Vertical House Records

Just in time for Summer! Our new store sampler “Eargasms 7” for your listening pleasure! If you enjoy any of these tunes you can always come by the store to buy some of their stuff and support the musicians that made this lil’ diddy possible.

TRACKLISTING:
1. Harlem – Friendly Ghost
2. Happy Birthday – Girls FM
3. Strange Boys – Be Brave
4. Thomas Function – In The Light Of Day
5. Sonny & The Sunsets – Too Young To Burn
6. Caution: Morning – Spraypaint On My Grave
7. Puppy Hearts – Truth Of The Touch
8. G-Side – College Chicks
9. The Pharmacy – Coldest Morning Light
10. Diamond Rings – Wait & See
11. Nobunny – Apple Tree
12. Church Of My Love – So Long Sweet Children
13. Three Happenin’ Guys – And We, My Brothers…
14. Das Racist – Rainbow In The Dark
15. The Spits – Life Of Crime
16. Doki Doki Panic – Shine On
17. Personal & Pizzas – I Don’t Feel So Happy Now
18. Best Coast – When I’m With You
19. Box Elders – Necro
20. Fergus & Geronimo – Harder Than It’s Ever Been
21. Wild Harem – Brainbow
22. Rainbow Bridge – Big Wave Rider
23. Fistful Of Beard – Ballad Of Being Gone
24. Bobby Brooks – Huntsville Lights

DOWNLOAD EARGASMS 7

Join Vertical House Records on Saturday, April 17th from 11am to 6pm to celebrate the best day of the year – RECORD STORE DAY! We are excited to be a part of this again. Record Store Day started back in 2007, the year we opened our doors! Three years later we’re still going strong…in fact, we’ve expanded to a bigger spot in our beloved Lowe Mill. We look forward to seeing you this year and hope you’ll spend Record Store Day with us!

MONDAY APRIL 12th

Box Elders
Really Loud Hamburgers
Ursa Locomodus

at Vertical House Records
2211 Seminole Dr. (2nd floor)

9pm | $5

This is going to be so much fun!

We are officially settled in our new space (across the hall from the old one, so no need to update your address book). Pictures are coming soon….I can’t believe they haven’t happened yet. Well, it’s been a pretty intense whirlwind or a move and happened sooner than we thought! To break in the new space, we’re having a kickass show this Tuesday (March 30th) featuring Puppy Hearts (Rocket City’s newest heart throbs lol), Juiceboxxx (Milwaukee’s best rapper), and Woven Bones (awesome-ness from Austin)! So how can you say no to that line-up? Doors open at 8, show around 9.

It’s great to have friends in high places, but it’s even better to have friends in sunny places…like California. And Geoff Geis (of Pizza! and Big Whup) is that friend! Yes, you know him…or at least seen him here. He has started contributing to FMLY and he had some very kind words about Vertical House Records. We certainly appreciate the recognition and want to say a special thanks to Geoff for spreading the Rocket City love. You can read his post here!

Vertical House Records is expanding!! yay! Dreams really do come true! Kinda serious about that…I dreamed about the space we are moving to last year. And now it’s happening. We are moving across the hall, and that means we will no longer be crammed. Our couches will no longer be occupied by crates of records. You won’t have to dig under tables for the 12″ singles. We’ll be able to have sections (gasp)!

So say farewell to our old space, and join us soon in our new one soon!

Speaking of fresh, we’ve been excited about this new Fresh & Onlys video ever since the creator emailed us about it a while ago. Unfortunately, he had to email again saying that Pitchfork had to preview it first. And now that they finally have, we can share it here! This is a video of the song “Vanishing Cream” off their upcoming 7″ on Plastic Spoons Records.

The Fresh & Onlys – Vanishing Cream

The Fresh & Onlys – Vanishing Cream from EyeBodega on Vimeo.

Know who’s awesome? YOU! And we love you for being so!

