October 20, 2007
We're back from the honeymoon and ready to start filling orders. thanks for everyone's patience. Everything should ship out by Tuesday, October 22 at the latest.



May 26, 2007
Animal Collective live box set news: the is no news. please don't write and ask about it -- We don't have anything to tell you. We have not begun production on it. If there's news about it, you'll read about it here, trust me. But from here on out all messages from nervous AC fans are going to be deleted -- I can't answer the same question over and over again; when there's news, you'll know because it'll be up here. Promise.

If you're hyperventilating about missing it, sign up for the Fusetron Records email list -- they will be the exclusive distributor for it and if you're on their email list, you'll definitely hear about it.

Other than that, things have been moving slow, but rest assured there will be new stuff coming along soon. Just hold your horses.


December 17, 2006
It's funny; if we don't post a new piece of news for a while we hear nothing about it for many weeks until, like some sort of cosmic synchronicity, EVERYONE starts to write in to see what's what with the label.

The truth is there's nothing concrete to report right now, but I'll let you all in on the upcoming projects we are working on. But: if any of you tries to preorder these things we will be VERY UPSET. So don't try. If you are worried about missing Catsup Plate stuff, why not sign up for the Fusetron Records email list? They always have C-Plate stuff long after we're sold out here.

Okay, so here's what we have planned: a Black Dice 12" with poster, a Mountains LP and an Animal Collective live 3LP set. All of these will be somewhat limited, but again, if you preorder you're just pissing us off as we have no list and no real good way to keep track of you. Sign up with Fusetron and you'll get a copy, I swear.

We'll be out of the "office" for a week or so starting this Wednesday for a little Christmas R & R, but will be back on Wednesday the 27. Any orders we get in that time will be processed when we get back. Thanks.


June 26, 2006
We're back, quicker than you'd have thought we'd be. We wanted to announce the publication of GORE, a book of art, collage, and photography by our friends Black Dice and Jason Frank Rothenberg. It's a crazy mix of visuals, with more eye candy that you can probably stand.

Because we (in the guise of our alter-ego, the design company, SEEN) did the design layout and a few of the pages ourselves we have some copies to sell. You can preview the book here and therein you'll find links to ordering, etc. (the book is now out of print).

Not entirely sure what the protocol is for stuff like this, but there are a few images that somewhat border on the "mature," so if you seem like you're twelve years old, we may hit you up for parental permission (although, jeez, its art and not all that salacious considering what you could find with a few mouse clicks).

Anyways, check it out; we're psyched about it.

Oh yeah; and if you're still looking for copies of the split Axolotl and The Skaters LP, hit up Fusetron. They still have some (and a lot of other savory treats as well).


June 8, 2006
Okay, people: I've got some bad news (or good, depending on your outlook). Demand for the Axolotl/The Skaters LP has been so high that we WILL NOT have copies for mailorder. At least for now. We may try and repress the record and there has also been talk of a CD issue. We will see. In the meantime, all the usual distributors will have copies. Folks who are in an especial hurry are advised to hit up the fine folks at Fusetron. Other distributors should have copies in-hand within a week or so. Many apologies, but it is all out of our hands. We'll post something here if/when a repress happens.

In the meantime, please don't beg us for copies or ask to pre-order the as-yet-not-even-confirmed repress, etc., etc. We really don't have copies, nor can we handle the logisitical nightmare that is a waiting list. Just look around. And remember: its only a record.

April 3, 2006
Wow. Has it really been overthree months since our last update? We're still in a bit of a holding pattern here—the new split LP betwixt The Skaters and Axolotl is held up at the pressing plant, but will hopefully be ready within 5 weeks or so. We'll let you know once it is ready (or sign up for our Yahoo!-style budget mailing list: catsupplate-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ), with a real update soon, promise.

But we DID want to hip you NYC-based folks to an upcoming bebefit show for our freinds at the ever-awesome Anthology Film Archives. Should be a good time, here's the info:

ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES IS PROUD TO PRESENT
A Save our Films Benefit concert
Featuring:
Gang Gang Dance
with Growing
April 9th 2006
Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 8pm
$20 limited tickets available at www.ticketweb.com <http://www.ticketweb.com> <http://www.ticketweb.com/>
OR Anthology Box Office @ 32 Second Ave at 2nd Street in the East Village

After Party: 10.30pm
Lit Lounge ~ 93 2nd Ave
Special DJs w/ Rare Punk music and more
Complementary beer from our sponsors w/ ticket

Friends and Sponsors:
Gang Gang Dance, Growing, Pabst Blue Ribbon, East Village Music Store, Moonshot Beer, Edison Beer, Kayrock Screenprinting, Rance Brown

December 21, 2005
First, and most importantly, we will be out of town for Christmas, so any orders we receive between now and January 1 will go out upon our return. Thanks for your understanding.

Our next release—a split LP betwixt Skaters and Axolotl is being mastered right now. Not sure what the official release date on this one will be, but it should be early in the new year—late January or February hopefully. We're super-excited about this one folks; the unmastered version is on near continual rotation around here.

I think that's it around here. Happy holidays. We'll see your next year...

September 17, 2005
After some delay, we are proud to announce the release of Crown of Marches by Steven R. Smith. Steven is known for his phenomenal work in Hala Strana and Thuja (among other projects), but those familiar with his previous work may be surprised by what they hear. Crown is a mammoth 40+ minute epic psychedelic guitar excursion that brings to mind everything from Keiji Haino to Popul Vuh. It is difficult to do this record justice, but suffice it to say that we have been listening to it near constantly since it landed in our lap some months back.

Short and sweet this time folks. One quick last note though: people seem confused by the lack of updates 'round here and all we can say is "patience." There are a lot of thing going on around here (meaning within Catsup Plate and without). And sometime the website gets put to the side. But more stuff will be coming, we just may not tantalize you as far in advance.

August 3, 2005
Sorry for the radio silence everyone. Things have been busy for us here, even though it seems like nothing's been happening from the look of our news section. This here update will be very short, but by the middle/end of August we'll be announcing the release of our newest release by the always amazing Steven R. Smith entitled Crown of Marches.

But for now we wanted to let you know that we'll be away for 10 days starting on Friday August 5 and ending on Sunday August 14. No orders will go out then, but will go out immediately upon our return.

More soon. Thanks for your patience.