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Thursday, July 30, 2020
Sunday, July 26, 2020
Luz de Vida is back; all proceeds now go to Homicide Survivors, Inc.
Thanks to Main Gate Square of Tucson, Arizona, one of the original Luz de Vida sponsors, it has been brought to our attention that in the wake of the Tucson Together Fund, Tucson Tragedy victims are receiving aid from Homicide Survivors, Inc.: a nonprofit victim assistance organization dedicated to meeting the crisis and long term needs of families of murder victims. In an exchange of influence, 2020's GROW has now moved Fort Lowell Records to re-release the digital version of 2011's Luz de Vida, and donate 100% of the proceeds to Homicide Survivors, Inc. It brings us great pleasure to share with you that LUZ DE VIDA: A Compilation to Benefit the Victims of the Tucson Tragedy is officially available once again on all digital platforms - such as Amazon, Apple Music, Bandcamp, Deezer, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Tidal, YouTube, etc. - for your listening enjoyment, and all downloads and streams will persist to benefit the Victims of the Tucson Tragedy indefinitely.
Thank you for your continuous support. - Fort Lowell Records
LUZ DE VIDA TRACK LISTING:
1. Taraf de Tucson - Vaya Con Dios
2. Dead Western Plains - People Beat
3. Sweet Secrets - Evidence
4. John Vanderslice - Pale Horse
5. Rachel Flotard & Jon Rauhouse - Hammered Light
6. Kiss & The Tells - Tell Me Now
7. El Depravos (feat. Chuck Prophet) - Vampire Requiem
8. Rainer - The Oasis
9. Reno del Mar - All For Love
10. Robyn Hitchcock - Light Blue Afternoon
11. Ozomatli - It's Only Time
12. Mariachi Luz de Luna - Luz a la Vida
13. Sunday Afternoon - Mexico
14. Giant Sand - Recovery Mission (Radio Edit)
15. Al Perry & Calexico - Dreaming (Live)
16. Brian Lopez - Molly (Live)
17. Chango Malo - A Change Is Gonna Come (Live)
18. Meat Puppets - Love Our Children Forever (Live)
19. Jimmy Eat World - Here It Goes (Live)
20. HAIRSPRAYFIREANDGIRLS - The Only Child
21. Tracy Shedd - Encourage Me
22. La Cerca - Swim An Ocean
23. Spoon - Vittorio E.
24. Seashell Radio - Lewis y Clark
25. Calexico - Absent Afternoon
26. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
27. Mark Growden - Saguaro
28. Sergio Mendoza y La Orkesta - Las Calles de Tucson
29. DeVotchKa - The Common Good
30. Lenguas Largas - Such A Thing
31. Golden Boots - Regional Whales
32. Silverbell - Why
33. Rich Hopkins - What Am I Supposed To Do?
34. Holy Rolling Empire - Father's Father
35. Tom Walbank - Guitar In Dub
36. Silver Thread Trio - Mockingbird
37. Salvador Duran - Gabynda (Yolanda)
Around Town with Rhonda Bellamy: GROW: Getting Racism out of Wilmington
Rhonda Bellamy speaks with James Tritten of Fort Lowell Records about GROW: Getting Racism out of Wilmington, an indie rock compilation to benefit the NAACP.
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Love Language, Rosebuds, Tracy Shedd and more to be featured on upcoming compilation from Port City’s Fort Lowell Records
Ever since the George Floyd video surfaced in May and the protests started, James Tritten has been a little on edge. He wanted to do something to show his support for the Black Lives Matter movement, but he wasn’t sure what.
“I had been aggressively meditating because of all this anxiety, trying to get my head around it,” said Tritten, who lives in downtown Wilmington with his wife, the musician Tracy Shedd.
Then, on June 3, while he was meditating, “It hit me: I’ve done this before,” Tritten said. “I can curate this wonderful collection of indie rock bands and have it be for a good cause.”
Tritten, who runs the indie label Fort Lowell Records with his wife, had helped release a musical compilation in 2011 to benefit victims of a mass shooting in Arizona, where he and Shedd lived at the time.
Later this summer or by early fall, Tritten said, Fort Lowell will release “GROW: A Compilation in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter.” Comprised of songs by current and former Wilmington indie rock bands -- and including one act making its debut -- proceeds from the sale and streaming of the record will benefit the New Hanover County chapter of the NAACP.
Hours after he came up with the idea for “GROW” on the morning of June 3, Tritten said, he had $15,000 in donations from manufacturers who will be producing the vinyl version. “GROW” will also be on streaming services and available for download.
