Halifax Pop Explosion Zine and Record Fair

Halifax Pop Explosion starts tonight and we happen to be in Halifax for the week, so....Fixture will have a table at the Halifax Zine Fair this Saturday, October 24th from noon-5pm at St. David’s Church Hall (1537 Brunswick Street).

Come meet us and pick up some records!



Vendors include:

Anchor Archive Zine Library, Conundrum Press, Noyes Records, Peer a Mid Printing, whostolemybike prints, little foible comics, Strange Adventures, Brainscan zine, Kyla Francis Pottery, Divorce Records and Distro, CKDU FM, Ink Storm Screenprinting Collective, Grey Scale Press, Art Art Craft Collective, Wa’Ou, Tindercmx, DadaPomo, Random Paper and Fabric, Punkasaurus zine, Pistacia Ink, Go It Alone (Together), Eyelevel Gallery bookstore and more more more!

Admission is free.

More details on their website.

Label profile on CKUT

CKUT radio did a profile on Fixture Records last Monday for their show, New Shit.

The host, Andrea-Jane played an hour of music from different releases on the label, including multiple tracks by Cresting, Brave Radar, Dirty Beaches, Omon Ra, and Freelove Fenner.

Big thanks to A-J and everyone who helped put together this show!

>> Listen <<

(Download the show by right clicking on Listen (ctrl click on a mac) and saving the link to your computer)

Fixture at Pop Montreal

Pop Montreal started last night and here's where you can find us during the festival...

Thurs, Oct 1st:
3:30pm | Brave Radar @ Phonopolis (5403A ave du Parc) FREE
10pm | Omon Ra @ Cagibi (5490 St-Laurent) for Youth Club Records showcase
11pm | Mavo @ Jupiter Room (3874 St-Laurent)

Fri, Oct 2nd:
Noon | Dirty Beaches @ Friendship cove (215A Murray) for PLC/BSTB Matinee BBQ
1am | Postcards @ Le Milieu (#200-6545 Durocher)

Sat, Oct 3rd and Sun, Oct 4th:
11am-6pm | Record Sale and Gear Swap @ The Ukrainian Federation (5213 Hutchison)

We'll have all of our cd-rs and cassettes available to listen to and buy from our table at the Puces Pop Record Sale on Saturday and Sunday. It's free to get in and other vendors include local cassette labels, vinyl collectors, cd shops, gear builders, instrument repairs, plus a listening booth, free performances, snacks and drinks, and a gear swap. Come say hi!

Full schedule and venues at Pop Montreal.

In The Bottle Garden with Freelove Fenner

"Call it what you like; rhythm and blues, or rock-a-billy, but the the beat is here to stay" Sandy Nelson

The long awaited mini album from Freelove Fenner will be available from this tuesday the 14th of July. (You can pre-order right now). Highly recomended for fans of the beat, well coiffed hooks and the fine pop song. Tight and efficient. Marvelous and velvety.

Tracklist:

1. New Direction
2. Mr. Rotcelloc
3. Song for a New Elf
4. Henrietta
5. Spirit
6. Felix
7. Out of Town
8. There is just no talking to you
9. Backwards-facing line

Freelove Fenner's myspace page.

*UPDATE. Freelove Fenner playing with Jason Lytle tonight! (Petit Campus)

Dirty Cassettes

Dirty Beaches has a new six song tape coming out on the Night People label sometime in August. We were lucky enough to have an advance listen and its safe to say it includes some real talk. I would recommend keeping an eye out.

Tracks include two currently streaming on Dirty Beaches myspace, White Sands and Coast to Coast.

An e.p. from CRESTING

Today marks the release of the debut album from Cresting. In some ways its a cd of mood; emotions locked in rays and waves of sound but I think the true joy in this collection of seven songs is its playfullness. It sounds like Cresting's man, Gabe Ng, had fun and in the process made many interesting moments for a listener. Non hooks abound (is there any sweeter kind of hook?).

Some more words about the album:

An e.p. is the debut album from Montreal-based recording artist, Cresting. This collection of pop compositions, meditations, and variations sits somewhere in the Dust Bowl of electronic music. The songs share in the warm glow of analog instruments and live lo-fi recording techniques, creating the fuzz, hiss, and hum that Cresting's Gabriel Ng treats like raw matter.

His melodies are sometimes nostalgic and always bright, floating around with clouds of colour that recall the sound collages of Valet or Belong. Rhythmically, Cresting brings to mind the modern minimalism of Steve Reich with the occasional injection of roughly sewn hip hop beats.

Listen and purchase the CD here.

A Building from Brave Radar out now

It took us a year and then some. So many songs were recorded, so many beads sweated. I think it's the best thing brave radar have done. We're proud. Now we can start the next one!

You can check out tracks on our myspace or stream samples of the whole album (and order the album) on the fixture site here.

Dirty Beaches - West Coast Bird

Detective story part 1.

All aboard?

The ghost train.

If you are in Halifax on the 22nd, please make sure to check out Omon Ra's set as a part of this year's Obey Convention Festival. They are doing a 3-way-collaborative-set with Gown (Bark Haze with Thurston Moore) and Amanda Dawn Christie (Visual improvisations), they will also be putting out a tape! DO NOT MISS!!!

Show starts at 7pm and tickets are $8 while festival passes are $30.

More info here...

www.divorcerecords.ca
www.obeyconvention.blogspot.com

New Releases - Coming Soon - New Releases

We have some new albums coming out on Fixture in the following months to get jazzed about.

Brave Radar - A Building (CD) May 18th

Cresting - Cresting (Debut Album) (CD and Cassette) June 15th

Freelove Fenner (highly anticipated new album) (CD) Mid July

There's going to be a a double release for the Brave Radar and Cresting albums taking place Playhouse (5656 Parc Ave) on Friday the 19th of June, featuring both bands and hopefully some special guests. More on this soon.

UPDATE: The release show includes special guests Beaver and Elenora Thompson (Caila from Shapes & Sizes). $6 at the door, show starts at 9pm.