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Press starting to come in…

Charlie — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:23:23 +0000

There have been a few nice posts lately about Greater Lakes and especially about the first single, “Eleven a.m.” It’s been a while since we’ve released an album, and I had forgotten how nice it is to read these little clips.

– Miojo Indie (Portuguese)
– The Wounded Jukebox
– 360 Grados de Separación (Spanish)
– One Chord to Another
– 3hive
– Like Sugar
– Tram 7 (Swedish)
– 5 Acts
– The Noise Is
– Examiner
– I Rock Cleveland
– Guteshoerenistwichtig (German)
– Come Pick Me Up
– Captain’s Dead
– Parasites and Sycophants
– Ardent Studios (an interview, of sorts)

Of course the LP or CD can still be pre-ordered here: shop

Track 1 – Eleven a.m.

Charlie — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:50:03 +0000

This is the first single from our new album. Thanks to the bloggers who have posted something nice about it already.

A few totes left…

Charlie — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:39:50 +0000

After sending all the Kickstarter rewards yesterday, we are left with 5 tote bags. Get ‘em while they’re hot. In the shop…

Album teaser

Charlie — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:32:12 +0000

Listen to clips from all 11 songs on the new album… full songs next month! Probably maybe definitely.

Y’can still pre-order it right here in the shop. Pre-orders ship before the release date to make sure you’ll have it in time for a romantic Valentine’s Day.

Test presses have been approved

Charlie — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:26:09 +0000

We just approved the test pressings for the vinyl version of Greater Lakes today, so we’ll have them in just a few weeks! Kickstarter backers will get them right away, and everyone else will get it in February. There was an issue with the first round of tests, but the second one (pictured below) sounded a lot better. They even used fancy translucent greenish vinyl. How nice. The real version will be pressed on clear vinyl.

They’re starting to arrive

Charlie — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:15:30 +0000

Pieces of our new album are starting to arrive! The LP inserts were delivered yesterday, and they look great. Very simple on matte white paper. Stately and sedate.

New Site

Charlie — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:24:53 +0000

Welcome to our new site! Sure, a lot of the content is the same as before, but there are a few new pieces, like the history page and the pre-order of our new album. I foresee more exciting additions in the coming months.

Greater Lakes album art

Charlie — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:23:01 +0000

We’re excited to finally unveil the cover art for our upcoming album, Greater Lakes! Kate Pugsley did a fantastic job on this one.

We’ll have a pre-order for the CD and LP available as soon as we know the release date.
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Preview Five New Songs

Charlie — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:18:04 +0000

We’ve prepared a short video that is part undersea adventure and part everything else… Listen to clips from these songs from the new album: Until the Very End, The City Still, Don’t Wait, Eleven a.m., I Don’t Have You On My Mind

Kickstarter ends in a week!

Bears album #3 preview from Bears on Vimeo.

Bears Kickstarter campaign starts today!

Charlie — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:28:53 +0000

Dear friends,

The time has come to announce our Kickstarter campaign to help fund the production and release of our third album! We would appreciate it so much if you could help us get to our funding goal by August 31.

For those of you who have followed us recently, you may be wondering why we’re trying to raise money when we will be working with a label. Well, it’s like this… We plan to work with Misra Records to distribute and promote the album after its release, but we are responsible for the up-front costs of album production.

WIth everything in the music industry being in flux at the moment, we are exploring a new model for releasing records. Our arrangement with Misra will ideally work out in both of our favors—they don’t need to lay out a bunch of cash at the beginning, and we won’t be forever indebted to them, economically and contractually speaking. So, we’ll be able to retain more of the rights to our music than we would under a normal record contract, and the label will still promote our music in more places than we can reach by ourselves and distributed it to stores around the world.

So, if this Kickstarter campaign is fully funded in the next 30 days, we’ll be on the verge of trying out a new way to release records. Will you join us?

All the campaign and reward details are available here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/265622561/bears-we-have-a-new-album

Oh, and please tell your friends! :)

Love,

Bears