Our good friend, Bernard, aka Outputmessage, has been named as one of Urb’s 2006 Next 100 (or what they like to call “the hottest of the hot new shit”). He’s mentioned alongside the likes of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, She Wants Revenge, Ariel Pink, and I’d say about 100 more hot up and coming artists! Pick up a copy and take a gander at his dashing mug on that piece!

He’s got a song currently out on the 2CD Idol Tryouts Vol.2 compilation (Ghostly) and is about to drop his long-awaited debut full length called Nebulae (June 5, 2006 on Melodic!). He has also contributed his mad production skills on one track in the upcoming Person debut album, Entitled! Be sure to stay tuned because Outputmessage will be dropping more hits in 2006!

 

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Stamen & Pistils show this week. Special thanks to BigYawn.net for having us, and Asobi Seksu for the great show. S&P will be playing a house party with Carol Bui and others in a couple of weeks, for a benefit show to raise money for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. Check out the flyer here.

Stay tuned for the latest updates regarding Person, as we approach the release date we’ll be lacing you with information on shows, downloads, release info, new website, maybe even a remix or two. What? Nothing. Just stay tuned. In the meanwhile, get yr fix here.

In other news, the new installment of the Sockets CDr Audiozine has been released. Radel Esca has a track on it, and is featured along with the likes of Chris Grier, Guy Picciotto and Eddie Janney, Slim Castle, Echolalia, Occupational Athlete, Layne Garrett, Aaron Leitko, Dan Caldas, Justin Moyer, Rivers in Fields, Jonathan Morris, Carolina Mayorga, Gnome Hobo, Stereo Moon, Insect Factory and McCavitt|Jones. Yeah, very special set of artists on this one, and you know it. I think we should be getting some copies into our shop, but in the meanwhile, you can scoop it up here. In other Sockets related news, Stamen & Pistils recently recorded a new song for an upcoming installment, we’ll keep you posted about that, too.