"In Defense of Cats" is the new 7" by FATTY CAKES & THE PUFF PASTRIES featuring 2 songs - "Cat Nap" and "Mistress 23" is coming out on April 17th!

This has been in the works since 2024 (I actually looked through my old emails to find the first email exchange about this and it was January 24th, 2024! Though I know we talked about it over Instagram + text messages before then, but... yeah, holy shit!) - The band was currently working on a new album and had was scheduled to play with some amazing bands in the upcoming months like BRATMOBILE, THE SPITS and MARK SULTAN BBQ - they were hoping to have something new to sell at these gigs so the plan was to do a limited run of these songs on a 7" lathe since the turnaround on those are much faster than vinyl but the sound quality is not as great and they are much more expense (per unit) to produce. 

After a lot of back and forth on weighing pros and cons and trying to figure out the artwork, time passing by, discussing best timeline for things...etc It was decided to just release it on vinyl sometime in 2025 instead - no rush, since the band was still working on a full length and were taking a break from playing after their show with BRATMOBILE and THE PARANOYDS on May 23rd, 2024.

Then the discussion was like "I don't know when or if we are going to actually finish this full length and we really want to utilize this amazing artwork from our friend CRAIG CALDERWOOD made for it. So I was sent this beautiful artwork that was made by Craig and displayed in an art show they were a part of back in October, 2023 and I was asked to do all the lettering for it. So I spent a couple weeks near the end of 2024 working on that but it still wasn't until July, 2025 that we had everything ordered and paid for to get this 7" made.

There was still no real rush since the band has been on hiatus since 2024. (All the members have been busy with their own creative and fulfilling endeavors in the meantime, they are all so fucking cool) But hopefully the excitement around this new 7" will motivate and inspire them to do more as a band again. 
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Pre-orders are available now on the Related Records website and on the bands bandcamp page.

QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT​ are touring the West Coast again and I am so excited about it! They are playing so many of their favorite familiar spots and with so many of their old friends and these shows are simply not to be missed!

Go to as many as you can!

You should check out TUCSON ZINE FEST! Saturday, March 28th from 10am - 4pm at the Steinfeld Warehouse (101 W 6th St #100, Tucson, AZ 85701) RELATED RECORDS will be there with a table full of vinyl, tapes, cds, stickers, buttons and of course ZINES​! (hopefully 1-2 new ones by then too!) along with SHAWNTE ORION who has a split 7" with SWEAT LODGE that recently sold out on Related Records (though I believe he still has some copies) and runs a poetry zine pressing company called RINKY DINK PRESS that will have a table at this same fest (hopefully close to the Related Records table so we can hang out all day together!)

I also wanted to share that there is still a handful of Riley Mix CD​ available. Enjoy a mix CD of songs that make me miss my dog that passed away in November - mostly, weirdo, sadboi, music.

To get one of these BEST OF 2022​ mixtapes! All the money from these tapes goes to help pay legal fees for a Portland protestor who was essentially jumped by police.

Here are some items that are almost sold out in the online store. I'm talking like, less than 3 copies left on any of these.

​You should come to these events this month.

- ART MARKET with a variety of local creatives.including Related Records
- ARTIST RECEPTION, Featuring Local Artist Sabrina Rivera @awkward.mami.art
- FOOD & DRINKS FROM @the_rez_an_urban_eatery , @aguas_phx & @theremedy_phx
- DJ SET: @west_side_leyenda
- EXTENDED HOURS for @palabras_bookstore & @wastedinkzinedistro​
- RAFFLE: Buy art from local artists or books from Palabras and you are able to enter our raffle with lots of goodies from Palabras and local artists.

Sweat Lodge // Shawnte Orion split 7" release show at Stinkweeds! including live music from Rocky Yazzie (of Sweat Lodge/Turqouiz Noiz/Skinwalkers fame),Mooseknuckle Sandwich and Robbie Cohen! PLUS poetry from Shawnte Orion​!

New cassette tape from Hi My Name Is Ryan "Merry Go Round: A Live Tribute to Wildman Fischer" is coming out officially on March 11th, but I should have some copies available at the two events I will be vending this month and you can stream it or download it now on bandcamp.

In May of 2023 Related Records is going to be celebrating 10 years of being a record label! WOW! I know! incredible right?! I almost didn't make it! But this year I got a bunch of stuff planned and hopefully, all of these things happen! Anyway, here's this years tentative release schedule..

