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Available for mail order now, with eMusic, iTunes and other download services very soon. Songs clips and free downloads available here.

Make sure to download the Stars on 45 disco mix of the album:
Fall on the Honey Clouds on 45

Some recent press for the album:
The Bollard
The Phoenix

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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.
Download a .ZIP file of this entire compilation:
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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Man, it’s been a long time, but we’ve been very busy. We’ve got a ton of new releases planned for the first part of this year:

First up is Chriss Sutherland’s Worried Love, the 2nd solo album from this founding member of Cerberus Shoal and Fire on Fire. Instrumentally more lush & dense than his amazing debut, Me In A Field, Worried Love features Fire on Fire members Caleb & Colleen (also Big Blood), Micah Blue Smaldone (who’s latest album you should immediately pickup if you haven’t, beautiful stuff) and Tom Kovacevic, along with Jerusha Robinson (South China/Brown Bird) and many other incredible players.
Chriss will be touring this March in support of Worried Love with the new 5-piece lineup of Brown Bird.

Huak have finished a new 5-song ep that will be out this winter. Check out a couple of the new songs on their myspace page.

Honey Clouds have almost completed work on the “studio” follow-up to last years Earl Grey Demos.

Dead End Armory are at work on the follow up to their debut full length Hope You’re Good. Also look for an album compiling both of their debut eps very soon.

Brown Bird are also working on their follow up to The Bottom of the Sea, recording live in the studio with the new 5 piece band, plus Micah Blue Smaldone on upright bass.

We’re very excited to release a compilation of Andrew Frederick’s Cerf-Volantes recordings. Gorgeous finger picking and harmonies.

The former Brooklyn-based quartet Company will release their new album on Peapod, a combination of recordings from both Portland and NYC in fall 2008.

Hearts by Darts are hard at work on their follow up to their self-titled 2008 debut.

South China are doing pre-production for their debut full-length. Look for some experimentation ala Jeremy’s solo project Drab Pony on this record.

And finally,  Dan Blakeslee will be recording his long awaited country album, live in a Berwick barn sometime this summer.

Thanks!

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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.

Download a .ZIP file of this entire compilation:
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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Available from peapodrecordings.com, iTunes, eMusic, toneVENDOR and select record stores.

brown bird
bottom of the sea

brown bird’s sound ranges from simple sea-shanty style folk to complex counterpoints with an eastern european flavor. their influences of indie rock, classical music, and old american hymns rise and fall within their songs like whitecaps on a dark and stormy sea.

brown bird’s newest full-length, the bottom of the sea, is a collection of very old and brand new songs recorded in chronological order in February 2008. The album is more stripped-down and traditionally song oriented than the earlier releases, with beautiful vocals and instrumentation from fellow brown birds jeremy and jerusha, along with annie palmer and eliza blue.

Dave will be on an extensive national tour in support of the album this summer. Check their MySpace page for details.

“Frontman and songwriter David Lamb is like an ancient foundation peeking up through wild grass, deeply rooted but whipped raw by the elements.”
— Sam Pfeifle, Portland Phoenix

the ice and snow haunt me still

dead end armory
hope you’re good

Equal parts Texas-style indie rock and New England wintercore. The often cited comparison of Willie Nelson meets The Pixies is apt — Hartley’s southern croon recalls the legendary Texan’s heartfelt delivery, and the 4 piece rock band’s sound ranges from spare, solemn songs that bring to mind The Red House Painters, early Low, and of course, the Red Headed Stranger, to the cacophonous noise of Sister-era Sonic Youth or classic Crazy Horse.

“DEA combine fire and ice musicianship with unpredictable meter changes, sharp guitars, and mellow, haunting vocals to create one of the most interesting sounds in the downtown scene.”
— Bill Reese, Good Times

treasures by the ounce

hearts by darts
self-titled debut

Baltimore’s Hearts by Darts started as a recording project by Sei Petersen and Mike Evitts after the demise of their band Sharky. They began crafting songs from the ground up, drawing from a diverse range of influences including 60s soundtrack music, 80s shoegaze, 90s indie rock, and Julee Cruise’s lovely Twin Peaks songs. With the addition of Wendy Weihs’ understated vocal style and intriguing lyrics (often referencing mathematical rules and impossible, far away locales), Hearts by Darts have succeeded in crafting a dream pop landscape that is simultaneously springtime and atmosphere, comforting and strange.

prime

honey clouds
earl grey demos

“… i am definitely diggin their sound which is very reminiscent of early pavement, velvet underground, the fall, east river pipe, etc. i love the use of the jangly guitar, it always goes far with me. will definitely be reporting on these guys in the future.”
— Captain’s Dead

“The guitars alternately jangle a la early R.E.M. and crunch like Crazy Horse. Killer riffs abound. The new group’s exuberance is palpable …”
— Chris Busby, The Bollard

color spills in
spinning from tops

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