axes" is being assembled as we speak. Available through our store very soon. Seriously.
Since we have a few left we've decided to pass September's offer along into the holiday season. Here goes... Each order of twenty dollars or more will receive a limited edition "Sideways Vagina Monologues" poster, screen printed by yours truly. BOOBS!

September 24th 2008
Radio Is Down saw Neil Diamond tonight. Seattle, WA. Key Arena. Crowd 14,000 large. Crunchy Granola Suite. Forever In Blue Jeans. Desiree. Brother Love. Flowers.