Embassy Vinyl Show

So This weekend, on Saturday at 7pm, the first BIG FUN Family show will be taking place at Embassy Vinyl in Scranton, Pa. Embassy Vinyl is located on the corner of Adams ave and Mulberry Street in downtown Scranton. The Big Fun Bands that will be playing the event are as follows, The Agarwals, Down to Six, City of Compton and a special acoustic performance from Dom Fortese of The Faceless Shadows. I have to say im pretty excited about this show, as it will be The Agarwals first official full-band show and what a fucking first show to play! Down to Six are a pretty kick ass band from down in Wilkes Barre, whom we've had the pleasure of sorta playing with once before, City of Compton is a Scranton High School based punk band that sports not one but two acoustic folk-punk side projects, and Dom Fortese from TFS will be no doubt quite entertaining with his antics and shananagans. As I said, The show starts at 7 and its $5 at the door, but plenty of free oxygen and Dancing will be made available to patrons. So please make it a point to come out to this Bad-Ass Shindig and have a ball or two.
Namaste,
Donnie

...Tannenbaum

So, This Week is exaclty one week before The Agarwals big fucking show at Embassy Vinyl, and us here at Big Fun are tickled mo'f-ing pink... Opening that night will be Down to Six, a variable of City of Compton, and our awesome buddy, Dom Fortese from The Faceless Shadows! Also this week marks the Big Fun Records staff fieldtrip to Philly to see The Bouncing Souls and eat vegan pizza, two of our favorite things! The agenda also includes recording Joan Rivers' Botox for their split with The Crying Cusacks, which will undoubtably sell out! Joan Rivers Botox is a side project of Caleb's from City of Compton and features him on guitar and vocals and some friends on washboard and other various instruments, so it should come out sounding so good your ears will orgasim... mine are just thinking about it! So July 23rd at Embassy Vinyl, Joan Rivers Botox/Crying Cusacks Split August 2nd and The Agarwals and Faceless Shadows opening for Flatfoot 56 at Elenor Rigby's (selling tickets btw)
Keep it posted and also check out this blog! : mylifeastom.blogspot.com
Nama Nama Namaste,
Donnie Donnie

"And then she said..."

So we are getting closer to the release of the Joan Rivers Botox/Crying Cusacks Split ep on August 2nd, closer to the Embassy Vinyl Show July 23rd featuring The Agarwals, City of Compton, Dom from The Faceless Shadows and Down to Six, and ALSO closer to the Flatfoot 56 show at Elenor Rigbys in Jermyn Pa on Aug. 7th that will feature both The Agarwals and The Faceless Shadows! Things are really heating up round these parts! More info on the initial release of the Split EP: 50 copies will be pressed in the first run, each copy numbered;There will be front and back cover art and a pull out double sided lyrics sheet, and there will also be information inside about the two bands myself and Caleb are in and contact info for Big Fun Records, so its gonna be one awesome first pressing! hopefully we can have some goodies in the second pressing of it and the first pressing of TheFaceless Shadows upcoming album as well! Stay tuned for more info and please look up our bands on Facebook!
Nama Nama Nama
Donnie

The Agarwals are fucking coming!

SOOOOOOO we had to change the band name. We are no longer The Amadans, seeing as there are four other bands named that. so we are now The Agarwals. and while we are on the subject, The Agarwals are playing our first show on July 23rd at Embassy Vinyl in Scranton! more info as it comes
Nama Nama Namaste
Donnie

FIRST RELEASE!!!!Crying Cusacks/Joan Rivers Botox Split

BIG FUN Records is proud to prematurely announce that our first release is going to be a Crying Cusacks/Joan Rivers Botox Split! Both acts are side projects of other BIG FUN Artists, (The band currently known as)The Amadans and City of Compton respectively. A release date has not been set as of yet, but we are just so anxious about the whole thing we just had to announce it now! A "Projected" release date is set for August 2nd 2011. Hopefully nothing will hold it up to bad that it would have to get pushed back. The initial first pressing of 75 hand assembled CD packages will be made available via Embassy Vinyl on Adams ave (by the Fanciful Fox,Eden,The Bog etc.) in downtown Scranton and through the artists. Also, once a BIG FUN facebook is set up, they will be available through their in local home delivery form (donation-based delivery courtesy fee requested). I know this is alot to take in and to be spilling the beans on at once, but the goal of BIG FUN's first release by the beginning of August is being taken very seriously and is a matter of pride and legitimacy of us at B.F.R. So thanks for reading this and heres to hopefully being as excited about this as we are!
Nama Nama Namaste,
Donnie
p.s. The Split is finished, our second release will be announced and awaiting your ears. Also, planning a BIG FUN compilation near X-Mas 2011...more to come as this develops

I Know You're Looking...!!!

Hey dearest blog-viewer! I have been checking in on this since I made the blog and the stats indicate that there are infact people viewing this! SO... in order to make this as effective and awesome as possible, please feel free to "follow" this blog and POST COMMENTS!!! PLEASE!!! FOR CHRISSAAKESS!!! If comments are posted, or questions asked etc I will be more than happy to promptly respond to them! It would be really exciting to interact with this blogs audience, and really without that interaction, this whole thing is kinda pointless. So thank you for viewing, post away, and I will be ANNOUNCING OUR FIRST RELEASE VERRRRYYYY SOOOOONNN. like really really really soon! So stay posted and youll always stay informed!
Nama Nama Namaste,

Donnie

Announcing City of Compton and Pre-Thoughts on BIG FUN!

Literally just recieved confirmation that City of Compton and Pre-Thoughts are part of the BIG FUN Family now and will be putting out releases through us in the future! Check them out on Facebook please and thank you! Here's to them and Welcome to the club!
Nama,Nama,Nama
Donnie

BEGIN WITH THE END!

Greeting and Salutations!
This is Donnie from BIG FUN Records welcoming you (and ourselves) to our new blog! BIG FUN Records is a TINY, fucking TINY Punk Rock Label based out of Scranton Pa (well... Dunmore) run by Myself and my lovely and beautiful assistant, muse and goddess Amanda. We are going to be putting out releases by local punk and folk punk acts initially on a small scale as well as promoting them through the label and working our asses off to make unheard music be heard! Everything we do from the ground up is going to be entirely DIY (other than eventually releasing things on vinyl) and will be from the heart and as honest as possible. ABSOLUTELY NO BULLSHIT out of BIG FUN! No sir! We promote equality to all genders, races, sexual orientations, creeds and SPECIES! So basically if you think its cool to call someone a fag, be a racist asshole or think women are not better then men,  fuck off immediately. The purpose, or mission statement of BIG FUN is as follows: "To release artists with integrity and honesty. To put out music for local bands that arent being looked at by other labels. To be ourselves and to do it ourselves!" Pretty sweet mission statement right? ha. As of 2:53am on June 23 2011, our roster consists of The Amadans (the band im in) and The Faceless Shadows. We will hopefully have confirmation soon on another cool local punk band we would like to add to the family, but we will announce that when it happens. In the meantime, please look up The Faceless Shadows and The Amadans (listed as (The) Amadans) on Facebook, add us, like us, be our friends so on so forth!  So until next time... From both of us at BIG FUN to all of you... Nama...Nama...Namaste!