::CPR020::: DAY SLEEPER - WONDERLAND KID (EP)

::CPR020::: DAY SLEEPER - WONDERLAND KID (EP)

© 2009 day sleeper. cover image by daniel obzejta.
tracks one, two and four recorded at the WERS live performance studio, august 2009; engineered by jared detsikas, mike mastrangelo, & mike moschetto; mixed/mastered by mike moschetto at WERS production.
track three recorded at the vivacious int’l recording complex & pancake house; recorded/mixed by cas kaplan & justin danforth.
track five recorded at tt the bear’s place, cambridge, ma june 24th, 2009.
all songs by day sleeper.

Well look who's back with a lil EP! It's The Daysleepers, more commonly and correctly known as Day Sleeper. The first time we heard from these guys, we were just putting out their full length Drop Your Sword as CPR006. That album showed promise but the real coming out party happened with Day Sleeper's contribution to CPR's first compilation Crust Never Sleeps. Have I lost you yet? No? Good, because with their newest release Wonderland Kid, Day Sleeper delivers.

The "single" here is Windows Left Open and that's a good thing since it's probably my favorite. You can download it above, the rest of the songs you can only stream (for now). Apparently, the album was mostly recorded at WERS in Boston. I had no idea they had a nice studio there, but damn these songs sound great. I'm also partial to the first track "Wait Stay".

We're up to CPR020 and we couldn't be more proud to have this gem as our twentieth release. We'll get back to you with more news about possibly Day Sleeper shows in New York and elsewhere as soon as we know.

Download Wonderland Kid on iTunes
Email Day Sleeper to get the correct mp3s if you buy it. Apparently the iTunes mp3s are corrupt. Email them!

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:::CP018::: VAN GUMBY - SHE HAS ARRIVED (EP)

:::CP018::: VAN GUMBY - SHE HAS ARRIVED (EP)

"Their best work yet. Who is Van Gumby?" - Cooling Pie Records
"Reminiscent of Bruce Springsteen mixed with Led Zeppelin and Rush" - Rolling Stone
"0.0" - Pitchfork
"tOo CoOl" - tennisgurl478
"I told you I hate bratwurst!" - Bob Dylan

Recorded in the fall and winter months of 2009. All songs by Spencer Tricker, except "Seasons Go," by Shomik Chakrabarti and Spencer Tricker.

Van Gumby:
Flip - guitars
Asa - vocals and guitars
Mahoney - bass, guitars, and vocals
Uncle Nick - the drums

Unending love and gratitude to friends and family

Dedicated to Lobing Samson (1913-2008) and to Romance

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::: CP017 ::: KC QUILTY / POCKETKNIFE - SIIYA/BUY BACK THE BOAT 7"

::: CP017 ::: KC QUILTY / POCKETKNIFE - SIIYA/BUY BACK THE BOAT 7"

Hey kiddos...our new site is taking a bit longer to get up than I had hoped. Still, nobody can stop our furious flow of releases. So here with are with CPR's inaugural 7". kc quilty + pocketknife split this one...kc quilty's "Siiya" is going to be on their upcoming full length Clover/Coriander, out January 22nd. You might recognize Pocketknife's "Buy Back The Boat" from our own Crust Never Sleeps compilation. Now you can hear it again...on vinyl! I personally recommend you go buy the record and then play both songs at 33rpm. Everything's so slow...sooo sloooow..."Siiya" turns into smeary sludge metal and "Buy Back The Boat" sounds like smoking a shitload of opium and listening to Radiohead...or something. Anyways, that oughta pique your interest, right? You gotta get this thing.

SIIYA:

BUY BACK THE BOAT:


Download the single for free on a certain breakfast food themed site...


kc quilty site
Pocketknife site

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Hang With Us

Hang With Us

New site going up in t-minus 3 days....hold on there...

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Cooling Pie Records CMJ Showcase

Cooling Pie Records CMJ Showcase

CLICK HERE to RSVP to our SUPER EXCLUSIVE CMJ PARTY! It's going to be so sick nasty! We've got Deerhunter, the Dear Hunter, and the Dears DJing, along with Wolf Parade, Wolf Eyes, and Wolfmother playing live sets. The show is in Times Square, aka the new Staten Island. Seriously if you miss this, you are not cool.

love,

CPR

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Sorry you missed us

Sorry you missed us

Hey there CPR faithful. We haven't been updating because I (Julian) have been busy recording stuff with kc quilty and other people and none of my deadbeat friends want to write for this wonderful site. I did throw up a few photos of our recording sessions so far:










Looks good eh? Coming soon, we'll have a kc quilty full length, an Ava Luna full length, a Casiorossi EP and at LEAST one split CPR 7" in September. Keep lookin' forward, we'll be back very very soon....

