FEATURED RELEASES
WINDED - SCHWARTZ GOES TO HEAVEN
MeanGirls - Is This Me Forever?
NOVA ONE - secret princess
DONOVAN WOLFINGTON - WAVES
POPE - TRUE TALENT CHAMPION
FISHPLATE - HEAVY HEART
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Perfectly timed with the approach of summer, we are excited to offer the full band premiere of New Orleans country/indie rock act Fishplate! Singer/songwriter Grady Bell, formerly of Grotto Girl, originated Fishplate as a solo project and spent the summer … Continue reading
Houston, TX indie rock trio football, etc. join Community Records with their third LP, Corner. Corner embodies football, etc.’s angularly affective minimalism with enveloping patterns, accessible self-examinations, and stirring-yet-melodic distortion. Corner is a perfect match for fans of Pity Sex … Continue reading
GLAND is a punk band from New Orleans, Louisiana. Their debut full length album ‘Neurotica‘ was released April 20 – 2016, Gland is: kallie van tassel, farra mones, switch, and jean trapezoid. Their second release Gland – “Is A Conspiracy” … Continue reading
Hikes is a band of friends formed in 2010 by Nathan Wilkins and Will Kauber. The two found in each other a kinship based around their shared tension between a youth spent playing in hardcore and metal bands and a … Continue reading
Until the release of Ruin Value, Keeping has been a joy for the New Orleans community; a live demonstration of three great musicians/friends’ rumination in a laid back indie haze and our scene being one that rightly celebrates itself. This … Continue reading
A 3 piece wall of sound and washed over vocals & fuzz tones. New Orleans based punk, garage, grunge, melancholia, and DIY effort. After having listening to their self titled 10 inch record almost non-stop and getting psyched at all their … Continue reading
Rising from the ashes of the Texas punk and ska outfit Detonate, Informant emerges with a progressive sound that pushes the punk and ska format even further into rarely explored musical territories. Using unique time signatures, melodic horn lines, dual … Continue reading
KIZ & LEGIN are a super rad bass & drum duo from Toronto, Canada. If you dig fuzzed out bass tone that sounds like it was recorded in a garage and gnarly riffs that lend themselves to both hip hop … Continue reading
Lisabi is a sextet from Barão Geraldo, Brazil. They combine unusual song structures, frequent shifts in tempo and soft/loud dynamics to create a punk influenced mixture of ska, jazz, latin and progressive rock. Their name pays homage to Funmilayo Kuti, … Continue reading
Maddie Ruthless is the self proclaimed (and rightfully so) Rocksteady Queen of New Orleans and officially taking back DIVA for Ska music. She has been writing reggae music and spinning records since 2007. In 2010, under their not so secret … Continue reading
Little Bags is a 4 piece pop punk band from New Orleans, Louisiana. Community Records is releasing their self titled tape. The album was recorded in October of 2013 and the project was a precursor to PEARS. 3 of the … Continue reading
Community Records is pleased to offer Austin TX band Mean Girls’ second full-length Is This Me Forever?. Singer/songwriter/guitarist Raine continues the jangling guitar and confessional lyricism shown before on Squirm (Close Quarters Coalition) with a fuller production that offers more … Continue reading
Community Records is excited to share the debut minimalist pop EP by Nova One based in Providence, RI. This is a new project from friend of the label Roz Raskin of Roz and the Rice Cakes! As Nova One on … Continue reading
Positive Energy. That’s the best two words I could come up with to describe this great group of musicians. They consistently put on stellar shows around the Richmond, Virginia & east coast areas and they do so with this main … Continue reading
Four friends who like rosemary in their beans, free stickers and downloads, New Lands is one of New Orleans’ newest emo punk outfits with a remedial math rock twist. After spending two years noodling things out, original members Josh Campbell … Continue reading
New Orleans indie trio Pope is a snapshot of the melodic, melancholic alternative rock landscape that many of those older siblings ushered us through growing up in the ‘90s. Alternating songwriters Alejandro Skalany (also of New Holland and Donovan Wolfington) … Continue reading
Hailing from Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, this 4-piece pop-punk shitstorm grabs your attention fast and doesn’t let go. Originally a side project, the band quickly gained a following by playing countless shows in their native city … Continue reading
Kalamazoo, MI’s math rock/screamo act The Reptilian make their Skeletal Lightning and Community Records debut with End Paths. Progressing from their roots on Count Your Lucky Stars and musical ancestors such as Envy and Slint, The Reptilian situates among contemporary … Continue reading
Tampa founded, Brooklyn reborn. Andy Diaz, Grayum Vickers, and Nick Dolan have spent the past year holed up in a dingy Gowanus practice space churning out a batch of songs to be released this August via Community Records. Brandishing a … Continue reading
Sexy Dex and The Fresh are an astonishingly talented New Orleanian band imbued with the most irreducible cosmic vanguard of early ‘80s funk. The group’s cacophonous pop can be said to have been embryonic in Glish, a captivating shoegaze band … Continue reading
