New webstore update for December/ January 2009/ 2010!!

It's been a few months since we've updated the webstore and we've got a couple of new titles in there, notably some of the newer Release the Bats Records releases and the new Monozid album on both CD and vinyl LP format. Towards the tail end of 2009 the webstore didn't expand nearly as much, and there's been less new titles finding their way in there, but hopefully come the warmer months of 2010 we'll start to put some more new stuff in there. In the meantime, check out the new stuff:

www.hungryeyerecords.com/store.html

-Monozid- Say Hello to Artificial Grey CD & LP

-Peter Wright Bright Failing Star LP

-Skull Defekts- the Drone Drug CD

-Blue Sabbath Black Cheer- Crows Eat the Eyes from the Leviathan's Carcass CD

-NTHnthsthSTH- A Uton and Anthony Milton Collaboration LP

-Raccoo-oo-oon- s/t CD

-Utmarken compilation 10"

Also, a few things have sold out, and some more titles are running low. We've also got the following things "on special" for the new 2 months:

Deadbeats- all the material by Deadbeats-related projects (that's Deadbeats and Jungle Crow) bundled together for $22.

Both Raccoo-oo-oon CDs we have in stock for $21.

Check it out!

Mt Sims presents: Happily Ever After....Again!!

Though it's not a Hungry Eye release per se, we are happy to announce the teaming up of Mt Sims with Italy's Punch Records for the release of Happily Ever After... Again. After the release of Happily Ever After, Matt continued to work non-stop in the studio on new material with one song following the other. By the time a european version of Happily Ever After was under consideration, there was enough a wealth of new material and the european version started to look like a sequel to the story of Happily Ever After. Included are alternate mixes of "the Bitten Bite Back," "Grave," and "Love's Revenge" from Happily Ever After, and "Unwound" from the A Grave EP along with 10 new never before released songs. This will be out in late January 2010 and is available for pre-order now (in a pre-order package that includes a limited edition t-shirt). Have a look here for pre-order information!

Some more info below:

Like the sequel to a novel, Mt.Sims (Matt Sims) returns with his magnum opus entitled "Happily Ever After...Again!" as the final response to his previously released album "Happily Ever After". This new album begins where the last one left off, asking the questions "why am i here", and "how can i transcend myself". With songs like Grave and The Bitten bite back linking the past to the present, Sims's text dissect the human condition, giving it a hard look and pointing out the repercussions and could be repercussions of our behavior. As one sinks deeper in the head of Mt.Sims, it becomes clear that this album is a story dealing with faith and the worship of ideology. From the perspective a solider with many faces, Sims skips around from army to army, side to side, life to death, present to forgotten. From song to song, the one can hear a voice questioning his own identity and the way that he sees the world. Candy coated, a song of violent obsession, screams in ending "how could you love me to destroy me?" Disappearing act drives like a car on a never-ending highway. What the driver must deliver is his own soul. As Sims sings " I see my footprints on the floor but i can't see myself anymore", one can realize the voice crying out from the speaker, in an acousmatic tradition, is separated from its owner who at this point has vanished from site. As the Soldier changes faces, he is Orpheus, he is a Kamikaze pilot, he is the ghost of childhood, he is a gypsy and he is finally Matt Sims. This album is a journey where fiction and fact intertwine and leave cold impressions about human behavior and our need to believe in something. Lyrically this album shows that most of the time our ideologies need us. From floating psychedelic textures and screeching synths to strange yet beautiful melodies that writhe and twist around deadly disco beats, one can come closer to understanding the necessity of contradiction in modernity. One may find themselves by losing themselves in this soon to be cult classic. A mixture of Electronic and acoustic, this album delivers an environment to question all that you believe is true.... but don't believe a word we say.




RELEASE DATE 30 JANUARY 2010

Tracklist:

1. The Bitten Bite Back
2. Grave
3. Love's Revenge
4. Unwound
5. Candy Coated
6. Disappearing Act
7. In Exile
8. Hellbent
9. New Authority Volunteers
10. Fall Back
11. The Shattering Of Cyrstal
12. A Simple View
13. Fragile Breaks Fragile
14. Shelter

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!

new Red Voice Choir EP out soon on Hungry Eye

True, true, our next physical release will be the long-awaited Missing Foundation reissue. But in the meantime, we've worked with the fine folks in Red Voice Choir to bring you this band's final 4 song EP as a free download. If you've checked out their previous, impressive "A Thousand Reflections" EP on Sam Atakra's Atakra Records you might have noticed this band contains members of Black Ice and Death of A Party, and the Holy Kiss's original bass player Dawn. Quite a line up boasted there, we definitely definitely had our eyes on these folks. The band dissolved not too long ago due to other commitments, though not before making sure to get another 4 tracks recorded in a studio that were too good to be shelved.

