We’re extremely excited to make a couple of fairly significant announcements on this nice, fall morning

First of all - at long last, the pre-order for the limited vinyl release of Pilgrim is open now!  Visit our merch store or click on the cover art to pick one up - We have only pressed 500 copies.  All of them will be hand numbered and on nice, red vinyl.  All of the sleeves were 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, with assorted colors throughout the remaining quantity.  Don’t worry, all the colors look pretty sharp.  Due to the length of the album we could only fit 9 of the original songs on one record so every copy will also have a download card with every  LP that will have all 11 songs plus a cover of Jawbreaker’s “Jinx Removing” that will only be available with this release.  Thanks to Scotty, Neil, Josh and all of the gentlemen at Loose Charm for helping to make this happen.

For our local friends, we’ll also be taking pre-orders at our Troika Fest show, this Saturday at the Trotter Building (11:30pm set time).

Next - For the first time since its release this past March, Pilgrim is available IN STORES.   We’ve made a partnership with Suburban Home Records for physical  distribution and CDs should be popping up on shelves before you know it.  We cannot thank Virgil and his crew enough for the help and support they’ve shown over the last few months and their dedication in helping band’s who are putting out records on their own figure out how to get their music into indie retail stores around the country.

Finally, we’ve posted a video for “Hands Up”.   It’s a mash-up of video footage taken by Chris Carter at Tir Na Nog in Raleigh, NC on July 4th, paired with a live audio recording from a show in New York City at Pianos on July 14th.   Take a dramamine, strap on your sea legs and enjoy.

Jonathan here,

It was a tough few days in the Big Apple. Or, as Mike might say, “It’s no joke”.

I seriously dislocated and fractured my elbow before we even played. However, we still managed to pull off both of our scheduled shows and I had an appointment with a surgeon and a titanium bolt the day after we got back.

We gritted our teeth and got through it and we’re still getting through it, and we will continue getting through it. I do want to re-confirm that RED COLLAR WILL BE PLAYING the Troika Music Festival this Saturday night at the Trotter Building in downtown Durham with The Travesties, Maple Stave, and The Bronzed Chorus. It’ll be a one-armed show for me, but the one arm that I’ve got is ready to go double-time.

Unfortunately, we did have to postpone our tour dates in December. I apologize, but I still have quite a lot of physical therapy to undergo and we didn’t feel we would be able to give 100% for that length of time.

Finally, and most importantly, I wanted to thank everyone for their support and encouragement over the last week. It means a lot to me and to all of us and I hope to thank everyone in person this weekend at Troika!

Until then!

We’re so happy to be playing the Durham, NC based Troika Music Festival.  We can’t believe this line-up:

Saturday, November 7th-Venue TBA:  The Travesties, Maple Stave and The Bronzed Chorus.  Lots of great shows throughout the festival.  Check it out here: http://www.troikamusicfestival.org/