We have been wrapping up production of 2 new great cd’s. Global Seepej and Nadamucho.com Present: Sounds from the Seattle Underground, and At the Spine’s 4th album, “Vita”

1. Global Seepej Records and Nadamucho.com Present: Sounds from the Seattle Underground. This great new summer compilation has come together after several years of Mike kicking this idea around with Nada captain Matt Ashworth. 17 great local songs compiled from over 300 Puget Sound area submissions. bands include At the Spine, The Tea Cozies, Head Like a Kite, Hazelwood Motel,The Lonely Forest, Pufferfish, Amateur Radio Operator, Chris Klepac, The Wastelanders, WhoTheHells, Iceage Cobra, Eastern Grip, C-Leb & A-Bro, The Endeavors, Spaces, Katherine Hepburn’s Voice, and Elder Mason. A stellar line-up. Look for a cd to be in stores July 1 and check out the upcoming CD showcases where all attendees will get a free advance copy of the compilation:

Thursday, 6.26.2008 @ Mars Bar/ Café Venus, 609 Eastlake Ave E., Seattle, WA,. Global Seepej 12th Anniversary Party Kickoff for NadaMucho.com’s/GSR compilation: Sounds from the Seattle Underground! FREE!
11 p.m. C-LEB & A-BRO www.myspace.com/ceeleb
10 p.m. Hazelwood Motel www.myspace.com/hazelwoodmotel
9 p.m. Chris Klepac www.myspace.com/chrisklepac
7 p.m. Listening party and happy hour. 9 p.m. Show FREE!!!!
www.cafevenus.com/indexa.html

Friday, 6.27.2008 @ Sunset Tavern, 5433 Ballard Ave., Seattle, WA. Night 2 of Global Seepej 12th Anniversary celebrating NadaMucho.com’s/GSR compilation: Sounds from the Seattle Underground. Details TBA.
12 a.m. ELDER MASON www.myspace.com/eldermason
11 p.m. The Lonely Forest www.myspace.com/thelonelyforest
10 p.m. Eastern Grip www.myspace.com/easterngrip
9 p.m. Pufferfish www.myspace.com/thepufferfish
9 p.m. $8. ALL ATTENDEES GET A FREE COPY OF THE CD!!!
www.sunsettavern.com/

Saturday, 6.28,2008 @ High Dive, 513 N 36th, Seattle, WA. Night 3 of Global Seepej 12th Anniversary celebrating NadaMucho.com’s/GSR compilation: Sounds from the Seattle Underground. At the Spine with Ice Age Cobra, The Tea Cozies and Who The Hells.
12 a.m. ICEAGE COBRA www.myspace.com/iceagecobra
11 p.m. The Tea Cozies www.myspace.com/teacozies
10 p.m. At the Spine www.atthespine.org
9 p.m. WhoTheHells www.whothehells.com
9 p.m. $8. ALL ATTENDEES GET A FREE COPY OF THE CD!!!
www.highdiveseattle.com/

2. At the Spine, “Vita”. Here is the lowdown:

Vita is the fourth album in five years for the Seattle born and based band At the Spine. This album was mainly written in Europe after main ATS songwriter Mike Toschi (Toe-skee) left the states in the final days of 2006. Having grown increasingly disenchanted and frustrated with the political “conservatism” of the country and the continual corruption of industry and government, Toschi secured a six-month work permit for the UK and left to explore music, culture, people, and politics of Europe, unsure if he would return.

On New Year’s Eve of 2006, a few days into his visit, Toschi was jumped by five males (claiming to be from Iraq) after a trivial verbal exchange near Trafalgar Square in central London. After a few days of recovery, he began working as a privatized substitute teacher in a stretch known as “Murder Mile” in the Hackney section of London. Flashbacks of teaching in the South Bronx were constant and depressing. He found the same poverty, segregation, and failing state school system, but in a country with less armed citizens where kids would call you “sir” while treating you like dirt.
As an “American” during an unpopular war and president, teaching children in England’s class stratified system was not a pleasant situation. But as London was not a cheap place to live, he plugged onward in various teaching assignments, taking advantage of all school breaks and the strength of the British currency to explore the rest of Europe and write songs.

Like life everywhere, there were good times and bad times: beauty, ugliness, lust, love, sex, kind hearted strangers, thugs, and thieves. The isolation and loneliness of being an “immigrant” away from the lifelines of home. Hitchhiking into the mountains of Emilia Romagna to search for and find relatives in a village of 100 people. Spending a week in Barcelona, or a day passing through southern France. Struggling to crack into the London/EU music scene. An occasional night homeless or stranded in the middle of nowhere. Loving, hating, thinking, and reflecting. “Vita”, Latin and Italian for “life”. Sometimes sour, sometimes sweet.

After seven months struggling to find a drummer in London, Toschi returned to the U.S., reconstituted the At the Spine and began experimenting with and polishing the songs written abroad. Re-joining him were drummer Chris Croft and guitar wizard Richie Parish. Adding some new blood and ideas on bass, guitar, and organ was an old Seattle skateboarding and music friend from his youth, Doug Starcevich. The album was recorded in Portland, OR with longtime friend and engineer Rob Bartleson (Wilco, Pink Martini, Pond, etc.) at Haywire recording in Portland, OR, with additional tracking done in Seattle.

AT THE SPINE: Sonic Resistance
The third and best album yet by the Seattle based power trio. Check out songs and purchase a copy now at Sonic Boom, Easystreet Records, Silver Platters, Everyday Music, and Cellophane Square in the Seattle area. YOU CAN HEAR TRACKS & PURCHASE THIS NEW RELEASE AT:: CD BABY.

