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Hello people of esteemed muscial tastes, I hope you're well. We're excited to announce that the Highway Cross - Run Dry 7" and the Industrial Park - s/t 7" are both now available for pre-order. They will be shipping April 10th. All who pre-order the Highway Cross 7" will get a free copy of their self-released debut 7". Pressing info on the Highway Cross 7" is 300 on black and there are 300 on white for the Industrial Park 7". Grab one quickly before they're gone. >> http://www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog'>http://www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog Highway Cross are current and former members of Majority Rule, Cloak/Dagger, Shoutbus!, Triac, et al, coming together to worship at the altar of Rick Froburg while dusting their sound with an essence that could only come out of DC. Industrial Park are a Portland duo playing gothic post-punk in the vein of bands like Sisters of Mercy, Cocteau Twins, Slowdive... You can check out a track from each release on our Bandcamp page - http://firestartertoxicpop.bandcamp.com'>http://firestartertoxicpop.bandcamp.com - and will be available from iTunes, Amazon, and other purveyors of mp3s by mid-April.

Have you checked out the FR/TPR Bandcamp page lately? You can stream and/or download all of our releases in one convenient place. You can also pick up physical releases and t-shirts from there too! Get busy! http://firestartertoxicpop.bandcamp.com/ The Aftermath The Breaks The Capitalist Kids Clint Maul Dead Mechanical Double Dagger The Ergs Formaldehyde Junkies Jean Mills Society Torch In Between The Infamous Looks Like Rain Moment of Youth Never Enough Nux Vomica Paper Dragons Psyched To Die Pulling Teeth Ruiner Run Down Scum Again Sick Sick Birds Sleepwall The Spark Sundials Tenement

