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Polyvinyl Record Co. Discography
The following is a list of releases by Polyvinyl Record Co. Polyvinyl Record Co. was established in 1995 and has since put out more than 350 records. 2023 * Xiu Xiu - ''Ignore Grief'' (PRC-469) * Jeff Rosenstock - ''HELLMODE'' (PRC-475) 2022 * Pedro The Lion - '' Havasu'' (PRC-431) * Squirrel Flower - ''Planet EP'' * Chris Farren - ''Death Don't Wait'' (PRC-454) * Yumi Zouma - ''Present Tense'' (PRC-446) * Oceanator - ''Nothing's Ever Fine'' (PRC-455) * Diane Coffee - ''With People'' (PRC-445) * Plato III - ''The Devil Has Texas'' (PRC-458) * Momma - ''Household Name'' (PRC-457) * IAN SWEET - ''STAR STUFF'' * Anamanaguchi - ''Miku'' (PRC-439-1) * of Montreal - Freewave Lucifer fck (PRC-462) * Julia Jacklin - PRE PLEASURE (PRC-464) * Alvvays - ''Blue Rev'' (PRC-465) * Their / They're / There - ''Their / They're / There'' (PRC-261) * Jeff Rosenstock & Laura Stevenson- ''Younger Still'' 2021 * IAN SWEET - ''Show Me How You Disappear'' (PRC-428) * Xiu Xiu - ''OH NO'' (P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvvays
Alvvays (pronounced "always") is a Canadian indie pop band formed in 2011, originating from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and currently based in Toronto, Ontario. It consists of Molly Rankin (vocals and guitar), Kerri MacLellan (keyboards), Alec O'Hanley (guitars), Abbey Blackwell (bass), and Sheridan Riley (drums). Their self-titled debut album, released in 2014, topped the US college charts. Their second studio album, ''Antisocialites'', was released on September 8, 2017, and won the Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018. Both albums were short-listed for the Polaris Music Prize. Their third album, ''Blue Rev'', was released on October 7, 2022. History Formation and early years (2011–2015) Molly Rankin, the group's singer-songwriter, is the daughter of John Morris Rankin, a fiddler with the Celtic folk family collective the Rankin Family, who enjoyed international success in the 1990s. Rankin grew up in Judique, Nova Scotia, writin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shy Boys
Shy Boys are an American indie-pop band from Kansas City, Missouri, United States. The line-up consists of brothers Collin Rausch and Kyle Rausch, Konnor Ervin, Kyle Little, and Ross Brown. Band history Early years The group formed shortly after the trio became roommates in 2012. Kyle Rausch and Ervin were already bandmates in the indie-pop band The ACBs and Collin had been playing for years in the Kansas City area in various bands. The three shared a love for 1960s era pop rock and soon started writing their own music. Later years In 2014 they released the self-titled ''Shy Boys'' on High Dive Records. The album received generally positive reviews, and the single "Bully Fight" was featured on Spin.com. In June 2014 the band recorded and released two more singles and one of them, "Life Is Peachy," was featured on Stereogum. On April 4, 2018, it was announced that the band had signed to Polyvinyl Record Co. Polyvinyl Record Co. is an American independent record label headquar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Avalanche (Owen Album)
''The Avalanche'' is the tenth studio album by American musician Mike Kinsella, under the solo project Owen. It was released on June 19, 2020 under Polyvinyl Record Co Polyvinyl Record Co. is an American independent record label headquartered in Champaign, Illinois. The label also has satellite offices in New York, Austin, and the Bay Area. Polyvinyl has put out over 400 releases to date. The Polyvinyl roster .... Release On May 7, 2020, Kinsella announced the release of the album, alongside the first track "A New Muse". The second single "On With The Show" was released on May 28, 2020. Critical reception ''The Avalanche'' was met with "universal acclaim" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 83, based on 7 reviews. Aggregator Album of the Year gave the album 79 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 7 reviews. Track listing References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen (musician)
Owen is a solo project of Mike Kinsella, and part of the Chicago, Illinois indie rock scene. Kinsella is one of the dominant and influential figures in the Chicago indie scene, having also led the band American Football, and played in the bands Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc, The One Up Downstairs and Owls, and most recently Their / They're / There. Owen is known for its soft melodies, complex acoustics, combining lead acoustics with keyboard and other guitars, plaintive vocals and drums. It can be seen as a natural progression for Kinsella, from the progressive and experimental severity of Joan of Arc via the more melodic-progressive American Football. Career Owen's debut, ''Owen'' was a stark departure from previous Mike Kinsella projects. For 2002's ''No Good For No One Now'', Owen's second album, an arrangement of purchasing recording equipment instead of studio time was agreed upon. In 2004, in collaboration with Cale Parks (of Aloha), Bob Hoffnar, Jen Tabor, and Paul Koob, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!
