Living Dead Format

Do you recognize who did the album art for this split?  It was done by the one and only Mitch Clem!  I’m a pretty big fan of Mitch Clem’s work.  I first got into his online comic, Nothing Nice To Say, back in 10th Grade by the cute punk rock asian girl who sat next to me in German class, that is when she wasn’t ditching school.  Sigh, but enough about old crushes.  Over the years, Mitch Clem has done a number of different online comics, published a book of Nothing Nice To Say comics, done art for ‘Zines like Razorcake and the album art for an ever increasing number of bands, like The Ergs!… But enough of me nerding out about Mitch Clem’s work.  So a while back he announced on his blog, http://rainofbastards.livejournal.com/ , that he was going to be starting his own record label called Facepalm Records.  I’ve been pretty stoked and waiting for this thing to come out for a while.  So you can imagine the joy that I felt when I got this treasure in the mail this week.  I tore the package open as quickly as I could and tossed it onto my turntable.  I was happy to see  the clear vinyl and a sticker of some of Mitch Clem’s work that came with the 7”.  This is the first release of Facepalm Records, which is “A member of the Silver Sprocket Family”, and this pressing is limited to 550 copies that all come on clear vinyl!, and you know me and my thing for colored vinyl.  But I think it’s time that I start talking about the actual music on this pretty little vinyl disk.  It was really hard for me to pick the song from this 7” to upload, seriously.  Both bands Shang-A-Lang and Brickfight fucking rock pretty damn good here.  After listening to the record a couple of times I finally decided to go with Wishing Wells by Shang-A-Lang.  I hope y’all enjoy this song as much as me.  Shang-A-Lang, on this release, is Chris on guitar and vocals, Tommy on guitar and vocals, Tucker on bass and Andy on Drums.  This is a must have if you’re a Mitch Clem fan, like me, or just a fan of good punk rock, straight up.  Get this shit before it’s gone and check out Brickfight’s and Shang-A-Lang’s other stuff, too, I think you’ll like what you hear.  I’m excited to see more from Facepalm Records.