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WZBC Stream

WZBC Stream

CLICK HERE to hear a stream of today's WZBC radio show "The Conscription of Our Children" featuring yours truly. I want to thank Brendan for interviewing me on the show and letting me play a bunch of songs from Crust Never Sleeps (and other places).

I enjoyed being on the radio because I like to hear my own voice in headphones, although I do not like to sing...go figure. I also took some pictures but they're on my disposable camera so I'll post em up in the next few days, for now, the stream will have to suffice. My only regret is not being able to play the comp in its entirety--I had to make due with picking a few randomly. Next time, I'd like to spin it in its entirety.

Let me know what you think--do I have a future in radio(head)?!

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Radio is the FUTURE!

Radio is the FUTURE!

I (Julian) am going to be on WZBC 90.3 this afternoon from 3-5PM. My pal Brendan Hadcock is graciously allowing me to come on his show and guest DJ a little bit. We'll probably chat about the compilation and play some tunes off of it, so tune in!

Honestly, the best case scenario is we get to play Cooling Pie stuff on the air. The worst case scenario is that I make a fool of myself on the air. Regardless, you want to hear what happens. If you're in the Boston/Cambridge/Newton/Brookline area, set your dials for 90.3 FM. If you're elsewhere, head over to WZBC's website and listen to the live stream.

We'll be giving away copies of the compilation on the air to anybody who calls in, so if you want one, you can call me!

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Catching up with 1999

Catching up with 1999

Fact: Did you know that email is 10-20 times faster than Twitter?
Fact: Did you know mailing lists are the wave of the future?
Truth: Sign up for ours and we'll send you free mp3s and other stuff. DO it.



Also, here's what I'm currently obsessed with:

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Release party 5/08/09 at Bowery Poetry Club

Release party 5/08/09 at Bowery Poetry Club

Are you psyched?

The Red Party=The Crust Never Sleeps release party.



CNS stalwarts Pocketknife and Ava Luna will be performing, as well as the industrious lads of Asa Ransom. Artists will be arting. Fartists will be farting.

We will be giving out these:



It's gonna be excellent.

Crust Never Sleeps.


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Friday, May 8th, Two Thousand and Nine
Bowery Poetry Club
9pm to Close
Doors open at 9
http://www.redpartynyc.com/

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Marketing Report: A Message to our Shareholders

Marketing Report: A Message to our Shareholders

Above: mouse rocks Tekken, loves Cooling Pie Records' new comp, Crust Never Sleeps, Vol. 1

What it is piesans? As you all know by now, here at CPR we run with the mills.

In fact, I just dropped half a stack on a pair of Adidas not two and a half minutes ago.

Still, even though we're swimming in it (the mills, that is), we thought we'd let you all in on the way we survey our target market.

This morning I was videoconferencing with our PR boys out in Zürich, and I had them fax me over some data on the response we've been getting to our first compilation album, Crust Never Sleeps (which you can rock right here).

Figure 1:

In one survey, respondents were asked to choose one of five different "buzz" words to describe the overall sound of Crust Never Sleeps. The buzz words were "Delicious," "Awesome," "Sexual," "Cryptosexual," and "Gastrosexual."



You see, here at CPR we like to keep it real. We're forthright about our goings-on. Our processes. Let's have a look at another graph.



In this survey, an enormous pod of sperm whales was asked to choose between five different "buzz" words. As you can see, the real-ness trend only continues. Indeed, we are the shit.

All in all, I hope you enjoyed this inside look at our intricate and well-oiled promotional juggernaut.

Lotsa love,

ST




Also, this:

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Cooling Pie Records hits the FOOD NETWORK!

Cooling Pie Records hits the FOOD NETWORK!

We didn't want to get outdone by DL:



So now:

FOOOOD NETWORK

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:::CP010:::COOLING PIE RECORDS - CRUST NEVER SLEEPS VOL.1

:::CP010:::COOLING PIE RECORDS - CRUST NEVER SLEEPS VOL.1

So, if you're reading this today, you've probably noticed that it's not May 8th yet. Here's the explanation: just like every other highly-anticipated album of our nascent century, Crust Never Sleeps has somehow been leaked to the internet. We're not exactly sure how it happened, or even if we didn't somehow unconsciously leak the thing ourselves, but the fact remains that people are already listening to it. We thought about what happened for about 1 minute and came to the quick conclusion that we're absolutely fine with this and would like to "officially" release the thing here and now. So, without further ado...

