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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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From “Hope You’re Good”, available in March 2008.

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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.

Download a .ZIP file of this entire compilation:
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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