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news... March news: South By is back in town again and we’re thrilled to be partnering with KVRX, UT’s student-run radio station extraordinaire, this Thursay and Friday to throw what are sure to be some kick-ass good times (details below)! There are also plenty of other i eat artist activities in Austin this week, so be sure to visit our Shows page too. KVRX & i eat records Present: Spain Colored Orange 12-1230 Food/Drink Provided by El Arroyo KVRX & i eat records Present: Featuring: No Age
August news: Our shelves (and stereos) are now stocked with the summer's best new releases from the fine city of Austin, TX. Really, three of our favorite albums period. We're not alone in our love for them either. The Austin Chronicle's Audra Schroeder calls Brothers and Sisters' debut-release "the feel-good local album of the year...radiating sunshine pop and L.A. hooks." Americana-UK's Robin Cracknell also summed it up nicely: "Five boys. Two girls. Twelve tracks. One hell of an album." The Darling New Neighbors' "Every Day Is Saturday Night," is a nearly unclassifiable amalgam of genres that Erasing Clouds' Dave Heaton aptly describes as a "laidback but constantly surprising sort of party." "Honky-tonk meets disco meets pop dance rock meets a fiddle. The lovely sound of the accordion ties everything together......a complicated and unique band" says Jarvis Slacks, Star-News, Wilmington, NC. Paul Minor's fifth release, "Shadow Figure," is another album falling outside of any tiddy classifications. "Like the melancholy musings of an armchair philosopher who likes to sleep in, Shadow Figure is a homey, laid-back life lesson that reveals its wisened charms at a refreshingly unhurried pace," says The Austin Chronicle's Greg Beets. Americana-UK's David Cowling declares that Minor performs his songs with "engaging aplomb...his voice reaches out to you and the piano dispenses melancholy and hope in equal measure." You can read more about them on their artist pages, but why not download some free mp3s first, and give them a listen while you do? Once you're hooked, you can buy the CDs on our Purchase page, or download them all from your (need we say legal?) digital music site-of-choice. Brothers and Sisters, "One Night" from Brothers and Sisters (mp3) Darling New Neighbors, "Overgrown" from Every Day Is Saturday Night (mp3) Paul Minor,"Raincoat Song" from Shadow Figure (mp3) In other news, we're thrilled to announce the re-release of Thor Harris's (also of Shearwater, Smog, Devendra Banhart, Angels of Light, and many others) 1999 masterpiece, Fields of Innards. Thor describes it as a hand-played ambient album. We call it dark, organic, audio bliss.
April news: March was a big month for Austin and I Eat. SXSW was bigger and better than ever, and was particularly exciting for us, our first year there as a label. March also saw I Eat turn one year old, and we'd like to take the opportunity to thank all of the artists and music-lovers who have come together to make it so fun and successful! While March was all about Austin, April and the rest of spring brings Austin's hottest new bands to the rest of the U.S. The Glass Family embarks eastward, and The Handsome Charlies are headed to the heartland. TOUR DATES HERE. Ethan's planning an outing for May right now, so if you're dying to see him, drop us a note and maybe we can make it happen. Want to help spread the word about these shows, see them for free, and get some free merch? Join the I Eat Street Team!
March news: March is a big month for Austin: spring is in the air, SXSW descends upon us, and i eat turns one year old! That's right folks, 12 months, 7 releases, and we're still kicking. 2006 has been good to us so far, and we're grateful to all of the hip, insightful DJs and music-reviewers who have seen fit to look past our institutional youth and shoe string budget to find some great new music. Check it out on our Press page. We've got a lot planned for this year's SXSW weekend, so be sure to check out our Shows page for regularly updated info about the i eat/austinist party, and other i eat-related fun. If you're partaking in the official SXSW festivities, make sure to catch The Glass Family on the KUT showcase at Caribbean Lights Wednesday at midnight. You'll be glad you did.
