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No Harm Done
"Escape"
Grave Maker
"Bury Me At Sea"
Wait In Vain
"Seasons"
Hour Of The Wolf
"Split with Lewd Acts"
Jul 02 | Wait In Vain "Seasons" e-card (full album stream) posted! "Seasons" in stores 7/9!We've posted an e-card (full album stream) for Wait In Vain's upcoming debut full length "Seasons". You can check it out here.
"Seasons" hits stores on July 9th (this coming Tuesday!)
Jun 26 | Wait In Vain, Grave Maker, Lewd Acts, No Harm Done, Outbreak on tour!Despite fuel prices, Summer time still means bands are on tour. Most of our active roster will be on the road this Summer and into the Fall months as well. Here's the latest...
- Wait In Vain kicked off a U.S. tour today, which puts them on the road till August 11th. Their debut full length "Seasons" hits stores on July 8th.
- http://www.myspace.com/waitinvain
- Grave Maker is wrapping up a North American tour this weekend, but they're not sitting still for very long. They play their record release show on July 27th with Hatebreed and then will be hitting the road for the rest of the year, including a U.S. tour through September and a Canadian tour through October (it's going to be a big one...details coming soon!). Grave Maker's debut full length "Bury Me At Sea" hits stores on July 22nd.
- http://www.myspace.com/gravemaker
- Lewd Acts are currently on the road and will out until July 27th, ending their tour at Sound and Fury festival in Southern California. They're supporting their split with Hour Of The Wolf, which hit stores on May 27th.
- http://www.myspace.com/lewdacts
- No Harm Done are currently touring the east coast. They'll be working their way south, ending the tour at this year's Significant Fest (alongside Have Heart, Verse, and more) which takes place on July 12th and 13th in Clearwater, Florida. No Harm Done's debut full length "Escape" hits stores on August 19th.
- http://www.myspace.com/noharmdonefl
- Far From Finished and Smartbomb still have a few North East shows remaining on their east coast and midwest tour. Neither band will be sitting still for long, so check back for updates. Far From Finished continue to support "Living In The Fallout" while Smartbomb are supporting "Chaos and Lawlessness". And incase you missed the update yesterday, PunkNews.org is hosting the stream of the new TF! Sampler which features the first listen at a brand new Smartbomb song from their forthcoming full length (due September 16th!)
- http://www.myspace.com/farfromfinished
- http://www.myspace.com/smartbombpunks
- Finally, Outbreak will be headed back to Japan starting July 9th. Outbreak continues to support "Failure" as well as the 2007 split with Only Crime.
- http://www.myspace.com/outbreak
Jun 25 | Free TF! CD Sampler available mid-July (or stream it NOW on PunkNews.org!) Contains new Smartbomb + lots more!Today we're psyched to offer the digital version of our first sampler. Free! Our friends at PunkNews.org are exclusively hosting the stream. Starting mid-July, you'll also be able to pick up the CD version of the sampler at a number of festivals including Warped Tour, Sound And Fury, This Is Hardcore, The Fest, and of course from most of our active roster's merch tables. We'll also be throwing them in random mailorder through MerchNow.com and RevHQ.com.
The sampler features a brand new song from Smartbomb ("Blood And Sand" from the upcoming debut full length due September 16th), a brand new song from No Harm Done ("I Decline" from the upcoming debut full length due August 19th), as well as ten other tracks from upcoming and past releases from the likes of Only Crime, Outbreak, Hour Of The Wolf, Ignite, Sick Of It All, and more.
Click here to check out the digital stream and don't forget to look out for the CD version starting mid-July!
Jun 24 | Grave Maker "Bury Me At Sea" record release show July 27th in Seattle w/ Hatebreed!Grave Maker will be playing their record release show on July 27th with Hatebreed! The show is confirmed for El Corazon in Seattle.
Advanced tickets are $20 (available at Ticketswest, El Corazon, Singles Going Steady, all Sonic Boom locations and Cellophane Square). Tickets go on sale Saturday, June 28th at 10:00 a.m.
Jun 16 | Pre-order Grave Maker "Bury Me At Sea". Package deals available!Pre-orders for Grave Maker's debut full length "Bury Me At Sea" are now available!
When you pre-order the CD by itself you get a free poster, or pre-order one of two packages.
Package #1 = The new CD, poster, and a Grave Maker t-shirt (all for 12 bucks!).
Package #2 = The new CD, poster, and a Grave Maker longsleeve (all for 15 bucks!).
"Bury Me At Sea" drops on July 22nd and pre-orders are scheduled to ship on July 17th.