And you don’t get all this cheese without whine. All those times we whined, begged, and spammed you to vote for us really payed off this year cause Vertical House Records won first place for “Best Place to Buy CD’s and Music for Listening” in the Best of the Valley (Planet) Poll! Granted, we don’t have a lot of competition in this town, but it’s great to see we beat out The Big Guys.

So thanks to all who have supported us…and congrats to all our friends for placing first in their categories!

Love always,
Vertical House Records

PS – Anyone know where Trish Land is?!

I wish the Strange Boys would come back to Huntsville. Specifically to our store. To play again. But until that happens, this video for a song off their upcoming album will have to do. Be Brave comes out on February 22nd.

Last night we went to Exit/In in Nashville, TN. to see a few of our favorite bands: Smith Westerns, Magic Kids, and Girls. It was awesome, simply put. The trip to Nashville was ever so brief, but when most of it is spent singing and dancing along, maybe short and sweet is best!

Smith Westerns

Magic Kids

Magic Kids pizza box set list…propped up with beer, of course.

David Byrne, anyone?

The Magic Kids – ‘Hey Boy’ – Exit/In Nashville, TN. from vertical house records on Vimeo.

Girls

Girls – ‘Laura’ – Exit/In Nashville TN. from vertical house records on Vimeo.

Girls – ‘Lust for Life’ – Exit/In Nahville, TN from vertical house records on Vimeo.

Welcome welcome 2010…although you have brought with you upsetting news and destruction to our neighborhood. By now everyone has heard about the sad fact of Jay Reatard passing away. And while we didn’t know him personally, his music has inspired us for years. It’s always disconcerting when someone passes well before their time, especially after reading his quote: “I’m just trying to get the idea out before the inspiration is gone. Everything I do is motivated by the fear of running out of time.”

To the family and friends of Jay, we are truly sorry for your loss.

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Our friends in Thomas Function have put a new song up called In the Light of Day…although we gotta credit Josh for doing the whole damn thing himself. You can listen to the song right here though, no need to trek over to mahspace, unless you really want to. It’s such a catchy song and it makes me wish summer was right around the corner. I’m ready for the sun-kissed, pool-side hang outs!

In the Light of Day

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Another friend, Charlie, has made it part of her resolution to create a new mix cd every month. Her first mix is almost like a twin sis to our Eargasms 6…ok, maybe Eargasms 5 and 6 combined. Anyway, it’s really great and you should make it yours! Download it here.

Tracklisting:

1. Jacuzzi Boys – Island Ave
2. Jaill – Beggar Sincere
3. King Tuff – Kind of Guy
4. Wipers – Return of the Rat
5. The Fresh & Onlys – Peacock and Wing
6. The Magic Kids – Good to Be
7. Wipers – Alien Boy
8. Smith Westerns – Dreams
9. Goodnight Loving – Colin Attends a Party
10. King Tuff – Sun Medallion
11. Hunx & His Punx – You Don’t Like Rock & Roll
12. Puppy Hearts – When Kingdom Come
13. Girls – Morning Light
14. Nervous Patterns – Robot’s on the Loose
15. The King Khan & BBQ Show – Crystal Ball
16. Wipers – Mystery

And she has this to say about it: For the past few months I’ve been ingesting music at an alarming rate. This mix is really just the tip of the iceberg, but I think are the highlights that could be best described as eargasmic. I plan on making this a monthly series partially to encourage myself to continue digesting everything I can find and partially to share my discoveries. This mix includes all three bands playing at Bottletree on February 4th – Girls, Magic Kids, Smith Westerns. I hope to encourage you to go to this show (or where ever they are playing in your city), it’s going to be an amazing time.

Andy and I are going to the Girls, Magic Kids, Smith Westerns show in Nashville on Feb. 6th and we can’t wait! It’s going to be a blast…and Andy is already predicting it to be the best show of 2010. If we can swing it, we’re gonna try to go to the B’Ham show as well. Cause I wanna have a slumber party with Charlie!