♡ 10 YEARS OF SALINAS RECORDS ♡

Salinas Records, run by my friend Marco Reosti, has been responsible for some of my favorite music and some of the most meaningful collaborations I've been a part of over the years. 

I made album art for P.S. Eliot a couple times, I wrote a little bit about Little Lungs, and I got to play with tons of bands on the Salinas roster. For that I thank you, Marco!

Today we're celebrating Salinas Records' 10 year anniversary at Silent Barn in Bushwick.

"PUNK IS IMPORTANT"

Salinas Records 10th Anniversary Party

Saturday, August 17, 2013

8pm at The Silent Barn

603 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn

All Ages, $8

(This show is NOT BYOB, and please, no drinking in the yard.)

Celebrating 10 years of Salinas Records, with*:

Swearin'

Delay

Radiator Hospital

The Ambulars

All Dogs

The Measure [sa]

PS Eliot

The State Lottery

Little Lungs

The Gibbons

North Lincoln

Ginger Alford (One Reason, Good Luck)

In 2003, Marco Reosti put out a 7" for his own band, Mumbler, under the label "Salinas," named for the hometown of his favorite author. For most of the next decade, Salinas Records was housed in a basement storage unit rented for $25 a month on Detroit's 2nd Avenue. In 10 years, Marco has put out almost 50 records, many of which contribute to the modern pop punk canon. Neither hyper-punk, nor particularly slick pop, Salinas is a reliable middle ground of earnest, gritty expression with faithfully melodic underpinnings. -bc

www.salinasrecords.com

*bands are playing abbreviated sets!

For all info & RSVP, click here

Allison & Katie Crutchfield Illustration in Women Who Rock Coloring Book

Allison and Katie Crutchfield, illustrated by me for the Women Who Rock Coloring Book #2, which benefits Girls Rock! Rhode Island. Published February 2013. More details here!

SWEARIN'

Doodling at work, thinking about my new favorite band, Swearin'.

If you haven't picked up the What a Dump demo [free download] yet, get it quick!

STILL LIVING IN SQUALOR

Marco at Salinas is re-releasing P.S. Eliot's Living in Squalor 7". Naturally, Marco hit me up to make some adjustments to the original artwork as well as to make some new labels. The labels are my favorite part to do because they force me to look at the images I made in a new way. And on that note, Sadie is sold out, too!

"SADIE" TATTOO

The lovely Katie Crutchfield got a tattoo based on my artwork for the Sadie LP! This marks the second tattoo of my artwork, aside from a stick-n-poke heart I may or may not have assisted on as a teenager.

P.S. ELIOT "SADIE" ARTWORK

Today P.S. Eliot's sophomore LP, Sadie, will be released!  It's a great record, and I graciously accepted the task of creating the artwork for this one.  This is only the second LP I've designed (besides my old band Cheeky's What the Heck).  It was A LOT of work, but I feel like my design skills graduated through working on Sadie. After listening to the album and gathering some vibes about rust and bittersweetness from the Crutchfield sisters, I had an idea about what this thing should look like.  During a week-long trip to Athens, GA to celebrate the New Year, I snapped a bunch of photos and started working the concept out after that. All of the text is hand-written. Enjoy!







Sadie is available from Salinas Records on vinyl and from If You Make It as a digital download. Jason Roy and I also collaborated on a poster that will be available at tonight's LP release show!

P.S. ELIOT "SADIE" RELEASE PARTY POSTER

poster collaboration with Jason Roy in progress
for P.S. Eliot's Sadie release party this Friday!

DOODLES

Found these on my sketchpad, which I am working in, designing the new P.S. Eliot LP! Extra points if you recognize either of these lyrics.

Records on display at Academy Records Annex Williamsburg.

FLIER FOR MARCH 16

You may recognize the image from above. It's kinda a cop out, but I've had a lot going on (really exciting stuff in the works!!) so I had to reuse an old image. This is the flier for my new band's first show! COME OUT!

VERY OKAY

TUESDAY, MARCH 16TH, 2010

@ LULU'S

8PM

P.S. ELIOT (AL)

THE TWO FUNERALS (VA)

BIG SODA

VERY OKAY

113 Franklin St. & Greenpoint Ave.

Brooklyn, NY

(G train or B43 / B62 bus to Greenpoint Ave.)

My new band with Cynthia of Zombie Dogs, Jared of Get Bent, and fellow bandmate Angie of Cheeky is having our first show in 2 1/2 weeks. It's with my favorite new band, Big Soda; good friends from out of town, P.S. Eliot; and all-girl rockers, The Two Funerals.

GIRL GERMS IN PORTUGUESE, PART II

I am super psyched to report that Carla Duarte over at cabeça tédio finished translating GIRL GERMS: A BROOKLYN SCENE REPORT in Portuguese; Parte 2 debuted today.

SNEAK PEEK: P.S. ELIOT'S LIVING IN SQUALOR 7"

HEY FOLKS! This is the art thing I had in the works that I previously mentioned. I've done the cover art, and am currently finishing the layout for the new P.S. Eliot 7", Living in Squalor, on Freedom School Records. This is the third release on Freedom School that I've done art and design for (#006, #011 & #012), which is pretty exciting to me. So extra special thanks to Mike Hunchback for having faith, and of course, P.S. Eliot.



Made with Micron pen, watercolor pencils, acrylic paint.
Dec 2009 - Jan 2010