San Diego Tonight: Dirty Beaches & Jeans Wilder...FUN!

Tonight in San DIego is a special special thing. Montreal's Dirty Beaches and San Diego's Jeans Wilder are playing for free. FREE. To add extra bonus, Brandon Welchez, Charles Rowell, and I will be playing oldies records between bands and all nite long.

Check out Dirty Beaches' video for True Blue which not only channels Roy Orbison, but will also be featured on a 7" on Zoo Music soon!!

DUM DUM GIRLS CASSETTES BACK IN STOCK

Limited quantity. Available at artfagrecordings.com. Last chance to not pay dumb ebay prices.

Dum Dum Girls Los Angeles Times Review

Dum Dm Girls got a fairly stellar Los Angeles Times
review.

Dum Dum Girls' New York Times Review

Dum DUm Girls got a fairly stellar New York Times review.

Sleep Over / Bathetic / New 2xTape

Hi hi hi, my new favorite band Sleep Over has a new double cassette and booklet out on Bathetic and you can buy it here. For fans of moonlit, dreamy, haunting, pretty perfection for the ear holes. And after you go buy that, go listen to Sunspots on their myspace thing.

DANCING NIGHT In San Diego

Hey this is in San Diego in one week. Next Friday, March 26. Non stop dancing to the best 60s records. Or the best we could find I mean. The best are rare, hard to find and wayyy expensive. Plus, Heavy Hawaii is playing and they're like the best. FREE!!

Chloe Sevigny / Mika Miko

Here.

Tuesday: Super Kool Junk In San Diego

San Diego Schedule, Bookings By Art Fag Recordings

March 16 - TUESDAY - Past Lives (ex Blood Brothers, Chromatics), Heavy Hawaii (Art Fag Recordings, Wild World), Neon Dick, Jungle Fever. DJs Mario Orduno and some other fool. THE CASBAH.

March 26 - FRIDAY - Oldies/60s/Ska/Rock Steady DANCING NIGHT @ THE WHISTLE STOP. FREE. PLUS JUST ADDED, Heavy Hawaii LIVE!!

March 28 - SUNDAY - Too Many Creeps - BLACK TAMBOURINE & DUM DUM GIRLS record release party. Listening party and giveaways courtesy of Sub Pop and Slumberland. Limited Art Fag cassettes also available. FREE. WHISTLE STOP.

March 31 - WEDNESDAY - Dirty Beaches & Jeans Wilder. Oldies and 60s tunes by DJs Brandon Welchez, Charles Rowell & Mario Orduno. FREE @ THE WHISTLE STOP.

April 24 - SATURDAY -Blank Dogs & Cosmetics @ THE CASBAH.

May 8 - SATURDAY - Christmas Island, The Beets & German Measles @ SODA BAR.

June 2 - WEDNESDAY - Woods, Fresh & Onlys, Heavy Hawaii @ SODA BAR.

New Woodsist Records Blog

Check out the new Woodsist Records blog.

Best Coast 7" On Sunny Orange Vinyl Available NOW

It's rad, it's sunny, it's orange, and it's badass and also you can buy it here.

Best Coast Talks New LP

Best Coast talks to Pitchfork about their new album here.


More tour dates:

Feb 24 2010 CAFE DU NORD W/ HARLEM San Francisco, California
Mar 5 2010 REED COLLEGE PORTLAND, Oregon
Mar 13 2010 BLOOMINGDALES BEVERLY CENTER IN-STORE PERFORMANCE LA,California
Mar 17 2010 SXSW AUSTIN, Texas
Mar 18 2010 SXSW AUSTIN, Texas
Mar 19 2010 SXSW AUSTIN, Texas
Mar 20 2010 SXSW AUSTIN, Texas
Mar 29 2010 THE BIKO HOUSE W/ SURFER BLOOD + TURBO FRUITS GOLETA, California

Cold Cave / Best Coast + More Tonight In LA!!

Magic times in California tonight. Also perfroming: Avi Buffalo, Smith Westerns, djs and junk. FUN. Best COast will have Art Fag 7 inches for you and your loved ones..

Chain And The Gang, The Strange Boys, Heavy Hawaii In San Diego

Next Thursday (2/25) in San Diego at The Casbah go to this. I hope it's bananas, cuz it really really should be.

And if you don't know, now you know:




CHAIN AND THE GANG



THE STRANGE BOYS



HEAVY HAWAII

Art Fag Facebook

Art Fag Recordings is on Facebook and you can be a friend/fan by going here.

And here are the Art Fag related groops that have FB too:

Best Coast
Dum Dum Girls
Graffiti Island
Heavy Hawaii
Internet Forever
Pearl Harbor

Veronica Falls

If you like melodies, harmonies, oooo ooo back ups, good songs, boy/girl vocals, and all around goodness you'll like Veronica Falls. These people must listen to the best records to sound like this. You can buy their new record from Captured Tracks. It has the brilliant Found Love In A Graveyard and the Roky Erickson cover Starry Eyes. And (WTF) listen to Beachy Head on their Myspace thing...it's perfect. Oh, and they're from London, where they have some shows soon with PENS and Dum Dum Girls. Alright, there you go.

Best Coast 7" Is Sold Out, Repress Coming ASAP

The Best Coast 7" sold out today on the Art Fag Recordings website. The sunny orange repress is coming SOON, like a week or so. Again, the mailing list will let you know all the 411 you need, so join. Also, if you have purchased the record, you are guaranteed to receive it don't trip.

Lastly, Best Coast has a grip of them on the current Vivian Girls west coast tour, so go say hi and buy one.

Dum Dum Girls Cassette / Mailing List

We're nearing the release of the long awaited Dum Dum Girls cassette, the next release on Art Fag Recordings. There are going to be 300 of these available exclusively via our mailorder. We are also making 2 special colors (blue and grey) available via Sub Pop and Rough Trade respectively. To ensure you get first dibs on these and all other Art Fag titles, in addition to news and updates on all things Art Fag, go to the new website and sign up for the mailing list. Go here now.

New Strange Boys Video, 7" & LP 'Be Brave' On Rough Trade

The Strange Boys' new Rough Trade LP, Be Brave will be released on February 22. The new video and single with the same title are out now (via In The Red in US). They are better than ever, and Jenna Thornhill deWitt's (ex Mika Miko) sax is a brilliant addition. This song rules!

Dum Dum Girls DJ Nite Thing In San Diego: Blank Girls

Fun gals + perfect records + suds + free = BIG FUN IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA. Wednesday nite.