Shout Out Loud Prints Mix Tape, Now Online

Pat Crann uploaded the first Shout Out Loud Prints mixtape to bandcamp.com for your streaming and downloading pleasure. Amelia, the grunge-pop band I played bass in with Maryn Jones and Ryan Starinsky, has a song on it titled "Bridges." Vile Gash, The Boy Who Could Fly, Screaming Females, Best Friends Forever, The Max Levine Ensemble, and other bands are also represented on the tape/MP3 download.

Amelia / Pheramones Split Cassette Repress

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The Amelia / Phermones split cassette was 'repressed' a few months ago. This second edition has a beautiful blue hued cover. It was drawn by Maryn Jones and printed by Shout Out Loud Prints. I believe you can order this tape for three to four dollars from shop@shoutoutloudprints.com.

Amelia was a band I played bass in. We sounded like this.

Pheramones sounds like this.

What Gives at Monster House 4/26/10

What Gives is Josh Hoey from Serious Geniuses on bass, Austin from Delay, Welcome to Concrete and Lose The Tude on drums and Ryan Starinsky from Amelia, Slugging Percentage and Letters on guitar.

This is a recording of their first show. Download here.

Shout Out Loud Prints Compilation Tape

                          Tape art by Craig Dransfield of Chop Chop Gallery.

Pat Crann of Shout Out Loud Prints recently put out a tape comp in conjunction with In The Pocket Tapes (both companies are run out of The Monster House art-fraternity compound). The tape is a collection of bands, old and new, that have ordered shirts to be silk-screened from Shout Out Loud Prints. The selection is a veritable who's who of national DIY pop-punk bands in the 2000s including Defiance, Ohio, Screaming Females and Modern Machines, mixed in with local yokels like Vile Gash, Slugging Percentage, Tin Armor, Saint Seneca and my old band Amelia. Previously unreleased tracks from Paul Baribeau, Best Friends Forever, Good Luck, The Boy Who Could Fly and a Minor Threat cover by Letters To The Moon make this a rare comp worth copping. Get yours for $4ppd here.

Full tracklist and insert after "the jump."

RAZORCAKE REVIEW OF AMELIA/PHERAMONES

AMELIA / PHERAMONES:
Split: Cassette
Amelia: This sounds like it could be pretty all right stuff; however, it’s recorded horribly, rendering it near unlistenable. The vocals are too loud while everything else is rather quiet and barely discernable. There are mainly female vocals with some male vocals. The hand-written note that came with it said that they are “’90s alternative.” I’ll buy that. Hope things work out better with the recording next time around. Pheramones: Well, it’s male-fronted poppy indie. Kinda playful, kinda heartfelt. I wouldn’t mind hearing it while sitting at a coffee shop, but it doesn’t really do too much for me. –Vincent Battilana (In The Pocket)

My Response: We have fans all across the 3rd floor with Amelia tattoos.

Amelia Record.
The Review.

Amelia - Complete Discography

                                                  Photo by Dana Curran

Amelia was a band I played bass in from the time I came back from Paris in the beginning of April until the middle of September when we broke up. We released a tape split with Pheramones, went on a short tour with Delay and played Berea Fest in Berea, D.I.T Fest in Kent, and (sort of) Southwest Folk Fest in Chicago. We had plans to release a seven-inch of some sort with rerecorded versions of some of the following songs. It should be noted: we had one more whole song, never recorded, and two more songs in the works, also not recorded. Ryan is now playing in Slugging Percentage and something with Austin Eilbeck, I occasionally sing for Lose The Tude and Maryn still plays solo.

Maryn's original recording of "Shapes."

1. Shapes

Ryan and Maryn's original demo:

1. Little Flower
2. We'll Land

Amelia's practice demo (recorded on my digital voice recorder):

1.  Little Flower
2.  I Just Can't
3.  "The Fast One"
4.  Bridges
5.  Heart of Mine
6.  We'll Land

Kari's recording (our side of the tape split with Pheramones).

