Cloud Nothings is an indie rock band from Cleveland, Ohio. Dylan Baldi started Cloud Nothings as a way to amuse himself between classes at Case Western Reserve University in 2009. The first batch of Cloud Nothings songs, including the blogosphere favorite "Hey Cool Kid" (available on the 2010 compilation "Turning On"), was recorded on a computer in the basement of Baldi's home in Westlake, OH. A concert promoter who invited Cloud Nothings to play a gig in New York City in December 2009 prompted Baldi to hastily assemble a real band and drop out of college to focus on his music full-time.Baldi recorded the second Cloud Nothings album (2010's Self Titled) in Baltimore with producer Chester Gwazda.The Cloud Nothings third album, Attack On Memory, was released in January 2012. It was the first album in 2012 to receive "Best New Music" status on Pitchfork.com.

Myspace page - http://www.myspace.com/cloudnothings

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A Classic Education is a band that formed in 2007 in Bologna, Italy although singer Jonathan Clancy is from Ottawa, Canada. The rest of the band is formed by Paul Pieretto, Luca Mazzieri, photographer Giulia Mazza, Federico Oppi, Stefano Roveda.

Their music is a mix of dreamy guitars, sixties melodies, psych-pop, garage and classic songwriting.

The band has put out releases on Bailiwick, Holiday records and now Lefse Records.


www.aclassiceducation.com


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Crinkles was born in the chilly basements of house shows and DIY venues of Burlington, VT. In 2009 the young five-piece packed up shop and relocated to the fortuitous streets of Brooklyn where they founded their own imprint HEAVYPET and released a string of limited pressings and homemade CD-Rs.

Loss Leader is Crinkles' first full LP. The record is not so much a premeditated album in the traditio...nal sense, but rather compilation materials from the band's short history. It is meant to candidly convey a young band searching for its sound - to reveal a detailed chronicle of the bands explorations of the years 2008-2011. In other musical spheres, it might be called a "Mixtape," or perhaps even "Greatest Hits," which is odd, since they have yet to release a traditional debut album.

The end result is a collection of songs from a diversity of recording formats and environments - all self-recorded and self-produced. This approach creates an interesting disparity between songs on the record; these are five-piece pop-rock songs, pensive electronic compositions and tube organ ballads. "Elevator", the first track on the record, is an example of the latter. An intimately recorded organ ballad performed entirely by Crinkles' lead man, Jonathan Campolo, "Elevator" is a rhetorical love song about not wanting to leave and the confusion associated with loss.

In retail marketing terms, a "loss leader" is an item or service sold at a loss to the company in order to stimulate peripheral sales. Perhaps, Loss Leader is the proverbial equivalent for the band - it relinquishes older sounds in order to create an interesting new launching point. Loss Leader was recorded and mixed by Crinkles from March 2008 to December 2011 and mastered by Drew Swinburne in Baltimore.

Crinkles is Jonathan Campolo, Nicholas Campolo, Andrew Chugg, Dan Crosby and Kyle Kabel

crinkles.heavypet.us
crinkles.bandcamp.com




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