Engine Room Recordings » News

Middle Distance Runner look for love

Engine Room Recordings — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:28:16 +0000

Well not really, but this promo video for their show at Iota tomorrow night in DC where they play a bunch of different singles looking for action is pretty hilarious. Check it out below!

Shows Shows and More Shows in February

Engine Room Recordings — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:43:24 +0000

Tonight Engine Room is all over NYC. The Bloodsugars will be at Cake Shop for the last night of friends Savoir Adore’s residency. The great folks over at Brooklyn Vegan previewed the show and kindly said “The Bloodsugars make ’80s-inspired widescreen pop that at times sounds uncannily like Prefab Sprout — and good Prefab Sprout, not ‘hot dog jumping frog Albequerque’ Prefab Sprout. Which is to say these folks know their way around big pop hooks.” Read the full article here.

Then over at Spike Hill in Williamsburg it’s the 3rd night of Lowry’s weekly residency, and this week special guests include ERR’s Luke Wesley and friends Low Water. Check out what people are saying about the residency here, here, here and here. And for those non-New Yorkers we’ll be streaming the entire night again via StreamJam.

Last but not least please save the date for the FREE Bloodsugars show at Brooklyn Bowl Wed. Feb 24th hosted by 101.9 RXP!

Cheers!

Lowry’s Residency at Spike Hill Starts Tonight!

Engine Room Recordings — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:40:24 +0000

Every Thursday in February and March Lowry will be performing a free show at Williamburg’s Spike Hill. The band goes on at 10pm and each week we’ve invited different bands to play at 9pm and 11pm including Ego Puppets, Ivan & The Terribles, Low Water, Kevin Johnston, No Lindsay, David LK Murphy and many more. For a complete list visit Spike Hill or view the flyer above.

For non-new yorkers, or for people who don’t like to leave their nice warm homes in the winter, we have a special treat for you. There will be live streaming of tonights show via StreamJam. A cool new service where not only can you watch live but also can create an avatar of yourself and chat with others and run around the online venue. Facebook users can sign up here or visit StreamJam and you’ll quickly and easily zip off to avatar land and battle humans as they try and take over….wait I’m getting mixed up. Anyway it’s still really cool so please give it a try.

The Bloodsugars are NPR’s Song Of The Day!

Engine Room Recordings — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:40:30 +0000

NPR featured “Pedestrian Boogie” today, track two off of “I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On.” And they had some really nice things to say too – “Fans of unpretentious indie pop who aren’t afraid to cheese out every once in a while can’t do much better than The Bloodsugars, a Brooklyn band that merges a record library’s worth of styles — from dance-pop to jazz to European-influenced house and garage…” Read the full article here.

On the Cover: Israel Darling

Engine Room Recordings — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:29:28 +0000

Israel Darling was interviewed by Greensboro’s Go Triad for a piece on the local music scene, or the lack there of, as due to too few live music venues in town the local bands are having a tough time of it. Read the full article here and check it, Israel Darling made the front page!

Engine Room all over year end “Best Of” lists!

Engine Room Recordings — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:50:10 +0000

2009 was by far our best year yet and it’s very humbling that many blogs and magazines also agreed. Wow, where to begin! Hmm how about alphabetically, that’s very diplomatic, which means The Bloodsugars will kick things off. In the Fall of ‘09 the guys released their debut album I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On, and quickly gained lots of attention with the premier of their single Light At The End Of The Tunnel on Stereogum. One new fan was Russ at Soldout who named the band as his best new band of the year, and this upcoming February 10th The Bloodsugars have been asked to perform at the Soldout launch party at NYC’s Santos Party House…buy tickets here. Next Nora at I Rock I Roll has been a great supporter of the band for a while now and listed the album in the #20 spot of her year end wrap-up. Then Blurt asked several artists who their top ten albums were this year in a piece they called The Artists Have Spoken and the kind folks in Girls In Trouble placed I Can’t Go On as their #8 of the year. And it keeps going with Spinning Platters‘ Gordon Elgart giving them 14th best album of the year and Berkeley Place, who after sorting their iTunes playcount (cool idea), came up with The Bloodsugars cover of Self Control from Guilt By Association Vol 2 among the top played songs for 2009 and they also placed the entire GBA album as the 15th best of the year. Finally, Atlas And Anchor, who interviewed lead singer Jason Rabinowitz back in November, listed Pedestrian Boogie as their #7 song of the year AND I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On took the #3 spot for best album of the year! This then leads us nicely to Israel Darling who were also found on Atlas And Anchors’ year end lists with their debut album Dinosaur Bones & Mechanical Hands making it to #6 AND their single Samson The Mason in the #8 spot for best songs of 2009. The album also made Chris at The Battering Room’s favorite of the year list!