The album’s 12-band lineup reads like a who’s who from the annals of Wilmington indie rock history (and/or its future). All of the songs are new releases.
Two bands, The Rosebuds and The Love Language, got their starts in Wilmington before moving on to record albums for Durham’s Merge Records label.
The Rosebuds, formed in Wilmington 20 years ago by then-married couple Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp, are releasing their first song since breaking up a few years ago, a remix of an existing track.
“Kelly is tickled pink” to release the song, Tritten said, adding that the all-Wilmington compilation gave the band the perfect excuse to drop the tune.
Other acts on the compilation include a mix of veteran acts (Shedd, Sean Thomas Gerard of Onward, Soldiers); seldom-seen old-school heroes (Summer Set, The Majestic Twelve, Life of Saturdays); current acts (Kicking Bird, Lauds, Pinky Verde, Team Player); and one brand-new band called Neon Belly.
The list of local partners is lengthy, and there’s also a visual art element to “GROW,” with James Williams (cover), Trevor Van Meter (jacket), Chet Childress (vinyl) and the students of DREAMS of Wilmington (liner notes) providing work for the project.
Liner notes will be written by Wilmington’s Third Person Project, which delves into often unknown or covered-up aspects of Wilmington’s history in regards to race.
Tritten and Shedd are from Florida, and from 2006 to 2013 they lived in Tuscon. That’s where Fort Lowell started, and where they released “Luz De Vida,” a compilation created by the Music Against Violence group that benefited the victims of a mass shooting that included Congresswomen Gabbi Giffords.
They’ve been in Wilmington for just the past two years, but their local roots run deep. Tritten first played here with his former band, Audio Explorations, in 1996 for the old WE Fest, and Shedd’s music was featured on locally shot hit shows “Dawson’ Creek” and “One Tree Hill.”
He and Shedd also host Manic Monday, a monthly alt-rock and indie pop DJ night that, before the pandemic, was held at downtown bar The Opera Room.
Tritten’s day job is as sales manager for KWIPPED, a locally based, online equipment-procurement marketplace. But he said the community nature of the “GROW” project “gets to why we even have a record label in the first place.”
Tritten said the minimum donation for the compilation when it comes out will be $30, to benefit the NAACP’s get-out-the-vote efforts. At least 1,000 vinyl copies of “GROW” will be pressed, he said, and will be available locally at Gravity Records, Modern Legend and elsewhere.
Contact John Staton at 910-343-2343 or John.Staton@StarNewsOnline.com.
Thursday, July 16, 2020
"Reinvent a new form of decency"
Music documents a moment in time, and allows us an opportunity to be reminded about the past and continue to learn from it. "Spiral" was originally released on March 20, 2006 by Thrill Jockey Records as part of the album 'Sno Angel Like You. Howe would have drawn his inspiration for "Spiral" from events unrelated to what we are all witnessing today in 2020; this is what makes "Spiral" so important. Today, the lyrics of "Spiral" are as relevant and necessary as they ever were.
As Fort Lowell Records continues to work on our upcoming release GROW: A Compilation in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter, which will itself document a moment in time, we are reminded at how thankful we are to have had to the honor to partner with both Howe Gelb and Record Store Day to bring you Howe's in-concert recording of "Spiral." We encourage you to take a moment to revisit this song below, and to help us - as Howe says: "reinvent a new form of decency."