Don't forget to download a free mp3 of the track "Wreckage" on our media page, or stream it from the TF! Radio (launch by clicking the radio button on the top right of every page on the TF! website) or from Grave Maker's MySpace page and Think Fast! Records MySpace page.
Jun 11 | Now streaming a brand new Grave Maker song (featuring guest vocals from Andrew of CBK)The track "Comfort In Concrete" is now available for streaming from the TF! Radio (available by clicking the radio button on the top right of any page on the TF! website) and from Grave Maker's official MySpace page. "Bury Me At Sea" hits stores on July 22nd!
Also, don't miss Grave Maker on the road. They're currently in the middle of a U.S. tour. June 14th through June 19th dates are with Killing The Dream, Ruiner, and The Carrier. You can view all the dates on our shows page
Jun 03 | Think Fast! signs No Harm Done!Think Fast! Records would like to welcome the latest addition to our ever-growing roster that has become as diverse as ever with Florida's No Harm Done! No Harm Done were quick to catch our attention, as they play a style of hardcore/punk that is not very common in the mosh-metal time warp of the Florida scene. For those unfamiliar with No Harm Done, think Lifetime, Strike Anywhere, and even Saves The Day. With countless self-booked tours (ever since the band started when they were barely teenagers who needed their parents to drive them on tour!), No Harm Done is ready to showcase their brand new full length album, "Escape". The effort was produced by Jim Siegel at The Outpost (Dropkick Murphy's, The Unseen, Give Up The Ghost) and is scheduled to hit stores and digital retailers on August 19th.
You can download a free track from "Escape" titled "One Thirty-Six AM" on the media page of the TF! website.
May 27 | Hour Of The Wolf / Lewd Acts "Split" In Stores/Online Now!Today, the Hour Of The Wolf / Lewd Acts "Split" CD/7" officially hits stores and digital retailers! The vinyl version was a nightmare for this project, with several delays (all of which were out of our control) so for those who pre-ordered the vinyl by itself or a pre-order package that contained vinyl, your order will be shipping this week. If you pre-ordered the CD by itself, your pre-order has already shipped.
Don't forget that if you can't find the release at your local record store, you can pick it up online through fine independent retailers like Interpunk,
RevHQ, and bigger online retailers like Amazon and Borders. Or if you'd prefer to download the release, you can pick it up through iTunes, DownloadPunk, or directly through the TF! Digital Store(the cheapest option!).
The split contains seven brand new songs exclusive to this release. The Lewd Acts tracks mark the bands first official release, recorded with Kurt Ballou (of Converge), with the finishing touch applied by The Blasting Room (Rise Against, Comeback Kid, NOFX).
Vinyl version contains alternate artwork and is a limited one time pressing of 666 copies (these aren't going to last very long).
You don't have to take our word for it that this split rules, you can hear for yourself...we're still streaming one song from Hour Of The Wolf and one song from Lewd Acts from the forthcoming split. You can check out "Overload" on Hour Of The Wolf's MySpace page, "Broken Kids" on Lewd Acts' MySpace page, or both songs via the Think Fast! MySpace page, and TF! Radio (radio available by clicking the boom box image on the top right of our website).
May 16 | Wait In Vain west coast tour May 22nd - June 8thWait In Vain will be touring the west coast from May 22nd till June 8th. You can view the dates on the shows page. For the rest of the country (and points beyond), don't worry, they'll be following up with more touring very soon after...we'll have updates as the dates draw closer!
May 14 | Pre-order Wait In Vain "Seasons". Package deals available!Pre-orders for Wait In Vain's debut full length "Seasons" are now available!
When you pre-order the CD by itself you get a free poster, or pre-order one of two packages.
Package #1 = The new CD, poster, and a Wait In Vain t-shirt (all for 12 bucks!).
Package #2 = The new CD, poster, and a Wait In Vain longsleeve (all for 15 bucks!).
"Seasons" drops on July 8th and pre-orders are scheduled to ship on July 2nd.
Don't forget to download a free mp3 of the title track from our Media page, or stream it from the TF! Radio (launch by clicking the radio button on the top right of every page on the TF! website) or from Wait In Vain's MySpace page and Think Fast! Records MySpace page.
Panic Records is releasing the LP vinyl version of this release.
May 05 | Punk Radio Cast giving away copies of the Hour Of The Wolf / Lewd Acts "Split"Tune into Punk Radio Cast on Monday, May 12th from 1-3pm (EST) for a chance to win 1 of 5 copies of the upcoming Hour Of The Wolf / Lewd Acts "Split" CD! Punk Radio Cast is a free, 24 hour internet based, punk rock radio station.