1. Little Flower
2. I Just Can't
3. Heart of Mine
4. We'll Land
5. Bridges
6. Shapes

After "the jump" a list of all the shows we played:

BUTTONS

I made some new ones, including a series of famous dicks.

I have a predicament with these buttons. I want to start selling them at more venues besides the Wexner Center Store and the Columbus Museum of Art. To do that though, I need some sort of name to call them, a "brand." And unlike my really good band names (I Wish I Was Dead) I can't think of anything to call it. I used to call them "Jimi Baby Buttons" as a pun on Jimmy Buttons proper but that would be unseemly and overly confusing if I started selling them in a variety of places. This is especially important since literally anyone can do what I do - all you need is a button maker and some spare time. The difference, I guess, comes from the type of references you highlight - most of mine are a lot like my "artwork," lots of politics, art history references, recontextualization of visual ephemera, etc. But if you put those in a bowl next to some others, it's admittedly hard to tell the difference. My plan is to get little circle stickers with the name of the "company" and attach them to the pin backs. It makes sense too since each of these pins are one of a kind to attach them to a bigger concept. IDEAS? Also, if you want some of these, let me know. You can see more on the Deviant Art page I actually have.

AUSSI:
Amelia gets two show reviews; second 'seems' written by "Hipster Runoff," I feel. : One.  Two.
I've made it into Quimby's!
Stealth advertising campaign for "THE ROAD" on Weedsteeler.
The Lantern stole Vitamin Water's "look."
Sort of content with our Senator?

ROY G BIV Artist Talk / Amelia

HERE is the link to a mp3 of my artist talk from earlier this summer. It is an (muffled, tangential, incomplete) explanation of a show that was at the ROY G BIV gallery during July of 2009.

This is the link to photos of the show.

And this is this (FROM):

 

We're (Amelia) playing D.I.T. Fest in Kent, Ohio on September 12th. Here is the lineup:


Friday Sept 11th, 2009 @ 6PM
@ the Vineyard (154 N. Depeyster, Kent, OH 44240)
6:00-6:20 – Zax Kelly
6:25-6:40 – Gabz Ciofani*
6:45-7:05 – Adam Klopp
7:10-7:30 – Ancestors
7:35-7:50- Ben Ryant*
7:55-8:15- Gabe Wolf
8:20-8:35 – Jordan Castro*
8:40-9:00 -General Ledger
9:05-9:25 – Toby Foster
9:30-9:50 – Nicholas Megalis
9:55-10:10 – Ryan Eilbeck*
10:15-10:30- Richard Wehrenberg Jr*
10:35-10:55- Letters to the Moon
11:00-11:15 – Matt Whispers*
11:20-11:40 – American War
*denotes poet
@ the Kent Stage Alleyway @ 11:45PM (175 E.Main St, Kent, OH, 44240)
11:45-12:05 – Bobby Stevens
12:10-12:30 – Andy Cook and the Wanderloons
12:35-12:55 – Pheramones
1:00-1:20 Annabel
Saturday September 12th
@ the Vineyard 1PM (154 N. Depeyster, Kent, OH, 44240)
1:00-1:20 – the Ghost of Asa Phelps
1:30-1:50 – Ashley Brooke Toussant
2:00-2:20 – Two Hand Fools
2:30-2:50 – Playoff Beard
3:00-3:20 – Signals Midwest
3:30-3:50 – Destroy Nate Allen
4:00-4:20 – Higher Fives
4:30-4:50 – Positive
5:00-5:20 – Dustin and the Furniture
5:30-5:50 – Saintseneca
6:00-6:20 – Busman’s Holiday
6:30-6:50 – Reverse the Curse
7:00-7:20 – Asinine
7:30-7:50 – Bethesda
8:00-8:20 – These Aren’t Candles
8:30-8:50 – the Menzingers
9:00-9:20 – the Sidekicks
9:30-9:50 – Underdogs of Nipomo
10:00-10:20 – Amelia
10:30-10:50 – Endless Mike and the Beagle Club
11:00-11:20 – Delay
11:30-11:50 – No Target Audience