Usually, there’s no Contact.  There’s no name of a guy that you’re supposed to talk to.  Believe it or not, most of the time we show up and say “We’re Red Collar and we’re playing tonight”.  It’s the opposite of what normally happens at places like hospitals.  To wit:

“I’m Jason and I’m here to see someone”

“Whom?”

“I don’t know”

“At what time?”

“I don’t know”

“For what?”

“I’m not sure”

It’s one of the luxuries of being in a band at our level.  You don’t have to worry about the details.  It’s nice to get the details.  It saves a lot of headaches to get the details.  Most of the time though, it’s not a huge deal.

Most of the time.
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MAGNET Magazine is offering a free download of our song, “Pilgrim”.  You can grab it from their site here.

We’re excited to say that Pilgrim will be released very soon on vinyl thanks to our friends at Loose Charm Records.  While we need to wait just a little bit longer to spill all of the beans, here are a few things that we can tell you:

This will be a really special, limited release.  We’re only pressing 500 copies.  All of them will be hand numbered and on nice, red vinyl.  All of the sleeves will be screen-printed.  The track order was re-worked to give the album more of a Side A/Side B flow and the first 100 copies will be printed with special metallic silver ink.  Due to length we couldn’t fit all 11 songs on one record so every copy will also have a download card for all 11 album tracks plus one bonus cover song that we will post more about soon.

Keep checking back for our release date and other vinyl updates and to keep tabs on the tour schedule.  Some south-east shows this week.  We’re going back to the mid-west at the end of the month, and again in September. September east coast dates will be posted very soon too.

Be sure to click “continue reading” more to see what our vinyl packaging did to Josh’s garage.

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Check it out!  You can download Red Collar - “Used Gutars” for free on www.fuse.tv - if that doesn’t work, try this direct link

PGH Music Report posted a nice preview for our show coming up at Lava Lounge Thursday.  They even mentioned Jason’s blog about our last Pittsburgh show.  You can read the preview here.

We are heading to Pennsylvania this week for a few shows, beginning with one at North Star in Philadelphia on Wednesday night.  Click the links to read an interview that Jason did with Brian from The Philadelphia Star And Home News - and a nice preview from the folks at the Philadelphia Daily News

There’s a review of our show at Piano’s in NYC posted on Deaf Left Ear. You should also be sure to read  this incredibly inventive take on a recent show at the Local 506.

Red Collar heads out for a few more dates in Pennsylvania next week:  Philly on July 22, Pittsburgh on the 23rd and Johnstown on the 24th .  Come and say “hello”.

QRO Magazine put up a pretty nice review of Pilgrim.  It’s on their front page right now - or you can skip straight to the review with this link

So I’d just like to get this out of the way: I’m in a rock band. I’m not picking cotton. I get it.

I mention this fact more than occasionally in these blogs because I want you to understand that I understand that the trials and tribulations of a rock band pale to the everyday hardships of Jack Paycheck. I also mention this with fair regularity because every so often someone new stumbles on this blog and it’s important to restate this fact, even for those of you who have been here for a while. (click to read more)

Red Collar has been added to the PLAY:STL Festival which takes place in St. Louis, Missouri September 17-19, 2009. Check out the full line up
here: www.2009.playstlfest.com/