Yes my friends thats right, I start my final 12 credits of schoolin’ tomorrow. Although I hopefully will be getting my MBA in the near future, I will be able to cross ”yo kyle get your BA degree” off my list of things to do. Next up on the list? “kyle, dude. go get a real job”

To celebrate for the first time in history farewell party is having a SALE!!!! 15% off your entire order @ the farewell party store. Simply enter the promo code BACK2SCHOOL4ME in the check out and BOOM. 15% off. This will go until next Monday. Thank you to all my friends who continue to support this label.

We have a new website! I got tired of dealing with the quirks of the last theme so I just built my own. This will be an incentive to post more and actually make it look like I care about this label.

As always, if something looks off, let me know.

Half Hearted Hero – Defining. Refining.

Farewell Party Records is pleased to welcome Half Hearted Hero to the team. Effective immediately we have launched Half Hearted Hero’s debut full length Defining. Refining. for sale on vinyl and cassette. The first pressing is limited to just 280 copies and can be purchased from our online store. We will be releasing new Half Hearted Hero material later this year.

To your right you will see a fancy music player that is streaming the album, courtesy of Suburban Home Records and Vinyl Collective. Take a listen, then take a buy!

Oh, sirs and madams. Have we a tale to tell you.

As the pretty flyer to my left says, we have a new release coming out on January 2nd and only 180 will be available. Kyle tells me it’s going to go fast and he’s pretty smart when it comes to records. He’s like the Einstein of Vinyl. Vinestein? Anyone?

Join the event on Facebook.

We’ve launched a message board so you nerds can come talk to other nerds about all the things nerds talk about on the internet.

Caleb Lionheart 3rd (and final) Press

We’re moving onto new projects here at Farewell Party HQ. New releases to be announced soon so it’s time to put this one to rest. Kyle cooked up some sweet bootleg style jackets all by himself (we’re so proud!) and he’ll send ‘em to you for the low low price of $5 plus shipping. Buy them in the store. Cuz that’s where you buy things.

Dear Diary… Today I broke a fat kid’s pelvis…

Kyle started a blog and he wants you to read it. He rants about the music industry and shows off the latest action figures he’s ripped out of the hands of nine year olds at the mall. Read, comment, share, all that good stuff that makes social media social.

Thanks for sticking with us, guys and gals. Summer’s over so we’re not scampering around outside as much and we’ll be kicking things into high gear. Peace and love peace and love.

Would you look at that? That there is a preview of the forth-coming screen printed cover of the Hospice LP from Achilles. Pre-orders are available through our store.

Stay tuned for release date and pressing info!

Friday – 6/26 – OUR LADY OF FATIMA PARISH HALL – New Bedford, MA
Saturday – 6/27 – NOTTINGHAM – Brooklyn, NY
Sunday – 6/28 – PETE’S HOUSE – Westbury, NY
Monday – 6/29 – THE MEATLOCKER – Montclair, NJ
Tuesday – 6/30 – CHAMPIONSHIP – Lemoyne, PA
Wednesday – 7/1 – CHARM CITY ART SPACE – Baltimore, MD
Friday – 7/3 – FOGGY HOLLOW MUSIC CO – Jonesville, VA
Saturday – 7/4 – JAMMIN JAVA – East Vienna, VA
Sunday – 7/5 – GOLDEN MONKEY TATTOO – Fredricksburg, VA
Monday – 7/6 – JAKE’S HOUSE – Jamestown, NC
Tuesday – 7/7 – WONDERROOT – Atlanta, GA
Wednesday – 7/8 – DOOZER’S PUB – Jacksonville, FL
Friday – 7/10 – THE KICKSTAND – Gainesville, FL
Saturday – 7/11 – THE TALENT FARM – Pembroke Pines, FL
Monday – 7/13 – THE GREEN CUP – Birmingham, AL
Tuesday – 7/14 – LOUD HOUSE COFFEE – Greenbrier, TN
Wednesday – 7/15 – LONG BRANCH SALOON – Knoxville, TN
Saturday – 7/18 – DAYTON DIRT COLLECTIVE – Dayton, OH
Sunday – 7/19 – THE SCRATCH HOUSE – Brookpark, OH
Monday – 7/20 – HOUSE SHOW – Columbus, OH
Tuesday – 7/21 – OHM ULTRA LOUNGE – Buffalo, NY
Wednesday – 7/22 – BOULDER COFFEE CO – Rochester, NY
Thursday – 7/23 – WESTCOTT COMMUNITY CENTER – Syracuse, NY
Friday – 7/24 – VALENTINE’S – Albany, NY
Saturday – 7/25 – 242 MAIN STREET – Burlington, VT

