The big news: our online store is now open for business at http://endup.org/store/

Our resident web gremlin has been toiling away for several gremlin lifetimes. The result is an eyeball smorgasbord! So please, come and feast your eyes for free. While you’re there, check out the whippy-dippy shopping cart, complete with imaginary sound effects. It’s totally alchemical! You can use it to convert images on the screen into music for your ears. Fill er up!

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Three new records available Tuesday, October 28th!

Caithlin De Marrais — My Magic City

Caithlin De Marrais is releasing her impossibly intimate, beautiful love letter to your very heart– her first full-length album My Magic City. Recorded in a cottage, an apartment, and a fire-ravaged church in Brooklyn, it was produced together by Rainer Maria’s Kyle Fischer and Rocketship Park’s Josh Kaufman, and mixed to perfection by Dave Schiffman (Johnny Cash, Mars Volta, etc). Eleven magic songs.

Fred & Daily — The Hypocrite Ballet

Our favorite costumed supergroup Fred & Daily are letting loose their shredtastic, uproarious, and imminently danceable full-length album Hypocrite Ballet upon the world. Containing hardly a half-second of silence, it perfectly fills that aching gap in between the Talking Heads and Hedwig. Physicists are still struggling to explain where it comes from–we’re not telling.

Ne’er Do Evers — 100% Wrong

Ne’er Do Evers‘ hyperbolic, brilliantly self-aware magnum opus, 100% Wrong, will also be available for public consumption. Equal parts Dinosaur, Frank Black, scuff marks, coffee and a beer, this record plays like a 30-minute Zen koan at 120db, refuting all logic. We wish it was a double-album, so we use the “repeat all” function in our media players. We suggest you do the same.

Upcoming shows from Caithlin De Marrais, Ne’er Do Evers, and Balthrop, Alabama!

Caithlin De Marrais

all dates w/ Owen / El May

Tue Nov 11 — Night Light Club — Chapel Hill, NC
Wed Nov 12 — The Drunken Unicorn — Atlanta, GA
Thur Nov 13 — Cafe Eleven — St. Augustine, FL
Fri Nov 14 — Anti*Pop Festival — Orlando, FL
Sat Nov 15 — Jack Rabbit’s — Jacksonville, FL
Sun Nov 16 — Sluggo’s — Pensacola, FL
Tue Nov 18 — Walter’s On Washington — Houston, TX
Wed Nov 19 — Rock Bottom Bar — San Antonio, TX
Thur Nov 20 — Emo’s — Austin, TX
Fri Nov 21 — Opolis — Norman, OK
Sat Nov 22 — TBA
Sun Nov 23 — TBA
Mon Nov 24 — Beat Kitchen — Chicago, IL
Tue Dec 2 — Middle East Upstairs — Cambridge, MA
Thur Dec 4 — HUB Fireplace Lounge — Plymouth, NH
Fri Dec 5 — First Unitarian Church — Philadelphia, PA
Sat Dec 6 — Mercury Lounge — New York, NY

Ne’er Do Evers

Fri Nov 7 — 100% Wrong CD Release — Bar Matchless — Brooklyn, NY
Fri Nov 14 — All Asia — Cambridge, MA

Balthrop, Alabama

Thu Nov 13th — Galapagos Art Space — Brooklyn — with Lost in the Trees and The Never
Fri Dec 12th — A Very Balthrop Christmas — Joe’s Pub — NYC — Map — Get yer tickets!

We’re proud to announce that our lovely neighborinos the Ne’er Do Evers have joined the End Up roster! Their upcoming album, 100% Wrong, will be out soon on End Up Records. Check out their new artist page, or visit their website.

Woohoo!

In a sense, Black Milk is the reason I moved to New York. Catch me on the corner some time and I’ll explain what that means. But all cryptography aside, Kyle Fischer’s latest record is out in the world now, and man is it a good one. Get it!

On Thursday, March 20th, the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Balthrop, Alabama will release a digital download of their new single, God Loves My Country. The song asks the question: “Does God bless America, or any country or people over all others? Does God condone the violence enacted by one nation against another?”

Those who download the song will be encouraged to make a donation in support of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.

To be notified when the download is available, join the Balthrop, Alabama mailing list.

Some food for thought: Ars.Technica provides a review of Amie Street’s popularity-based pricing structure. Tracks start off as free downloads; the more they’re downloaded, the higher the price gets, until they reach a cap of 98¢. Interesting model.

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Read the The New York Times article on End Up’s Pascal and Bernie.

Terrific art all over their apartment by Paul Wilm–one of our Alabama collaborators–and even a little Rudy Giuliani portrait peeking out by Marshall Weber of the Booklyn book arts collective.

You may not have known this, but when an AM or FM station plays your favorite band’s song, the band doesn’t get paid. For decades, AM and FM broadcasters have enjoyed an exemption from current copyright law which requires satellite radio, cable radio channels, Internet webcasts, and other broadcasters to pay a royalty for the use of music. Of all the ways we listen to music, big radio is the only one that receives special treatment in this regard.

The ‘Performance Rights Act’ — introduced by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Representatives Howard Berman (D-CA) and Darrell Issa (R-CA) — would correct a loophole in the copyright law by removing the broadcaster exemption to assure that all platforms are treated equally and pay a performance royalty to artists.

Email your congressperson now in support of this bill by clicking here »