www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog firestartertoxicpop.bandcamp.com firestartertoxicpop.bandcamp.com firestartertoxicpop.bandcamp.com THREE NEW RELEASES! Hey friends, we've got a lot going on around here and it's all very exciting. First and foremost, please welcome Alice Frankie Benoit Riley into the world. She was born July 23rd a healthy and happy baby. We'll gladly accept any trade offers for rad onesies of bands/labels we dig. Get in touch! Now for vinyl news... THE CAPITALIST KIDS - LESSONS ON LOVE, SHARING, AND HYGIENE 12" LP: out now and ready to ship. We've got a few copies on white left, limited to 119, but act fast if you want to make sure you get one. They play great pop-punk in the vein of The Mr. T Experience and early Green Day with lyrics that get us very excited and are about more than just girls (don't worry traditionalists, they're there too.) IN BETWEEN - SO STEADY 7" EP: We're just waiting on the inserts from the band to come in and these will be ready to ship. They're on tour right now so hopefully when they get back next week we'll be all set. If you see them in a town near you, be sure to pick up a tour version of the 7" directly from them. Check out the dates below. If you get excited by bands like Lifetime, Sensefield, and Silent Majority, then these new favorite sons of Baltimore will be right up your alley. We've got 100 copies on blue vinyl available for pre-order now. RUN DOWN - AMERICAN DESPAIR b/w THE COMING 7" SINGLE: After 7 long years of delays (our fault, not the band's) this single from ex-members of Formaldehyde Junkies and The Breaks is finally seeing the light of day. The band recently changed their name to Voight-Kampff and self-released their debut album on cassette. Consider this the prelude to that. Two songs of dark, depressive garage rock/punk along the lines of bands like Crime, The Dead Boys, The Gun Club, and the Birthday Party. The first pressing is 300 all on white vinyl. Grab one while you can. DISTRO! We just got in a few blue vinyl copies of the new Toys That Kill - Fambly 42 12" LP from the UK's Drunken Sailor Records. Not very many, so grab one while you can. Also in from Drunken Sailor are the Magnificent LP, Bangers/What-A-Nights split 7", and Shit Creek 7" (featuring members of J Church and The Capitalist Kids!) We also received a box of new releases from Dead Broke Records including the Low Culture 7", the new Awful Man 7", and their repress of the debut LP from The Steve Adamyk Band (SO GOOD!). TOXIC POP NEWS Thanks a bunch to everyone that swung by our table and picked up some records or just said hi at Insubordination Fest this year. It was a lot of fun as always. See you again next year! We've got two new releases out for your listening pleasure: The Capitalist Kids - Lessons on Love, Sharing, and Hygiene 12" LP and In Between - So Steady 7" EP. Colored vinyl still available on both. Grab 'em while you can. SHIRTS! We got t-shirts for both The Capitalist Kids and In Between in the webstore. YL - 2XL. Grab yourself a nice clean new shirt so you can throw that one you're wearing in the wash! In Between are currently on tour and have a few days left before they get home. Go check them out if they're playing near you... 7/26- Columbus, OH @ Bernie's Distillery 7/27- Chicago, IL @ the Hostel 7/28 - Ashtbula, OH @ Ryan's 7/29 - Bethlehem, PA @ Secret Art Space The Tenement - Taking Everything EP is all sold out and will not be repressed at this time. Instead, we'll be working together on releasing a compilation album of all of their singles, EPs, splits, and compilation tracks. That'll be out later this year. More info on that as it comes together. In other new release news, we've got records planned for the near future for Highway Cross (from VA, 7" EP), Industrial Park (from Portland, 7" EP), Dead Mechanical (from Baltimore, 12" LP), and Idle Hands (from Germany, 12" LP). Get excited! FIRESTARTER NEWS The Run Down 7" is all pressed and in transit to FR/TPR HQ as we speak. It will be ready to ship on Monday, July 30th. 300 on white vinyl. Pick one up if you dig bands like Crime, The Dead Boys, The Gun Club, and The Birthday Party. We're finishing up new artwork for the Paper Dragons - Die To Please 12" LP and that should be getting into production soon. It will be a split release with Wallride Records and Southpaw Records. More info on that as it comes together. Until then, you can still download the album for free (please donate!) from the website (http://www.firestarterrecords.com). DISTRO UPDATES Here's the list of all the new distro items... Acid Fast - Weird Date 7" (Protagonist Music) Awful Man - Waiting For the Tanks To Come Rolling In 7" (Dead Broke Records) American War - AOTU Single Series vol. 57 7" (Art of the Underground Records) Big Eyes - Back From the Moon 7" (Grave Mistake Records) Bloody Gears - Frozen Rain 7" (Grave Mistake Records) Boilerman - Yield the Ghost 7" (Cowabunga Records) Capitalist Kids, the - Sarah b/w Ayn 7" (Hang Up Records) Creeps, the - AOTU Single Series vol. 56 7" (Art of the Underground Records) Highway Cross - Locked In 7" (self-released) Infected - Awake In Our Graves 7" (ADD Records) Infected - Insomnia 7" (Eugene Records) Like Bats - Midwest Nothing 12" LP (John Wilkes Booth Records) Low Culture - s/t 7" EP (Dead Broke Records) Magnificent, The - Bad Lucky 12" LP (Drunken Sailor Records) Manix, the - Neighborhood Wildlife 12" LP (It's Alive Records) Rations - For Victory 12" LP (86'd Records) Rations - How Much Land Does a Man Need? 7" (86'd Records) Sectarian Violence - s/t 7" (Grave Mistake Records) Shit Creek - Pissing Blood 7" (Drunken Sailor Records) Steve Adamyk Band - s/t 12" LP (Dead Broke Records) Tenement - Blind Wink 12" LP (Cowabunga Records) Toys That Kill - Fambly 42 12" LP (Drunken Sailor Records) split - Bangers / What-A-Nights 7" (Drunken Sailor Records) split - Credentials, the / Dead Uncles 7" (86'd Records) Also, I'm selling a ton of 7"s from my personal collection. Check out the list here - www.firestarterrecords.com/seveninchlist - and get in touch [email protected] - if you're interested in anything. Prices are negotiable and I'll cut you a deal if you buy a bunch. Check out all of our releases at our Bandcamp page! http://firestartertoxicpop.bandcamp.com Thanks. Mike Firestarter / Toxic Pop www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog firestartertoxicpop.bandcamp.com firestartertoxicpop.bandcamp.com firestartertoxicpop.bandcamp.com

