torpaul

November 6th

9pm $6

@ AS220

This is voting day, so wear your "I Voted" sticker and only get charge $5 at the door!!

Tor Johnson Records Presents:

Collision - Through Being Cool/Lifetime worship

Run, Forever - from Pittsburgh, awesome indie songs about friends & life, new record on Tiny Engines

Choke Up - Boston's best kept punk indie secret

Roach Carter - new band in Providence, At The Drive In love

not sure how many people would be interested, but the show monday should be fun:

Off With Their Heads, The Down & Outs, Best Practices @ The Met. its a holiday, let's get drunk. also probably the last RI BP show for a while...at least until after the holidays.

figured i'd give this a bump. no order too small for a free koozie!!

these are fresh off the presses and we're giving them away for FREE!!! the next 20 webstore orders will get one for free. there is no minimum for these orders. literally order anything. for RI locals, choose "pick up in store" for hand delivery, and "cash/money order" to pay in cash or credit card.

www.torjohnsonrecords.com

9/28 - Woozy, Kintaan, Tovarish, Olde Growth, Vomit Arsonist @ AS220

10/3 - Drones Of Queens, Goreality, Led To The Grave @ Dusk

10/5 - Bloodpheasant, Dove & Gun, Tung @ Dusk

10/8 - Off With Their Heads, The Down & Outs, Best Practices @ The Met

10/9 - Balam, Shahman, Junior Beat @ Dusk

10/10 - Thrillhouse, Amadis @ Dusk

10/14 - Now Denial, Alpha Owl, Bloodpheasant @ Squid Amps

10/16 - Hard Nips, Ravi Shavi, Alpha Owl (with a fill-in-drummer cause i'll be with Best Practices at Toys That Kill in Somerville)

10/17 - Nocuous, Obsidian Tongue, Sorcery @ Dusk

10/19 - Set, Maritime, Bloodpheasant, Thrillhouse @ Dusk

10/26 - Sorcery, Lolita Black, Thrillhouse @ AS220

11/6 - Collision, Run Forever, Roach Carter @ AS220

Paul what kind of shit are you printing? Shirts? Flatstock? etc?

all of the above. i can do up to 11x17 flatstock, but only up to 3 color or so. i'm working on getting a better flatstock set up so i can do more. i can do any clothing stuff. and i just found a good blank koozie distributor, so i can do koozies too!

getting started working on upcoming releases for 2013/after the Furnace LP comes out. get excited for more awesome music!

if any of you have free time around 3:50, come by The Lab and do a bunch of jump-kicks with us in Best Practices!!

gotta a couple more decisions to make.....Ensign or Dikembe....Choke Up or Ampere.....Braid or Timeshares.....Wilhelm Scream or Give or Dear Landlord....

Schedule is up for Fest 11. make sure you go see Weak Teeth on Saturday!!

pissed Dikembe is playing at the same time as Ensign... that's the only real big clash i have...

Shit, Paul - it totally slipped my mind that we have like, 200 non-screened Best Practices records on which we can draw wieners all over the b-side! I think we're starting a brand new trend in vinyl collecting and the way most labels approach color variants. Take a bow people: you're all part of something revolutionary!

ps - my fantasy football team is named Triple Kittens.

best team name ever!! if you don't win based on that alone.....there are problems.

Hey Jimmy and Ryan - send your clear LPs back to me and I'll draw all over them with a blue sharpie. I can even doodle some penis + balls if you'd like. They'll look awesome it will undoubtedly raise their value for future eBay flipping!

Of course, I kid. Unless someone really does want me to draw penis + balls on your records. Seriously, someone please request this.

With Rainbo, unless it's clear with black smoke, it never seems to turn out all that great. Not terrible, but definitely not what we had envisioned. If you put the clear on top of the white dust sleeve, you can actually see a lot more of the blue.

Does anyone have the clear w/ yellow Restorations LP? That just ended up looking like piss. It's always a crap shoot with most plants because you're basically just throwing different colored plastics in the mix and hoping that it comes close to what you're aiming for. Of course, some are better at it than others. When I asked Rainbo about doing half and half, splatter, etc etc, they told me that because they have automated presses, they have far less control over that stuff. I guess you need hand presses to get really creative with your vinyl.

On the plus side, Rainbo's vinyl is always nice and thick and we've never had a issue with a bad pressing.

ps - I can also draw boobs.

chuck, have at ALL the non-silkscreened copies of the Best Practices LP. guaranteed they sell faster with dicks drawn on them....

bumpin shit....cause i feel like it. if you follow TJR on FB or twitter, we announced a little something for you all. if not...you should start.

