Latest News April 2013

hey punks and friends!

i m back from tour with the amazing CLOUD RAT. it was the best of times but also pretty exhausting. thank you to all people involved in this with setting up shows, arrange sleeping places, prepare food or just beeing nice! much love to adrian, rorik and madison - you re awesome!

from now on i am trying to catch up on all the label work - emails - orders - packages. please be patient with me!

yesterday the covers for the ARSE MOREIRA discography tape came in and they look amazing! so this is finally out - get your copy now!

the MERKIT covers are printed (and look beautiful as well!) and i m waiting for the master tape now - so this will be next!

still tired - need more sleep - so i ll keep this short!

up the diy punx!

xxxlars


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