To learn more about Punk Radio Cast click here.
Apr 23 | Think Fast! Records signs Grave Maker!Think Fast! Records would like to officially welcome Grave Maker to our growing roster!
A lot can be said about a band who plays more than 100 shows in the first 6 months of their existence. Especially in a day and age where all it takes for certain bands to "make it" is to create a MySpace profile with glossy promo photos and tens of thousands of "fans". Grave Maker are a band who blasted out of the gate, without help from anyone. No label support, no management, and no booking agent.
Think Fast! Records co-owner Ryan O'Connor comments "Today, with the internet, there is just a sea of bands trying to get recognition. Everyone is in a band nowadays, so it's easy to get lost in the cracks. Grave Maker did what so many bands who try to get label support fail to do. They worked hard. It was easy for us hear about the buzz, because they were out on the road. It's not easy for a new band to go on tour, but they are out there making it happen." Bailey, bassist and Figure Four (Solid State Records) member adds "The chemistry of Grave Maker works well because we are a group of friends who all share similar ideas about we want to do with our lives and where we want to go with the band. We're just trying to escape the every day 9-5 jobs we've all worked and have the experiences that only ever seem to come from being on tour."
Grave Maker may be a new band, but the members have grown up in the hardcore scene. Look for the North West natives in your town before the end of 2008 supporting their debut "Bury Me At Sea". The full length effort was produced by Roger Camero (The Warriors, No Motiv) and features guests including Andrew Neufeld of Comeback Kid and Rick Jimenez of This Is Hell and Soldiers. Look for it in stores on July 22nd 2008.
We've posted a free mp3 from the track "Wreckage" on the media page of the TF! website. You can also check it out on MySpace via Grave Maker and Think Fast Records' respective MySpace pages.
Apr 21 | Think Fast! Records signs Wait In Vain!Think Fast! Records would like to officially welcome Wait In Vain to our growing roster!
Boasting a lineup consisting of Timm McIntosh (from legendary 90's hardcore act Trial) as well as Roger Kilburn (guitarist for the current melodic hardcore staple Sinking Ships), Wait In Vain is a band who have been stirring around Seattle for a few years. Having a self-released demo under their belts (later pressed onto vinyl by Catalyst Records) Wait In Vain played locally and hit the road (including tour dates with The Warriors and Set Your Goals), but problems with a consistent lineup kept them from charging forward. Fast forward to 2008. Having secured a solid lineup, Wait In Vain have teamed up with Think Fast! Records and are ready to continue to pursue the goals that they've had since the beginning.
The band is fresh out of the studio, where they tracked their debut full length effort "Seasons". The record is a monster, recommended for fans of Trial, Verse, and Burn. "Seasons" hits stores and select digital retailers on July 8th. We've posted a free mp3 from the title track on the media page of the TF! website. You can also check it out on MySpace via Wait In Vain and Think Fast Records' respective MySpace pages.
Look for Wait In Vain on tour all Spring and Summer! As dates are confirmed they'll be posted on the shows page of the TF! website.
Apr 17 | Wake Up Call on tour this Spring. May 1-10 w/ Bane and May 30 - June 20 w/ No Turning BackFor everyone on the east coast and in the midwest, don't miss Wake Up Call on tour this Spring. They'll be with Bane from May 1st through the 10th and then with No Turning Back from May 30th till June 20th. All dates with I Rise. You can find the details on our shows page.
Apr 16 | New Outbreak shirt design exclusively available from the TF! webstoreAfter three releases with Think Fast! Records, we've finally posted an exclusive shirt design for Outbreak. The artwork for the design is featured on the left and comes courtesy of Ryan Eyestone. We're really pleased with the design and it's available on t-shirts, longsleeves, hooded sweatshirts, and girl-fitted shirts. Enjoy!
Click here to check it out in the TF! webstore.
Apr 05 | Outbreak announces full U.S. tour May 9th - June 8th!"We're looking forward to getting back on the road on our home soil! It's been a long time since we've played some of the places on this tour (Evansville, Syracuse, Atlanta, Richmond, etc). We're also hitting some places we've never ever played including Tulsa, Little Rock, Tijuana, Tallahassee, and hopefully somewhere in Montana (does anyone book shows there??). Super excited. See you all soon."
You can find the confirmed dates on our tour dates page.
Mar 29 | TF! launches Digital Mp3 Store! Songs at $0.89 and full albums from $3.99 - $6.99 + free cover art and lyrics!Think Fast! Records is proud to announce the unveiling of our very own, brand new Digital Mp3 Store! After a few months in the making, we would like to give many thanks to Matteo Ferrari for his assistance on this project. His time and effort has made all of this possible.
