December 21, 2017: Out today on Cubby Control Records, The Cubby Creatures' Source Mirror Record, Volume 1. The Source Mirror Record series collects unreleased demos, abandoned projects, rehearsal recordings, never released studio recordings, and other audio oddments and remnants, making them available as musical podcasts free to download, or to purchase individually (and at higher resolution) on Bandcamp. Check out the Source Mirror Record website to listen and learn more.
August 31, 2017: This Sunday, Sept. 3, come out to the Golden Gate Park and see the zines at the SF Zine Fest. Support DIY publishing! Meet original Cubby gangsters Brian Weaver and Jol Devitro. And get your copy of The Cubby Missalette's 24th installment, The Aging Issue, hot off the presses! We'll also have plenty of copies of The Cubby Creatures' new album Jesus Christ, You're Crazy on sale, as well as a heavenly host of other radical releases from Cubby Control Records and The Cubby.
Speaking of Jesus Christ, You're Crazy, check out the JCYC website, which includes all the artwork from the album, photos from the one and only JCYC show, and additional information about the album not included in the booklet that comes with the physical CD.
And if Bandcamp is your thing, JCYC is now available for streaming in its entirety via the popular online music store.
August 22, 2017: Now available for purchase in physical and digital formats on cubby.net: Jesus Christ, You're Crazy by label pioneers The Cubby Creatures. A rock opera 20 years in the making, this new release brings together new original music by The Cubby Creatures with a “post-ironic parable” narrated by S.F.-based author K.M. Soehnlein, rounded out by ambient pieces by S.F.-based musicians That Hideous Strength, Squelchy, Snitch, Jason Gonzales, and Alec Way.
Additionally, the CD includes cover art by Billy Janes (Resurrection Pits) and inside panels by Jorge Heredia (Life Is Insane), Alissa Mach (Blue Whale), Trismegista Taylor (Keep In Mind), and Doug Welch (Jesus Christ, You're Crazy).
July 22, 2017: If you missed the Cubby Control Records retrospective on KFJC back in May (as part of their Month of Mayhem series of specials) and didn't check it out during the two weeks they had the MP3s of the show on their website, they are now archived on CCR website: http://cubby.net/ccr/about.html#interviews
Also, you are all invited to the Jesus Christ, You're Crazy listening party at Adobe Books (3130 24th St.) on Friday, August 18, 7:30 PM. RSVP on the Facebook event page, of you like: https://www.facebook.com/events/347151842370136/
May 26, 2017: Tune in to KFJC 89.7 FM (or listen online) Friday, May 26, at 7 PM to listen to Cubby Control Records founder Brian Weaver talk about the label and the 20th anniversary of The Cubby and The Cubby Creatures. Part of KFJC's Month of Mayhem, Weaver will be interviewed by KFJC DJ Mitch LeMay, and DJ LeMay describes it...
"San Francisco indie label Cubby Control Records head man Brian Weaver will join Mitch LeMay for a 3-hour spotlight of retrospective, new, and upcoming releases, rare recordings & unreleased material. We will celebrate the 20th anniversary of seminal label group The Cubby Creatures in a special featurette. Expect to hear a freewheeling and funny show with lots of sounds from label bands REPTIEL, The Cubby Preachers, Gnom i Snegovik, and The Druggles, plus clips, commentary, and assorted anecdotes from the SF live music scene."
Speaking of "upcoming releases, rare recordings & unreleased material," Weaver will preview songs from the soon-to-be released Jesus Christ, You're Crazy by The Cubby Creatures, the almost finished (The Planet of) Progkp by REPTIEL, and other upcoming/unreleased material from the Cubby Control Records archives.
Cubby Control Records retrospective
Friday, May 26, 7:00-10:00 PM
KFJC 89.7 FM
or stream online: http://www.kfjc.org/netcast/index.php
March 1, 2017: Dear Cubby friends, fans and followers, happy new year! OK, well, it's not so new anymore, but I've been running late getting out this new year news update.
Let me tell you a few things happening here at Cubby Control Records...
* #Cubby20 *
It was 20 years ago this year The Cubby Creatures began their career, releasing the first Missalettes and playing their first show at Artists' Television Access in the Mission District of San Francisco. In honor of the 20-year anniversary, I'll be digging through the Cubby Control Records archives and unveiling some long forgotten, and in some cases, never released gems. To start off, have a listen to The Cubby Creatures perform on KALX in August, 1999...
* Sounds of CCR *
Correspondingly, the current Sound of CCR is "Last Chance" by The Cubby Creatures, originally released in October, 2006 on the Embryo 4: Homemade Music by Bay Area Musicians compilation and available now for streaming for the first time in honor of the 20-year anniversary of The Cubby...
* JCYC *
I know I've been promising this for a few years now, but I really mean it this time -- Jesus Christ, You're Crazy, the last-recorded but never-released album by The Cubby Creatures, will be released this year. Jesus Christ, You're Crazy was described by The Cubby Creatures as "a rock opera/song cycle/post-ironic parable" that tells the story of Jojo who after enduring "a childhood strewn with insults, comes to a startling conclusion." The CD and packaging will feature the Cubby Creatures' songs along with narration by K.M. Soehnlein, as well as incidental music and artwork created by a number of Bay Area musicians and artists.
* (The Planet of) Progkp and the Hobbitozz zine *
REPTIEL is back in the studio this month to continue work on (The Planet of) Progkp, their followup to Hobbitozz ... A Land That Never Was. And speaking of Hobbitozz, there was finally a second printing of the Hobbitozz zine, which is now available for purchase through the Hobbitozz Website.
January 10, 2017: It was 20 years ago this year The Cubby Creatures began their career, releasing the first Missalettes and playing their first show at Artists' Television Access. In honor of the 20-year anniversary, we'll be digging through the CCR archives and unveiling some long forgotten, and in some cases, never released gems. To start off, have a listen to them perform on KALX in August, 1999...
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