Hey everyone

I sent out my last batch of Dikembe pre-orders today (about 25 packages) and Will said that he's got about 20 more international orders to do, which will go out on Monday.

Thanks for your patience and support. All in all it took us about a week to assemble, pack up and ship out close to 300 orders. Not too shabby, but I'm friggin' tired.

By the way, as people have mentioned, the vinyl turned out pretty cool, but I think that the jackets look sick. I don't know why we didn't really mention it before, but we did a UV spot gloss / matte coating thing that just kills it.

Finally, if anyone pre-ordered the Tigers Jaw repress, that should be shipping to us from the plant on Monday, and the Restorations LP repress is supposed to be done at the end of the week. I suspect that pre-orders for those records will ship to customers in about two weeks. Then in mid-Sept, we'll launch pre-orders for the Run, Forever LP and the Jowls 10".

And yes, expect Chicago Bowls sooner than later!

i am such a sucker for spot-gloss. it came out killer!! very excited to hear about Chicago Bowls. i was going to offer doing it to them at I Got Brains...but i little birdie told me i was too late. haha

looks like in other TJR news, Now Denial will be hitting the road for a couple weekends in October. keep your ears to the ground on this one!!

get at me when you are ready bro.

anyway, everyone order a 10-year comp! shit is going like hot cakes...

trying. haha.

yo, so when am i printing up some sweet Willow Tree merch???

damn, that's a good deal....

little bit of a bump

yo dude, let me know if you want me to get it from the WT dudes and forward it to you!

hey everyone-

thoughts i'd post a little update on stuff here at TJRHQ.

first off, we want to congratulate Jarrod from Now Denial on his marriage to his awesome wife!!! we love seeing the Tor Johnson family growing!!

now to the nitty-gritty. it looks like the 10-Year 7" Comp is over 1/3rd gone!!! thanks to everyone who ordered a copy. if you don't have one...what are you waiting for?!?! rare/unreleased stuff from Now Denial, Saint Jude, Pretty Faces, and the last song ever recorded by A Fine Boat That Coffin. comes with a download code for 9 extra songs with unreleased stuff from Weak Teeth, Jesuscentric, Closer Than Kin, and The Defeat. you can get this (and our other releases) through Ebullition, Stickfigure, Interpunk, Armageddon (Boston & Providence), Olympic, or our webstore.

we made a TJR playlist on Spotify so you can check out all the stuff we have going on. check it out and try some new music. keep in mind, there are some releases not on there...guess you need to order one cause those are analog only releases. but we will keep added more releases to this list as they come out!! check it: http://www.facebook....151236670615802

so, it looks like Weak Teeth will be hitting the road in late September. make sure you go check them out if they come to your town. pick up a copy of What A Plague You Are LP, if you don't already have a copy:

9/21 - New Britain, CT - The Horse's Mouth

9/22 - Philadelphia, PA - The Crystal Palace

9/23 - Pittsburgh, PA - TBA

9/24 - Cincinnati, OH - The Drinkery

9/25 - Bloomington, IN - 700 Club

9/26 - Chicago, IL - Gnarnia

9/27 - Kalamazoo, MI - Fat Guy House

9/28 - Cleveland, OH - Now That's Class

9/29 - Rochester, NY - The Bug Jar

9/30 - Lowell, MA - The Ant Cellar

10/1 - Boston, MA - Charlie's Kitchen

10/3 - Providence, RI - TBA

lastly, it looks like Furnace made a 3 song sampler of new songs to get people excited about the new LP....but those songs are not online. looks like you need to hit those guys up to get a download card. hopefully they finish the other 6ish songs soon, so we can get that slab of wax in your hands!!

thanks again to all of you. check out everything at www.torjohnsonrecords.com

so, you blew it blew it and will not be there....but i still plan on partying!! who's around saturday?? Best Practices will be coming off an overnight drive from Providence. so....irish coffees to stay awake??

We were going to print up some covers for IGB since the jackets will most likely not be done, but we didn't want people to get upset about not having real artwork, plus we are lazy turds.

i would say that i could print something up...but with everything going on, i probably wouldn't get it done in time...

dude, get on the "limited edition/record release/blah blah blah" packaging train! silk screen up something sweet and sell those slabs o' wax!