Stay tuned for more details (in fact, you can start by having a look at the newly minted RVC page on the Hungry Eye website), in July you'll be able to download the new EP entitled "Apparitions" for absolutely free from the Hungry Eye website!

Mt Sims- new video for "Grave" out now!

Berlin based band Mt. Sims has just released a video for the song "Grave" off of the recently released third album album on Hungry Eye Records entitled "Happily Ever After". The song, says vocalist/ guitarist Matt Sims, "deals with human nature which, going along with animal nauture, has a tendency to fight against itself. Willingly we fight and defeat ourselves in an attempt to save ourselves." Produced by photographer and former East Village Radio program director Echo Danon and directed by Danon and Bart Grieb, and shot on location in the abandoned Spree Park in Berlin. Danon is a long time collaborator with Matt Sims, having previously shot photos for the band, done some production work for the previous Mount Sims album "White Light" and background vocals on the Mount Sims/ the Hacker track "Traces," and even worked with Matt on the band/ project So Does the Fire (http://www.myspace.com/sodoesthefire). Grieb is is an independent film director and visual artist, as well as the president of Cygnet Films. This is his first project with Mt. Sims.

http://www.hungryeyerecords.com
http://www.myspace.com/mtsims
http://echodanonphotography.blogspot.com/

Work on Missing Foundation reissue completed!

It's about time, isn't it?

We're very pleased to share that the work on the Missing Foundation reissue has officially been finished, and the whole project will be going to press at the end of March/ beginning of April. We'll continue sharing news of its progress and will announce an official release date once proofs have been approved, but we can hope for a release on this finally in early summer of 2009.

Look for the entry on the Augenmusik blog for more details and a sneak peak at some of the mock ups in their final stages.

the Holy Kiss: European tour dates now posted

As previously mentioned, the Holy Kiss will embark on a European tour (which will be their first, and sadly also their last) in spring of 2009. Below you will find the dates, many of which will be with Leipzig band Monozid. For more information, head over to the Holy Kiss's myspace page as it'll be updated with news and info as we lead up to the tour.

11 Feb 2009 @ the Knockout/ Presented by SHUTTER
San Francisco, CA
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27 March 2009@ Patronaat Cafe
Haarlem, NL

29 March 2009@ Atelierhaus Zoro
Leipzig, Germany

31 March 2009 @ Club 007 Strahov
Prague, CZ

3 April 2009 @ Soapbox Club
Nancy, FR

4 April 2009 @ La Zone
Liege, BE

5 April 2009 @ Penich Excelior
Allones (by Le Mans), FR

6 April 2009 @ Gaztetxea
Getaria, SP

7 April 2009 @ Sorgin Taberna
Llodio, SP

8 April 2009 @ Art Brut
Madrid, SP

9 April 2009 @ 12 y Media
Murcia, SP

10 April 2009 @ Festival for Canyadelmuntanya Records
Alcoi, SP

11 April 2009 @ Magazine Club
Valencia, SP

12 April 2009 @ Salarocksound
Barcelona, SP

14 April 2009 @ le Klub
Paris, FR

AntiQuark's Skydancer now available

AntiQuark's Skydancer is now available in digital format and via a limited CDR release. If you're interested, best place to direct yourself is here.

Bellmer Dolls interview in JunkMedia

The Bellmer Dolls recently appeared in a feature courtesy of the Junk Media website. It's a lengthy article/ interview covering the band's origins, their relationship, and their upcoming LP. Read it over here.

the Holy Kiss- track posted off new LP

Under Noon of Night, the title track off of the upcoming LP of the same name by the Holy Kiss, is now posted on the Hungry Eye website for your sampling pleasure.

Have a go at the Holy Kiss page on the Hungry Eye site to view the recently updated page.

Or, just go directly here to listen.

Tour dates will be posted in the next few days!

the Holy Kiss- new record, new tour, the end?

So we have good news and bad news regarding the Holy Kiss. First the bad: after a good run spanning a good portion of the decade, the Holy Kiss have decided to throw in the towel. Still looking to fight the good fight, members are splintering off to other cities across the US (some winding up in New York, others in Portland, some staying in the Bay Area), this will make it near impossible to continue. Still, you'll more than likely see these familiar faces pop up in new bands in no time.

