Jan 14
January 2012 News
We’re currently going through some changes to streamline our web presence and make it valuable for visitors and customers.
• Our webstore has been updated– the storefront is now hosted by LimitedPressing and is much more advanced than our previous server-side storefront application.
• I’ve gone back through our back catalog of blog posts and have taken down nearly all posts that don’t include interesting content about our bands. That is what I am interested in blogging about here. Any posts about merchandise/records, etc. will only be up for a short period or will be paired with interesting content.
• I’m currently renovating our web pages so that they contain only valuable content about our bands: tour dates, video, mp3s, etc.
• We now have a facebook, a twitter, and a youtube page.
Twitter: @IronPier
Youtube: TheIronPier
Facebook: www.facebook.com/IronPier
• We have added our first run of merchandise to our storefront page.
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DV
Jan 19
New Weed Hounds Songs
You can hear them (recorded live) at Shea Stadium’s website:
http://www.liveatsheastadium.com/bands/weedhounds
I hear tell they will be on their new LP.
- DV
Jan 11
Weed Hounds Writeups
We have received some recent write ups in various publications. If you have a copy of ones we haven’t listed, particularly in print zines, please email me. I’m looking for our MRR and Give Me Back reviews particularly.
Razorcake had this to say:
Excellent indie pop that reminds me of the early- to mid-’90s, when this genre was in top form. I hear hints of the Pixies in the song “Beach Bummed,” with its surf style bass and guitar. Yet, Weed Hounds sound like they could easily fit on the Slumberland roster. The sound is dreamy without being lethargic or foggy. Touches of shoegazer are in the sound, and I like how the vocals sound—with Laura’s up front and Nick’s slightly underneath—as the guitars and occasional feedback washes over. “Skating away from the Cops” is the best song of the two, and it’s a great song. Definitely one of the best I’ve heard this year, for sure, and the one I play over and over. Listening to this reminds me of rainy summer afternoons spent in my room reading old comics and fanzines. Not a bad place to be. I seriously hope these folks release an LP soon. –Matt Average (Iron Pier, ironpier.net)
Punknews.org also reviewed it:
Weed Hounds’ fourth release or so, following a demo cassette, a split 7″ with Dude Japan and the Best Friends 7″, is an excellent two-song single in the form of “Beach Bummed” and “Skating Away from the Cops.”
Culling current and ex-members of various punk and hardcore acts local to Long Island, the band sidestep that here to concoct a shoegazey dream pop sound that fits somewhere between My Bloody Valentine and a smoggier Best Coast. The A-side title track offers sunny female vocals over-top a Ride-like wave of drifting guitars and a bridge with just the right pitch of distortion. The singing’s more distant in “Skating Away from the Cops,” but it’s a wonderful noise pop number in the key of Sonic Youth or No Age, caustic and fitful enough with guitars wailing in the background by track’s end while still navigating the thing with certain control.
Definitely a great single from a super promising young band. When they start garnering the inevitable indie buzz they’ll be a rarer case that’s worth it.
Collective Zine:
Weed Hounds drop two more on us here, thanks Weed Hounds. Side A: “Beach Bummed”, this kind of surfs away from their previous output, reverbing around and sounding like your sweetest surf board snapped, your best buddy just got eaten by a shark, and your icecream melted all over your favourite polo shirt. Melancholy. Bummed doesn’t quite cover the half of it. Actually, maybe this is like if Real Estate found that all their drugs had been stolen and wanted to sound a bit more Dinosaur Jr. Flip it for “Skating Away From the Cops” which guns out of the traps, all faulty fuzz and half asleep vocals, Pohgoh battling it out with Tiger Trap, indie pop that soars and swirls with consumate ease. Sweet song. When are these guys gonna get round to an LP?
Punknews.org has also highlighted the 7″ as Best New Music. Side Ponytail has listed the record as a top 7″ of 2010.
The blog Thinner the Air did a write up here. So did Impose Magazine, and others earlier in the year. If I missed some please mail me.
Dec 24
Please don’t buy our records from iTunes
Hey. We are having some trouble with our internet emusic distribution. Namely, a certain company went out of business and is no longer paying us for downloads made on the emusic sites but refuses to take down our releases off these emusic sites. We are currently pursuing our options, including legal ones, and hope to resolve this soon. In the meantime, please do not buy our music off itunes or emusic or Rhapsody. We will be starting an estore at LimitedPressing.com as soon as possible.

