Solid Home Life - Solid Home Life LP
After years of working on this record, the ST Debut from Solid Home Life (Greg Olin from Graves and Lindsay Schief from LAKE) is finally ready, thanks in part to the folks at Lost Sound Tapes, Fin Records and Curly Cassettes, with whom we co-released this gem.  It comes on gorgeous sea-blue vinyl or cassette tape, and is full of the most sweet and sugary co-ed harmonies you've heard.  Pick it up here:  http://piaptk.limitedpressing.com/bands/graves/products or from one of the great labels mentioned above. 

Wooden Wand & Catherine Irwin - Sing the Songs of Hazel Dickens 7" - Record Store Day Exclusive
A great split 7" from Wooden Wand and Catherine Irwin (Freakwater) covering songs by the legendary protest singer, Hazel Dickens.  In hand-set letterpressed and silkscreened Arigato Paks and limited to 459 copies (but numbered out of 500).  This will only be available at participating RSD Record Stores.  Call your store and demand they stock it! It is available through Revolver Distribution.  After Record Store day, youc an go here to buy any that we might have lying around: http://piaptk.limitedpressing.com/bands/wooden-wand/products

All we have on the horizon for the foreseeable future:

Solid Home Life (Greg Olin from Graves and Lindsay Schief of LAKE) - ST LP (co-release with Lost Sound Tapes, Fin Records and Curly Cassettes, all of whom are awesome!).
Golden Boots - Be My Champ/BeezKneez 2x Picnic Plate 7"
Wooden Wand/Catherine Irwin - Tribute to Hazel Dickens 7"
Kris Kristofferson Tribute LP - with Wooden Wand, Good Saints, Southerly, New Science Projects, An Experiment, Golden Boots, Gift Machine, Blank Tapes, Great Lakes, Bob Simpson, etc.

There will be a third run of the Ariel Stevie mirrors coming soon.  The covers will be distinct to this run, they will be strictly limited to only those who have not already bought one, and they will be released in small batches to hopefully ensure they get into the hands of as many different people who want to actually own and keep them as possible. 

In a desperate attempt to get people to hear all the wonderful records I release (and hopefully buy them in physical form), we will be offering up a free album or 7" for download every day until we run out of stuff to give away.  The minimum price for download only will be changed to 0.00.

Todays freebie, the Vishnu In The Sow/Siva Playing Siva faux picture disc from Upstate NY's folk freak, Golden Ghost.  Golden Ghost is the project of Laura Goetz, who has also played with bands like Castanets and Viking Moses.  There were only 50 made, and they were lathe cut on clear, square plastic and then silkscreened on the reverse side and they come in Arigato mathcbook type sleeves, also silkscreened.  I am down to the last few.

http://piaptk.limitedpressing.com/products/12540

Due to the ridiculous demand and immediate sell-out of the first run of the SteviePinkJavascript lathe cut mirrors, we have prepared a second run of them.  Only 66 this time.

Lots of really crazy releases out today.

1) Ariel Pink/R. Stevie Moore “SteviePink Javascript” Square, Lathe cut MIRROR 7” - An amazing 6 minute space droner collaboration from Ariel Pink & R. Stevie Moore. Only 88 copies were made, and they lathe cut onto 7” MIRRORS.  Comes in silkscreened holographic drum covering, in several different colors.  Almost every aspect of this record was made from recycled or upcycled materials. The mirrored acrylic was collected over several years from the by-the-pound remnant bin of a Tacoma plastic supplier. It came from the end pieces and overcut scraps of various projects and was otherwise destined for the dump. The holographic covers were hand-cut with a T-square and boxcutter (hence the jaggedness of some) from the end remnants of rolls of psychedelic drum-covering. Even the paper for the insert was picked up at a garage sale.

2) Little Wings – Made It Rain LP – Ltd Ed of 300 LPs in covers that were hand-painted by Kyle Field of Little Wings, who is as renowned for his art as he is his incredible songwriting. A split release with the awesome Gnome Life Records in Big Sur, CA (www.GnomeLifeRecords.com), Made it Rain was originally released on cassette as part of their Echomancy series. PIAPTK, GnomeLife, and Kyle each have only 100 copies available.

