Month: July 2011

New Website Kickoff

The new Small Glowing Pig website is finally here.  Be sure to update your bookmarks to smallglowingpig.com, as it’ll be our home for the foreseeable future.  On to the celebrations…

First up is a new release from Steve Blonski & the Victor Frankensteins.  It’s the first proper followup to a “Steve Blonski & the” album.  It also marks a return to a band last heard from way back in 2000.  Two tracks from that year’s Not Gonna be Splitting the Atom Any Time Soon are featured on the new release, Antimony.  Enjoy!

Steve Blonski & the Victor Frankensteins: Antimony

Next is the first release from Vacation.  Meant to be a catch all “band” for all the random nonsense I come up with during my breaks from school.  Think Desert Sessions but generally alone and not as interesting.  It was originally intended to have a real “band” feel, so I restricted myself to one acoustic, one electric, drums, bass, and vocals.  I don’t remember if I kept it up throughout the seven tracks, though.  I did, however, only use one microphone for the whole thing – including the drums.  Craziness!

Vacation

We’ll have more news about The Name and about a new project soon.  The 10th Anniversary album seems to be on hold.  It’s already the 11th Anniversary, so what’s another year?

-Mike

SGP TCB

Updates on two bands and miscellaneous other details! Hooray!

First, The Name would like to thank Shake it Twice for letting us rock out at Musky’s with them earlier in the month. Despite technical difficulties and human error, we managed to pull off (if we’re being generous) four songs. Two The Name originals and covers of “Summertime” by The Fresh Prince/DJ Jazzy Jeff and “The Way of the World” by Earth Wind and Fire. Luckily there is no audio from the show.  The next step is recording the originals and hitting the open mics.

In addition to a pending The Name release, Meat Without Feet are inching closer to their second release. Another four track EP, WPOP will likely drop within the next month or so. Recording in nearly complete, with only minor touch-ups and mixing left to do.

Friend of the label, Jefim Piekarz, is also hard at work on The Wayward Solider’s debut, which will feature some drum, bass, and keyboard from SGP members.

Black Velvet’s second disc, Reserved, is also perpetually in progress. Someday!

-Mike