There’s a lot of people out there
Having a hard time tonight
There are shouts of revolution
There are whispers of hang on tight
There’s a lot of hearts out there
But now some will never mend
Been losing our patience
Been losing way too many men
Some are saying it’s the end times
Some are saying it’s just begun
Some are running to the churches
Some are running to the gun
And you come on down
Fall on down
Well within this regency
Spiral down
You can jot it down
Reinvent a new form of decency
Some are thinking it’s extinction
Some are swearing by salvation
Some are noting Nostradamus
Some are relating Revelation
Well it sure is getting hotter
And the water’s on the rise
Don’t wanna live forever
Another generation would be nice
And you come on down
Fall on down
Well within this regency
Spiral down
You can jot it down
Reinvent some new form of decency
Having a hard time tonight
Some are shoutin’ revolution
Some are crying to hang on tight
There’s a lot of crippled hearts out there
And now some will never mend
And you come on down
Fall on down
Well within this regency
Spiral down
You better jot it down
Reinvent a new form of decency
Decency
New Song: "Fight For the Good" by Wet & Reckless
Saturday, July 11, 2020
Get Racism Out of Wilmington (and everywhere else)
- Golden Mastering - Vinyl Lacquers
- Imprint Indie Printing - Album Jackets
- Kindercore Vinyl - Vinyl Records
- NiPro Records - Vinyl Stampers
- Peerless Mastering - Audio Mastering
- Art In Bloom
- ARTphics
- DREAMS
- Gravity Records
- Modern Legend
- New Elements Gallery
- Third Person Project
- Chet Childress
- HeyTVM
- James Williams - Cover Art
Saturday, July 4, 2020
Follow @FortLowellRecords now on Instagram
Saturday, May 2, 2020
Listen to "Mantra" now, a brand new song by Tracy Shedd
Cover photograph by Julia DeConcini
Sunday, December 15, 2019
The full story behind Tracy Shedd's "How Your Eyes Affect Me"
The following year, Tracy Shedd and husband / band-mate, James Tritten, decided to embark on a US Tour as a duet; leaving out a live bass player or drummer. Instead, they used a drum machine app from their iPhone to create a beat, while both played electric guitar; adjusting their delivery of each song to fit this new arrangement. On December 2, 2011, the couple performed at New World Brewery in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida, and friend, Aaron O'Laughlin just happened to capture the performance on video. Eight days later, O'Laughlin posted his video recording of a more upbeat drum machine driven version of "How Your Eyes Affect Me", which would end up serving as the main inspiration that motivated Shedd and Tritten to start their electronic music project, Band & The Beat.
Fast forward eight years, Tracy Shedd documented a studio recording of that same version performed in 2011, and now the aptly named single "How Your Eyes Affect Me (The New World Brewery Version)" will be officially available on all digital music download and streaming platforms - Amazon, Apple Music, Bandcamp, Google Play, Pandora, Spotify, YouTube, etc. - for your listening enjoyment this holiday season. To help celebrate the New World Brewery version of Shedd's classic tune, Aaron O'Laughlin himself made a new music video for "How Your Eyes Affect Me (The New World Brewery Version)" using his original video footage taken at New World Brewery nearly a decade ago.
Enjoy this visual rendition below of the "How Your Eyes Affect Me" story, which includes O'Laughlin's original video recording, plus his music video for Tracy Shedd new single:
Here is the original studio recording of "How Your Eyes Affect Me" from EP88:
Here is a live performance of the original version, performed at The Rialto Theatre in Tucson AZ:
Here is a live performance of the original version, performed in Tucson 12's Television Studio:
Here is Aaron O'Laughlin's original video recording from New World Brewery in 2011:
Here is Aaron O'Laughlin's music video for the new version of "How Your Eyes Affect Me":
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Listen to Tracy Shedd's remix of L.A. Dies "Tend To Do" now!
At L.A. Dies album’s release back in September, Harding Street Assembly Lab reached out to their friends & family about the possibility of reworking one of the tunes. Multiple responses were that the track would have to be “Tend To Do”. For this maxi-single, which clocks in at roughly 18 minutes, the single proper is paired with remixes from Fort Lowell Records' own Tracy Shedd (ex-Band & The Beat), Benjamin Mauch (Colin Phils) & Opin (who are currently mixing down their new LP for Harding Street Assembly Lab).
The single comes across like a long-lost remnant from the last Cocteau Twins album. Slithering bass lines that work around programmed rhythms with a vocal delivery that earns allure as it escapes translation. Each of the remixes lean into the ethereal space trapped within the original. Tracy Shedd & Opin both find themselves working with processed percussive elements to augment the tune. Ben Mauch’s redux is floats away from the base, landing at an authentic recreation.
CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO L.A. DIES MAXI-SINGLE NOW, and HEAR TRACY SHEDD'S REMIX NOW!
Tracy Shedd's third album, originally released in 2004, is finally available again!
Saturday, November 9, 2019
La Cerca tourdates announced for November and December
Nov 11 - Elliot's on Congress - Tucson AZ
Nov 16 - Prospector - Long Beach CA
Nov 17 - Redwood - Los Angeles CA
Nov 20 - Kelly's Olympian - Portland OR
Nov 24 - Hotel Albatross - Seattle WA
Dec 2 - Old Nick's - Eugene OR
Dec 6 - The Boxyard Yard - Tucson AZ
Dec 13 - Sister - Albuquerque NM
Listen to La Cerca's Fort Lowell Records full album Sunrise for Everyone here:
Friday, November 8, 2019
Tracy Shedd has a new single out today - Friday, November 8th
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Thursday, November 7, 2019
Saturday, November 2, 2019
VNYL features Tracy Shedd, Beck, The 1975, and more on Spotify 'What's Hot' Playlist!