Next up – Middle Distance Runner. We released this DC outfits sophomore album in October titled The Sun & Earth, which is currently in heavy rotation at WOXY and many other radio stations across the country. It was picked as one of the albums to shop for this holiday season by QRO Mag, and QRO writer Michael Gutierrez listed The Sun & Earth in his top ten albums of 2009. Plus This Mornin’ I Am Born Again said MDR’s “The Unbeliever” was one of the best music videos of the year AND listed The Sun & Earth as the #7 album of the year AND included three songs in their best songs of 2009 list! This then brings us to Deli Magazine who every year host a Best Of NYC poll. Out of hundreds of bands who submit for this honor we’re very proud to announce that this year Porter Block was selected as a Runner Up in the Alternative Rock category. And their ‘09 release The Gowanus Yacht Club was named the 21st best album of the year by Mothpod!

Last we have fellow DC band U.S. Royalty and their EP Midsommar. This was our very first vinyl release and let me speak frank for a moment, what a pain in the ass it was. I’m pretty sure every single step in the manufacturing process there were problems, but it turned out great so well worth the hassle! And the critics agree, Midsommar was listed as the 26th best album of the year by The Couch Sessions and Duke Chronicle named Keep It Real as the 6th best song of 2009, followed by 32 Feet Per Second who put the single Every Summer as the #23 spot in their Top 50 songs of 2009. Then a big supporter of Engine Room in 2009 was BreakThru Radio, they played lots of our music and invited a bunch of our bands into their studios to perform live. I guess they really loved the guys in U.S. Royalty cause they named them one of the best In Studio performances this year! Maybe it had something to do with how well they dress, J/K.

Oh and the awesome people at Stylecaster asked Engine Room Label Manager Chris Hacker to recap his favorite songs of 2009. While he wasn’t allowed to pick any ERR songs it’s still a good list and can read it here.

Happy New Year everyone and here’s to a great 2010!

-Engine Room

MDR record a holiday song!

Engine Room Recordings — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:31:52 +0000

Middle Distance Runner found time between touring to hit the studio and record a song for the holidays called “Holiday (Be Good To Me).” The guys explain, “It’s a happy little ditty about all of the things we hope don’t go wrong this time of year.” Download the track for FREE here.

And here’s the guys recording the song in the studio…

Photos by Gracy Obuchowicz

So enjoy the free jam and we hope you have a merry holiday!

New Release: The Bloodsugars’ “I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On”

Engine Room Recordings — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:47:26 +0000

Jason, Matt, Kenneth, Brendan and all of us here at Engine Room are proud to announce that the new album is officially out today!! I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On was recorded earlier this year in Brooklyn, at the helms was producer Bill Moriarty (Dr. Dog, Man Man) with Andy Baldwin handling the mix and mastered by Engine Room president and mastering engineer Mark Christensen (50 Cent, Langhorne Slim, Raekwon.) The finished product turned out far better than expected and we’re ecstatic to now share it with the world!

And for those of you in NYC come celebrate with us at The Studio @ Webster Hall this Saturday night! Doors are at 9pm and The Bloodsugars will headline with the talented Savoir Adore and Project Jenny, Project Jan also on the bill. Check the flyer below for more info and go buy the record !:)
-Chris

Bloodsugars Absolute Punk Exclusive plus Tour Dates

Engine Room Recordings — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:06:55 +0000

AbsolutePunk.net is featuring an ABSOLUTExclusive on the Bloodsugars in height of their new album “I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On” which is set to release on November 17th. Throughout this week the album will be streamed from their website and website goers can also register to win a free album, band t-shirt, signed poster and a Guilt By Association Vol. 2 album, which features the Bloodsugars.

Check it out!

And for those of you in the area, check them out live. Here’s a list of tour dates coming up soon…

Nov. 10 Iowa City, Iowa The Mill @ 10pm
Nov. 11 Minneapolis, Minnesota Sauce @ 9:30pm
Nov. 12 Chicago, Illinois Darkroom @ 11pm
Nov. 13 Cincinnati, Ohio Northside Tavern @ 10:45pm
Nov. 14 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Brillobox @ 10pm
Nov. 21 New York, New York Studio- Webster Hall @ 8pm

The Bloodsugars Featured On Amie Street

Engine Room Recordings — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:13:36 +0000

Our good friends over at digital retailer Amie Street are featuring our very own Bloodsugars’ “I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On”, alongside our other good friends Pearl and the Beard. This is the first time you can pick up the album, with iTunes following next week. Make sure to check out Amie Street some more and sign up if you like what you see. They have a very interesting business model that rewards those that know about the best new music first. — Wesley