I listed a bunch of Test Presses for you obsessive vinyl collecting weirdos.

This 7" has literally taken years to complete and I am so excited it's finally ready for pre-order! Rocky (from Sweat Lodge / Turqouiz Noiz, Skinwalkers, Rocky's Frybread fame) has been playing and organizing shows with Shawnte Orion (Phoenix poet/photographer/artist who recently published the book "Gravity & Spectacle") for 20+ years now.

10 years ago Sweat Lodge recorded the songs featured on their side of this 7". They were going to be released by another "cooler" label that went out of business within a year or so but they at least got these songs and this cool music video out of it. Meanwhile they released their debut full length "2013" on Related Records and then got hit with a potential lawsuit from this other Sweat Lodge band made up of greasy, long haired, white dudes that only lasted 3-4 years before going on "indefinite hiatus" (aka break up!) So Rocky, Rachel and Adam changed their name to Turqouiz Noiz  > Adam moved away and Brendan joined the band and then they released 2 excellent LPs (Sweat Lodge + Pray For Rain) on Related Records.

Almost 2 years ago (20 months to be exact) I placed an order for these records to be pressed and due to there being less than 100 vinyl pressing plants, one of the major factories that does vinyl platting burning down, and major labels paying extra money to push small label releases back so their releases get top priority.... it took this long but they are finally here and look so beautiful!

The official release date isn't until the end of February, because we are still waiting on the finishing touches (jackets & stickers) but the turnaround time on those is just a few days-weeks so these will start shipping out probably in the middle of February.

​Now for the extra exciting news about this release! It looks like the original 3 piece lineup of Sweat Lodge will be reuniting for the album release show at Stinkweeds in Phoenix on Saturday, February 25th (more info on this show later, since we literally JUST confirmed this date with everyone) and then doing a week long tour up to San Francisco with Shawnte Orion! (more info on this as we get more confirmed dates, if you can help with some AZ [in like bisbee or flagstaff] and CA [in like los angeles, sacramento, fresno...etc] dates hit up Rocky on Instagram) and THEN Shawnte Orion is going to be performing in the Pacific Northwest and will have records and books and zines with him!

This is the sixth release in a series of mixtapes I am making to help benefit different people who are in need right now. Tapes will be available for only 1 month and at the end of that period of time, all the money ade from those sales will go to the person in need. This time all the money is going to Chazmier Tyler

Chazmier is a black, femme, community organizer, mother and farmer who has played in a number of bands in the Tempe/Phoenix music scene over the past 15+ years. Over the past two years she has been managing Drinking Gourd Farms, a micro-nonprofit rooted in food sovereignty for the Black community. Drinking Gourd Farms lost their funding recently and that means that the eight garden sites will have little care or die if no one maintains them, which is what Chaz is trying to do but cannot continue for very long without income.

If you want to donate directly to Chaz, you can Venmo or Cashapp her or Donate to the Gofundme she set up.

This mixtape is made up of Phoenix+Tempe based artists, all the songs on this mixtape were recorded between 2000-2010 (mostly 2005-2009) Spending the most formative years of my life in this music scene at this time is a very complicated feeling, kinda like living in AZ. This mix tape was inspired by a conversation I had with some friends recently about how the nostalgia we have for this period of time is covered in a sad cloud because the reason we were all making this music was because so many of us were poor, depressed, closeted, repressed…etc It was beautiful but harmful like the AZ desert.

Fans of bands that played at Modified Arts, the many art galleries on Grand Ave or house shows at this time should be excited about the artists featured on this mix. It was very hard to narrow down to fit this 60 minute tape.

Related Records artists featured on this tape include TREASURE MAMMAL, Rocky from TURQOUIZ NOIZ/SWEATLODGE old band SKINWALKERS, members of FATHERS DAY's short lived twilight-themed electro-punk band THE CULLENS, the short lived pop-punk band VIGILS and the short lived-post-UGGAMUGGA solo project by Tristan Jemsek GILMORE GRRRLS.
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PLUS! very rare and hard to find tracks from Stephen Steinbrink's old bands BLACK FEET, FRENCH QUARTER & MY FERAL KIN, Preston Bryant's old band BUSINESSMAN'S LUNCH before he joined AJJ, a rare track from the original 2006 lineup of SOFT SHOULDER, a rare track from ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD that was previously only available on a local Shizz compilation and a bunch more stuff that I think is great.

THE DEBUT ALBUM FROM TURQOUIZ NOIZ IS ALMOST HERE!