Gift Shop Records

We here at Gift Shop Records (the royal we I suppose) are very close to revealing a new website design.  I think It will be pretty cool, because I believe that the internets is a cool place.  I want to make it with easy access to the things that are important (bands, videos, etc.) as well as making it and easy place to navigate.  Keeping up the website will be pretty easy thanks to the large community of Wordpress developers and the good people at Wordpress.  We also plan on using Vimeo to host most of our video content (because they are dope), but youtube is not so bad itself.  Thanks all.

This weekend we worked on printing out the CD Cases for the upcoming self-titled release by Victory and Good Hunting. Big thanks to Ben of Dejekt for letting us use his printing equipment. Most of the prints came out looking a lot like this:

We printed on materials from Stumptown Printers and they came out pretty nice.

Night Mechanic has a show coming up this sunday (10-14-2007) at Slabtown in Portland Oregon.  The Wilamette Week had this to say about the show…

“Night Mechanic can jump from distortion-heavy, Pixies-esque quickies to progressive, moody and climactic anthems with the greatest of ease…”

You can read more on the calender section of the Wilamette Week’s Local Cut.  They will also be playing with The Foxx and The Drunk Ladies.

Here it goes, getting this thing started.  About 2 months ago I had this crazy idea to start a small record label.  I found a name (Gift Shop) and started making a logo (not quite finished).  But I do have some good bands coming this way.  The first “Gift Shop” release will be “Plastic Rings EP” by The Caps.  It’s a 4 song blast of indie pop that is pretty good I think (But I am bias of course).  Preparations for this release are moving along, just need to get some artwork together and then… Bam!  And I still need to design this site, but that will come soon enough.  More to come shortly.