So Brendan and Dan went on a European Vacation this Summer, right? And on that recent tour they came across a young, endearing Brit by the name of Sam Russo. You may have heard of our Sam because he’s been on a split with Chuck Ragan, joined the Revival Tour on stage, played shows with dudes like Dave Hause and Ben Nichols, etc. Well, we were told that we NEED to meet Sam and we’re gonna love him because he likes Cuba, is crazy talented, and is an exemplary gentleman. Turns out, after talking to Sam… it’s all true! So coming soon, we’ll be bringing you his debut full length, entitled Storm. If we had to do a “For fans of” type recommendation, I would cite stuff like John K. Samson, Sundowner, and Ryan Adams. Stay tuned to our Twitter and whatnot for streaming music and album info. Until then, check out Sam on Facebook and give him some love.

In completely unrelated news, we’re pressing up some LPs this Fall and wanted y’all to know about it first. We don’t typically offer vinyl through mailorder because the Red Scare hovel/HQ is too small, but we’re gonna try it because we have some new 12″s: The Holy Mess Cande, Nothington Borrowed Time, and Elway Delusions. We’re also working on the Masked Intruder LP and a re-stock of The Copyrights Learn The Hard Way LP that has been outta stock for a while. As you probably know, vinyl is expensive to manufacture, package, and ship, but if you’re a record nerd you can head over to the Red Scare Store and fulfill your fantasies. And speaking of fantasies, how ’bout we wrap this up with a pic of our new friend, Sam Russo:

Ahoy, comrades, just checking in. It’s been a while, and we want to take this opportunity to remind you about all the shit we got coming up from your favorite assholes this Summer. The official “street date” for the Elway EP and the Dan Andriano/Brendan Kelly split 7″ is on July 10th. Mailorders should arrive by then, but we’re at the mercy of the manufacturer. We’re just helpless cogs in all of this, ahhh! But we digress, the important shit to note is that digital versions of the aforementioned releases are in fact already available through iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, etc. And if you’re dying to hear that stuff early, it’s available online, so be like Bieber and knock yourself out (no glass wall required).

Up next in the month of August, we’ll have new full-length albums from Masked Intruder and those famous Philly fuck-ups, The Holy Mess. Good records, and both produced by our cheeky chum, Matt Allison at Atlas Studios. So yeah, August = stoked. To hold you over until then, we’re releasing another one of our teaser singles for The Holy Mess called Cold Goodbyes, which will offer 3 new songs for real cheap, so look for that thing on iTunes and shit on June 26th. Red Scare nerds will get a kick out of the third track on this, we promise! Pics or it didn’t happen:

Not sure how this all happened at the same time, but somehow we got roped into doing three 7″s. Fortunately, they’re all pretty kickass, as we’re sure you will come to agree. Where do we begin…

The first one comes to us in the form of a split 7″ for tour. Yep, one song from Dan Andriano and one from Brendan Kelly. Those two old chums are doing a tour of Europe together in June/July and they claim to be traveling by train, so stock up the Bar Car. We know that jaunt is gonna end in disaster, but fuck it, at least we all get a sweet new 7″ to check out. We’ve heard the songs and can confirm their awesomeness: Danny’s swaying lullaby is reminiscent of last year’s amazing Hurricane Season, while Brendan gives us another one of his deviant rock songs that we’ve come to expect from the Wandering Birds. We will save some for mailorder, so you won’t have to attend a show in order to pick one of these up, but I hear Vienna is wonderful in the Summertime. Just sezzin’.

Also coming out this Summer in time for a tour will be a new 4-song 7″/EP from our favorite Mountain Mongos, Elway. Those dudes will be doing some touring with Teenage Bottlerocket in July and we’ll have the EP out by then. It’s their first new material since their breakout record, Delusions, and we think you’re gonna be just as stoked. Soon there will be more info, song samples, pre-order shit, etc etc.

Lastly, we’ll be doing a split 7″ that will pair up Red Scare ruffians The Brokedowns and Minneapolis mofos, The Slow Death. Heard some of the music, and I guess they’re somehow doing THREE songs on each side. Might need to add an extra inch on to that one, eh? It’ll be good though, we love both of these bands and it’s about time they give the world some new songs. We’ll keep ya posted on that and all these other 7″s too; just follow us on Twitter and watch the details unfold. Shit yeah.