July 15th
After promising to be home for a while, I left to go to the Bratt Fest this Weekend with Brook Pridemore. Brook along with Endless Mike and The Beagle Club tore the roof of the Tinderbox on Saturday night. Both of their sets in front of 175 people were some of the best sets I have seen for either of the acts. A large portion of the crowd sang along as well as the ENTIRE crowd dancing and going wild. I wanted to send a quick thank you to Pat the Bunny and Abby Banks as well as the rest of the Tinderbox crew for setting up such a great show. If you were at the event and shot photos or video, please send us an email as we would love to post them on the page and give you a bunch of free stuff in return.

This weekend we confirmed a 7" split with Mischief Brew and Endless Mike and The Beagle Club. Be patient  because it will not be out until November. However, you now have even more releases to look forward to from Crafty Records. We also just started planing the 10 year anniversary party with every band that has ever had a Crafty Records release for early to mid 2009.

Finally we have posted photos from We Are Still At Tour with Endless Mike And The Beagle Club. They were taken by jacob koestler . Check them out if you want to see what 16 people do on tour together.

July 8th
Sorry the page has been slow the last few days. We are in the process of switching servers (if you don't know what that means, it doesn't matter) Things should be up to speed in the next few days.
We have been sending out a ton of albums to be reviewed lately. So we decided that it is also important to have our regular audience be able to write reviews as well (you are really the ones that matter) We added the Real People Reviews page. Please stop by and post a review of an album that you own. There are still a few kinks to work out so feel free to email us ideas and comments.
In release news, the Brook Pridemore Ghost MIce split 7" was sent out to the plant today. Due to records taking a million years to press, it should be available the beginning of September. We will post a track as a teaser every once in a while so keep your eyes open.
The Stick Martin Show Thrilla had a giant problem at the plant. We tried a new company and it was a huge mistake. Needless to say that we will not use said company again. (We will spare you the details until it is all worked out) Since we will not have the cds for about 3 more weeks we figured out a solution. Anyone who orders the CD (starting tomorrow) will receive a free digital download of the album. When we get the hard copy of the cd, we will mail them to you. Thanks for your understanding.

June 26th
I am home for good (at least for a little while.) I have been in motion since April 1st. Almost 3 months straight. Sometimes I feel like a shark. Here is a quick recap of the last few weeks. The Endless Mike and The Beagle Club 2 week 16 person We Are Still At Tour was a gigantic success. I cannot even express how kind everyone was to our traveling circus. We had places to sleep, food to eat and tons of people to play for every night. We are in the process of working on a book about the tour due out in the end of the year.

In the middle of the tour was the 5th annual Punk Rock Bar B Que in the Crafty Records House backyard. During the thunder and pouring down rain I proposed to my amazing girlfriend who is nice enough to put up with my crazy life. She was also nice enough to say yes and is now joining the literal Crafty Records Family. A wedding as well as a 10 years of Crafty Records anniversary show is in the works for Spring 09. A gigantic thank you from me goes out to all of the bands and people that made this the best bar b que ever. I can not even express how appreciative I am for every ones help. If you have any pictures from the show please email me so I can get copies.

Finally in commerce news, the Stick Martin Show album Thrilla will be out Tuesday July 1st. You can get a copy early this Saturday at the Dunedin Brewery if you are in the Tampa area. If not, order away and we will get them out the day we receive them.
We posted a ton of new items in our distro as well as added a book section. Go check it out.

June 12th
PUNK ROCK BAR B QUE SATURDAY. LIVES WILL BE CHANGED. DETAILS HERE.

I am on tour with the 16 piece Beagle Club. We will be in NYC Saturday for the Bar B que. I have many stories to tell you. They will be posted after I return for the second time on the 21st. They involve planes, hitchhiking, jetksiing over state lines etc.
All orders were shipped on June 6th. The rest will be shipped the 15th.
 
Please come on Saturday, It will make me smile.

June 1st
In case you live in a hole, the 5th annual Punk Rock Bar B que is only 2 weeks away. You can check out a flier as well as photos from the past here. My newly seeded lawn can't wait to be trampled on. Rumor has it that The Endless Mike and The Beagle Club CD may be streamed on punknews.com on Monday. We will have to wait and see. There is a reasonable chance that We Are Still At War will actually arive at the Crafty Records house on Monday as well and will be shipped a day earlier than even planed. That is, as fast as I can package and send out the giant stack of preorders. Just a heads up that the album is hopefully coming out on vinyl later in the year.

Also in vinyl news, we should have the Chris Clavin LP The Roads Lead Everywhere on Wednesday. Those of you who preorder should have the album as mp3s in your inbox on Wednesday as well. The new Stick Martin Show album Thrilla will be out June 28th. Preorders will start in 2 weeks. The Johnny Hobo and The Freight Trains Hobology should hopefully be out in July.

I am gearing up to go on the 16 person Endless Mike and The Beagle Club Tour from June 8th through the 21st. Mail will not be sent during that time. If you want your cds, order before the 8th. Come witness the insanity.

May 28th
The new Chris Clavin vinyl only release The Roads Lead Everywhere is finally available for preorder. I was waiting on the plants confirmation of a ship date before we made the record available. Each record will come with a free digital download that you will receive via email before you even have the actual record in your hand. Just a heads up for you collectors, this is for the black version of the record. The colored ones will be available in the begining of July. Yes this does suck but it is out of our hands. As soon as we get the exact details, we will post them..

We will finally get the new distro items listed in the next few days.(May 29th - lots of new items in distro) I finally have my feet on the ground for a while. Thanks for understanding.

May 20th (1:49 AM)

We are still at war is officially up for preorder. We also created a page where you can hear  songs, look at photos of  the recording and read the lyrics. Check it out here. Tour dates were recently updated here. The Captain Chaos LP preorder should be up shortly. I am going to bed.

May 14th
The new Endless Mike and the Beagle Club cd - We are Still at War will go on sale May 20th. The cds will ship on June 3rd. We got our hands on the final version and be prepared to be blown away. It is the best thing we have heard in a long time.

In other release news, The Chris Clavin LP will be available for preorder on May 20th as well. This will be for the black vinyl version only. The entire United States is out of colored vinyl. Therefore, the colored versions of the record will be out in late June. We are sorry for the delay and will post colored information as it comes in. The black records will be shipped to you the first week in June.

The Brook Pridemore Wingnut Dishwashers Union tour comes to an end on Friday. We will have a few extra shirsts we will put on sale early next week. I am happy to sleep in my own bed for a while. Guitar Bomb just got back to NYC for a while from his latest tour. The blog has been posted here.

June 14th is The Punk Rock Bar B que at the Crafty Records House (75 Early Street Bronx New York 10464) Details posted as soon as I get home. We will see you at the show!

May 5th
When tour goes bad, we have lots of crazy stories and usually computer time. This tour has gone amazing and computers with internet have been like oil, scarce at best. I am running out of ways to say how good things are  going. Every night we have had warm energetic faces to play to. We are down to the last 100 or so copies of the first pressing of Brook Pridemore Reflecting Skin. A new cover for the second pressing is in the works.

I will update the release schedule in the next week or so but here are the highlights. We have just been asked to put out the Johnny Hobo and The Freight Trains Hobology. We are very excited and it should be out by the end of the summer. We are also working on the Tinderbox benifit compilation with a ton of great bands.

Now for the releases almost wrapped up. Endless Mike and The Beagle Club - We are still at war is just about done and should be out by their tour on June 8th. The Chris Clavin vinyl LP is at the plant and should be back by the end of the month. Presale should start in about 2 weeks. The Stick Martin Show - Thrilla will be done in 2 days and be out the end of June. The Brook Pridemore Ghost Mice Split 7" is confirmed for September.

We have 2331 photos from tour to be sorted and posted as soon as we get back. We have a world of people to thank. It will be done soon. Crafty Records Bar B que June 14th. We will see you there - with love , dAN

April 19
The darkwood version of the Thanks For The Floor CD is now sold out. We  are down to our last 30 or so Three Dollar Gallon Cds.

New Picture in the next few days. I promise

April 15th
I have not forgotten about you interweb. Tour has been insane and people need to stop putting passwords on their wireless. It hinders touring bands. We have many photos and stories to post. Bear with us, it will happen.

Just a quick release note. We will be putting out a benifit cd for the Tinderbox in Brattleboro VT. It has an awesome list of bands and will be out by the begining of july. This is not defitenite but is in the works and we hope to be able to make it happen.

The Chris Clavin record is at the plant as we speak. The Beagle Club Cd is recorded and in mix down. The Stick Martin Show cd art should be done shortly

Tour has been amazing but computers have been few and far between. All real news will be posted here THE NATIONAL MELTDOWN BLOG for the next few weeks. Check it out. We have the new snakepit book in our distro. We will have it on our website soon.

April 2nd
Tomorrow I will start The National Meltdown Blog. Last night was day one in Brooklyn. The show went well and we can fill our tank to get to buffalo. Yes that is a long first drive but that's how it goes sometimes. We are bringing along another person for the first half of the tour who will be in charge of documentation. You should be kept pretty up to date. Guitar Bomb is on tour as well an you can find his dates here. I will try to keep you posted on that tour as well.

Please bear with us with mail order. I will do my best to send things out once a week but it may take a little longer than normal. The Beagle Club records their new album in about a week. Get excited.

March 26th
I am gearing up for the Brook Pridemore Wingnut Dishwashers Union National Meltdown Tour. Yesterday was a bit insane. I screen printed over 150 tour shirts in my mostly functioning basement studio. Then I finished the last 150 or so Thanks For The Floor Comps. All this with a splint on my left wrist. (Yes I am fine, I have no idea what I did) Needless to say I felt productive and these are some of my favorite shirts we have ever done. Here are the current dates. I print hoodies today.

A month after we get back, is The 5th annual Punk Rock bar b que (June 14th). Here is a list of the probable bands so far : The Challenged, Stewart, Brook Pridemore, Endless Mike and The Beagle Club (as a 15 piece band!) The Used Kids (x momacs), Cheeky, The Screaming Females, Guitar Bomb, Ivan Sandomire, new young local city island punk band, Short attention. There are a few more but they are not confirmed. We also have some surprises for you.

Tomorrow I head off to Boston for a Craft Show for the weekend with Reina Mia Brill. If you are in the area let us know and we will get you a free pass and you can see the other side of the label.

My good friend Jeff Novich reformatted my computer yesterday. It is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. He has literally saved me 100's of hours of aggravation. I wanted to publicly thank him. That being said, 2 new songs are posted here. (after things were fixed)

The Chris Clavin LP was mastered and will be sent to the plant tomorrow. Pressing info will be posted shortly. If you have not looked at the Brook Pridemore Tour look here now and plan on stopping by to say hello when we play your town in April/May.

March 17th
The packaging for the Thanks For the Floor CD is almost done. I have made the first 250 or so. I have some photos of the process that will be up late in the week. I think you will really like the way they turned out. All preorders will be shipped out on Tuesday or Wednesday. New songs will be posted here tomorrow.

I will be on tour from April 1st until May 16th. Orders during that time may take a little longer than usual. If you know you will want something soon, you may want to order it before that time.

March 6th
We have a handfull of the dark wood version of The Thanks For The Floor CD left. You should order the limited version in the next day or 2 or we will be out. We decided to let people hear songs of the CD  HERE. We will rotate the songs every few days. Enjoy

March 4th

You can now prorder the Thanks For The Floor CD HERE.

We added Art of The Underground singles to our distro here.

In other release news, we just got in the rough mixes of the new Endless Mike and The Beagle Club cd "We Are Still At War" and I can not contain my excitement. The cd will be out Late May. The artwork for The Captain Chaos vinyl record has begun and the LP will be out Juneish.

February 28th
We get an extra day this month and I really need it. The Thanks For The Floor CD is on its way to plant as we speak. It contains brand new songs from The Steinways, Hallie Unlovable (with Brook Pridemore), Captain Chaos, Guitar Bomb, Yesterdays Pants, The Stick Martin Show, The Max Levine Ensemble, Endless Mike and The Beagle Club, Brook Pridemore, Ivan Sandomire, and The Two Thergs (2 of the 3 Ergs acoustic). It is coming in a handmade package made out of real wood veneer. The first 50 orders come in a limited edition dark wood version. 500 total will be made. Preorders start Tuesday March 4th at noon EST.

In other exciting news, we just received a new Captain Chaos album in the mail today. This album will be pressed on vinyl! Each record will come with a free digital download of the album. We are in the process of working out the artwork. The record should be available in mid-May.

February 13th
I can barely keep up with all of the new songs that are coming my way. I Just got a listen to 11 of the 14 songs from the Stick Martins Shows new hip hop album. It is going to be called Thrilla and is by far the best sounding Stick Martin release and it is not even done yet. If this release has been keeping you on the edge of your seats, you will not be disappointed. The Thanks For The Floor tracks are almost all in as well. Today we received tracks from Endless Mike and The Beagle Club, Hallie Unlovable (with Brook Pridemore) and The Steinways. Yesterday was spent in my wood studio cutting wood for the packaging. Release dates will be posted as soon as they are confirmed.

February 7th
I need a new computer so things take a little longer than they should. The rest of the photos are up on the cold noses tour. Feel free to steal them and repost them as you please. Brook Pridemore has been in demand since his return. He has recorded a track with The Unlovables for the Thanks for the floor comp as well as finishing up his track as well. Preorders for the cd should start the beginning of March.

By Monday we will have tour dates posted for the Brook Pridemore Wingnut Dishwashers Union (X-Johny Hobo) National Meltdown Tour as well as Guitarbomb and Endless Mike and The Beagle Club Tour Dates. I heard some rough mixes of new Beagle Club songs and they will blow your head off. That album should be out in late May. The 5th annual Punk Rock Bar  B Que is most likely going to be June 14th with giant bands on the list. It is shaping up to be an insane year here at Crafty Records!

February 3rd
Congratulations to the New York Giants for being the perfect super bowl champs. Crafty Records will see you at the parade on Tuesday!

January 19th
We are on day 3 of the cold noses tour with Soft Black and Brook Pridemore. It is a two week tour to warm up the 2008 touring season. You can read about it here. We will do our best to keep the blog and photos updated. It is also to promote Brook Pridemore sings antifolks greatest hits. If you don't have your copy get it here.

We have added yet another item to our distro. We now have copies of the 2007 baltimore poppunk fest cd/dvd. It has live songs by The Unlovables, ergs, ben weasel and 30 more. You can read about it and get your copy here. A show is about to start the rest of the update later. (sorry)

January 3rd 2008
I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays. I have officially joined the 50 state club. To celebrate, we have added the new Max Levine Ensemble CD to our distro here! It is put out by our friends at Plan it X and it is a fantastic disc.

December 18th
It is after the fact, but I just wanted to tell you about the exciting weekend we just had. Thursday night I went to dinner at a place in the Bronx that we are going to future shows at. Friday night Brook Pridemore had a release show in Manhattan. Saturday night the Max Levine Ensemble played an awesome show in Brooklyn. Sunday night the Unlovabels played with the might Weston and Ivan Sandomire played a separate show with a 6 piece band! I went to 4 shows in 3 days in 3 boroughs. I am not sure how I ever  did this while working another job.

We got a bunch of new reviews here.
Just a quick reminder orders place after 10 PM on Thursday the 19th will not ship until December 31st. I will be in Hawaii for 10 days with my family. When I get back you should send me an ecard congratulating me on putting up a crafty records sticker in all 50 states. I thank the label for getting me to about 75 % of these states.

December 10th
We have just added the Ghost Mice / Andrew jackson Jihad 12" record as well as the Ghost Mice Europe record to our distro section. We also got our hands on a few Ergs / Lemuria splits on purple vinyl that you can find there as well. Just a heads up that mail order will be closed from the 20th through the 30th. You will still be able to place orders but they will be shipped on the 31st.

December 4th
I will try to be better at updates this month, although I am only home for 2 more weeks before I head out again. The end of November was spent on the west coast looking for art spaces to show work. We also got to spend some time with Todd from Razorcake. Last weekend was spent at a craft show trying to replenish our ever dwindling bank account. We stayed at a house of a couple who has 3 of the largest independent toy stores in the DC area! Needless to say, we had an awesome time.

We added two new Art of the underground singles by Andrew Jackson Jihad and the potential Johns in our Distro. You should order them fast because all of the other singles have sold out very quickly. December sales section will be posted in the next 2 days. Check back for awesome end of the year deals.

You can read the guitarbomb tour journal here. He has slowly began working on his new album. We also added the Endless Mike and The Beagle club lyrics here and the Steinways Lyrics here. We are almost out of the green steinways record, so you should now order your nerd packs from here.

The release show for Brook Pridemore sings Antifolks Greatest Hits is on december 14th at the sidewalk cafe. We hope to see you there.

November 8th
Sorry for the lack of detailed updates. I will do my best to catch everyone up to speed. The end of Octourber was spent on the road with Endless Mike and the Beagle Club and Brook Pridemore. The tour was a blast. I take back everything bad I have ever said about touring with a large band. This tour with nine people in one van was in my top 3 most fun tours of all time. Pictures to prove this will be posted early next week.
GuitarBomb is still on the road with Lucas Stagg. However since he is in canada NOT PLAYING SHOWS, we will report on how well all of his "hanging out" went went he returns to the country on November 11th.
The Steinways played their release show for the 10" Missed The Boat last Friday on a very rare Queens NYC show. It was one of the drunkenist rambunctious show I have seen them play in a long time. I am trying to talk to them into touring in the spring but absolutely nothing at all is confirmed. This is only my hope. Do not go talk to them about tour, they will get angry at me.
The Max Levine Ensemble just played a phenomenal show at the Gainesville Fest in front of a ton of kids. They are in the works of booking a tour in December/January. The Tentative dates have been posted in the tours section. They are also working on a full length to be released on plan it  x records at some point in time.
In case you missed it our very own The Stick Martin Show was voted Tampas best Hip-Hop act by Creative Loafing's Reader Poll. They are about 60% done with their new album and rough mix versions of some songs will be posted in December.
Captain Chaos has been on the road with Ghost mice for almost 2 months. Talks have begun about releasing some Captain Chaos vinyl in early 2008. Details will be posted as we get them.

After coming home from tour, I mailed out of 70 orders in 2 days. It seems like our new releases are doing very well. I wanted to thank everyone for their continued support of Crafty Records. We could not do this with out you.

I think thats it. I am impressed if you made it this far!

October 29th
We are wrapping up The Brook Pridemore / Endless Mike Together at Last tour. We are playing tonight in Cleveland and tomorrow in Pittsburgh. The cds have been mailed out. The steinways records are on there way to the Crafty House.
A review of last nights show can be found here.

October 25th
Sorry for the lack of updates. The Beagle Club CD's are in and ship out tomorrow. If you were lucky enough to catch them on tour, you already could have bought one. We are 5 days in on tour with Brook Pridemore and Endless mike and the beagle club. There are 9 of us in one van. The circus of it all has been a blast. We heard from Guitar Bomb and his tour is going very good as well. They are around Texas. A full update soon when we get to a computer that is not in a public place. We are off to Atlanta. We have not forgotten about you.

(PS The Steinways records are on there way to The Crafty Records House)

October 11th
We are in the process of reformatting the page in a new layout. Things may look funny for a few days but bear with us. Drop us a line and let us know what you think.

We are almost out of the green Steinways record. There were only 50 made and are only available in the nerd pack 10 of those were sent to the vinly collective. So when we run out you still may be able to get some here.

We should have the Endless Mike records in our hands in about a week. We still need a show  on October 26th between Lawrenceville, Georgiana and Knoxville, Tennessee. Let us know if you have any ideas or contacts if you want to see Brook Pridemore and Endless Mike and The Beagle Club.

I finally caught up with Guitar Bomb and it seem like his tour with Lucas Stagg is setting up to be fantastic.

October 5th

The Steinways - Missed The Boat and Endless Mike and The Beagle Club - The Husky Tenor are available now! Click to go to orders page.

September 30th
The Steinways played an awesome show at Urban Outfitters at the Queens Mall complete with children with fingers in their ears. Pictures of the maddness will be posted in the next few days. Preorders for the Steinways record will start in a week or so.
The Steinways will play with Brook Pridemore as well as the Max Levine Ensemble and a ton of other great bands October 6th and 7th at Carlapalooza. Carlapalooza is an annual MS benifit put on by our good friend Chadd Derkins. You should all come out and support the great cause.

The dates for the Brook Pridemore Enless Mike Tour as well as the GuitarBomb Lucass Stagg tour have been posted here. For those of you who have never heard Endless Mike and The Beagle Club you can now listen to them here.

In other awesome news, The Stick Martin Show was named Creative Loafing's Reader's Choice Best of the Bay award for Best Hip Hop Group. You can see the video here. The new album drops in less than 6 months. It looks like it is going to be a busy October as always here at Crafty Records.

September 18th
Just a few quick updates to announce. The test pressings for the Steinways Missed the Boat "10 will be in my hands tomorrow. That very test pressing will be sent out as a surprise gift to someone who preorders the nerd pack. If all sounds good, preorders will start in 2 weeks.
The Endless Mike and The Beagle Club Husky Tenor is being printed as we speak. The cds will come in the first ever digipack on our label. We are very excited about this. Preorders for this cd will be taken shortly as well. In other great news, 4 songs are already in the works for the their new album. This was mentioned in in the punknews article here. Endless Mike and Brook Pridemore tour dates are posted here. The tour is shaping up to be a blast.
GuitarBomb will be on tour in october as well. Dates are now posted.
Finally, due to the demand for the back to school sale, it has been extended until the end of the month!

August 27th
What was supposed to be an end of summer sale is now a BACK TO SCHOOL SALE. Just click the last sentence to read details. Get your new Crafty Record releases for your first day of fourth grade.

In other news The Steinways Record is at the plant. 500 "10 vinyl records in 3 colors. Preorders in a few weeks. The Endless Mike CD is going to the plant very soon as well.

Finally, there is a show with our good friend Paul Baribeau, Brook Pridemore, Ivan Sandomire and Stewart on Friday September 14th. The Show will be at the Card Shop on City Island at 7:30. Details posted by the end of the week. You should come to this show. Thank You.

August 15th
So the cats are about to be out of the bag. We have just confirmed working with not one but two new bands. First, we are going to put out the vinyl version of Missed the Boat by the Steinways. The Steinways are one of only 2 bands to play all four Punk Rock Bar B Ques. For this, they get rewarded with a "10 vinyl that is coming out in October.
Secondly, we would like to announce that we are going to put out The Husky Tenor by Endless Mike and The Beagle Club. We have crossed paths many times with this band while on tour and we just had to work with them. The Husky Tenor is going to be out mid October when they go on tour with Brook Pridemore. Endless Mike will have a second album out on Crafty Records in the begining of 2008. You can check out our crazy release schedule right here.
We also posted a song on the Unlovables page as well as 2 new songs in the Battle Royal page. Don't forget to vote!
End of Summer sale next week. Be Warned.

August 7th
A giantic thank you goes out to Short Attention, Lost locker Combo , the Guts, The Steinways, Brook Pridemore, Guitar Bomb, Highway Magic, Toby Goodshank, Electric Dinasaur, The challenged and Chopped Liver for playing the bar b que in spite of the 95 degree heat. An extar special thanks also goes out to Reina Mia Brill for preparing most of the food and Jim Jersey beat for cooking the meat. Next year we will rturn to the the much cooler early June date. You can see picture of the show right here As you can see, everyone had an amazing time as always.
Ivan Sandomire is in the midst of his tour. YOu can get his tour dates as well us the Unlovables upcoming tour dates right here. There  is a new vinyl release in the works but I will keep you guessing until everything is 100 percent confirmed. Finally if you have not sent in your letter for the 1000 letters project, DO IT NOW. I want to get the cd underway and I can't do it untill we get emough letters. Thanks