You may have noticed our new look! I have been working on a different website for KFB for a while, but I decided why not just scale back the main site a bit? So you are looking at the new, tidier KFB site, better than ever! You also may have noticed that I have been posting only stuff related to KFB artists/releases. That’s because when we started 4 YEARS AGO there was literally nothing to post about the lazy teenagers that were making music here. Now everyone grew up a bit and I couldn’t be more proud of all the exciting stuff that is going on.

Sebastian Fleet + Count Oak- Sun 7″ is back in stock! The glow-in-the-dark vinyl sold out ridiculously fast but now we have a second pressing of black vinyl limited to only 200 copies and available in our store at a more reasonable price!

Teen Plaque- TPTM/FTR!!! 7″ has new full-wrap sleeves. If you have one of the old ones you are missing out on a bigger photo of the band, maybe for your locker. How are these not sold out already?

Tim The Mute- Anything You Want 7″ That’s right, I have a new record coming out and I couldn’t be more excited about it. It’s not quite a solo single, featuring my collabs with Devon Parkin and Village, as well as a little vinyl-only bonus.

By the way, I have been begging the newer, many-limbed Village to do a single but no luck yet. And hey Devon where’s your masters at???

We recorded a banging song for Spencer‘s debut single last week, hoping to get back in the studio soon to make the b-side!

There are two new KFB singles in the works as well (KFB004 and KFB005 I hope!) but I don’t want to announce them yet because they are too far away but I am hoping for a May release on one, and June for the other.

Wow that was actually a lot of news. Maybe I should make a mailing list… Oh no time to renew the domain again!

OH YEAH thanks for buying our records!!!!

-Tim

After a hate-fueled email from Village, who despised my amateur attempt at a poster for our christmas show, I have commissioned this very lovely piece of work from Ryan Dyck at http://discounttypography.tumblr.com/

Village played at the Zoo Zhop in Vancouver on October 5th with their new lineup. Also playing was Shearing Pinx, Weed and Hermit Thrushes. Discorder was there!

Read about it HERE

Hey hey I know y’all are excited for the new 7″ by Sebastian Fleet + Count Oak. Well GUESS WHAT not only am I shipping pre-orders this week, you can get your hands on a digital copy of the 7″ from iTunes, napster, rhapsody, zune, amazon mp3, emusic or whatever else exists now. It’s only .99 cents so if you are one of the mighty hordes of people who have the money to buy a 400 dollar walkman but don’t have 15 lousy dollars for a GLOW IN THE DARK record of which only a hundred copies exist, well this is for you!

HERE IS THE LINK (Canadian store at least)

Photo by Heather Welsh.

Hello friends,

I am proud to announce that yesterday, (9/3/2011) Tyler Carriere aka John The Baptist of the Kingfisher Bluez Recording Company was wed at a private ceremony on Vancouver Island. I was honoured to be his best man and I have a few additional comments to share:

I am lucky enough to have been Tyler’s friend for the last eight years and I can say without a doubt if you had told me in January that I would be here today, typing my best man speech into his laptop the morning after his wedding, I would have believed you. In January, Tyler hadn’t even the faintest premonition of his impending nuptials. He had just moved to the Comox Valley, in hopes of paying off his phone bill before his journey to New York to live out his life as a Carthusian Monk (but that’s another story).

Tyler is the sort of person who dives headlong into everything he does, and I couldn’t be more proud of him for diving into his new life as a husband, father and business owner. Now that he’s taken these vows, he won’t be taking the previously intended vow of silence and I can say that Kingfisher Bluez will be that much richer with his continued presence, his unmistakable voice, and unequivocal passion for life, music and art.

Thank you Tyler, John the Baptist, with all the love in the world. You will always have a home at Kingfisher Bluez!

-Tim the mute

September, 4th 2011

Comox, B.C.

Maybe there’s not enough music coming out in 2011, but The Smiths and U2 are hoping that 20 or 30 years have taken their toll on your memory and you will feel compelled to repurchase these old favourites. I know I am going to get the vinyl boxes of each of them, so I guess the joke’s on me. Actually just looking at these pictures is making my mouth water a bit… I mean, it’s in a box! The Smiths one even has new art! I guess these could just be lovingly put-together sets aimed at the only age group that still pays for music. Make some room over the fireplace!

In another excellent credit card sponsored video, Todd Haynes shoots Patrick Callahan watching his own record get pressed. Very cool!

Hey check out this new video by Slippery Elm and Astrological of local Vancouver hip hop group Elekwent Folk. It features a surprise cameo by ME. It’s even more of a surprise because I didn’t even know I was in it until Devon told me.

p.s. We are almost done recording Devon Parkin’s EP and the mail strike is over so if you didn’t get your Teen Plaque record yet then you will soon.