We’ll be posting photos as they come in so go to shows and jump in the photos like the jerk you are! They might end up here!

Here’s the tracklist:

1. Fractals (0:58)
2. It’s Cool, But the Fullblast Already Did It (2:57)
3. Cobblestones (3:56)
4. I’d Rather Be Out of the Kitchen Than On the Back Burner (4:19)
5. Meter? I Just Met Her!? (3:27)
6. A Pathetic Attempt At An Apathetic Approach (2:12)
7. In My Head and Out Of My Hands (5:27)
8. The Search for Definition (1:42)
9. Something Missing (5:18)
10. A Clean Break (4:02)
11. Notes On the Floor (6:32)
12. Colder Weather (2:22)

Speaking of touring! Half Hearted Hero and fellow Farewell Partiers Caleb Lionheart will be joining each other on tour this summer. Once we know all the dates we are soooo posting that here. F’realz!

Yeah. I forgot to post on Monday. It was the day before primary elections here in Pittsburgh and I was working on my score card. Sorry, y’all.

No contest this week. It’s kinda like that Eddie Izzard bit “Cake or Death!” We’re out of free stuff to give away, but with a couple more releases coming up, you can be sure the contests will return.

Big announcements on the way. Stuff about Half Hearted Hero, stuff about Achilles, and stuff about this very internet website you are reading now! So stay tuned. Because I will be tuned. And y’all should imitate me because I’m awesome.

Have a week!

-Greg

Kyle loves him some pugs. So much in fact once you guys make us millionares we’ll donate tons of monies to the Green Mountain Pug Rescue from Vermont. They’re pretty awesome.

This week’s winner will get 2 prizes! An out of print Half Hearted Hero cassette, and an out of print Farewell Party Records hoodie with the logo that would probably get us sued if we made any money at all. But we don’t, really. At least that’s what Kyle tells me so he can keep paying me in vinyl which my landlord doesn’t take oh god I don’t want to sleep in the street someone help

So leave a comment. Show us your favorite kind of dog and why. Arf.

Contests will be posted Monday mornings as will the winner from the previous week. Leave a comment to enter!

image from starwars.com

I lost my virginity while watching Star Wars. Conventional thinking said that being as huge a Star Wars fan that I am would lead to chronic virginity but either they’re wrong or I’m just that awesome.

Kyle and I have always been Star Wars fans and it’s partially what we bonded over in high school. See, it wasn’t just the movies that we were hooked on. I dabbled in the paper and pen RPG, and we both gobbled up every computer game we could get our hands on but our crack rock was the “Customizable Card Game.” We played in tournaments and spent our weekends strategizing how to counter each other’s space presence while keeping an adequate level of force drain on the ground. Yeah. We had prolly 20 girlfriends at once.

“Aren’t you a little short for a stormtrooper?”
It all started for me when I was a wee lad. I’d play with my Lego’s and goof around on our Commodore 64 so my mom had me pegged for a nerd from the start. So she sat me down in front of the TV one day to stop me from running into things or something like that and said, “You’ll like this.” Little did she know.

Kyle probably had the same first experience but he signed off AIM so I can’t ask him but I can ask you:

What’s your favorite Star Wars movie? Why? Mine is A New Hope for several reasons. Tell us in the comments and we’ll announce the winner of a Caleb Lionheart 2nd press four pack (worth $37) next Monday morning.

Have a great week and stop picturing me naked.

-Greg

This is the first of our weekly contests. Contests will be posted Monday mornings as will the winner from the previous week. Leave a comment to enter! Contest rules: You can only win one contest per month. You must comment below to enter.