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Hi all, first time here. I run Volar Records here in San Diego, I'm a little more than three years in to the whole things. Recent and upcoming releases include 7"s by Shannon and the Clams, Tropical Popsicle, Eat Skull, Audacity/Big Eyes, Beaters, and 12"s and LPs by Christmas Island, Digital Leather (ex-Jay Reatard), Destruction Unit (ex-Jay Reatard), Lenguas Largas, a tribute to the Nerves feat. Davila 666, Hunx and his Punx, White Fence, Grass Widow, et. at., and bunch of other stuff. Feel free to go here--http://www.volarrecords.blogspot.com--to read about stuff, here--http://www.soundcloud.com/volar-records--to listen to stuff, and here--volarrecords.bigcartel.com--to see what's for sale. Thanks!

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Welcome, several of us picked up the test presses out of 20 tonite. Can't wait to get mine. Cheers, G
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VolarRecords wrote:Hi all, first time here. I run Volar Records here in San Diego, I'm a little more than three years in to the whole things. Recent and upcoming releases include 7"s by Shannon and the Clams, Tropical Popsicle, Eat Skull, Audacity/Big Eyes, Beaters, and 12"s and LPs by Christmas Island, Digital Leather (ex-Jay Reatard), Destruction Unit (ex-Jay Reatard), Lenguas Largas, a tribute to the Nerves feat. Davila 666, Hunx and his Punx, White Fence, Grass Widow, et. at., and bunch of other stuff. Feel free to go here--http://www.volarrecords.blogspot.com--to read about stuff, here--http://www.soundcloud.com/volar-records--to listen to stuff, and here--volarrecords.bigcartel.com--to see what's for sale. Thanks!

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Do you have a physical store in San Diego?
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hell yeah, welcome. the new shannon and the clams 7" is great.
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Hi hi -- picked up some things from Volar too -- thanks! (Um, kinda got pulled into listening to Tar Halos with morning coffee today. Very interesting way to start the day....)
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Hey all, thanks for the kind words. Also, you cleared out the rest of those test presses, so thanks on that end as well.

No store here in town; I run everything out of my house (specifically my bedroom and dining room, ha). I'm only a little over twenty-six releases in so far, with another five or six out in the next few months, and more singles sets in the works as well (featuring, among others, Cosmonauts, Dirt Dress, Lenz, So Cow, and plenty more). If you guys are curious, P'fork just posted the lead track from the upcoming Eat Skull "Where'd You Go" 7" out next month by itself and as part of the Strange Mutations Vol. 1 set.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/145 ... ed-you-go/

As far as Tar Halos, glad you're enjoying. They're old friends of mine here in town (and a couple of 'em play with me in Spirit Photography as well), and the LP's pretty great. There's also this s/t digital album you can buy/DL from the band directly. We'll have some of this stuff available on vinyl down the road. Thanks everyone!

http://tarhalos.bandcamp.com/
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www.volarrecords.blogspot.com

www.soundcloud.com/volar-records

www.volarrecords.bigcartel.com

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Destruction Unit - Sonoran LP LIMITED CLEAR VINYL - $10

It's been a pretty exciting last few years for both Destruction Unit. What began as a two-man synth-punk project involving Ryan Rousseau and Jay Reatard (who played together for years in the legendary Reatards) was resurrected after Jay's passing as a very kraut-y/synth-y project in live form, only to find its way as a full-on space/psych/punk band for the LP Sonoran, released on Volar a little over two years ago. In that time the band has toured twice with the Men, and is currently on the road with Milk Music and Merchandise. They released the Void LP on Jolly Dream Records, the "Sonic Pearl" 7" on the great Suicide Squeeze, and recently finished their first proper studio-recorded LP for Sacred Bones, Deep Trip, due out in August, and I couldn't be more excited for them. NME named them one of the best live bands of SXSW, and wildman Elvis Wong aka Ryan Wong aka Ryan Reatard aka Ryan Rousseau seems pretty hellbent on destroying any notions of apathetic spectatorship/showmanship across the nation and beyond.

Anyway, we've run completely out of Sonoran, and our distros are pretty much out as well, so we're repressing it in clear vinyl, limited to 150 copies, for your enjoyment. Stream the entire LP via Bandcamp - http://volarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sonoran and Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/volar-records/se ... sonoran-lp streams.

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Audacity - "Ears and Eyes" 7" EP LIMITED CLEAR VINYL - $5

Audacity/Big Eyes - "Bottle it Up"/"Half the Time" LIMITED RED and GOLD VINYL - $5

On to Audacity, the guys I met when they were nineteen and fresh off the Power Drowning LP on Burger Records, one of that label's first releases. My buddy Jon was running I Hate Rock n Roll Records at that time (he's since grown pretty busy with his great and gloomy band Cold Showers), and we were putting together the Nerves tribute LP at the time. We were both fans of Audacity and wanted to work with them, and sent them in with our buddy Rob Barbato of Darker My Love/La Sera to record, with DML cohort/White Fence main man Tim Presley contributing cover art. In the years since, they've put out the Mellow Cruisers LP on Burger/Recess, a split 7" with their friends in Big Eyes on Volar for their tour last fall, recently released a 7" for Suicide Squeeze, and are finishing up the recording of an LP for that label as I write this.

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Digital Leather - "Infinite Sun" 12" LIMITED CLEAR VINYL - $9

Stream at Bandcamp - http://volarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ ... e-sun-12-2 and Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/volar-records/se ... finite-sun

Digital Leather have remained a bit quiet the last year or so. Volar released "Infinite Sun" back in mid-2011, with the Sponge cassette on Crash Symbols, the Yes, Please, Thank You cassette, and the Modern Problems LP on FDH last summer, along with some tour dates with their old friends in Destruction Unit. Word is DL main man Shawn Foree is prepping a new LP (more on that as we hear about it), and DL is just coming off a Midwest stint with their Omaha cohorts Cursive. It was also announced earlier this year that their friend Todd Finke of the Faint was joining the band to play synth, which hopefully means they'll be playing more of the tunes from Infinite Sun live.

Adding the Shannon and the Clams "Gremlins Crawl" b/w "White Rabbit" (Jefferson Airplane) 7" and Lenguas Largas "Ese Culito" one-sided 12" to this round of limited clear re-press.

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150 available on clear white vinyl

$5 at our online store - http://volarrecords.bigcartel.com/produ ... ited-color or our Bandcamp http://volarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ ... ns-crawl-7

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100 available on clear white vinyl

$8 our online store - http://volarrecords.bigcartel.com/produ ... e-sided-12 or our Bandcamp - http://volarrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ ... -culito-12
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