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Arch Animals – Garden

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Arch Animals just put out this little diddy last week.  ”Smooth” and “jammy” guitar riffs ontop of some heavy distorted bass lines with great lyrics.  You know what time it is.

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Habitat Demo

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CR-013 5/03/12 Track List Miracle of Deafness Broke My Home See Saw Other One All Along We Used to Know [wp_connect_like_button href="" send_button="disabled" layout="standard" width="600" show_faces="enabled" verb="like" colorscheme="light" font="arial" ref="" /] Demo recordings of Habitat (members of High In One Eye, Country Club, and Glish). Habitat breeds songs boasting a powerful energy rooted in both [...]

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CHINDIG 06 // COUNTRY CLUB RELEASES NEW ALBUM

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Dear friends, In the not too distant future, there exists a world where finals are unheard of, where every barista is a bartender, and the days of the week aren’t defined by your class schedule but your grass schedule (i’m sorry)… Though apocryphal, this future is approaching our reality at the speed of Caddywhompus… on [...]

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Block Party // Treats!

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This weekend has been long awaited by we Chinqua-heads along with many others. This Saturday, April 21st marks Community Records’ 5th annual Block Party, an all day & night DIY music festival on Clio St. near Lee Circle. This year, 26 bands will be featured on the linuep, with five Chinquapin Records-affiliated artists included in [...]

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Choi Wolf – 2011 Demo

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Byron from Glish’s punk project.  Fast-nasaly-grind.

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B L A C K I E – demo

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This is an older EP by B L A C K I E, aka Michael LaCour, released in ’09. If you like this you will be way down with his live set.  He plays Block Party this Saturday 4/21/12 at 8 o’clock.

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The Tontons – So Young / Golden

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The Tontons are good friends of ours from way out yonder in Houston, TX, the city of syrup.  They have a very unique sound that can only be described as motorcycle-dance-rock/sexual-lounge-pop.  These two songs, recorded at Sugar-Hill Studios in Houston, are the first 2 tracks off their most recent EP, Golden.  Download them for free and [...]

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Chinquapin / Community Records Showcase

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  This Thursday will be madness. First off, the above bands and we label-dudes are all joining forces to put on this DIY double date. It’s a showcase of sorts, displaying what Community Records and Chinquapin Records has to offer.  Com Rec is killin it with that all-ages punk as eff fest at The Big [...]

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Caddywhompus Catch-Up

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We the merry two in the Caddy labs have kicked it into high gear recently and have a few things to report to the blogosphere. Today (well, yesterday now) we released some new recordings for free as a TREAT. These tracks (read: Maze Demos) were done this past winter in our practice space (the Maze) [...]

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Upcoming Chinquapin-related shows!

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Hello! We’ve been organizing a bunch of events lately and we are really exited to announce as many as we can handle announcing at one time.  So here is what February is looking like… UPCOMING CHINQUAPIN SHOWS: FEB 2ND – Native America, Pals, Netherfriends –  Circle Bar {Facebook Event} FEB 3RD – Sun Hotel, Good [...]

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