After lo, these many months of waiting, headaches, and footdragging, CDs of The Seahorse King have finally landed in the Speed Cave Store! YES!
These have, in fact, been available since December, just not online. A big, super-special thanks goes out to Louisville's very wonderful ear X-tacy, who were generous enough to highlight The Seahorse King in one of their listening stations. These folks are true friends to local and independent music!
Screenprints and T-shirts have also been added to the store. Show your devotion and don't be shy!
(The learning curve is steep! Apologies for the long months of silence, friends.)
All the ducks are in a row!
The Seahorse King is in production and will be available in December. This has taken what has seemed like forever, but it's finally, finally, FINALLY happening!
My thanks to everyone who has been patiently waiting for this and to strawberryluna for doing such a bang-up job on the cover art.
(Hi, Allison!)
Okay, May came and went without so much as a peep from yours truly. Whoops! Sorry, friends. Rest assured, people are working hard here at Speed Cave HQ to bring you a truckload of sweetness. Everything in its time. Though both of the major announcements failed to materialize last month, one of them is about to happen right here in your face: Lexington's beloved Cricket Press will be doing a poster too!
After being a fan of Cricket's fine work for several years now—they're nothing short of an institution around these parts—Speed Cave will become part of their illustrious oeuvre. How cool is that? Like, 157% cool!
Yay!
I couldn't be more thrilled to be working with these fine folks.
(Hi, Sara! Hi, Brian!)
Amazingly cool Speed Cave thingies are happening behind the scenes! May should have a couple of MAJOR announcements.
The seventh volume of Not Necessarily Beautiful But Mutated—featuring Speed Cave's version of the DEVO classic "Peek-a-Boo!" and swanky cover art by the great KRK Ryden—remains available from the Rev. Toth Wilder. Stop on by the good reverend's MySpace page to order your copy today. Where else will you hear back-to-back tracks by Speed Cave and Blowfly?
Operators are standing by!
1. OUT OF SYNC - Mutant Mountain Boys
2. AUTO MODOWN - The Directive
3. MECHANICAL MAN - Humanoides
4. SOCIAL FOOLS w/ Jerry Casale (LIVE 2007) - The Spudboys
5. MONGOLOID - Johnny Future
6. THE DAY MY BABY GAVE ME A SURPRISE - PUFFtube
7. BEAUTIFUL WORLD - Globo
8. SNOWBALL - Ken the Magic Corner God
9. DEVO WAS RIGHT! (based on Freedom of Choice) - The Minordian
10. AUTO MODOWN - Rural War Room
11. MY MY HEY HEY - Jimothy a.k.a. I Am You
12. SPACE JUNK - Johnny Future
13. YOU GOTTA PROBLEM a.k.a. PITY YOU - Occupant
14. THE WORDS GET STUCK IN MY THROAT - Margoo
15. BEAUTIFUL WORLD - The Transistors
16. MECHANICAL MAN - Rural War Room
17. PINK PUSSYCAT - Pevo
18. PEEK-A-BOO! - Speed Cave
19. SUCK IT (Donavan Suitt Extended Remix) - Blowfly
After months of invisible activity, Speed Cave is back!
The site has slowly been evolving and will no doubt continue to do so. It's all baby steps right now, everybody: one foot in front of the other.
The album is finally, finally, FINALLY finished and will soon be mastered in Athens, GA, by the legendary Tom Lewis, who mastered one of my all-time favorites, Love Tractor's The Sky At Night, among the best-sounding albums ever. Yay! The incomparable strawberryluna will be handling the cover art, and what she's come up with looks spectacular. I'm really pleased with how everything is shaping up. Last but not least, what I'm hoping will be a series of Speed Cave prints is on its way, the first of which comes courtesy of brilliant lowbrow surrealist KRK Ryden. Things are chugging along slowly but surely, folks. Be patient and keep checking back here for updates. In the meantime, drop me a line and say hi, send me your unwanted Valentine's Day hams, or throw a remix my way.
And remember: Speed Cave is your friend!