Boom selekta:





You can use the player above to listen to all of the songs or download them, just click the little arrow to the right of the song. You'll have more fun if you go to Cooling Pie Records' Bandcamp Page. Bandcamp's a pretty cool way to release a record--you'll be able to download everything for free in the relatively 320kbps MP3 format. Feel free to embed the above player anywhere you like. Additionally, our offer still stands: if you'd like a hard copy, please email us! Aditionally, we'd love to get your thoughts on the compilation, so leave us a comment in this post to tell us what you think.

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PRESS:

The Music Slut
Praise For Wallflower

MESSAGE BOARDS ON WHICH WE ARE FAMOUS NOW:
Incubus Messageboard (yes!!)
Mortigi Tempo (does this mean Radiohead approves?)

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Regarding the making of this compilation, we'd like to thank all of the participating bands, artists, klingons, prostitutes, evil twins, and Jabba-the-Hut-esque mongoloids that helped this happen. Almost all of the tracks on Crust Never Sleeps are a result of a lot of people putting their minds to the task of creating a song that they otherwise not have. When we were putting the album together, we were all shocked by how cohesive everything was and, without getting too cheesy, I think that's a result of having a lot of talent in one place. Everybody should make sure to check all of these bands out, as we only featured people who are the best at what they do. Phew.

One last time, please goo to the Cooling Pie Records' Bandcamp Page and listen, download, enjoy.

It is free!

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CRUST NEVER SLEEPS Tracklisting!!

CRUST NEVER SLEEPS Tracklisting!!

Here we go...after a ton of work, we present you with the tracklisting of Cooling Pie's inaugural compilation album Crust Never Sleeps Vol. 1. Securing all of the bands and songs has been a labor of love and it turned into a truly international affair. We're also very excited for the release party on May 8th @ the Bowery Poetry Club (Details here!)

Anyways, feast yr eyes on the songs:


1. Bent By Elephants - Wrecker In The Dark
2. A Brief Smile - Something Is Going On
3. Little Bear and the Bad Touch - Polytonic Mountain
4. Clayton Scoble (of Francine) - Crooked Gait
5. Orphans and Vandals - Hey Driver
6. Day Sleeper - Untitled
7. Casiorossi - More Psychology
8. kc quilty - Supernova
9. Pocketknife - Buy Back The Boat
10. Ava Luna - (Do Me No Wrong) While I Am Gone
11. Jesse Miller (frmrly of Critter Jones) - Democracity
12. Team Teamwork - Suck It Or Not (Cam'ron + Lil Wayne + Wilco)
13. Jason Boyd (frmrly of Audiovent) - Lemons For Love
14. Several Girls Galore - Good & Beautiful
15. Randy Numens - Koilsnake


This is liable to change slightly in the next few days, but this is pretty much how the compilation will look. Check back here on May 8th to download/stream it for FREE. We also have a limited amount of CD copies of the compilation that are free, please email us if you'd like a free copy.

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It's coming...

It's coming...

Click this post to check out a promo video for the upcoming Red Party AKA the CRUST NEVER SLEEPS release extravaganza!

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Crust Never Sleeps UPDATES

Crust Never Sleeps UPDATES

For those of you keeping track out there, there's a little over a month left until the release of Crust Never Sleeps , our inaugural CPR compilation. The list of bands participating has expanded since we last posted about this...as of right now, the participating bands include:

- Little Bear and the Bad Touch
- Day Sleeper
- Jesse Miller
- Bent By Elephants
- Pocketknife
- kc quilty
- A Brief Smile
- Ramona Cordova
- Clayton Scoble
- Asa Van Gumby
- Asa Ransom
- Ava Luna
- Several Girls Galore
- Cas Kaplan
- The Craters
- Randy Numens

If you don't know all of these people already, FUCKING LEARN.

We will be adding bands. Write to us and tell us why YOU should be on the comp. Yeah you chump! Additionally, we're going to have a release party for the album on May 8th at the Bowery Poetry Club...more details are forthcoming. To get quicker updates on the comp, check us on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/coolingpie

That is all.

