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Benefit Ebay Auction for Cal a Raging Success

February 10, 2008 — Longtime Friend of Zach and J, Drew O'Doherty, recently assembled an unbelievable eBay auction to benefit Cal and it was a raging success. Folks donated various items (rare records from their own collections, posters/prints, test pressings, etc.), as well as rare prints, a drum lesson from Zach, a guitar lesson from Geoff Farina of Karate, an Evens poster signed by Ian McKaye and Amy Farina, signed Mission of Burma one-sided singles, and various other completely awesome miscellany. The results were astounding, raising over $5,000 for J and Janet's ongoing health care needs for Cal.

Posted by Bill

New "Jawbox on Cello" Benefit Release for Cal

Gordon Withers

Longtime fan and cellist Gordon Withers realized that now was the time to dust off the Jawbox cello arrangements he'd written for a college project back in 2000.

Earlier this year, he hooked up with producer and songwriter Alex Nelson and headed into Alex's Ft. Lauderdale studio. The result is Jawbox on Cello: A Benefit for Cal Robbins, a collection of twelve Jawbox songs, several from each of our four albums, arranged for cello ensemble. Gordon released the collection digitally on December 18, but sometimes we're a little slow on the uptake around here. Gordon is something of a cello wizard; he played all the parts on the album, as he puts it, "using the wide dynamic range of the cello to highlight Jawbox's amazing melodies and song-craft, which were formerly often hidden behind their walls of guitar distortion." You can buy this benefit comp from Amazon or iTunes, as well as many other usual haunts for digital downloads.

Learn more about Gordon here.

Posted by Bill

Final Two Jawbox Releases Available ... Again

We bought the rights back from Atlantic to re-release the long-out-of-print final two releases from Jawbox. For Your Own Special Sweetheart and Jawbox are downloadable from iTunes! Read more >>

Posted by Bill

OTHER NEWS BITS

American Apparel women's wear.

4.30.05 Hey ladies! Just to make double-sure you're aware, we've now got DeSoto tees in our shop, and I spent a LONG time (I'm serious) sampling loads of different styles/cuts to achieve the perfect women's fit, feel, and look. The DeSoto women's tees are NOT baby tees; they're just cut for women and they're soft as hell. So are the kiddie tees, also from American Apparel. And the men's Fruit of the Loom shirts with contrast stitching are bad-ass too. Take a looksie! shop »

Posted by Melissa

 
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02.11.08 New Edie Sedgwick tour dates with Joe Lally read »
02.10.08 Unbelievable Ebay benefit auction for Cal was Awesome read »
01.05.08 Gordon Withers releases Jawbox on Cello: A Benefit for Cal Robbins read » or buy from iTunes »
11.26.07 Latest update on Cal read »
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04.22.07 PLAY kids t-shirts in the Shop. Sheep with headphones, oh yeah! shop »
 
 
03.24.07 Zach Barocas and the Cultural Society release benefit CD for Cal, with Arcwelder, Mission of Burma, Jawbreaker, Travis Morrison, Joe Lally, Maritime and many more shop »
12.18.06 Jawbox Atlantic records on iTunes! We bought the rights back from the big boys - the last two Jawbox records are now back in (downloadable) print! shop »
Release Various Artists: PLAY read »
Rant News of various stripes, December, 2007 read »
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