February news: Welcome to i eat records and thanks for stopping in! If January was any indication, 2006 is shaping up to be a banner year! The Glass Family's Sleep Inside This Wheel is enjoying its fourth week in the top 100 of the CMJ charts, The Handsome Charlies' Gentlemen Never Tell is in its fifth week in the top-ten at KRTU, San Antonio, The Casting Couch is charting at WNYU, and the Orange Mothers at KLC Radio in Portland, WUNH in Durham, NC, and WUSM in Hattiesburg, MS. We applaud them all (and any stations we've missed) for their good taste and offer our most sincere thanks! We're also delighted to be able to share some wonderful new reviews of all of our recent releases with you: Reviews of our Appetizers & Leftovers compilation: "Full of songs with depth and heart - generally in the area of country- and folk-framed pop and rock, but more varied than that description suggests...it's a label comp that's both jam-packed and cohesive, as enticing as you'd want such an album to be." READ MORE - Dave Heaton, Erasing Clouds "This is a 21 track sampler which represents the generally above average catalogue." READ MORE Appetizers & Leftovers was also Christopher Gray's pick for Best Comp of 2005 in The Austin Chronicle. Ethan Azarian, Cross'n Over The Handsome Charlies, Gentlemen Never Tell "The vocals take the 50's style Vincent Vincent And The Villains down several notches while taking the instrumental equivalents up a few...The lyrics are sadly poorly pronounced at times, the result of which is that on occasion the singing starts to sound like British football hooligans having decided to invade a recording studio in an attempt to bring out their soulful side...There are some striking similarities to lots of bands on the London scene at present...[but] The Handsome Charlies do manage to surpass their British contemporaries, at times. Which, being a Londoner is rather difficult to admit to." READ MORE "The songs are catchy, upbeat, and radio friendly. The arrangements are often thick and complex, involving a wide variety of instruments and sounds. Happy, intelligent ...the vocals are exceptional." READ MORE "Gentlemen Never Tell combines Roxy Music suavity with Modest Mouse brashness." READ MORE "Listeners will be in no doubt after hearing Gentleman Never Tell that these guys must be one hell of a live act, the record capturing the energy and buoyancy of a band on the up... one of the best debut releases of recent years. (9 out of 10)" READ MORE The Glass Family Sleep Inside This Wheel "The Glass Family has the offbeat, quirky and stand-offish appeal that's been made famous by the likes of unassuming bands like Radiohead and The Shins. While they embrace this mode of expression, they smartly establish their own sound and spirit and avoid any direct copycat comparisons...Overall, the album is flawless from beginning to end, as there's not a bad song in the bunch. And, after a while the songs grow on you like an old friend. Highly recommended." READ MORE Orange Mothers Greatest Hits "Ethan Azarian must be an ancestor of Hans Christian Andersen, or perhaps a seventh cousin, twice removed, of Jacob & Wilheim Grimm. Azarian writes songs of the fantastic and surreal, twisted up with just the right amount of dysfunction...tunes of heaven and love, spaceships and jellyfish keep Austin weird all on their own." READ MORE The Casting Couch, Row Your Boat "It’s a full-on indie-pop piece with some songs that Stephen Merritt of the Magnetic Fields might be proud of having written. Its also probably the only album reviewed on this site that either shares a lyric with a song on the Grease soundtrack (‘hopelessly devoted to you’) or finishes with a (seemingly) drunken bierkeller singalong, yet alone does both. Grounding its poptastic flights are multi-layered melodica and accordion reinforced instrumentals, sometimes to great effect, as on the darkly atmospheric ‘Pancho Villa’." READ MORE "Athens, GA. emigré Wendy Mitchell pits her stew of lyrical switchbacks up against a piquant blend of post-graduate pop and erudite twang to deliver a punch. The Couch's elaborate, frayed-suit arrangements incorporate horns, accordion, steel guitar, and melodica as fancy dictates, while Mitchell's vocals alternate between the breezy wit on the title track and genuine jukebox tear-jerk on "Liar.'" READ MORE
Janurary news: Happy New Year everybody! We’ve got a few shout-outs to some great folks we’ll be working with in 2006: Darla will be distributing the I Eat catalog, so if you like to buy your CDs in stores, you will be able to do so soon. If you don’t see them, please ask your friendly record-store-clerk to check the Darla catalog! IRIS will be distributing the I Eat catalog digitally, so if you like to download your music, you will be able to do so soon on your MP3 site of choice (remember kids, stealing is stealing, but we don’t need to tell you that, do we?). Our national ‘street dates’ are listed below, for those of you not in Austin, TX, although while you’re here, please feel free to visit our purchase page. All online orders ship immediately by 1st class mail, and for free in the US! Jan. 10: Various Artists, Appetizers & Leftovers Jan. 17: Ethan Azarian, Cross’n Over; and Orange Mothers Greatest Hits Jan. 24: The Handsome Charlies, Gentlemen Never Tell Jan. 31: The Glass Family, Sleep Inside This Wheel Feb. 7: The Casting Couch, Row Your Boat There are lots of tours in the works too, so keep an eye on the shows page in the new year! Finally, a great big shout-out to the hipster Athenians (GA) at Team Clermont too!
December news: Big thanks to Chris Gray at The Austin Chronicle for his piece on i eat in TCB, which you may read here. Also, congratulations to Laurie Gallardo and Melanie Shrawder on being named "Best Sultry New Deejays" in The Austin Chronicle's Best of Austin 2005 Critics Poll for Media. Laurie's award winning show, "Before the Break," debuted on KUT 90.5 FM this past summer with a feature on i eat, which you may hear here. In other news, we just finished a week's worth of festivities surrounding the release of Ethan Azarian's Cross'n Over (you may read the Austinist's review here) and are gearing up for the following releases over the next few months: The Handsome Charlies' Gentlemen Never Tell, The Glass Family's Sleep Inside This Wheel, and Orange Mothers' Greatest Hits. All of these and more, including i eat t-shirts, are available on our purchase page, and related festivities, such as release shows, may be found on our shows page. Keep an eye out for updates, especially on upcoming releases by The Casting Couch and Vetran, the new project of Bren Mead from Masters of the Hemisphere. Oh, and we just joined myspace if you'd like to be our friend.
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