So, what is the Digital Store all about? In the TF! Digital Store, you will be able to download full albums as well as individual tracks from nearly all of your favorite Think Fast! bands. All Mp3 files are high quality (192 kbps) and DRM free. Also, with every full album download comes a high resolution jpeg of the cover art along with the lyric sheet. The best thing about this all is that we are proud to say we offer some of the lowest prices in the digital download world. You can purchase and download individual tracks for just $0.89 and purchase and download full albums from as low as $3.99 to just $6.99. Click here to check it out.
Think Fast! releases are still available through iTunes and DownloadPunk.com with an upcoming expansion of even more availability in the digital world. But, what better place to purchase these downloads than straight from the source? And a word to the wise: It's cheapest to go directly through us, and we're the only outlet who offers the cover art and lyrics files!
To get started, you'll need a PayPal account. It's free to sign up for PayPal, and it's also one of the fastest and safest ways to make purchases online. Click here to sign up.
Mar 15 | Far From Finished to support No Use For A Name!Far From Finished is heading to Europe as the support act for No Use For A Name. The band continues to tour extensively in support of their "Living In The Fallout" CD released in the US by Think Fast! Records. Click here
to pick it up and click here to view the tour dates.
Feb 29 | Think Fast! Records signs Lewd Acts. Split with Hour Of The Wolf announced!Think Fast! Records proudly welcomes the latest edition to our roster, San Diego's Lewd Acts. You may have already read about the news in the recent issue of Revolver Magazine, but this has been a long time in the making and we're excited to finally make it official. For their first official release, Lewd Acts will be teaming up with Arizona's Hour Of The Wolf for a split that knows no boundaries. Between their four tracks, you're walking the fence of hardcore, punk, and metal. The only thing that's certain is that they're raw, honest, and dark. Recorded with Kurt Ballou (of Converge), with the finishing touch applied by The Blasting Room (Rise Against, Comeback Kid, NOFX), look for the Lewd Acts/Hour Of The Wolf split CDep to hit stores on May 27th, 2008. Vinyl version will contain alternate artwork and be a limited one time pressing of 666 copies.
For your listening pleasure, we're streaming one song from Hour Of The Wolf and one song from Lewd Acts from the forthcoming split. You can check out "Overload" on Hour Of The Wolf's MySpace page, "Broken Kids" on Lewd Acts' MySpace page, or both songs via the Think Fast! MySpace page, and TF! Radio (radio available by clicking the boom box image on the top right of our website).
Make sure to check out both bands on the road this Spring. Hour Of The Wolf has a full U.S. tour scheduled for April/May with Hit the Switch and Smartbomb. Lewd Acts has a West Coast stint planned for late March. We've got the confirmed dates posted on our shows page and more will be posted as they're confirmed.
Stay tuned for pre-order info!
Feb 25 | Hour Of The Wolf, Smartbomb full U.S. tour with Hit the Switch March/AprilJust announced is a full U.S. tour taking place in April/May with Hit the Switch (Nitro Records) along with Think Fast! Records' own, Hour Of The Wolf and Smartbomb. Hour Of The Wolf will be supporting their 2007 debut "Waste Makes Waste" and Smartbomb will be supporting their February 19th-released debut EP, "Chaos and Lawlessness". Still a few dates that are yet to be confirmed, but you can see a majority of the schedule on the shows page.
Feb 18 | Smartbomb "Chaos and Lawlessness" in stores Tuesday. AbsolutePunk.net contest, PunkRadioCast.com winnersSmartbomb's "Chaos and Lawlessness" CDep hits stores on Tuesday and all pre-orders have been shipped. Look for the release at your local independent-friendly record store, or if you'd prefer to download the album, it'll be available from select digital retailers (iTunes, DownloadPunk) very soon. As with most of our catalog, you can also pick it up online from our webstore, or from bigger retailers like Buy.com, and Amazon, or smaller retailers like Interpunk, and RevHQ.
You can download a free mp3 for the opening track here, or stream it from Smartbomb's MySpace page and the TF! MySpace page. In honor of the release, we're also making an additional track available for streaming. You can now stream "Standard Issue" via the TF! Stereo (available by clicking the stereo button on the top right of any page on our website).
If you want to try and win the new CD for free, along with a poster and t-shirt, head over to AbsolutePunk.net and enter the contest giveaway.
