thechuckdiezel

Got tix and its on my Birthday WIN! Got to see Braid at Bowery on my birthday last year, turning 27 was clearly better than 28 but I'll take it.

By far one of my favorite bands out there right now.

Hey guys the GBR family is heading to Philly tomorrow to hang and hit up Restorations/Signals Midwest/Run Forever/Ma Jolie/Donoven Wolfinton at the Golden Tea house so lets hang out!! I am hoping to get there in the early afternoon so any one that wants to meet up for some food/drink/whatever let me know! Also we will have our color (brown) as wells as Ma Jolies color (grey) of Ma Jolie's "...Compared to Giants" at the show so come say hi and pick up a record. Also if you guys have any suggestions of whats awesome to do in your city let us know as we will prob hang out most of the day Saturday as well.

Great review of the record here: http://supportyrscene.com/2013/07/01/ma-jolie-compared-to-giants-review/

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Friday=Pay Day (well for most) so why not pick up an awesome record! DO IT!

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Gruff Beard Records is happy to announce that the inaugural pressing of Ma Jolie's "Compared to Giants" LP is now available for purchase! It's been a labor of love getting this release together and we all couldn't be happier with how they turned out--we hope you will all feel the same! The first pressing breakdown is as follows: 100 Black 75 Gray Mix (Ma Jolie exclusive) 75 Brown Mix (GBR exclusive) 50 Dark Green (European exclusive) Head on over here to purchase: http://gruffbeardrecords.limitedrun.com/products/516743-ma-jolie-compared-to-giants-lp Gruff Beard is also going to be running a little contest in conjunction with this release... You may have noticed that we posted a picture of some pretty sweet test presses of this record on our Facebook just a few days ago. These bad boys feature totally different artwork hand-screened on to birch wood covers--a first for us here at GBR--limited to ten hand-numbered copies, and we'd like to give one lucky fan the opportunity to get their hands on one! To be entered into the drawing, simply head on over to our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Gruff-Beard-Records/136100923116662?ref=hl) and like/share the applicable post we put up between now and July 22nd--simple as that! We'll announce the winner on Tuesday, July 23rd. Please be sure to both like AND share the post in order to be entered into the drawing. As always, thanks to all who have shown Gruff Beard Records love and support over the last 3 1/2 years--this truly wouldn't be possible without YOU! We'd also like to thank Ma Jolie for allowing us to take on this project and for being just plain rad dudes. The next step of the Gruff Beard journey has begun, and we hope you will join us as we continue to move forward. xoxo -Luke & Chuck/Gruff Beard Records

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Bump. Still plenty of great records available folks--don't let 'em go to eBay

Bump. Thanks for the support thus far guys, we really appreciate it!

