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02.09.2009

We’ve put together a 2009 preview & 2008 overview compilation, sort of as a distraction from how Maine’s longest season has been kicking our asses, but also to commemorate a new rock n roll photography exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art. The comp was given to visitors at one of the opening events for the exhibit.
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Peapod Recordings Winter 2009 [82mb]

Winter 2009 Comp // Individual Tracks
What are we gonna do now? [Chriss Sutherland - Worried Love]
Stats and Demographics [Huak - forthcoming EP]
New Armor [Cerf-Volantes - forthcoming album]
Settle Down, rough mix [Company - forthcoming album]
Death Machine [Cougars Kill Cobras - VS.]
Color Spills In, rough mix [Honey Clouds - forthcoming album Fall on the Honey Clouds]
The Holiday Fair [Dan Blakeslee (featuring Audrey Ryan) - The Holiday Fair Christmas EP]
Untitled, rough mix [R2T2 - forthcoming album]
Terry Head [South China - unreleased]
Clara Harris [Dead End Armory - forthcoming Collected EPs]
Yardcats [Hearts by Darts - Hearts by Darts]
Sweet Storms [The Hands of the Wrong People - Spring Flakes]
Tangible and Smoove, rough mix [Wesley Hartley - forthcoming solo album]
23 days [Harpswell Sound - remixed for an unreleased Angioplasty Media comp]
Amelia Earhart [Brown Bird - The Bottom of the Sea]

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SPACE // Saturday Aug. 30 // 8:00 (sharp!) - 1:00 // $8 // 18+

We’re very excited about the first ever gathering of peapod recordings artists from all over at Portland’s SPACE Gallery! The festival features many of Portland’s favorite indie artists such as Chriss Sutherland, South China, Dead End Armory and Cougars Kill Cobras, along with the first ever performance from Baltimore’s Hearts by Darts, a rare set from Berlin, Germany’s The Hands of the Wrong People, and the first performance from Baltimore’s Nord Express in over 10 years.

• 7:00 Doors open
• 8:00 Chriss Sutherland
• 8:20 Dan Blakeslee (Boston, MA)
• 8:40 Nord Express (Baltimore, MD)
• 9:00 Honey Clouds
• 9:20 The Hands of the Wrong People (Berlin, Germany)
• 9:40 Dead End Armory
• 10:00 South China
• 10:20 Hearts by Darts (Baltimore, MD)
• 11:00 Brown Bird
• 11:20 Huak
• 11:40 Nathan Halverson (Columbia, SC)
• 12:00 Cougars Kill Cobras

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Peapod comp available free at Ferdinand’s Renegade Craft Fair booths in Brooklyn and San Francisco. All handmade with covers folded from a single sheet of 9×12 school paper.

Features tracks from all four of our newest releases and most of our 2007 releases, plus an amazing song from our friends Cougars Kill Cobras, who will be releasing an ep with us this fall, and an untitled track from the R2T2 project featuring members of The Baltic Sea and Honey Clouds, whose album will also be out this fall.

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Peapod Recordings RCF 2008 [89mb]

Peapod Recordings + Ferdinand at Renegade Craft Fair 2008

Treasures By The Ounce [Dead End Armory - Hope You’re Good]
Oct. 3 [Hearts by Darts S/T]
Four Letter [The Hands of the Wrong People - Spring Flakes]
The Ice and Snow Haunt Me Still [Brown Bird - The Bottom of the Sea]
Your Spanish Scarf [Dan Blakeslee - Lincoln Street Roughs]
Color Spills In [Honey Clouds - Earl Grey Demos]
Tripleplay [Nord Express - Loveland 1995 - 2005]
Colfax [Brown Bird - The Bottom of the Sea]
Prime [Hearts by Darts S/T]
Ribbon [Honey Clouds - Earl Grey Demos]
Dog [The Hands of the Wrong People - Spring Flakes]
Slipping on the Wooden Overcoat [Dead End Armory - Hope You’re Good]
Ashes to Ashes [Cougars Kill Cobras - forthcoming ep]
Untitled [R2T2]
Carrie [Dan Blakeslee - Lincoln Street Roughs]
Off-Eyed Manx [Nathan Halverson - Nurse/Shark]

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Now Available from Peapod Recordings!

mp3s
Dog
Four Letter

The Hands of the Wrong People is the musical vehicle of Scotland-bred, Berlin-based visual artist Dominic Hislop, accompanied live and on album by drummer Robert Wiesner, and most recently by bassist Plus Fox live. They released 2 eps in Germany, and Spring Flakes is their first full length.
Dominic’s songs draw from such seemingly disparate genres such as 80s Scottish pop, 90s Chicago style post-rock and contemporary underground folk. Imagine the jazz-influenced rock of Karate mixed with the pseudo-Chic funk of Orange Juice and the pop jangle of early Aztec Camera, and you begin to get a sense of the sound of Spring Flakes. The album addresses relationships & politics in the same breath, becoming a subtle form of protest music performed on the deceptively traditional lineup of amplified acoustic guitar, drums & bass.

If you’re in or near Berlin, make sure to catch their CD release at West Germany on July 3, with Erste Stufe Haifisch and Getting Up Every Morning.

Mail order from Peapod Recordings! iTunes, eMusic and other digital outlets available soon!

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We’ve put together a compilation of tracks from our upcoming 2008 releases, along with a handful of holiday tunes by peapod artists (late, I know) and some extras from our 2007 catalog.

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New Year 2008 [140mb]

Thanks to the awesome Martha Kearsley for the photo of Dirty Girl.
Some of these tracks may not be final mixes and/or mastered.

_2008 Preview
Catalyst [Dead End Armory - Hope You’re Good CD]
Four Letter [Hands of the Wrong People]
Prime [Hearts by Darts]
Untitled 1 [R2T2]
Untitled 1 [Brown Bird - Map Room Project CD/Photobook]
Bride and the Doomed [Wesley Hartley]
The Old House [Honey Clouds - Earl Grey Demos CD]
Company [Hearts by Darts]
Party [Hands of the Wrong People]
Breeze [Honey Clouds - Earl Grey Demos CD]
Wooden Overcoat [Dead End Armory - Hope You’re Good CD]
Untitled 2 [R2T2]
Untitled 2 [Brown Bird - Map Room Project CD/Photobook]
Bands Only Solace [Wesley Hartley]

_Holiday
Holiday Fair [Dan Blakeslee]
Rooftops [Hearts by Darts]
Dear Santa [Wesley Hartley]

_2007 Extras
Fever Lift [Dan Blakeslee - Lincoln Street Roughs CD]
Follow and I Shall Flee [Nord Express - Loveland 1995-2005 CD]
Off Eyed Manx [Nathan Halverson - Nurse / Shark CD]
When Your Plane Lands [Trey Hughes - Poplar Street Demos CD]

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