Gnome Life said it best when they said:
Made it Rain is a direct transmission from the mind of Kyle Field (A.K.A. Little Wings)... brain waves reflected off a storm cloud and the nearby ocean... song droplets from Kyle and the windy mother. A chill out tape of eclectic covers, Little Wings classics remixed, a little story telling, and a fully new song to boot.
Recorded on cassette tape live in The Dream Yurt, high on the cliffs of Big Sur, California, above the Pacific Ocean, one late night in May 2011, in the midst of a gentle but unrelenting rain storm which eventually cut the party short by outing the power. "Made it Rain" is a wild artifact from the wild west.

3) Advance Base – Our Cat - Square, Lathe Cut 7" -  Owen Ashworth (formerly known as Casiotone For The Painfully Alone) asked me to do a run of lathe cuts for his most recent tour. Has the tune “Our Cat” b/w The theme from the classic 70s radio station sitcom, WKRP in Cincinatti. We made 80 copies and split them down the middle. He sold out of his 40 in the first few shows, and we have the final 40 copies.  This is lathe cut onto square, 7" acrylic and comes in a Riesographed cover.

Check out the new Golden Boots Fan Art Contest on Facebook!

Are you an artist? Do you like The Golden Boots? Do you collect rare and bizarre records? If you answered yes to all of those things, then this contest is for you! Create a piece of Golden Boots-themed art; could be a painting, drawing, collage, digital creation, music video, iphone app, video game, tableus, mechanical robots, song tributes, whatever. Anything inspired by the music, the men, or the myth of Golden Boots.

The top 5 submissions, as judged by The Golden Boots and PIAPTK, will receive their choice of custom made lathe cut LP: Either Burning Brain (never available on vinyl) or a Rarities LP of out of print or unreleased tunes that you've probably never heard. Each of these LPs will be lathe cut onto either a new, high quality lacquer or Laserdisc... your choice. There will only be 5 of these available and each one will come in custom, handmade artwork by the Golden Boots themselves. All entries will receive free digital downloads of Burning Brain and the Rarities albums.

To enter, simply create your work of art, post it on Facebook and tag The Golden Boots (http://www.facebook.com/GoldnBoots & http://www.facebook.com/Winter8s) and PIAPTK Recordings (www.facebook.com/piaptk).

If you don't already know Golden Boots, check out the free Digital Sampler at www.GoldenBootsDigital.com for some inspiration!

All submissions are due by Feb. 20th.

All Preorders for the Wooden Wand Archives Boxset were shipped between Jan. 3 and 6th.  So, please keep an eye out, as they should be at your place by the end of next week at the latest!  International orders, may take longer.

There are still a few copies of the boxset and individual LPs available at: http://piaptk.limitedpressing.com/bands/wooden-wand

Last year, James Jackson "Wooden Wand" Toth went to Alabama to record a split 7" with The Gum Creek Killers (feat. members of Verbena) a while back and had such a good time, he decided to go back and record an entire Wooden Wand record with the Gum Creek Killers as his backing band. Briarwood is the result of that collaboration. Another Wand album full of great one liners ("We were all at the Wal-Mart for the irony...") and down south pomp and swagger. Limited to only 500 copies, most of which went to Kickstarter pledgers or distributors, PIAPTK only has 50 copies for sale. Only $12 each.

Even more rare, we have a handful of the Letterpressed covers (the records come in full color jackets) that were made as Kickstarter gifts. These came in two colors, each with their own charm, chipboard and white. The Letterpressed cover + The Printed Cover + The Record = $20.

Records should ship in mid-November or so.

Yes, I've finally gotten with the early 2000s and started my own music blog.  It will, of course, contain information about things I like, lo-fi recording, great songwriting, lathe cut records, handmade musical artifacts, free mp3s, found sounds, out of print records, etc.  It will include stuff from PIAPTK artists and other bands that I WISH were PIAPTK artists.  No flavor of the hour blog darlings or Lil Wayne. Only things that most blogs don't bother with for the most part.  But, I will poach the good stuff on occasion. www.PIAPTKblog.com