End of the year...

It was a good first year for HKR, 8 records and a ripping comp, not bad! The new year is already looking bright with releases from Coughing Fit, Kleins96, Rehashed, Black Drink Crier, Def 3 and several more lined up.. Stay tuned!

If you're in Regina, check out the free New Year's Eve punk show at the Fainting Goat, starring Kleins96, Blackest Flag and Robot Vs. Monster. Starts around 10pm.

And, for shits and giggles, here's my Top Ten records of the year, NOT released by us haha...

1. Propagandhi - Supporting Caste
2. Megafaun - Gather, Form and Fly
3. Vicious Cycle - Pale Blue Dot
4. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Beware
5. Ruiner - Hell is Empty
6. Bill Calahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
7. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2
8. Rancid - Let the Dominoes Fall
9. Flaming Lips - Embryonic
10. Portugal.The Man - The Satanic Satanist

Tomorrow night!

Royal Red on the Dishpit tonight!

Turn on your rad-eo and rock out with the Royal Red Brigade on Regina's best, and infamous punk rock show on 91.3FM CJTR, 'the Dishpit'. Turn On.Tune In. Hang with Capt. Anarchy.Rock out.

http://www.cjtr.ca/webcast tonight @ 11:00

New headquarters!

Yup, we're moving on up to deluxe new digs... across the alley from the old office. Here's the new mailing address:

1331 15th Ave

Regina, SK

S4P 0Z1

Exclaim! reviews Shredded Wheat

http://exclaim.ca/musicreviews/latestsub.aspx?csid1=138&csid2=870&fid1=42098

NOT BAD

Propagandhi this Friday!

Tickets are still on sale for the Propagandhi show this FRIDAY in Regina. Full tour details available on their site; they're hitting all of Western Canada, playing shows with Rebel Spell and DFA, so if you can, grab a helmet and a six pack and go buck fuckin wild.

Sampler Review!

http://www.nxew.ca/2009/09/harvest-king-records-serves-up-pure.html

New fall releases!

We're coming back big this fall! After taking about a month off to get our restaurant off the ground (and after sending the Shredded Wheat comp all around the globe, where it's been getting radio play and reviews all over), we're finally ready to starting putting out new records.

First up: Royal Red Brigade "Out of the Trenches" 7" (white vinyl, 500 pressings). The punkrawk allstar crew that's been burning up Regina is putting out their 7" this fall. There's no release date set yet, but the pressing is already under way so it shouldn't be long! Art work and pre-orders will go up soon, in the meantime here's the track list:

Side A

1. We're All In - 3:58
2. Blackout City Nights - 2:31

Side B
3. Lost Cause - 2:22
4. Search the City - 2:54
5. Vampire Prom Queen - 2:46

Next we have the debut full-length CD from Black Drink Crier, tentatively titled "Births, Deaths and Marriages". Songwriter Cameron Wensel (West Port Murders) offers 13 tracks of prairie roots, songs of love, remorse and death. It is being recorded with an array of friends including the Lazy MK's, and should be ready for a late-fall release.

BIG WEEKEND FOR HARDCORE PUNKRAWK

This is the biggest weekend of the summer for punk/hardcore shows in Saskatchewan! Saturday night is HAVE HEART, SHIPWRECK, BITTER END, CRUEL HAND and GRAVE MAKER at the Exchange. If you're planning on coming and didn't get an advance ticket, get there early because this show WILL sell out!

And then Sunday is our big punkrock beach party with KLEINS96, ROYAL RED BRIGADE, TOMORROW STARTS TODAY, ORBITAL EXPRESS and CRICKET. It's at the Beach Hut (right beside the big beach bar) at Regina Beach and starts around 4pm. Last chance for summer romance! IT WILL BE SUNNY, I PROMISE.

A fun update

Hey everyone. Just popping in to tell you that this coming Friday night, August the 14th, Harvest King's own Molten Lava will be making their triumphant return to our city. They've got a small tour-type thing going right now, and on this particular evening you'll be able to catch them at the Exchange, alongside Violent Kin and Foxwarren.
(This show did not make it to the Live page because I was lazy.)

You can also go see the Famines at the Club, right next door, that same evening. They played Harvest King's Mayday fest this spring, so you can attend knowing they've got the HKR Seal of Approval.

And hey, why not check out both shows that night! You totally could. It's a free country.

Just for future reference;

If you are experiencing problems with the Harvest King site (links are dead, Paypal is broken, text is displaying upside down), please e-mail masonpitzel@gmail.com. I will do my best to put on a pot of coffee and pretend I have the skills necessary to fix it. Thank you.

mjp

Back from the Great North

Hey, so I spent most of the last week and half or so in Northern Saskatchewan doing all sorts of weird wild things in the trees, water and hills.. but I'm back now and here's what's new:

So, when the SHREDDED WHEAT VOL. 1 comps first arrived a couple weeks ago there was a glitch on the discs and we had to get a new batch made. Bad news, the release was delayed and we're only just shipping them out this week, but the good news is we got 1000 free discs out of it, so we can send them all over the world even more liberally than we ever planned.

