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RETURN TO FRIEND ISLAND This September at Hopscotch

<<< FRIEND ISLAND >>> Presented by Trekky Records, Hometapes and Middle West Saturday September 12, 2015 11:30am-5:00pm // FREE The Pour House, 224 S. Blount St, Raleigh, NC

Kicking off with free Carrboro coffee and breakfast treats!

RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/events/414175342121551/

04:25 - Loamlands 03:45 - Made of Oak (Nick Sanborn of Sylvan Esso) 03:05 - Tuskha (Phil Moore of Bowerbirds) 02:10 - Teardrop Canyon 01:25 - Phil Cook (of Hometapes’ Megafaun) 12:40 - Flock of Dimes (Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak) 12:00 - Leverage Models (Hometapes!) Hosted by Grandma Sparrow 

Sponsored by: Ambient Inks, Carrboro Coffee Roasters, Dear Hearts, Endless Endless, Partisan Records, Raleigh Denim, Spoonflower, Videri Chocolate Factory

Sure their records are amazing, but the live show is where it’s at with Landlady. I’ve seen them three times now in two different cities, and Adam Schatz and the crew really bring it every time. They take the most distracted, timid audience and turn them into a pack of wild John Blutos. Ok so I’m exaggerating a bit (that probably wouldn’t be a super fun concert anyway), but the point is, you HAVE to see Landlady live.

HEAT.  Landlady’s new EP is out today on cassette and FREE digital download!  US tour begins next week

LISTEN/ORDER/DOWNLOAD: Landlady Heat EP Limited edition of 300 cassettes. Featuring art by Jesse Jacobs.

Landlady Heat EP Hometapes 074 - CASSETTE/DIGITAL 1. If This Room Could Talk 2. Mind 3. Birds of Prey Pt. 1 4. I’m Afraid 5. Dying Day (Dosh Remix)

Landlady has been a band for longer than I often consider. It is so, so easy to view the Now as the Most Important and the Only, and for the industry to make one forget the last big thing in support of the Next Big Thing. But the best part of forgetting is getting to remember again. So here we go:

Heat represents it all. Heat is an EP, a smaller thing presumably between two big things. The smallness somehow allows us to envelop more, and to play around on the spectrum of infinite time.

The first two songs go back the furthest on the timeline of what makes us Us. Two covers by two of the greatests: Sly And The Family Stone and The Talking Heads. The reasons for recording music that you love are dense and vast, but the only one that matters here is that it makes us feel very, very, very good. That attitude transmits through the history of Landlady. It's the only good reason why we do what we do to feel that way we want to feel. And all we can do is try be as good as those who make us feel the greatest.

Fast-forward to "Birds Of Prey Pt. 1," one of the first songs written by Landlady. Pre-dating our first album and not recorded until the Upright Behavior sessions, it lives and breathes today, here, as a standalone song and as connective tissue, spanning from the early days to the nowadays. The hook was written in the shower. That spans back to the earliest songwriting memories we all have.

The beginning of "I'm Afraid" was also recorded during Upright Behavior and didn't quite fit the puzzle. Heat allowed us to add an ending that grows both backward and forward, connecting then to now to tomorrow. It's about when I fell outside my apartment and went to the ER at 3am to get seven stitches in my chin. The scar attached to the song isn’t quite infinite, but it'll definitely last until I decompose.

And with decomposition comes the finale, a remix of “Dying Day,” a song about the fear of death from Upright Behavior. The reworking is done by Martin "Dosh" Dosh who is a risky general. He put his heart into giving this song an alternate universe to grow old in.

The tendrils spreading to and from Heat are vast and overlapping, complex and true, like us and like you. Dig it. And please, please enjoy the music.

-Adam Schatz, Landlady

Landlady Summer 2015 Tour

7/07/15 - Oakland, CA @ Leo’s * 7/08/15 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo $ 7/09/15 - San Diego, CA @ The Casbah 7/11/15 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom ^ 7/13/15 - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada ^ 7/14/15 - Austin, TX @ Stubb’s ^ 7/15/15 - Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald’s ^ 7/16/15 - Little Rock, AR @ White Water Tavern 7/17/15 - St. Louis, MO @ The Luminary ^ 7/18/15 - Nashville, TN @ The Stone Fox  7/20/15 - Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall ^ 7/21/15 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s ^ 7/22/15 - Cambridge, MA @ Brighton Music Hall ^ 7/23/15 - Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade ^ 7/28/15 - Richmond, VA @ The Camel # % 7/29/15 - Durham, NC @ The Pinhook # 7/30/15 - Asheville, NC @ The Mothlight # 7/31/15 - Birmingham, AL @ Secret Stages Festival 8/01/15 - Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar # 8/03/15 - Milwaukee, WI @ Cactus Club # 8/04/15 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas # 8/05/15 - Cincinnati, OH @ Madison Live # & 8/06/15 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe # 8/14/15 - Hudson, NY @ The Half Moon # 

We want more Slaraffenland’s new album, Slow Waves, out now and FREE

We started by folding paper, and now we’re folding time. It’s been over five years since we released Slaraffenland’s We’re On Your Side, and a cool eight since their Hometapes debut, Private Cinema, declared the Copenhagen-based five-piece’s transcendence of any national, musical, or emotional border. They were at our very first Friend Island. They toured with Efterklang, Akron/Family, and Bowerbirds. They made a film with Vincent Moon, in addition to being the climactic stars in Moon’s time capsule capture of the Hometapes House in Austin during SXSW 2009. We’ve been in a long-distance relationship for the ages with Christian, Mike, Jeppe, Niklas, and Bjørn. So, after five years of building their own studio -- and their own families -- five thousand miles away from where we first met, Slow Waves landed like the world’s heaviest and prettiest postcard. 

And we’re sending it on to you. Slaraffenland is giving Slow Waves away for free in its digital form, in addition to offering an LP version (limited to 250 copies worldwide). There’s no reason not to keep in touch.

Slaraffenland Slow Waves 1. I’m Okay 2. I Want You *click to watch the video! 3. I’m So Afraid of You 4. Sleepwalking 5. Somebody Someday 6. We Want More 7. Down Down Down 8. Take Time

GET IT:  Slaraffenland Slow Waves  MAILORDER: Limited Edition LP (North America or World) FREE: Digital Download (via Bandcamp or slaraffenland.net)

Slaraffenland’s Hometapes catalog in now available via Bandcamp, complete with new pictures of their deluxe releases, updated pricing, and instant high quality digital downloads. Visit the Slaraffenland Virtual Merch Table.

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We are Endless Endless. Look at what we made for Sylvan Esso “H.S.K.T.”

Established in 1995. It’s true. Adam and I have been making for a long, long time. The Hometapes universe has always been multi-tentacled. From events like Friend Island to our “professional work” to the music and art projects we’ve created with our vast community of friends (since we were teenagers in Arkansas), our lives have been defined by a deep commitment for living and doing and doing it well.

It’s time to put a name on it. Of course, it’s gotta be good. Say it with us: Endless Endless.

Our move to Durham, NC, was accompanied by a deep dive into the rushing creative river of our friends and neighbors, Sylvan Esso. They had a new single coming out and they wanted to evolve the appearance of their 12″ series, shoot new band photos, make new merch, and, in general, pull back, see, and acknowledge the landscape they terraformed, with the power of their art over the past year. Bingo. While we were shooting photos, we had an idea for the “coolest lyric video ever.” Yesterday, it came out.

WATCH: Sylvan Esso “H.S.K.T.” Directed, shot, and edited by Adam Heathcott and Sara Padgett Heathcott, Endless Endless