Volcano, I'm Still Excited!! was an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York (originally from Austin, Texas). The band's name (which has been described as "ludicrous") was reportedly inspired by the Tom Hanks film ''Joe Versus the Volcano'', though the band has never revealed the inspiration for the name. History The band's beginnings can be traced back to 1998. At the time, Mark Duplass was touring the country in support of his solo debut, '' Small Hands''. This earned him a record deal with Mercury Records. After another solo release, Duplass moved from Austin to New York City to pursue his music career. Shortly after arriving in New York, Duplass was diagnosed with tendinitis in both of his arms, and was told that playing the guitar would further aggravate his injury. Wanting to remain in music, Duplass enrolled in City College of New York to study composition. He turned to playing the organ as it was the only instrument which he was able to play pain-free. Duplass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Dream
''No Dream'' (stylized as ''N OD R E A M'') is the fourth solo album by American singer-songwriter Jeff Rosenstock. It was released on May 20, 2020, without any promotional lead-up. The album was released on Polyvinyl Record Co. in the United States and by Specialist Subject Records in the United Kingdom. It is also available directly from the artist through Quote Unquote Records anReally Records Ten percent of proceeds from any digital sales made from the album are being donated to the Food Not Bombs mutual aid network. On April 20, 2021 Rosenstock released ''Ska Dream'' (stylized as ''S K AD R E A M''), a fully rerecorded rendition of the album as a ska album. Critical reception ''No Dream'' was met with universal acclaim reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 85, based on 7 reviews. In the review for ''Exclaim!'', Adam Feibel wrote that the al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Som
Melina Mae Cortez Duterte (born March 25, 1994), better known by her stage name Jay Som, is an American, Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and mixing engineer. Her debut record '' Everybody Works'' was released on Double Denim Records (UK & Japan) & Polyvinyl Records (Rest of the world) in March 2017, which was preceded by ''Turn Into'', a collection of songs that first gained her attention as a singer-songwriter. The follow-up to ''Everybody Works'' and Jay Som's second home studio album, '' Anak Ko'', was released on August 23, 2019 via Polyvinyl, Lucky Number and Inertia. Early life Duterte was born in Walnut Creek, California and raised in Brentwood, California. She is the daughter of Filipino immigrants, and cites her parents' immigrant background and cultural customs as major influences. Duterte grew up playing the trumpet and guitar, and began writing and recording music at the age of 12. She originally intended to attend a conservatory ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hazel English
Hazel English (born Eleisha Caripis) is an Australian-American indie pop musician based in Oakland, California. She fronts a band of the same name. Early life and career Before creating music, English devoted her time to studying creative writing in Melbourne, Australia. In 2013, Hazel moved to San Francisco for a student exchange program, and then to Oakland. Her musical career started as she performed on open mics, and with local performers. She met Jackson Phillips of the band Day Wave at the bookstore where she worked at that time. They became musical collaborators, with Phillips co-writing most of the songs. She formed a band, keeping the name ''Hazel English'', and they played their first show opening for Craft Spells at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on September 9, 2015. That year, English published her first three songs on SoundCloud: "Never Going Home," It's Not Real," and "Fix." In 2016, English released the EP ''Never Going Home'' on Marathon Artists Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strfkr
Strfkr (a disemvowelment of "Starfucker"), stylized in all caps, is an indie rock band from Portland, Oregon. It began in 2007 as a solo project of Joshua Hodges. History Members include Joshua Hodges of Sexton Blake (vocals, keyboards, guitar, drums), Shawn Glassford (bass, keyboards, drums), Keil Corcoran (drums, keyboards, vocals), and Arian Jalali (Guitar, Keyboards) Prior to forming Starfucker, Hodges released a solo album titled ''Sexton Blake'' and followed up with an album released under the band name "Sexton Blake" entitled ''Plays The Hits!'' Both albums were released on Expunged Records. During this time Corcoran was the drummer for Vegas-based grindcore band The Weirding Way. The name Starfucker started off as a joke by Sam Norris, an early patron of the band, but the band's success under the name grew rapidly. In response to this success, and with the guidance of an ex manager, they briefly changed their name to Pyramiddd, before quickly changing their name bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Burch
Anna Burch () is an American singer-songwriter from Detroit, Michigan. Career Burch spent her early years as a touring musician as part of Frontier Ruckus, until she decided to take a break from music to attend grad school in Chicago. Her musical hiatus ended in 2014 when she moved back to Detroit and continued singing in Frontier Ruckus while beginning to co-front Failed Flowers. While participating in these groups, Burch wrote songs and recorded phone demos, her first solo release being a split single with Stef Chura. With the encouragement and help of friend and Chicago musician Paul Cherry, her demos eventually turned into the full band recordings of her debut album. Burch signed to Polyvinyl Record Co., Polyvinyl Records in 2017 after PV artist Fred Thomas, formerly of Saturday Looks Good To Me, sent demos to the label with the note "This is not a drill. You need to hear this." Burch released singles "2 Cool to Care," "Asking 4 a Friend," "Tea Soaked Letter," and finally "Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Post Animal
Post Animal is an American psychedelic rock band formed in 2014, originating from Chicago, Illinois. It consists of Dalton Allison (bass/vocals), Jake Hirshland (guitar/keyboard/vocals), Javi Reyes (guitar/vocals), Wesley Toledo (drums/vocals), and Matt Williams (guitar/vocals). As of 2019, Joe Keery was no longer a touring member of the band, and he later parted ways due to acting commitments. All members share songwriting contributions and sing lead vocals on their respective compositions. Career The band has self-released an EP (''Post Animal Perform the Most Curious Water Activities'') and a singles collection (''The Garden Series'') and toured with White Reaper, Twin Peaks, Ron Gallo, J. Roddy Walston and the Business, and Wavves. Post Animal signed to Polyvinyl in 2017 and played Shaky Knees and Bonnaroo in 2018. The band's debut full-length, ''When I Think of You in a Castle'', was released on April 20, 2018. Post Animal supported Cage the Elephant in February 2020 on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