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CRUST NEVER SLEEPS VOL. I

CRUST NEVER SLEEPS VOL. I

IDEA ALERT!!!!

Here at Cooling Pie HQ, we're always brainstorming, racking our brains for the newest, freshest, most brilliant ideas. We usually hit the mark on all three of those things and this is no exception.

One dark evening (last night), in between searching Craigslist for a job, getting drunk, and eating some Kennedy Fried Chicken (the second and third activities always occur together for some reason), Spencer emerged from the Cooling Pie Records Idea Center™ and said something about a doing a Cooling Pie CONSTELLATION. "CONSTELLATION?! That's a horrible idea!" I screamed, doing a quadruple take and spitting out my cranberry-seltzer drink. "How could you say such a thing?" After banishing him back to the Idea Center™ with Six Demerits, I realized that he really meant COMPILATION and not CONSTELLATION. Then I realized we needed one.

So I've since let Spencer back out of his cell and we started asking bands and musicians and artists that we knew and loved to help us out. The main stipulation that we defined was that all songs be recorded specifically for the compilation. We would like to think that all these songs would never exist had we not bothered everyone to make a song for us. If a band couldn't do something specific for the comp, then we would accept something "unreleased", whatever that means these days.

SO FAR, CRUST NEVER SLEEPS is set to feature:

- A Brief Smile (NYC)
- Ramona Cordova (New Orleans/Alaska/Philly/NYC/Outerspace)
- several girls galore (Hastings-on-Hudson/Colorado)
- kc quilty (NYC)
- Orphans and Vandals (London)
- Jesse Miller (Los Angeles)
- Little Bear and the Bad Touch (NYC)
- Clayton Scoble (Cambridge, MA)
- Day Sleeper (Boston)
- Randy Numens (North Pole)
- Ava Luna (NYC/Japan)

You never know who might flake, but I feel pretty confident these people will be represented. There is still room though and we're hoping to pull through on a few nice surprises...some people haven't answered us, some people aren't talking to us, some people make crappy songs and so we didn't ask them. Do you think you should be on here? Are you really awesome? Send us an email @ coolingpierecords [at] gmail.com and tell us why!

CRUST NEVER SLEEPS will be released digitally for streaming and download on this site sometime in the next few months--let's say, March. Additionally, we will probably do some sort of homemade physical release and possibly even a 7" BEST OF. Kinda like that Nirvana/Radiohead/Other-bands-who's-backcatalogs-are-being-raped Best of the Box Set type of idea, except those are big label money making scam and this is a small label money losing scam. Take that Krist Novoselic!

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TWOOTER

TWOOTER

Sam made us a twitter account...I think I'm supposed to tell you that you can now follow us here.

Also, here's a huge picture of a pie:

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CP006 ::: DAY SLEEPER - DROP YOUR SWORD

CP006 ::: DAY SLEEPER - DROP YOUR SWORD

Recorded and mixed by Will Radin in Cas' Basement Dungeon
Luke Pyenson - Drums
Justin Danforth - Guitar
Cas Kaplan - Guitar/Vocals
Dan Ferm - Bass


As promised (albeit a few days late), we present to you Day Sleeper's debut album Drop Your Sword. I like this album 'cause there's a buncha feedback on it and there's echoey tambourines and lotsa guitars and yet vocalist Cas sits pretty squarely in the center of the mix. It's like My Bloody Valentine if they turned up the vocals a little bit. I know people love the MBV buried vocal thing but myself, I prefer to be able to hear the damn singer. So yeah, you can hear him, just stream it!
Or click here to download the MP3s

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Cooling Pie Records: An Adoption Agency or a Record Label?

Cooling Pie Records: An Adoption Agency or a Record Label?

The Kaplan family dynasty contiues with Cas Kaplan, brother of Wes Kaplan (of Craters fame). Cas' band is called Day Sleeper and we're glad to welcome them into the Cooling Pie family. And yes, now that they are part of the family, it means that Spencer and I are Day Sleeper's new parents. Make sure you guys do your chores or I'll take away your drum machine! Huzzah!

On a more serious note, Drop Your Sword will go up on this blawg on January 10th. Coincidenally, Day Sleeper's gonna be playing a show with some friends at the Middle East upstairs the same day to celebrate the release. The show starts at the rock and roll hour of ONE PEE EM (1 PM) so come celebrate lunchtime with Day Sleeper!

In the meantime, go check out Day Sleeper's myspace page and get excited about the FUTURE.

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