The good news, though, is that this will not be happening without a good amount of fanfare as the band is releasing their final record (and first recordings with Alli and Panther in the line up), entitled "Under Noon of Night" in a limited vinyl LP format. It's a collaborative effort between the band and Hungry Eye, will be limited to 500 copies and boast a silk screened cover. The final tour will also be their first jaunt over to Europe, and will take the band to Spain, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany and the Czech Republic. Be sure to check back for a lot of news regarding the Holy Kiss in the coming weeks.

You'll shortly be seeing:
-an mp3 sample of some new material on the website
-pre-orders for the LP going up shortly (shipping in March '09)
-full tour dates
-anything else that comes up along the way!

Mt Sims remix by True Pseudo

Remix crew True Pseudo have released a remix of Mt Sims "The Bitten Bite Back." These CA folks have recently made a name for themselves for remixing the likes of Arcade Fire, Crystal Castles, MGMT, and others. It's a heavy and distorted affair, and delivers a generous share of the oonce. It's making its way around the interwebs, so if scouring blogs for remixes is your sort of thing, you might well find it soon. If you'd rather just get a quick link, we can direct you to Big Stereo's posting of it.

We won't let the cat out of the bag just yet, but you'll be seeing some other Mt. Sims remixes pop up in the near future. Right now, the plan is to release these remixes in 2009. Stay tuned....

Hungry Eye & Subterranean Records/ distribution

As long time fans of their output, we're happy to announce that Subterranean Records is now offering Hungry Eye's catalog in their distribution. A good number of their bands have been not-so-secret influences on most Hungry Eye artists, so we're happy to have our records pass through their hands on their way to you.
While their website hasn't been updated in ages, it's still a good archival tool, so direct yourself over to it.
http://www.subterranean.org/

Bellmer Dolls and Jessie Evans in NYC

Jessie Evans of the Vanishing/ Autonervous fame is playing a New York show next week in the Studio at Webster Hall in Manhattan on December 11th with her newest project with Toby Dammit with none other than the Bellmer Dolls. Additionally, her album will be out in February. Her myspace will have more information on that front: http://www.myspace.com/jessieevansmusic

Mt Sims- video for "A Grave" forthcoming!

In a short amount of time, Mt Sims will release a video for the staggering song "Grave," which appeared on Happily Ever After as well as on the A Grave EP.

It was a 2 camera shoot filmed in the abandoned Spreepark in Berlin over the course of 2 days by Bart Grieb and Matt's long-time collaborator Echo Danon. Bart is an NYC photographer (currently shooting an A&E biography), has been a gaffer for the past 7 years, and owns Cygnet Films, the lighting rental company. Echo is a familiar face in the music, photography, radio, and film world herself, who, along with shooting camera B, did make-up and helped with wardrobe and production.

As a teaser, you'll find a screen shot by Echo Danon below:

Mt Sims pre-orders = all shipped!

By now you should know that the Mt Sims- Happily Ever After album is out! Be sure to ask your local record store for it if they don't have it yet! The pre-orders have been shipped including the the ones with the t-shirts. We've got limited sizes left of the shirts from this first batch we did with the pre-orders so you might want to check in with us before ordering to make sure we've got your size.

Also, Happily Ever After is now obviously available digitally as well, so if that floats yer boat, head over to iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, eMusic, what have you, to get it.

Here's a nice little picture of what you t-shirt orderers can expect:



And then, here's some footage from Mt Sims' recent Berlin release party a few weeks back!

Mt Sims- Happily... CD shipping now/ pre-orders packed up!

Thanks to all who pre-ordered Mt Sims- Happily Ever After, whether as a single CD or in one of the packages with the 12" and/ or t-shirt. The pre-orders have been packed up and are shipping this week. Expect them to start turning up in your places of residence shortly. Also, I'll be dropping a line individually with confirmation emails as we hit the PO for shipping!

Omegas demo for download!

Friends of Hungry Eye,

For those of you partial to your Void, Sheer Terror, or F.U.'s records, some free music for you:

Omegas demo
Omegas myspace page

A band that doesn't sound like any of the above, but if those are noteworthy names to you, you'd dig the sounds.

Your humble Hungry Eye servant plays drums. Depending on what you expect, it might not be what you expect.

Mt Sims t-shirts!

Pre-orders for Mt Sims- Happily Ever After are shipping shortly, and the record will be dropping in about a week as well. You can still order some of the limited edition t-shirts we've pressed up for the occasion. Head over to the webstore to snag one up.