We'd also like to congratulate the band on placing first in the PunkRadioCast.com bi-weekly Top 40 countdown. "Throw in the Towel" was voted #1 with an impressive 460 votes, beating out the likes of Propaghandi, Flogging Molly, Anti-Flag, and Pennywise. In addition to winning the countdown, Smartbomb will be featured on the front page of Interpunk.com, and have "Throw in the Towel" put into high rotation on Punk Radio Cast - the world’s largest, punk, internet radio station. Additionally, Smartbomb will be be podcasted in Punk Radio Cast's bi-weekly, Top 5 podcast. Good job boys.
Stranger to the latest edition to the Think Fast! roster? Comprised of two fifths of the current members of No Trigger (Nitro Records) and a member of Shock Nagasaki (TKO Records), Smartbomb is no stranger to punk rock, but with the aforementioned bands' hectic touring schedules, they've been on the backburner and remained one of Massachusetts best kept secrets. In 2008, they're marching to the frontlines and are ready to take their message to the road. Stay tuned for tour dates supporting the new release!
Feb 17 | New site, ringtones, YouTube channel. Soon: New signings, mp3 store, TF! TeamAs I'm sure you noticed, we have a brand new website. This has been a long time coming and we're psyched that it's finally gone live. Not only is there a new clean look, but navigating around should be easier and, most importantly, the loading time is a little bit faster than our previous site. We'd like to thank Matteo Ferrari for lending his expertise on this massive project and for bearing with us while we gave him orders. Matteo runs a record label out of Brazil called, Hurry Up Records so be sure to check it out. Another thank you goes to Todd Pollock for providing all of the live photography that you see in the backgrounds. Todd has been documenting the hardcore/punk scene with some of the best photography around for many years and we're glad that we found a way to integrate it into our new website (although we stole the idea from Deathwish, sorry guys). There's still a few small bugs that we're working out, but for the most part, everything is functioning properly.
Along with the new website, we've finally gotten around to adding ringtones for most of our affiliated roster. They are priced at 99 cents each, which is half the price of most other ringtones sites we've found around the web. You'll find ringtones for Outbreak, Hour of the Wolf, along with our newer bands like Far From Finished and Smartbomb, and plenty more in between.
Think Fast! has joined the YouTube world with our very own channel. Check it out here and subscribe to our channel so you will be notified whenever we add new videos. We've got a bunch of new ones up already.
We'll have our very own digital store launching in the near future. Take our word that we'll have some of the lowest prices around for high quality mp3s. In the mean time, you can always find our catalog on iTunes and DownloadPunk.
Another thing to keep an eye out for is the TF! Team. This will be a new "street" team (and we use the word "street" very lightly) that will give TF! fans and fans of our affiliated roster an opportunity to receive free stuff in turn for promoting the label and our bands. We hesitate on calling it a street team because most of the duties don't require you to leave your computer, let alone march the streets. We'll have more info soon.
Keep checking back for updates, we'll have new signings to announce soon. Thank you for the continued support. 2008 is looking to be a great year for us.
Feb 15 | Bullet Treatment song featured on MTV's "Rob and Big"The February 12th episode of MTV's "Rob and Big", featured a quick clip of Bullet Treatment's "Pointless Conversation". The track comes from Bullet Treatment's debut full length "The Mistake". It was only a short 10 second clip, but we feel that it's only a matter of time before Bullet Treatment are gracing TRL. Okay, maybe not, but we still think it's pretty cool. The episode re-airs at the following times:
Wednesday, February 20th | 2:30 AM EST
Feb 13 | Think Fast! announces merchandise collaboration with Ryan EyestoneWe've got a couple of brand new t-shirt / longsleeve / hoodie designs up in our webstore courtesy of artist Ryan Eyestone. The items include a new Think Fast! design, and a new design for Smartbomb. Also, don't forget to check out the recently added Ambitions shirts.
As previously announced, we'll be continuously adding new merch designs to our webstore throughout 2008, with artwork from one of our favorite artists, Ryan Eyestone. Keep checking back in for updates.
Think Fast! Web Store
Jan 28 | Far From Finished "Roses and Razorblades" music videoFar From Finished's new video for "Roses and Razorblades" is now online. You can check it out here. Michael Gill did an amazing job with this one. The video also comes courtesy of the band's European label-home, People Like You Records. Check it out!
Jan 28 | Smartbomb "Chaos and Lawlessness" Record Release shows with Smoke or FireSmartbomb "Chaos and Lawlessness" Record Release shows have been announced. Both shows with Smoke or Fire and Fake Problems:
Feb 29 @ Knitting Factory - New York, NY
Mar 1 @ Middle East - Cambridge, MA
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