Home From Tour / Bridgetown Spring Batch Out Now

NOW BOOKING:

• West Coast tour with Reighnbeau from July 10 through July 22 in support of our upcoming split 7" on Family Time.

• USA tour with Big Waves of Pretty from approx. August 15 through December 15, focusing on the Eastern US.

Performing pieces from forthcoming "Betrayed by the Angels" split 12" LP with Former Selves accompanied by new visual projections.

All possibilities for performances welcome, we are no strangers to tiny towns or unusual situations.
Contact me at kmgreenspon@gmail.com

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Thank you so much to everyone who came to and helped out with the shows on the West Coast tour with Nicole Kidman and Shivering Window last month. It was a powerful experience very different from any other that has come before. Thank you.

I got home less than a week ago and have been working nonstop since. 7 new albums for good friends are now available on my label today. This batch means a lot to me- it took a long time to see the light of day, but feels amazing to see it all finished. Each release can be listened to in full on Bandcamp. For more info, images, audio and ordering, visit http://www.bridgetownrecords.info.

BRIDGETOWN SPRING 2013 BATCH: (download free mixtape here) #90: School Knights Lethargy cassette #89: Reighnbeau Friends cassette #88: Torn Humorist Everyone Works So Hard cassette #87: Lavas Magmas INT.eruption cassette #86: N O W Are You New Age? CDr/cassette #84: Paper Armies Tell Me To Give Up cassette #82: Derek Rogers Don't Stop Bereaving cassette USA $32.00 USD Canada/Mexico $34.00 USD Rest of World $38.00 USD

Albums Available at Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art / New Interview

Several albums of my own, and on Bridgetown, are now available at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
Also, a new interview about the label, tour life and friends is at the I Used To Be Cool blog.

Spring 2013 West Coast tour with Nicole Kidman and Shivering Window

RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/events/479673892098649/ Several new releases will be available at the shows! All shows are $5 and all ages. Email me for East Coast/South/Midwest dates later this year. Kevin Greenspon (Bridgetown Records / Los Angeles): http://www.kevingreenspon.info http://www.bridgetownrecords.info Nicole Kidman (Your Warmth label / Oakland): http://nicolekidman.bandcamp.com http://www.facebook.com/yourwarmthLBL Shivering Window (Juniper Tree Songs / Long Beach): http://soundcloud.com/matthew-conrad-gray http://junipertreesongs.tumblr.com

3/20 @ CAFE Infoshop - 8 PM 935 F. St, Fresno, CA w/ Loverboy 3/21 @ Storey House - 7 PM 215 Storey St., Santa Cruz, CA w/ Hermit Convention 3/22 @ The Bat Cave - 8 PM 1164 11th St., Arcata, CA w/ Tabor Mountain 3/23 - Small Howl @ The Wandering Goat - 8 PM 268 Madison St., Eugene, OR w/ Statue + Cowboy 3/24 @ Multiplex - 8 PM 625 NW Everett St. #101, Portland, OR w/ New Forest, Love Cop 3/25 @ Hollow Earth Radio, Seattle, WA Live on the air from 8-10 PM / stream from anywhere 3/26 @ Another Dream - 7 PM, food+drink available 5657 11th Ave., Seattle, WA w/ Briana Marela, Punishment 3/27 @ Chez Puget? info TBA soon Olympia, WA 3/28 @ Reed College Chapel - 8 PM / free to all 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd., Portland, OR w/ Lavas Magmas The chapel's entrance is in the SW corner of Eliot Hall: http://goo.gl/maps/OZpFl 3/29 @ Villanova House - 8 PM 802 Villanova Dr., Davis, CA w/ Woolen Men (Portland, OR) 3/30 @ Sylvan House 427 4th Ave., San Francisco, CA w/ Gossimer, Glowing Cat Eyes 3/31 @ Rock Paper Scissors Collective - 6 PM EARLY SHOW ($5 entry or $7 for unltd. beer bracelet) 2278 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA w/ Ghost Hand

Q&A Interview / Bandcamp / "Against Words"

I just finished up a Q&A interview for Sound Colour Vibration. This one discusses the mentality and approach towards writing music, running a label, and being a part of the DIY community.

Lately I've been uploading my releases to Bandcamp so that people can download them if they are sold out, or if they would prefer to have digital files. You can also listen in the Discography section. Expect much of the Bridgetown back catalog to show up later as well.

Today, a new review of my "Common Objects" 12" LP surfaced out of the blue. I'm particularly pumped on how the reviewer interpreted the record and on the song choice. There are a few copies of the vinyl still available from Family Time Records.

Steady updates to the Fall 2012 U.S. tour blog are being posted on a daily basis. It is now up to day 22 with about two months to go.

Here is a sneak peek of a new song called "Against Words" that was only performed live once last year. We'll see if 2013 calls for it.

