Monday, March 22, 2010

Face The Rail Tour March/April 2010

Face The Rail will be embarking on a short (8 day) tour of the western United States and will be stopping of in certain cities as follows:

3/24 – San Francisco @ Balazo w/ Mind, Mojo Hand
3/27 – Long Beach @ Unity Church w/ The Timebombs
3/28 – Los Angeles @ House w/Pterydactdudes
3/29 – Phoenix @ Iron Lady w/ Pigeon Religion
3/30 – Denver @ Blast-o-mat w/ Nerveskade
3/31 – TBA
4/01 – Seattle @ House w/ White Wards
4/02 – Portland @ East End w/ Arctic Flowers, Salted City, The Chemicals
4/03 – San Francisco @ El Rio w/ Deadfall, Dean Dirg

In other great label news, City will be releasing the Snuff Film tape on a 12 inch this summer. You all know who they are, right? After that, on to the TSA (tyranosaurous asshole) 7 inch. These dudes span the country, with one member living in SF, one in phoenix and two in brooklyn. Thats all for now. Ill see all you kids at Yadokai March 26th.

Friday, March 5, 2010

City 002- Yadokai 'Sterile Environment' Cassette

This cassette oozes anger, rage and retribution in the only way a band from San Francisco can. Featuring members of Morpheme and Ecoli, Yadokai plays a mix of Noise and Japcore a la Lip Cream, Systematic Death and Wretched.

100 Tapes circulating

Free Download available at Sterile Environment.blogspot.com

City 001- Face The Rail 'Self Titled' LP


Face the Rail comes out of the Bay Area, an area known for fog, rain, the Grateful Dead and the Haight. It's enough to make anyone depressed. The LP trails off in melodic dischord, with topics ranging from longing, boredom, aliens and skating. The jangling guitars and heavy bass chip away at the listeners ability to truly validate himself as a human being and, in doing so, create an atmosphere that's conducive to long bouts of depression and anxiety. Don't go jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge just yet though. The packaging of the LP is enough to lift anyone's spirits. Housed in a four color screen printed jacket this LP screams class thanks to our friends at Tankcrimes and Monolith press. I've heard that they've been compared to bands like Double O, Husker Du and Rites of Spring but I just don't see it.

1st Press: 300 on Black, Screen Printed Covers
2nd Press: Coming Soon on Tankcrimes

Free Download: digital.deadformat.net Password: facetherail

Welcome to the Death of your Hopes and Dreams

So. City Records was an idea I had to profile music in San Francisco. At first it was some stupid teenage pipe dream, ya know, at a show, "One day I'm gonna start a record label." Bullshit. I grew up, got a job and stopped thinking about it. Then, about a year ago, Face the Rail recorded an LP that was to be put out on No Options. No Options dropped out because of financial troubles and Face The Rail was without a label. Seeing as I had a job, I figured I'd put it out, "Oh. I'll make my money back for sure", I thought. Fuckin' stupid. A couple months later I'm still working on it and hoping for the best. The main thing here, for me at least, is to support SF music, whatever that may be. I'll be posting more soon.