 "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. Pre-orders are available now on the Related Records website and on the bands bandcamp page. QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT SUMMER TOUR! 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!
IF YOU'RE IN ARIZONA...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!)  RESTOCKS!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.
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