Ooooooh la la lovers of retro. Do we have the power up for your bonus hour of weekend. Our Spotify What’s Hot playlist has just been updated to include new tracks from The 1975, Beck, Power Glove, and Tracy Shedd; featuring “Vengeance” the lead track from Power Glove’s Halloween special glow in the dark vinyl Throwback. Impending doom lingers atop synth-wave backsound as the anonymous duo catapults you straight into apocalyptic soundscapes.
Friday, November 1, 2019
The Good Graces hit the road with an amazing new record!
Nov. 5 - Chapel Hill NC - Songwriter's Night at Imbibe with Neville's Quarter
Nov. 7 - Kings Mountain NC - The Revolution1
Nov. 8 - Asheville NC - Static Age Records with Matt Southern & Lost Gold and Joshua Carpenter
Listen to "Standing in Line" from The Good Graces 2014 Fort Lowell Records release:
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Saturday, October 12, 2019
VNYL.org features EXCLUSIVE Tracy Shedd 'The Carolinas' on Electric Green Vinyl
[Repost from VNYL.org]
Veteran indie singer/songwriter Tracy Shedd has returned with her latest album The Carolinas, her first in over six years. If you're feeling those summertime withdrawls, fear not because this album is the perfect fall record for you to spin.
The Carolinas, which comes on electric green translucent vinyl, was written and recorded by Tracy and her husband/bandmate James Tritten nearly two years prior to it's release. After tragedies in the family, Tracy needed time to heal and revisited the album to ensure her vision was still there. The final product doesn't disappoint. There's a little bit of very thing on this album, from feel-good, synth-tinged indie rock to 90's singer/songwriter softies. Her lyrics sound like they were pulled right out of a poetry book, her wealth of life experiences inspiring many of the themes here. Shedd has shared the stage with artists such as Cyndi Lauper, Cat Power, and Iron & Wine, and those influences bleed through in this eclectic collection of tunes.
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RED DWARF STAR
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MINDSONE
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JPW
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SHELBY SMOAK
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TERCEL
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AL FOUL | |
THIS WATER IS LIFE, VOL. IV | |
RED DWARF STAR
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TERCEL
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FOREST FALLOWS
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NAÏM AMOR
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BLAB SCHOOL | |
FEMALE GAZE | |
DOGGY DAYCARE | |
COMMON THREAD | |
THIS WATER IS LIFE, VOL. III | |
JON RAUHOUSE | |
SUMMER SET | |
SODA SUN | |
TRACY SHEDD | |
LA CERCA | |
DOGGY DAYCARE | |
JAMES SARDONE | |
JPW | |
BRIAN LOPEZ | |
MINDSONE / RIZZYBEATS | |
KICKING BIRD | |
DESARIO | |
INFINITIKISS | |
THIS WATER IS LIFE, VOL. II | |
KIM WARE | |
LAUDS | |
AUDIO EXPLORATIONS | |
KIM WARE AND | |
JPW | |
LAUDS | |
TRACY SHEDD | |
KITIMOTO | |
DESARIO | |
THIS WATER IS LIFE, VOL. I | |
LAUDS | |
CITIFIED | |
LAUDS | |
LUZ DE VIDA II | |
NEON BELLY | |
THE GOOD GRACES | |
TRACY SHEDD | |
SODA SUN | |
SEAN THOMAS GERARD | |
BREC | |
LA CERCA | |
GROW | |
HONEYBRANDY | |
TRACY SHEDD | |
TRACY SHEDD | |
TRACY SHEDD | |
TRACY SHEDD | |
TRACY SHEDD | |
TRACY SHEDD | |
MOYAMOYA | |
MOYAMOYA | |
MOYAMOYA | |
BAND & THE BEAT | |
MOYAMOYA | |
BAND & THE BEAT | |
BAND & THE BEAT | |
HEY MANDIBLE | |
NAÏM AMOR | |
MOYAMOYA | |
THE GOOD GRACES | |
LA CERCA | |
FAIRWEATHERFRIEND | |
SAINT MAYBE FLR009 | 12inch | |
ANDREW COLLBERG |
LUZ DE VIDA |
HOWE GELB 'Sno Angel | |
DEATH KIT
"Devadasi" | |
DEAD WESTERN PLAINS | |
WET & RECKLESS "New Guy" | |
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FLR002 | 7inch | |
YOUNG MOTHERS FLR001 | 7inch |
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- Female Gaze
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