Now...when's the new album going to be released??? I lurvs me some TL/Rx!

not sure, todd.

I hope it's this year.

sometimes i can't keep track of what news has been posted on what boards, so i thought this was a repeat here. anyway... i think it's good for ted leo. apparently, epic had some serious interest in him, but he declined their offers. touch & go's still a pretty good label and he fits in well with a lot of their roster. i don't think this will have much impact on his music, so i'm expecting another solid album when he gets around to it. (he's on tour in march, so i have no idea when he'll be releasing something else.)

Not a bad move for him. Although if he were to sign to a major, epic would be about the least offensive place for him to go.

Touch & Go used to be such a crappy label. Were I not already familiar with Mr. Leo, I'd not buy this.

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Brainiac
Girls Against Boys
Cash Money
Blonde Redhead
Enon
The Jesus Lizard
Man Or Astro-Man?
Naked Raygun
New Wet Kojak
Urge Overkill
TV On The Radio
Silkworm
Skull Kontrol

Wow, that's crappy.

edit: and that's only the bands I like.

...and Seam, the best of the bunch (although I like plenty of the ones shiv listed)

I was thinking more like Laughing Hyenas and their ilk.

I've read before that Touch & Go is very fair to their artists, too. Anyway, I wonder if this was a conscious move by Ted, or just a result of Lookout's financial woes.

"least offensive major label" = relative term...

Um....

When Green Day decided to start asking for Royalties again, Lookout! did a big virtual belly-up. They were hoping that a few releases might sell enough to sustain them (Bratmobile came back and put out a Lookout! album, the Pattern spurned other label interest because Chris Applewhite was the current pres. of Lookout!, and Ted Leo put out "Shake the Sheets"), but they had hired way too many people, put out too many records that didn't sell, and extended themselves too far with subsidiaries like Panic Button, to even come close to making a profit...

They're to the point now where they don't even do their own mailorder.... It sucks to have them out of "The Game", but it proves that not only Majors can mismanage funds until they have to be conglomerated/go out of buisness...

FT ruined Bobsled Records when he "made" The Chamber Strings break up.

Want More Ted. Source not a major issue.

ding ding ding

Does this mean the next record will be recorded at Electrical?

I mean, that would be kinda interesting...

I'm still waiting for Kevin Junior to exact his revenge by releasing a solo album featuring a scathing indictment of me in song. Put down the smack and get to work, junkie!!!

Slint
Killdozer
Butthole Surfers
Arcwelder
Big Black
Shellac
Didjits
Blonde Redhead
Bad Livers
Kepone