Saturday May 19th, 2007
AT THE SPINE, “Sonic Resistance” CD #3 RELEASE!!! @ Sunset Tavern, Seattle, WA. With:
The Whore Moans, Ice Age Cobra,
The Wastelanders (Bellingham, CD release).
9pm, $7. This is also a benefit for Real Change Newspaper.
Presented by: Nadamucho.com

National press & radio campaign is underway, so if you live near a decent independent radio station, start politely calling & requesting the tunes!

First review:”Making lasting, politically-minded rock music without sounding didactic is nearly impossible. At the Spine have been bravely walking that fine line over the course of two solid albums, and find the perfect balance their third time around with Sonic Resistance.” (Editor, NadaMucho.com, April 2007).

THE TOUCHERS: The Underwater Fascist
In their own words: “In the banal,bloated and completely corporate modern (rock) horse shit that is supposedly alternative or indie, one finds little hope for anything original and full of hate for the mainstream and its culture of doom and class warfare. Rising from the voluptuous mountains of Montana comes The Touchers, carrying the ethics and ideals of the late seventies early eighties punk scene. FUGAZI, NATION OF ULYSSES, MINUTEMEN, FLipper–minor threat, BLACK FLAG, DEAD KENNEDYS, the Stooges and X. Ramones, heartbreakers, Daniel Johnston, tom waits and the butthole surfers, Frank Black, etc so we have a twang and a taste of johnny cash and Willie Nelson but the Fury of THE Jesus Lizard or the melvins.”

Enough said? BUY THIS ALBUM NOW AT: CDBABY! Catch them live on tour. This music will make you dance.

10 Years of Rock, Roll, and Resistance. Saturday, December 9th at the legendary Comet Tavern (922 E Pike St, Seattle, WA). 9 pm doors. At the Spine, The Plains, Solyoni and special guests. The first 100 pints of beer will be free!

Global Seepej Records is celebrating 10 years of our efforts to support the many variations of the NW music scene.

GSR was founded in 1996 as a multimedia venue to support musicians, artists, writers, poets, journalists, and filmmakers that support and participate in the struggle for social, economic, and environmental justice.

We may not be the biggest, best, or richest label in town, but we do what we can in a crooked industry with the time and money that we have.

OCTOBER 2006

At the Spine, Saturday October 21st, Sunset Tavern, Nadamucho.com B-Day Bash

At the Spine is back from 7 months of self-imposed exile in UK & EU and has kindly been asked to headline the annual NadaMucho.com Birthday Bash on Saturday October 21st at the Sunset Tavern. This will be our first show back in the USA and a great to chance to celebrate with us and anyone that you know who has a birthday around this time. With: Open Choir Fire and Eastern Grip, both great bands. 9pm doors, $6.

We’ll be doing our best to light it up and celebrate this event in rock n roll style.

MARCH 2006

At The Spine video for First Day of Spring

• Video recorded and filmed at the Sunset Tavern in Seattle early 2005. View First Day of Spring video.

FEBRUARY 2006

At The Spine video for Another Day

• Recorded and filmed at the Sunset Tavern in Seattle during the last show of the 2005 tour. View Another Day video.

JANUARY 2006

GLOBAL SEEPEJ RECORDS NEWS for Winter 2006
(*for the most up to date news please visit band webpages)

• AT THE SPINE are home from a 9 week US tour and Mike is in the UK/Europe trying to rock. They are halfway done with their 3rd album. GO-KART records of Germany has put the song "Kiss and Remeber" on a new compilation album and they are expecting to press between 20,000 and 80,000 copies.
• THE PLAINS are playing around the NW and completeing work on their second album.
• BONOBO PROJECT are rockin the PDX.
• SOLYONI are wraping up their second album of quirk pop masterpieces.
• BIT PART’s Aaron Goodrich is filling flesh with ink at his new tattoo shop in Portland. For details visit: www.inkyaaron.com/ Someday Mike will finish tracking all the instruments on the album they have recorded.
• COLIN SPRING is also home from a 9 week tour supporting his new album "How I Came to Cry Theses Tears of Cool" and is now a resident of Portland, OR. He has several NW shows lined up.
• GRANT COGSWELL & DAN GILDARK have been hard at work on their film about "Cthulhu". Check it out at: http://www.cthulhuthemovie.com/
• THE HELP lives on in legend only…

Best wishes in the ought-six! -Mike

MARCH/APRIL 2005

SHOWS

Thursday, April 28, 2005
See it First Showcase
See It First, with Plan B, At the Spine, Fey Ray, Touchdown Eagle
Neumo’s Crystal Ball and Reading Room
925 East Pike St
Seattle, Wa 98122
21 and up
Doors 8p, Show 9p

Another gloriously diverse bill filled with the best in emerging Seattle bands. Touchdown Eagle may just be the best band K Records never signed. They’ll lead things off at NadaMucho.com’s 10th See it First showcase at Neumo’s on April 28. Their beautifully simple/sweet indie rock boy/girl harmonies will segue nicely into the slightly more aggressive tone of Fey Ray, a group of accomplished players who deliver smart indie-rock with glorious vocals and sometimes complex song structures. At the Spine will crank the volume up yet another notch as the edgy three-piece tears through tracks from its recently-released sophomore album First Day of Spring. The band mixes Fugazi guitars with edgy precision, loud/soft dynamics and tuneful songwriting. SXSW/CMJ graduates Plan B will cap the night off with a sweaty, funky, instrumental hip-hop dance party that calls to mind DJs Shadow and Krush without blatantly mimicking either.

Neumo’s