New Releases From Smog Veil Records

Smog Veil Records is a indie label that began in Cleveland in 1991 then relocated to Reno Nevada seven years later, in 2005 Smog Veil moved to its current location in the Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago. Their new building has solar panels, wind turbines, a rooftop garden and 15 60 foot deep wells that will supply geothermal/cooling. All this makes SVR one of the first record labels to be certified "green".

Smog Veil still represents many Cleveland bands including Pere Ubu, Rocket From The Tombs, Face Value, Amps2Eleven, etc. SVR has recently released a few excellent releases that I have listed below with details provided from the label.
There is still about a week to order from Smog Veil if you intend your purchase as a gift for the holidays, I have tagged this and other posts that pertain to something that can be purchased, as "Stocking Stuffers".

Pere Ubu - Long Live Pere Ubu

All hail the survival of the UNfit! Brutal, lacking charm, no redeeming virtues -an album for our times.
This project, taken altogether, is a ridiculously ambitious effort. It started in the summer of 2007 as a series of songs to be inspired by Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi." One early goal was to approach the space between songs in a new way, using connective dialog and ambient noise as bridges, while remaining true to Jarry's anti-theatrical methods. This led directly to the notion of a live "radio play" that would unify the concert set. The motivation was not so much a "concept" performance but a way to manage the "silence" between songs so that the spoken word is manipulated with a jazz sensibility.[read more / buy CD]

This Moment In Black History - Public Square

Newest, latest, and greatest from the current undeniable undisputed champs of Cleveland. 13 songs, no, explosions, that the band will be ripping through on tour this Spring.
Multi-colored wax, full-color 2-sided insert, free download code included. Strictly limited to 1 and only 1 pressing of 1000.

"This Moment in Black History: a more smoking live band you are not likely to find, and their recordings live up to their explosive shows.” --Josh Razorcake

“8 out of 10…an undeniably jarring aspect of their music and the approach is unique enough to make them seem like visionaries in the stagnant world of hardcore punk.” --Joe Tacopino, PopMatters.com [buy LP]

Easter Monkeys - CD / DVD Combo

It’s generally accepted amongst the Cleveland cognoscenti that Easter Monkeys were the best rock ‘n’ roll band calling the city home in the early to mid 1980’s. Rock ‘n’ roll in the sense of the Ghoulardi-inspired hybrid that Cleveland is known for. The band was fronted by ex-Kneecappers Chris Yarmock, bassist Charlie Ditteaux, with Jim Jones (Pere Ubu, Home and Garden, Mirrors) amazingly creepy guitar work and Linda Hudson’s basement beat. This release collects up the band’s lone LP, comp tracks, unreleased stuff and a DVD of a 1982 gig.

'We just decided to make some noise with no real idea of what we were doing. We certainly didn’t think it would turn into a band, and we were really surprised when people kept coming to see us!' --Jim Jones Your Flesh magazine, 1992.

NOTE: the download version has extra tracks! [buy CD / DVD]