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With our vinyl release of Ma Jolie's "Compared to Giants" coming next month, we here at Gruff Beard are attempting to unload records from our personal collections in an effort to raise funds necessary to cover the final production costs. We are planning on putting a number of these records on Ebay, however, we'd like to give you guys the first crack at this stuff. All proceeds will be going to the above mentioned cause as well as future Gruff Beard Records releases, so here's a chance to snatch up some great records while supporting independent music! If interested in any of these records, please PM us with an offer or let us know what you'd like and we'll give you a quote (as always, we ARE willing to negotiate). We are also more than willing to cut special deals with cost when purchasing multiple records. Pictures of anything listed can and will be provided upon request. So without further adieu... Test Presses The Bomb - Speed is Everything (w/ alternate screened cover; /20) Floor - S/T (/18) Hot Water Music - Till the Wheels Fall Off 2xLP (w/ red ink screened cover) Souvenir's Young America/City of Ships - Split (#'d 17/45 w/ screened cover) Towers/US Funk Team - Split (#'d 45/66 w/ red painted-on dust sleeve) 7" Against Me! - The Disco Before the Breakdown (1st press; white/302) Against Me! - Sink, Florida, Sink/Unsubstantiated Rumors (4th press; red/135) Bim Skala Bim/Stabilizer - Split (1st press; black/1500) Boris - Japanese Heavy Rock Hits v1 (1st press; purple/500) Boris - Japanese Heavy Rock Hits v2 (1st press; purple/500) Boris - Japanese Heavy Rock Hits v3 (1st press; purple/500) Boris - Japanese Heavy Rock Hits v4 one-sided 7" [w/etched B-side] (1st press; purple/500) Bucket Full of Teeth - II (1st press; pink/1400) Chuck Ragan - Do You Pray/Congratulations Joe (1st press; gray/309) Chuck Ragan - Open Up and Wail/Sound of a Gun (1st press; gray/1089) Chuck Ragan - Symmetry/It's What You Will (1st press; blue/400) Chuck Ragan - The Boat/For Broken Ears (1st press; grayish-blue/150) Chuck Ragan - The Grove/Above the Flames (1st press; gray with color/330) Chuck Ragan - Trenchfoot/Done and Done (1st press; gray with color/347) Chuck Ragan - Valentine/Do What You Do (1st press; gray-purple/230) Cult Ritual - EP 1 (1st press; purple/1000) Cult Ritual - EP 2 (2nd press; black/500) Cult Ritual - EP 3 (1st press; black/400) Divisions - S/T (1st press; black/500) Doldrums - Doldrums (1st press; black/1500) Earth/Tribes of Neurot - Split (1st press; amber/500) Floor - Loanin'/Figbender (2nd press; black/#247) Floor - Madonna (1st press; black) Floor/Dove - Split (1st press; clear) Floor/Spazz - Split (2nd press; blue) Hawks and Doves - Hush Money/I'm On Fire (Fest press; blue/200) Hot Water Music - Live in Chicago #1 (1st press; blue/1000) Hot Water Music - Live in Chicago #5 (1st press; purple/1000) Jay Retard/Sonic Youth - Hang Them All/No Garage (1st press; black/2500) Mayflower - S/T (1st press; translucent gray/#'d 6/16 [Fest 8/Halloween edition]) Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Stevie (1st press; red/yellow split/500) Nazi Dust - S/T (1st press; orange/500) New Bruises - Goodbye Middle Class (Fest press; white/#'d 5/25) The Oath/Total Fury - Split (1st press; clear) Off With Their Heads/The Dukes of Hillsborough - Split (1st press; red/200) The Saddest Landscape/The Pine - Split (1st press; black/500 [beige/black cover]) The Saddest Landscape - Cover Your Heart (1st press; red/100) Slavescene - Shit Gait (1st press; blue/500) Total Fury - Committed to the Core (U.S. Tour press; black) Towers - S/T (1st press; white/#'d 109/400) Towers/US Funk Team - Split (test press; black/#'d 45/66) V/A (Palatka/Charles Bronson/Locust/In/Humanity/MK- Ultra/Dangermouse/Short Hate/Temper/Eucharist) - Vida-Life: Benefit 7" For Project Vida (1st press; black) 8" Wand - Haunting the Stagecoach lathe cut 8" (1st press; #'d 87/100) 10" Das Oath - Korper Kultur (2nd press; black/600) Das Oath - S/T 11" (1st press; black/1000) V/A (Hot Water Music/Radon222/The Lexingtons/etc.) - Twelve Ounces of Courage 2x10" (1st press; guacamole/1000) LP ANS - The Pool (1st press; opaque green/100 w/screened griptape cover[#'d 54/350 of total press]) The Appleseed Cast - Middle States (1st press; orange/baby blue swirl/#'d 96/500) Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us 2xLP (1st press; hazy orange/#'d 451/500) Burning Airlines - Identikit (1st press; white/gold marble/250) Casper & The Cookies - The Optimist's Club (1st press; translucent multicolored swirl/#'d 424/490) Coalesce - Functioning on Impatience (7th press; translucent blue w/opaque orange splatter/268) Coalesce - Give Them Rope (1st press; black/#'d 23/300 [burlap cover]) Cult Ritual - LP 1 (1st press; flesh/700) Das Oath - Mini (1st press; coke bottle clear/1000) Earth - Earth 2 Special Low Quantity Version 3xLP (1st press; 180 gram black/100) Earth - Hibernaculum (1st press; 180 gram clear/1000) Earth - Legacy of Dissolution 2xLP (1st press; blue marble/500) Earth - Living in the Gleam of an Unsheathed Sword - (1st press; red/#'d 33/100 [pre-order version with screened cover]) Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull 2xLP (1st press; clear gold/980) Floor - Dove (2nd press; smoky clear/300) Floor - S/T (2nd press; clear/550) Glass and Ashes - S/T (Fest press; murky purple/gray/red/#'d 89/200) Gunmoll - Anger Management in Four Chords or Less (1st press; white/500) Gunmoll - Board of Rejection (1st press; blue/303) Hot Water Music - Fuel for the Hate Game (3rd press; translucent yellow/550) Hot Water Music - Till the Wheels Fall Off 2xLP (Tour press; gold/#'d 178/525 [screened glow-in-the-dark cover) House of Low Culture - Live From the House of Low Temperature 12" (1st press; blue screened with blue ink/223 [one-sided 12" with screened B-side]) Khanate - Capture and Release (1st press; 180 gram white) Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul (1st press; 180 gram caramel/vanilla bean swirl/400) Lotus Eaters - Alienist on a Pale Horse (1st press; 220 gram black/200) Lotus Eaters - Mind Control For Infants 2xLP (1st press; 200 gram black/600) Monikers - Wake Up (Tour press; dark gray marble/#'d 31/50) Mouthbreather - Thank You For Your Patience (amber/red swirl/#'d 8/51[handmade cover for final 51 copies) Salvation - Of Unforgiving Wind (1st press; purple/600) Slavescene - Heaven Only Knows (1st press; black/300) Small Brown Bike - Dead Reckoning (3rd press; opaque orange/200)

Forgot to mention in the original post... Ma Jolie will be setting off for a midwest tour in August. More details about the tour/dates will be announced in the near future. The next couple months they will be playing some scattered northeast shows with the likes of Signals Midwest, The Pietasters, Restorations, Nona and many more. 6/9- Croydon, PA @ Neshaminy Creek Brewery w/ The Pietasters, All Eyes West, Kill Lincoln 6/16- Oaklyn, NJ @ Studio Luloo w/ Ampersand, Sleep In, Sleepers Lie, Merit 6/26- Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMoca w/ Nona, Amanda X 7/6- Brooklyn, NY @ The Place w/ A Moment's Worth, Cutters, Wes Mantooth, Delvebeer, The Glass Dildos 7/19- Philadelphia, PA @ Golden Tea House w/ Restorations, Signals Midwest, Run Forever The Brooklyn and Philly shows in July will be acting as record release shows, so be on the lookout for an exclusive cover variant at these shows to celebrate the occasion! We will most likely also have a special cover variant to debut at The Fest 12 as well. Get stoked!

One month. Let the countdown begin!

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UPDATED with release date and color breakdown (see above)!

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Lacquer was just approved last night now off to plating!

Thanks so much for the support so far guys it really means a lot! Now keep buying more stuff so we can put out more records!!