Time to pay respects to a venerable online institution - aversionline is one of the best independent music blogs out there.  Andrew is a prolific writer and super cool human being.  Most of the bands covered here are somehow linked with the hardcore scene (frequently inclined to the 90’s definition of hardcore - treading the glorious grey area between 80’s punk and 00’s metal), with a smattering of metal and even (gasp) indie rock performed by aging veterans of the aforementioned 90’s hc scene.  Andrew has been kind enough to waste precious pixels covering our humble musical output over the years and has posted a nice writeup of CITOC this week.

In other news, CITOC keeps showing up in the damnedest places.  You can find the new record at eMusic and Rhapsody this week, along with iTunes.  As you may have seen, Myspace launched their new music service this week.  Our distribution service, The Orchard, is one of the first independent labels to sign up with Myspace music, so we have a hunch that CITOC will be available there, along with our back catalog, sometime in the not so distant future.

Today is actually the “official” release date of CITOC, although those of you in the Twin Cities area have been able to get your hands on the CD at most local independent record stores for a few weeks now.  As a smaller independent band, the timing of our releases showing up in various distribution channels is occasionally somewhat flexible, as they say.  While our record went live on iTunes today, it has yet to show up in certain other stores like Rhapsody and Amazon digital, but it’s simply a matter of time at this point.  For those of you interested in the physical cd (complete with all of Jason’s killer photography), copies should be available via online stores including Amazon and BN shortly.

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Thank you so much to everyone who came out to the CD release show last night.  It was a very memorable show for us and we were thrilled to have so many friends (old and new) there with us.  Kingfield, Attention and Down And Above were all amazing and are some of the finest human beings currently performing rock music anywhere in the known universe.  It blew our minds to hear people singing along to the new songs - you’ve warmed our bitter old hearts.  The staff at the Triple Rock was awesome as always, dealing with major technical hurdles and making it look easy and sound great.  We’re looking forward to playing there again in a month for the BWR 10-year anniversary show.