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Suburban Home to release Joey Cape's album, "Bridg

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Coming off the very exciting news that we will be putting out Useless I.D.'s next album which I announced last week, I have even more great news. After a phone call with Mr. Joey Cape (http://www.myspace.com/joeycape) last night, we have agreed to release his first solo album, "Bridge" in North America. I have no hesitation saying that Joey Cape is one of the greatest songwriters on the planet and I feel like someone should pinch me because I could not dream up a more incredible piece of news to share with you.

For those of you who don't know, Joey Cape is the front man of Lagwagon, Bad Astronaut, and one of the singer/songwriters of the Suburban Home act, the Playing Favorites. I first met Joey through his label, My Records. Besides being an amazing musician, Joey ran one of my favorite labels in the late 90's. He put out the first albums by both Nerf Herder and Adventures of Jet and put out a few releases for Armchair Martian, all bands I love. He has remained relevant over 20 plus years of writing and recording music and he is recording some of his greatest music now.

Suburban Home will release "Bridge" in North America on Vinyl, CD, and digital formats. Joey had mentioned the possibility of a bonus track not available on the European and Japanese versions, but I can't completely confirm that. We are aiming to release the album in October which could possibly be the same month we new release albums from Useless I.D., Drag the River, Tim Barry, and Two Cow Garage! Joey has gone on record as saying the following about his first solo offering, The strange part of all this is, now that it is done, I'm not sure how to feel. It is my first attempt at making a solo record, something I am totally unfamiliar with. I know this, I will never make a record this way again. From now on, no second guessing or obsessing. Ultimately, I am proud of this record. I made something I like and it's time to move on. I hope most of you will appreciate it. I have decided to call it "Bridge". I think the musical metaphor is appropriate because it is something new for me and it will lead me to another place as a songwriter, whether it be a better appreciation of my craft or the butt of another songwriter's joke. Either way, I'm on my way

We will soon be posting an mp3 and as Joey completes the mixing and mastering, we will have a release date nailed down. Know that I could not be more excited about all our recent signings and releases. This is an exciting chapter in our 13th year of doing Suburban Home.

One side note - I could not resist posting this photo of Joey with a mustache. I can only think of the brilliant movie, Safe Men which had the line, "Sweet Stache Bro", "Thanks Man". If you haven't seen the movie, do so immediately and get ready for an unbelievable fall release schedule.

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the story with Bad Astronaut vinyl is that Joey really wants to remix and remaster all of the albums so they sound incredible on wax. After mixing and mastering the playing favorites, he has learned a lot about vinyl mastering. It is his plan to (in between me first and lagwagon dates) to remix and remaster his solo album, the playing favorites double 7", and then the bad astronaut stuff. Because he is so busy touring, the BA stuff may end up taking a while to happen.

I will definitely work with Joey to make it all happen though.

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Nathan Kurtz was our winner of guess who we are gonna be working with question. Congrats Nathan.

didn't you already announce this a few months ago? or was that just the vinyl release?

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I mentioned the possibility of us doing it but at that point, we weren't sure we were in the running for doing the album on CD and digital.

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God dammit Virgil - this is amazing!

When I was studying English in college, I heard nonstop bashing of 'lyrics' as not being worth a damn in the realm of poetry, but Joey Cape was one of the guys that always showed me that was just pretentious bullshit and the people who said that knew nothing. I would sneak nods to my favorite songwriters into my work or put their quotes to start my work, and two of my published poems - along with a couple short stories - all have nods to him or were written with his songs on repeat.

I can't wait to hear this album and I am even more stoked to know I don't have to import it from Germany now! :)

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