www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog Pre-orders for The Capitalist Kids - Lessons on Love, Sharing, and Hygiene 12" LP are now up in the webstore. The first pressing will be 100 on white vinyl and 400 on black. You can pre-order just the record or the record with an exclusive Toxic Pop t-shirt at a couple bucks savings. Here's some info on the record... TOX16: The Capitalist Kids - Lessons on Love, Sharing, and Hygiene 12" LP It's pretty rare that we fall in love with a band on first listen, but that was exactly the case when Austin, TX's The Capitalist Kids sent us their new recording. It's really hard not to get sucked in by the familiar pop-punk hooks first made popular by Lookout! Records bands like Green Day and The Mr. T Experience, but the new recording really had us yelling "Hell yes!" when the third song, "Parachute of Gold", kicked in with it's socially critical lyrics. It's easy to find a pop-punk band that can write a catchy song about a new or lost love, but when they can seamlessly flow between a song like that and a song about the growing income gap in this country, it's a really, really special thing. Other often neglected topics in the genre that can be found on this album include the cold-hearted Ayn Rand, Socialist as badge of honor, and the disappointment and anger at famous punk rockers punching women. Don't worry traditionalists, songs about girls are abundant as well. This is your new favorite record. Comes with a digital download code. You can preview a couple tracks from the record at our Bandcamp page... http://firestartertoxicpop.bandcamp.com www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog

fuck yeah. you can stream the record at our Bandcamp page - http://firestartertoxicpop.bandcamp.com/album/gates-of-home

www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog Pre-orders for the Sick Sick Birds - Gates of Home LP are now up in the webstore. 100 on yellow vinyl are available to the first lucky purchasers. The LPs should be ready to ship by the end of March. Go get 'em! TOX13: Sick Sick Birds - Gates of Home 12" [March 2012] Baltimore's Sick Sick Birds present us with their second long-player which finds them exploring their history as a band with eleven songs that span their existence and their influences (The Clash, The Pixies, The Smiths, Jawbox...). These songs have more of a sense of urgency compared to some of their more whimsical offerings. The melancholy is still there but it's been imbued with a sense of "you lie in the bed you make". With Bobby Borte on a musical hiatus, Mike Hall has taken up primary song-writing duties and his songs speak of snippets of stories whose characters, for better or worse, have followed their own path and deal with whatever may come as best they can. Comes with a digital download code. track listing: 1. Pick and Choose 2. Conversation 3. Marrietta 4. Spinning Jenny 5. One Town Over 6. Caution Wires 7. (Cross the) Shipping Lanes 8. Olive 9. Gates of Home 10. New Shoe Leather 11. Scaffold www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog

www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog Pre-orders for the Sick Sick Birds - Gates of Home LP are now up in the webstore. 100 on yellow vinyl are available to the first lucky purchasers. The LPs should be ready to ship by the end of March. Go get 'em! TOX13: Sick Sick Birds - Gates of Home 12" [March 2012] Baltimore's Sick Sick Birds present us with their second long-player which finds them exploring their history as a band with eleven songs that span their existence and their influences (The Clash, The Pixies, The Smiths, Jawbox...). These songs have more of a sense of urgency compared to some of their more whimsical offerings. The melancholy is still there but it's been imbued with a sense of "you lie in the bed you make". With Bobby Borte on a musical hiatus, Mike Hall has taken up primary song-writing duties and his songs speak of snippets of stories whose characters, for better or worse, have followed their own path and deal with whatever may come as best they can. Comes with a digital download code. track listing: 1. Pick and Choose 2. Conversation 3. Marrietta 4. Spinning Jenny 5. One Town Over 6. Caution Wires 7. (Cross the) Shipping Lanes 8. Olive 9. Gates of Home 10. New Shoe Leather 11. Scaffold www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog

I've got almost 500 7"s I'm selling. Need to make room. I take good care of my records. Any damage is noted (usually how it was purchased), otherwise all are in very good to near mint condition. I'm happy to send pics for serious inquiries. The prices listed are what I'm looking for, but they are negotiable, and anyone buying a bunch of records will get a better deal. Email me at mikeriley131 AT gmail DOT com with offers or questions. Here's the list - http://www.firestarterrecords.com/seveninchlist.txt

thanks to those that have ordered so far. keep 'em coming.

oh yeah...you can check out tracks from these records at our Bandcamp page - http://firestartertoxicpop.bandcamp.com

Pre-orders are now up for the Tenement - Taking Everything 7" EP and the Scum Again - s/t 7" EP. Limited colored vinyl for those who get 'em early. www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog TOX10: Tenement - Taking Everything 7" Appleton, WI's Tenement play some of the best poppy/melodic grunge/punk we've ever heard. We were first introduced to them through their EP on 608 Kisses Records, which was surely a solid effort, but it was their songs on the split 7"s with Used Kids and Friendly Fire that really got us hooked, along with their contribution to the Dead Broke Rekerds vol. 3 cassette compilation. We found ourselves instantly neglecting everything else on these releases to keep going back and playing the Tenement tracks over and over and over. After catching a live show in DC on their tour with Used Kids we fell in love and now we couldn't be more excited to be releasing this 7" single of four brand new songs which were recorded at the same time as their Napalm Dream LP on Mandible Records/Hang Up Records. You can hear elements of influences from bands like Sugar, the Replacements, Mudhoney, Husker Du, and Tad, but the sound is all their own. Both the guitars and the vocals have that perfect balance of crunch and melody and the leads have just enough feedback to give them some grit. We can't get enough. Easily the best band we caught wind of in 2009. TOX14: Scum Again - s/t 7" Scum Again are a new-ish band out of Baltimore, MD featuring 5 guys who have been around the local punk scene for many years. You may have checked out some of their previous bands like Warpriest, The Squints, Diablero, Mind As Prison, and Plaguewielder...well this band only has the DIY ethic in common with their previous bands. These boys are letting their love for catchy poppy punk to shine through with Scum Again. You'll hear influences from bands like Crimpshrine, Fifteen, and the Broadways. Punk rock with hooks that's a bit rough around the edges. www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog

www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog Hey folks. Hot enough for ya? Seriously though. This is gross. Get some swimming in while you can. And listen to some rad tunes. That's what gets us through the day. We've got a little bit of news for ya and a few distro updates. Thanks for listening... Thanks a ton to everyone that scored some great deals from our clearance sale. In case you missed it, we decided to drastically scale back the size of the distro. It was just getting a bit too big to handle. Now you may actually see us out at shows with some boxes as 5 of them are much easier to cart around then 12 of them. We're gonna do our best to stick to quality over quantity (though we stand behind everything we've sold). All of the clearance 7"s are gone but there are still some clearance LPs ($3 and $5). Check out the list below. We still have copies of Pulling Teeth's Witches' Sabbath vol. 6 7". Only available with the Funerary CD and limited to 300, this is the final installment of the series. Grab 'em while you can cuz whatever is left come mid-August is getting sold by the band at This Is Hardcore in Philly. In label news, we'll be getting started on production of the Tenement and Scum Again 7"s very soon. Keep an eye out for pre-order information in a month or so. In case you haven't heard, Scum Again are a fairly new band from Baltimore playing gritty pop punk along the lines of Crimpshrine, Fifteen, and newer bands like Unfun. Great stuff. We made a Bandcamp page (http://firestartertoxicpop.bandcamp.com)! Head over there to check out a song from their 7" (and a lot of our other releases, with more to come). You can also hear the title track from that upcoming Tenement 7". Easily one of our favorite bands these days. Speaking of Tenement...we just got copies of their brand new LP, Napalm Dream, in the webstore. This one is an easy contender for Album of the Year. It's gonna be tough to beat, that's for sure. If you haven't heard Tenement yet, they take the best elements from bands like Sugar, Dinosaur Jr, the Replacements, and Nirvana and combine them into some seriously great grungy/punk pop music. Don't miss out on that LP. Also new in the webstore is the demo from NJ's Phibes, featuring members of Wormeaters and Bloodtype. Great early 80s SoCal style hc/punk. Good stuff. Also out of NJ are the best band in hc/punk right now, the Night Birds, and their CD compiling all of their releases to date. If you haven't heard Night Birds yet and you dig hc/punk, do yourself a favor and pick that up. They cross Adolescents, Agent Orange, and Dead Kennedys to perfection. Best band right now. Here's the list of all the new distro items... Abolitionist - At the Level of the Ear b/w Ear 7" Autistic Youth - Idle Minds 12" LP Culo - Military Trend 7" Deep Sleep - Turn Me Off 12" LP Direct Control - Bucktown Hardcore 12" LP Estranged, the - Subliminal Man 12" LP Give - Boots of Faith 7" Goodnight Loving, the - Nothing Conquers Us 7" Insubordinates - s/t 12" LP Male Nurses - s/t 7" Mall'd To Death - Can't Make a Living 12" LP Marvelous Darlings - Live at Gales 12" LP Most Precious Blood - Merciless 12" LP Night Birds - Fresh Kills vol. 1 CD Phibes - demo cassette Predator - s/t 12" LP Quest For Fire - s/t 12" LP Rational Anthem - Bread Line 7" Statues - Holiday Cops 12" LP Tenement - Napalm Dream 12" LP split - Credentials, the / Transgressions, the 7" Here's the list of clearanace LPs... $3 Bad Man - Neighborhood Watch 12" LP Deride - s/t 12" LP Head Home - Outside My Window 12" EP Mr. Highway - s/t 12" LP S.M.D. - The Devil Makes Me Do It 12" LP split - Solid Decline / Ruidosa Inmundicia 12" LP Sunpower - Pain For Profit 12" LP $5 Cheap Tragedies - Volume 1: Souvenirs and Evidence 12" LP Chronic Seizure - Ancient Wounds 12" LP Hjertestop - Vi Ses I Helvede 12" LP Insubordinates - s/t 12" LP Jack Palance Band - Get This Shit Underway 12" LP Jon Snodgrass - Visitor's Band 12" LP No Slogan - Aversion Therapy 12" LP Out Cold - Goodbye Cruel World 12" LP Quest For Fire - s/t 12" LP Sacred Shock - You're Not With Us 12" LP Something Fierce - There Are No Answers 12" LP Spark, the - Nobody's Laughing 12" LP and clearance CDs ($2)... Altaira - Weigh Your Conscience CDep Annalise - Versus Everything CD At Half Mast - Alive, Alone, and Waiting CDep Backseat Virgins - Born Again CD Bail Out! - Another One Bites the Dust CD Braindead - No Consequences CD Celebrity Murders - Time To Kill Space CD Daggermouth - Stallone CD Daggermouth - Turf Wars CD DC Snipers - Missile Sunset CD Dean Dirg - Raus CD Decades - Numbered CDep Disnihil - s/t CD Down and Outs - Boys From the Blackstuff CD Down and Outs - Friday Nights, Monday Mornings CD Four Eyes, the - Five Songs About Video Games and One About Something Else CD Gateway District - Some Days You Get the Thunder CD Gordan Gano's Army - s/t CD Imperial Leather - Something Out Of Nothing CD Julith Krishun - s/t CD Monikers - Eat Your Young CDep New Bruises - Transmit! Transmit! CD Orphan Choir - s/t CD Psyched To Die - Year One CD Restless Youth - State of Confusion CD Shitty Limits, the - Beware the Limits CD Sirens - In Circles CD Smogtown - All Wiped Out CDep SSS - s/t CD Tim Version, the - Still Have the Nerve To Call Ourselves a Band Tipper's Gore - s/t CD Tricycle Farm - Everything's On Sale CD V/A: Trapped In a Scene CD Vena Cava - Weapons of Mass Communication CDep www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog

still goin. added some new items. check it out... www.firestarterrecords.com/catalog

still lotsa good clearance items left. check 'em out.