Hungry Eye webstore update September 2009

It's been a while since the Hungry Eye webstore has seen an update, but we've got a few new things up on the webstore. New releases by DC's the Opposite Sex (their brand new EP), the limited self-released CDRs by Black Ice entitled Block Ice, two LPs from Sweden's Tar... Feathers by way of a German label, a restock of the second Frustration CDEP "Full of Sorrow", and some new stuff and restocks by Dead Beat Records (check out Juanita y Los Feos). After slowing down a bit on the webstore front, we hope to swing it into to full gear again shortly with some new material that will be showing up there in the coming months.

Additionally, we made put together some special deals for those that are interested. To start with, there's an Opposite Sex bundle (get their debut album Violent Heartstrings and the new Live and Burn for $19). Then there's a bundle of material from Aussie label Dual Plover. This is the same label that brought you Naked on the Vague--which we had, but has since sold out. They've got a catalogue full of similarly minded weirdness. For $30 you can check out CDs by Gina V. D'Orio (singer of Berlin's Cobra Killer doing her own side project), New Waver, and Volvox. And finally, our good friends from Spain, Lineas Albies have both of their full length CDs on import from Spain for a mere $20.

Get all of this at : http://www.hungryeyerecords.com/store.html

Additional Recommendations:

- Secret Society of the Sonic Six. http://www.myspace.com/thesecretsocietyofthesonicsix
[We have a bunch of their self released vinyl material and a CD as well. Limited stuff, most of which I believe is sold out elsewhere. Bizarre electro sounds, quite interesting. Spectacular stuff, really, and they've got a forthcoming record coming out on Troubleman Unlimited, so you know more eyes and ears will be focused on them shortly.]

-Mac Blackout. http://www.myspace.com/macblackout
[Not unlike the notorious Blank Dogs in that this is the brain-child of a single person composing some demented pop songs. Mac Blackout is a former member of Chicago's the Functional Blackouts and and a current member of Daily Void branching off to record his own material. Already releasing a slew of singles on the likes of Sacred Bones and FDH, and getting some rave reviews at the likes of Terminal Boredom and Victim of Time. We hope to get some more of this guy's records in; for now we've got both things released on Dead Beat; the self titled LP and the Rabies Babies CD. Both are great.]

NOTE: As our friends and customers know, we send an update out like this very infrequently. If you'd prefer not to get something like this, simply let us know.

Red Voice Choir- Apparitions out now... for FREE download!

The last, sadly posthumous EP by the short lived but very promising Red Voice Choir is now available from Hungry Eye as release EYE19. In conjunction with the band, as promised, we are offering this record to download for free through our website.
Check out the band's page on the Hungry Eye site right here and go right ahead and download the EP from this link right here.

Copies of their previous EP "A Thousand Reflections" are still available on our webstore and through the great Atakra Records if you'd like to pick those up as well!

Unreleased web-only Black Ice tracks available from band's website

Black Ice has made some unreleased songs available via their website for download. They plan on doing this every so often, so if you've found yourself missing some new Black Ice material about a year after "Myopia" was released, find your way to their website. More specifically, direct your browsers HERE. Pasted below is a little communique from the band explaining the web-only songs. Also: have no fear, new Black Ice material is in the works.


"Black Ice is excited to add a new feature: downloads of unreleased songs available only via this site! We have a large archive of material that for one reason or another has not seen the light of day. The best of this material that is not slated for a future hardcopy release will be made available here. We will offer several songs at a time. These songs are available in high-quality MP3 (192kbps) and CD-quality AIFF formats. There is nothing preventing you from downloading them for free, but we would appreciate it if you could make a small donation in appreciation. The recommended amount is $2.50 for all downloads or $.75 each. If you want to give more, it is much appreciated. If you are a DJ, spinning these tracks is payment enough, but if you still want to drop a little change in the bucket, we thank you kindly."

Sixteens and Black Ice make Kim's top 10 in NYC

It has recently come to our attention that both the Sixteens- Into the Gold Wave of Future Non Rip-off and Black Ice- Myopia CDs are being featured as recommended releases as part of Mondo Kim's "top 10" releases in their St Marks location in Manhattan. We thank our friends at Kim's (good lookin' out, Harris!), and recommend all interested New York residents to snag them them there because, for a limited time, they'll be available on sale for less than a 10 dollar bill. We don't know how long this will last, so we implore you to ignore the travesty that is St Mark's Place in 2008, avert your gaze before the mall version of CBGB's, and trek out to that bastion of CDs and records known as Kim's to pick these up. Moreover, the Black Ice release in question is running dangerously low in our own stocks, so now would be the perfect time to get your copy!

Emily the Strange contest for Black Ice

After having taken a nice liking to the Bellmer Dolls, the Emily the Strange folk became rather enamoured with Black Ice, played tracks from both "Terrible Birds" and the newly released Black Ice album "Myopia" on their Streaming Radio player. They also put together a kind little contest for the band where you can enter to win a Black Ice t-shirt, poster, and copies of the new album "Myopia" and the now out of print "Terrible Birds."



As of writing this, Black Ice have just finished their European tour, playing a special last minute show in London on April 14th. Once they settle home, we promise a post tour-wrap up.