The Tank // 354 W 45th Street
between 8th and 9th Avenue

Little Naps are the computer pop side project of Mushpot Records band Chairs in the Arno. Jeff Excell and Becca Hsu moved from San Francisco to Brooklyn in pursuit of adventures involving (but not limited to) cupcakes, chiptunes, parks and sweet sweet sunshine.

On August 16th, Little Naps are joined by Davis, Ca band Mucky the Ducky and Brooklyn’s The Shortsleeves.

Sputnik
262 Taaffe Place
Brooklyn NY 11205

By Subway:
G train to Classon Ave

By Bus:
38 or 48 busses to De Kalb Ave. and Classon Ave

July 25, 2009 /// Provincetown Rocks: The Festival Main Stage, Provincetown, MA
July 26, 2009 /// The Tank (with You Can Be a Wesley) // New York, NY
July 27, 2009 /// Pianos // New York, NY
August 7, 2009 /// Harper’s Ferry (with Harvey Danger!) // Allston, MA
August 20, 2009 /// The Sierra Grille // Northhampton, MA
October 10, 2009 /// The Paradise // Allston, MA

This week, we’d like to unveil French Horn Rebellion’s remix of Magic Magic’s “Sleepy Lion”! Feel the goodness drop at 2:14.

Whew, Boston’s finest – You Can Be A Wesley – has a lot going for it. For starters, the band will release Heard Like Us , their first full-length recorded straight to two-inch tape with Jeremy Mendicino of Pretty & Nice, next week. To help celebrate the band will have an album release party at Middle East in Cambridge, MA July 20 (with Casper & the Cookies plus Magic Magic) and at Pianos in New York July 21. Come on out and behold how wonderful these dudes and dudette are live and make sure to pick-up your very own copy of the limited vinyl run of Heard Like Us while you’re at one of the shows. Don’t forget, You Can Be A Wesley will also be at The Tank in New York with Magic Magic on July 26 for a very special Mushpot wonder showzen that you surely don’t want to miss out on.

That’s not all. Just this week CMJ posted a really lovely review of the album which you can read at length here. To see more of these fine people and listen to some tunes check them out on myspace.

The second day was held at the scheduled 979 Broadway Backyard. We were thankfully on time to see Beach Fossils, which was a lovely way to begin the day. Real Estate had a couple of sound issues but they still played great. I have seen this band quite a few times and, seriously, they never disappoint. In fact, months later, I still remember their set at the Woodsist showcase at Ms. Bea’s as one of my top five things I loved at SXSW ‘09. The Beets also appeared to have had some equipment troubles but they powered through it all, as energetic and fun as ever. We were also super stoked to see Sacramento’s Ganglians, Dum Dum Girls, Woods and Thee Oh Sees. Dee Dee of Dum Dum Girls was debut-crazy this weekend, as this was also the first Dum Dum Girls live performance, with Blank Dogs, Frankie of Crystal Stilts and Brandon of Crocodiles joining her on stage. Newly signed to Sup Pop, Dee Dee is definitely Mushpot’s new hero and style icon, so seeing her perform faves like “Hey Sis” live was truly a highlight of the day.

I was able to capture some cell phone photos of some of the bands on Saturday but Brooklyn Vegan totally posted a photo of us Mushpotters enjoying Thee Oh Sees in their Day 2 recap. Thanks, guys!

Marmor out!

PAST
Mushpot Records was inspired by the Mushpot weekly radio show on KDVS 90.3FM in Davis, CA. The first Mushpot Children’s compilation was born and Mushpot began to produce music by Northern California artists. Mushpot Records currently operates out of Brooklyn, NY and sometimes Ft. Worth, TX.

PRESENT
Mushpot Records has always provided in house publicity for its roster of artists but we are happy to announce Mushpot, an expanded publicity department, that will focus primarily on college radio promotion for non-label musicians. The new venture will be marked by a momentous launch party at Enid’s. The party will start bumping on 6/23 at 9:00 PM with Mushpot DJs (DJ Prom Night, Sheila the Great and Si Vous Playa) spinning upcoming releases, drink specials and plenty of surprises.

FUTURE
Monday, June 22 both Magic Magic’s self-titled LP and Buildings Breeding Colors Bent to Seasons EP will go for Top 200 adds at college radio. To talk more about the first ever Mushpot adds and other upcoming releases contact either Jen Marmor (marmor@mushpotrecords.com) or Liz Deichmann (liz@mushpotrecords.com) in the college radio department. You’ll be hearing plenty more from Mushpot in the next few months with upcoming releases going for adds and events so brace yourself for 1.21 gigawatts of power. TO BE CONTINUED >>>

On the West coast, we have Buildings Breeding invading Echo Park and Magic Magic playing in Cambridge on the East coast!

TRAVEL OPTION #1: Take the G train to Smith + 9th, transfer to the 77 bus to Conover Street. It will stop right in front of Botanica.

TRAVEL OPTION #2: Take the 61 bus down to Van Brunt + Coffey in Red Hook. Walk down Coffey towards Conover.