We still have Have Heart tickets for sale but they're moving really fast for a show that's a month away, so if you haven't already, get on that shit.

Everything on our site is now in stock and ready to ship.

And the Failed States release show is happening this Thursday in Regina! It's at the Buffalo Lounge along with Cope (Edmonton), GSTS (BC), Class War Kids (Maritimes), and Brat Attack (Winnipeg). BE THERE!

That's all for now.

Four bands, one camping adventure.

Point Break 7"s in, ship this week

DR BATTLE ROYAL XMAS '07

Best pizza

Whole wheat naan flatbread, tandouri sauce, crispy bacon, feta, with a tomato, avocado, cilantro salad tossed lightly in soy, cider vinegar and olive oil, then spooned fresh on top.

A big day for mail

Point Break 7"s arrived today, 3 days early! We've never even had records arrive here on time, so early is a really big deal. Also, the Shredded Wheat comps shipped today, and should arrive on Regina's mighty shores by Friday. All orders will ship next week. Yipyipyip.

HAVE HEART ADVANCE TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Click the link in the red side bar to go to the page. Only $12 and they come a free copy of SHREDDED WHEAT VOL. 1.

INVASION

Live last night at the Club in Regina w/ Poser Disposer, Scumbelly and Mudlark:

Tour starts right away, and the new recordings are amazing! Check out their page/tour section for more.

New shirts

HKR puts on hell of shows

Only One More Week Away!

These Are The People In Your Neighborhood:

"Are you really in Misery Signals? You can touch my boob."

Some explanation is required: Last fall, outside of the BANE (and a bunch of other bands) show in Regina, these teen horror-movie tranny types asked me and Dylan if we played in a band, to which we obviously responded "Yeah, we're in Misery Signals." The girls were thrilled, and wanted to have their picture taken with their heroes. When Mike Brown came over and told them he was lead singer Karl, they were ecstatic. It was just as the flash was about to explode when the chubbier of the two dropped the now-famous quote, which Mikey instantly obliged without any thought. We exploded.

Somehow this just re-surfaced on good ol' Facebook. Enjoy.

HKR Fundraiser

(copy-pasted from Facebook)

Hey everyone, Harvest King Records is in mighty need of raising some cash to help pay for all the records, promo, and mind control devices we're undertaking this summer, so we're going to have a big outdoor dance party to raise some cash.

The party starts at 7pm, and is all ages (with lots and lots of booze for those of age). It goes until late.

Descalso - new Latin/raggae group in town www.myspace.com/descalso
Lazy MK's - amazing progressive country www.myspace.com/thelazymks
Oye! - Latin/hip-hop collective www.myspace.com/oyecollective
Hardtoe - funky beats and golden moments
Archie Cooper - ass shakin party jams www.myspace.com/archiecooper

Besides the music, there will be a dance performance from the lovely and talented FADADANCE, a BBQ, a raffle and silent auction featuring lots of amazing art work by Regina's finest, and of course all the finest records and merch money can buy from the good folk at Harvest King Records.

Gonna be a grand ole time.

SHREDDED WHEAT VOL. 1: Track list/release date

Our first comp, SHREDDED WHEAT VOL. 1 is being pressed as we speak.  The CD will be released July 14, 2009, and look for the vinyl in the fall (around harvest season, of course).

Track list:

1. Kleins96 - Losing My Religion

2. Rehashed - Soup Stain Graves

3. Point Break - Bars

4. Molten Lava - Put Your Hand in the Pocket

5. West Port Murders - Time Wasted

6. Oye! - Chan Chan 

7. Amour Fou - Notes from the Divide

8. Invasion - Goodnight

9. Things Change - Transmigration

10. Failed States - Unquestioned Conspirators

11. Kleins96 - Go Home Groseph

12. Royal Red Brigade - We're All In

13. Amour Fou - Saved

14. Rehashed - Fuck My Life

15. Invasion - Badges

16. Keitel - Lazy Mary

17. Kleins96 - Monk's Juice

Failed States 7"s arrive today!  They'll ship out to customers and other labels/distros within a week, right now we're just hammering out the details on the free digital download that will accompany the record.  Get it in your life, this sludgy thrashy bastard is evil as fuck.

Welcome to the new site!  BIG HUGE TREMENDOUS thanks to Mason Pitzel for the awesome work getting this baby off the ground.  Keep checking in, the site is going to be constantly growing and changing and getting better every day.

News tomorrow about the Failed States and Point Break 7"s, the Shredded Wheat comp and the Regina fundraiser on June 27.