News: November, 2008

The boys in Ha Ha Tonka are hard at work in St Louis this holiday season, recording their follow up to the band's lauded debut, Buckle in the Bible Belt. Keeping up with its appearance as Bloodshot's "Most Wired" band -- with all their blogging and Vlogging and Twittering -- the Tonkers have outfitted their studio with a couple of web cams, so you can watch them live (!) as they record the new record. The new record (Title TBA) will be out in spring 09, but you can hear new material NOW if you catch the band on the road.

Live Videos by Ustream

NEW WEBSITE!

After months of focus groups, tinkering and substantive technological breakthroughs deep in the Bloodshot lab several hundred feet below Irving Park Blvd, we bring you our dynamic and shiny new website.

In addition to vastly superior and easy ordering possibilities and access to digital options, we've added all kinds of goodies that will help you get to know the music and artists that we are lucky enough to represent.

— Listen to music on one of our streaming playlists (just press the lil' red LISTEN button there to the left)
— Prices on virtually EVERYTHING permanently reduced
— Easy to find videos, freebie mp3s, and exclusive digital content
— more information on events and retail happenings in your area as well as more comprehensive updates on all your favorite bands
— so much easier and fun to navigate around the site. It's like trading in your Model T for a Mazerati.

We hope you enjoy the efforts of our crafty little web-elves and come back
to visit often.

Enjoy,
BSHQ

Justin finished up his next for us and it has all of us in the compound walking around all bug-eyed saying "Wow." Seriously. Wow. How a guy that did such an amazing job on his first record could take an even GREATER leap forward is pretty exciting.

The album is called "Midnight at the Movies" and we'll have it out for you in March 09 on CD and limited edition LP.

The Musicians Life is a radio series on WXPN in Philadelphia that examines the everyday lives of musicians from the artists themselves, from the creative to the mundane.

Hear Justin talk about life on the road and hear some songs.  Show is archived here.

Go here to see a trailer for the documentary "Agile, Mobile, Hostile: A Year in the Life of Andre Williams" that debuted at the SXSW 2008 Film Festival

This film followed Andre around the world, the ups and downs, and a lot of footage of the recording of Can You Deal  With It? Fascinating,  hilarious, scary and sad.  All Andre.

We will keep you posted on theatrical showings of the film.

I'm Not Jim's author half Jonathan Letham talks music on eMusic. It's a great, in-depth interview on the process of recording  the album and of Jonathan's longstanding obsession with music.  Give a listen here.