U.S. Tour Blog / Some Local Shows

2/25/2012: I just started writing a pretty detailed blog about my last U.S. solo tour. This one was 82 days long and went through three dozen states. There are a ton of small towns, bands and places off the beaten path that I wanted to expose and share so that more bands will go back through them or get pumped to keep doing what they're doing. The shows were everywhere: colleges, punk houses, bluegrass festivals, rooftops, Zumba studios... with all kinds of bands: shoegaze, harsh noise, folk, ambient, hardcore, pop, etc. Read here: http://bridgetownrecords.tumblr.com/tagged/tour-blog If you're into traveling, playing music, being a goofball, learning about cool spaces and hearing some new music, check the blog out. It's all about returning to the random moments that stick in your head months later and sharing a couple pictures, videos and stories. The positive things that we all strive for. I'll be announcing Spring 2013 tourdates with Nicole Kidman and Shivering Window very soon. But first, here are some local shows: 3/9/2013 The Dial / Murrieta, CA w/ M. Akers (Detroit/Washington), Torn Humorist, Crisis Arm 3/15/2013 - tour kickoff 3023 Sierra St., Los Angeles, CA w/ 20star aka Boy Snacks (Columbus, OH), keepbullfighting

Betrayed By The Angels / Bay Area Shows This Weekend

I'll be playing all new material at a few shows this week. The first is a house show with my pal Spencer aka Generifus. He's on the very last few days of a massive nationwide tour supporting a new album that is really great. Check it out on Bandcamp here.

The other four shows are in the bay area. I haven't played SF proper in over a year, but the Friday show at The Lab is going to rule. It's a release party for Jon from Barn Owl's new solo LP, and Former Selves is playing. He made a lot of the visuals on my new DVD that were projected on tour. We're working on a split LP that'll be out in 2013. Here's a preview of what to expect from that upcoming record and my set at the shows: 12/11/2012
Tiny Beak Aviary
2310 Franzen Ave. A, Santa Ana, CA
w/ Generifus (K Records, Olympia, WA)

12/13/2012
Sylvan House
427 4th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94118
w/ Generifus (K Records, Olympia, WA), Low Magic, Nord Home, Psychic Hiking, Night Hikes

12/14/2012
The Lab
2948 16th St., San Francisco, CA 94103
w/ Vallens, (Jon Porras of Barn Owl, record release show), Former Selves

12/15/2012
Life Changing Ministries
1629 8th St., Oakland, CA 94607
w/ Pete Von Petrin, Slug Life, Erors

12/16/2012
house show
495 36th St., rear apartment, Oakland CA 94611
w/ John Thill, Nicole Kidman, Casey Chisholm, Subnaughts
enter through side gate of 491/493 36th St.

New Mixtape for Workin' Nights Blog

I was thinking for awhile about what I'd want to put on a mix that would probably be heard mostly by strangers, about how to reflect who I am in a collection of approximately one dozen songs, about what I'd want to hear if I was driving far away and found some mix I made when there was nothing else to listen to, about what I'd want to show people that I was hanging out with for the first and possibly last time.

It feels like making mixes for people can be so difficult when there is so much out there and the nuances of what you select can speak volumes, and what wouldn't fit can seem like a void that won't be filled until the next mix you make.

Looking through photos, I started thinking about a moment in September: driving around the forest outside of Portland, Maine to the cabin of new pals where I'd sleep for the night, and how I might never drive this far from Los Angeles ever again in my life. About what it would be like only having one mix in the stereo to get me back home, to make copies of for people I'd be meeting along the way.

That's when choosing these songs became really easy.

Here are 15 songs by bands and people from across the USA that have shaped me in real ways, in real life. People that I've traveled hundreds or thousands of miles with, locals who blew minds at every show they played in town and hung out all the nights they didn't play. One-time strangers that offered a meal and a couch to sleep on, who have inspired me at shows we played in places like Milwaukee, Oakland, New Jersey, Albuquerque, Chicago and Colorado. People that I was flat out excited to finally be meeting in person after loving their tapes and records.

This mix is for them and all the other amazing artists I couldn't fit into approximately one dozen songs.
And for sharing with everyone else I've met on the road, or might not ever.



Mix 69: Months In a Car, Alone With Your Friends
01 Gelatin Kids - 66 Bus
02 Familiar Haunts - Valium
03 John Thill - Vacant Lot Blues
04 Torn Humorist - Harass Aria
05 Reighnbeau - Splinters
06 M. Sage - Motion Dazzle ii
07 Teaadora - Heart is Sold
08 Splinter Cake - Proud Partner
09 Sky Stadium - Blend Into The Horizon
10 Nicole Kidman - Youth & Love
11 Former Selves- Echolalia
12 Cousins - The Web and the Rock
13 BYODeath - Snowy Eyes
14 Stupid Bummed - Fake Memories
15 Chauchat - When I Was Young I Wanted To Do Great Things
Photo by Kevin Greenspon, taken at Buoy Gallery in Kittery, Maine 9/11/2012 Click here to download the mix.

Home From USA Tour / New Releases Available

Back home from tour. 75 shows from Los Angeles to Maine and back. Huge thanks to everyone who helped out with shows, played, made food, offered a place to sleep, got merch and hung out. There are seriously so many of you. Hope to see you all again. I have a few new releases available now that I'm back: • Already Dead collaborative 7" EP w/ Nicole Kidman (Bridgetown Records) • Folding Focus DVD (Bridgetown Records) • Empty Minutes C10 cassette (Rok Lok Records)

Here are some videos from Folding Focus: