NEWS
Saturday May 21, 2010
Hi everyone! We have been very busy at The Boat Dreams factory, namely sprucing up our Free Store. We've put up new downloads for The Buzzing Bees, The Corta Vita, Fornix, Gilligan Starship and Slow Kids Playing Fast. We're most excited about Fornix and Gilligan Starship as both are newer projects from good pals that have never been previously available anywhere. The Buzzing Bees 7" that we put up is fairly questionable but for some reason people actually seem to be downloading it, The Corta Vita's EP is once again available on the internet after a few years absence and the Slow Kids Playing Fast tapes now up for download aren't half-bad representations of Calgary's All-Ages scene in the late 1990's.
In other news, we have so far sold 0 copies of Animal Names' Let It Been, including Itunes. Haha. The band patched up their differences in anticipation of being lovingly welcomed back into the world that they so recently left but realized their true place in the universe is actually "nowhere" and now the members are finding their own individual paths towards oblivion. Just joking about the patching-things-up bit.
Stay tuned for more Free Store additions and maybe an honest-to-goodness actual release soon.
Saturday May 8, 2010
We just posted the mythical 2005 _Babies_ EP by Baby Control in the Free Store. It would have been a great little record, I'm not sure exactly why the band never made any copies of it or even showed it to any of their friends. Regardless, we have it now and look forward to hanging the commemorative platinum MP3 plaque on our wall once a million people download the EP. That will actually happen, right?
Tuesday May 4, 2010
Happy Star Wars day! I know most of you will find it hard to believe that only 46 days have passed since we made the gigantic announcement that Animal Names would be releasing _Let It Been_, their swan song. And I also know a few of you quit your jobs (assuming you all had jobs at some point) and started vigils outside of the Media Club, hoping in vain that the band would all show up there one night for a beer or at least to park their cars for free en route to Canucks games and that you'd be able to convince them to keep things going or at least show them your anguish with cries of "Say it ain't so!". The band appreciates the concern and a statement has been prepared by their lawyer/spiritual advisor: "Please quit blocking the door at the Media Club. Love Animal Names".
Anyhow, _Let It Been_ is now available on itunes and also in the Real Store on this very site, for $3.49 less than you'll find anywhere else (unless you shop on blogs or torrent sites or mediafire, in which case you've found a better deal). We souped up the store and took a page out of amazon.com's book, adding a Shopping Cart function just like they did in good old 1995.
The release parties/wakes are currently underway in all the world's major centres (Vancouver, Bangkok and the entire state of Arizona) in memory of Animal Names and in celebration of their new album but we're taking the festivities all the way to the internet here. To mark today's special occasion, we've introduced a new section to the site: a Free Store. To start things off, we are offering a 14 song collection of demos and practise recordings that led to _Let It Been_. Though perhaps not for everyone, those camped out at the Media Club and already cried out in Bangkok should be stoked. We've also put up two albums by The Buzzing Bees, a group that went on to become a lawyer, a doctor of math, a masters in music student and Chris from Animal Names. We all have different paths, ok? Please check back regularly for new additions to the Free Store, we will be offering up various projects both current and long gone. If you have any problems downloading anything, please complain here.
Thanks for coming!
Friday March 19, 2010
Holy Pontius Pilate, we've missed you all. We will respond to all of the obnoxiously eager people out there who have insisted on writing over the last many months as long as none of you email us tomorrow because IT IS MY BIRTHDAY AND I WANT A DAY OFF. You see, we have been busy preparing a very intensive package for our newest release, Animal Names' _Let It Been_. Only 6000 have been pressed on 3D Blu-ray 24" diamond records with handwritten lyrics by Brad painstakingly inserted inside each copy. We only have 97 left after The Home Shopping Channel segment so please, act fast. We are also legally obligated to correct something from the broadcast: the covers are all hand painted by young relatives of the band, not the original artist.
Animal Names broke up at some point between the middle of August and today so we're only putting this album out digitally after the initial exclusive 6000 '3D Blu-ray 24" diamond record with handwritten lyrics by Brad painstakingly inserted inside each copy' run. May 4th is the day because that's Star Wars Day. You may have noticed that the title of the album has changed since our last update and a song is missing. I will give you a hint: Look for the greatest hits package _The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike_ featuring a new-never-before-heard-classic-from-the-golden-years, one crappy old song and a cover of "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" wherever copies of the ultra-rare alternate cover (ft. Tom holding Norton beside Melissa, see below.) of _Let It Been_ (with computer typed lyrics by Bart proofread by Bart too) can be found (limited to 6000 copies, 12 per customer).
In other news, Andy Dixon has still not started doing any vocals for the next release in our pipeline, Gravy Control's _Old Fruit_ (title also subject to change if a greatest hits package can be assembled). GET IT TOGETHER MAN, THIS RECORD IS SOLID GOLD.
Thank you for stopping by. Remember, no emails tomorrow. Thank you.
Tuesday July 7, 2009
Today is the official release date for our first release, Animal Names' Oh Yes You Better Do EP. It is available for download now at itunes, lala, and amazon or you can purchase the actual CD from our store. Week-long parties have been going on since last Wednesday in Vancouver, Seattle, Calgary, New York and Athens in honor of this monumentus event. The planned pay-per-view extravaganza didn't materialize due to talks between us and Shaw Cable failing but hopefully MTV Canada will pick up the 6 hour mini-series of abridged highlights. If you weren't on the VIP list for these parties, you didn't get a grab bag which means you still need the EP. Fear not, my warehouse/living room is stocked so order away.
In other news, our next two releases are shaping up though it's hard to say what will be released first:
Gravy Control, Baby Control's maimed and crippled remains, are preparing a full-length entitled Slim Fathers. Like the Baby Control full-length, this one was recorded in their practise space. Unlike the Baby Control album, this one was recorded for free (Best War cost $47 but try not to let that scare you away). Zoe has gone the Neil Young route and set up her Canadian flag permanently in America but luckily Andy Dixon, the only person the band actually owes money to, has agreed to start singing in a bid to recoup his losses. Just joking. He's really going to be singing though.
Animal Names will be recording a new full-lenth, The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike, next month with Shawn Cole. Barring any dropping-of-the-ball while recording, this new album should have 15 two and a half minute pop jams full of the typical nonsensical and pseudo-earnest musings.
There will hopefully be more releases in the near future to tell you about but first I must attempt to recruit some friends to help me with this thing.
Friday May 8, 2009
Hello internet, welcome to our very own tiny version of you.
The biggest piece of news we'd like to share today is that we are wholly incompetent and can't make a website if our lives depended on it. This will be a slow process, we ask for your patience and understand that you're only laughing at us because we're so awful at so many things.
The other piece of news we'd like to impart is that Boat Dreams From The Hill's first release will be our one and only foray into the dead format of the compact disc. Oh Yes You Better Do, a seven song EP by Vancouver's Animal Names, will "drop" July 7th. Animal Names once had a manager and she told them no one releases things in July but we're proving her wrong by simply just doing it. Of course we don't (yet??) have distribution so release dates really mean nothing to a label of our stature but it's just a little something that helps us maintain our dignity so please give us this one thing.
Thanks for visiting, please offer up your grammatical critiques here.