| Curb Appeal Records | |
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| Founded | 2006 |
| Founder | Jim Suptic, Al Duffy, Enrique Chi, Alex Brahl |
| Genre | Alternative rock indie rock |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Location | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Official website | Curb Appeal Homepage |
Curb Appeal Records was an American record label founded in Kansas City, Missouri by The Get Up Kids guitarist and Blackpool Lights frontman Jim Suptic.
In July 2005, The Get Up Kids split up, leaving the members to pursue their own side-projects. This allowed guitarist Jim Suptic to devote his full attention to his new band Blackpool Lights, composed of himself and former members of Butterglory and The Creature Comforts. Rather than accepting an offer from Vagrant Records to sign the band, Suptic decided that he wanted to start over from scratch, and in doing so, created Curb Appeal Records. Suptic co-founded the label with Al Duffy, a Kansas City entrepreneur who had previously run a beer distributor, Enrique Chi, a publicist who had worked with Vedera and Reggie and the Full Effect, and Alex Brahl, who had previously worked at Vagrant Records, in addition to having produced The Get Up Kids' second album, Something to Write Home About. [1] In the summer of 2006, the label released their first album, Blackpool Lights' This Town's Disaster. Soon afterward they signed the band 8mm, and in September of that year released their second album Songs to Love and Die By. [2]
In 2007, The New Amsterdams, fronted by Suptic's old bandmate Matt Pryor announced that they were leaving Vagrant, and that they would be releasing their next album At the Foot of My Rival on Elmar, a collaboration with Curb Appeal Records. [3] On October 29, 2007 Curb Appeal announced they had signed The Last Almanac to the label, and would be releasing their new album A Memoir in 2008. [4] In 2008, it was announced that legendary rock band Smoking Popes would be releasing Stay Down, their first album in 11 years on Curb Appeal records. The album was released digitally through the iTunes Store in spring 2008, and the physical album will be released in stores on August 5, 2008.
The label is no longer in existence, having quietly shut down some time in 2008. While the exact details remain unknown, Suptic commented in a 2009 interview with Lawrence.com that it "blew up in his face." [5]
Something to Write Home About is the second studio album by American rock band the Get Up Kids, released on September 28, 1999, through Vagrant Records and the band's own label Heroes & Villains Records. Following the promotional tours for their debut album Four Minute Mile (1997), the band were in discussion with Mojo Records. During this period, James Dewees joined as the band's keyboardist. As negotiations with the label eventually stalled, they eventually went with Vagrant Records. They recorded their next album at Mad Hatter Studios in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California, co-producing it with Chad Blinman and Alex Brahl. Described as an emo, emo pop and pop-punk album, Something to Write Home About expands on the harder edge of its predecessor, with frontman Matt Pryor citing the works of the Foo Fighters, Jimmy Eat World and Wilco as influences.
The Get Up Kids are an American rock band from Kansas City, Missouri. Formed in 1995, the band was a major player in the mid-1990s Midwest emo scene, otherwise known as the "second wave" of emo music. Their second album Something to Write Home About remains their most widely acclaimed album, and is considered to be one of the quintessential albums of the second-wave emo movement. They are considered forefathers of the emo genre, and have been widely credited as being an influence, both with contemporaries like Saves The Day and later bands like Fall Out Boy, Taking Back Sunday and The Wonder Years.
The New Amsterdams is an American band featuring Matthew Pryor of The Get Up Kids. In a certain sense, they represented the acoustic counter-project to The Get up Kids. In contrast to The Get Up Kids, this project features acoustic guitars, the accordion, wind instruments, strings, and mature elements of American folklore. Among the members were also numerous musicians and contributors of The Get Up Kids and other friendly bands.
Four Minute Mile is the debut studio album by American rock band The Get Up Kids.
Vagrant Records is an American record label based in California. It was founded in 1995 by Rich Egan and Jon Cohen. The label focuses on rock, but features artists in a variety of other genres including folk, soul, electronic, and pop. It is home to artists such as The 1975, Death Spells, Eels, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, CRUISR, Active Child, PJ Harvey, School of Seven Bells, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, James Vincent McMorrow, Black Joe Lewis, Wake Owl, Blitzen Trapper, and Bombay Bicycle Club. Originally, Vagrant Records was mostly focused on emo bands such as Dashboard Confessional, Saves the Day, The Get Up Kids, Senses Fail, and Alkaline Trio. The label is considered one of the pre-eminent labels of the emo music scene.
Guilt Show is the fourth studio album by American rock band The Get Up Kids. It was released on Vagrant Records on March 2, 2004.
James Matthew Dewees is an American musician best known for his work with The Get Up Kids, Reggie and the Full Effect and My Chemical Romance. He has also been involved in other musical projects including New Found Glory, Coalesce, Leathermouth, and Death Spells.
Blackpool Lights is an American indie rock band founded in Kansas City, Missouri, by The Get Up Kids guitarist Jim Suptic, bassist Brian Everard, and drummer Billy Brimblecom.
Smoking Popes is an American pop punk band from the northwest suburbs of Chicago. They are composed of brothers Matt Caterer (bass), Josh Caterer and Eli Caterer and Mike Felumlee (drums).
Matt Pryor is an American musician who lives in Lawrence, Kansas. He is best known as a founding member of The Get Up Kids, one of the most influential acts of the second-wave emo music scene.
This Town's Disaster is the first studio album by American indie rock band Blackpool Lights. Released in June 2006, it is the first album to be released on Curb Appeal Records, the indie record label co-founded and owned by the band's lead singer/guitarist Jim Suptic. The album was recorded a year before its release in 2005, but could not be released until Curb Appeal was fully functional.
Koufax was an American indie rock band from Toledo, Ohio.
Robert Pope is an American musician, best known as the bassist for Spoon and The Get Up Kids.
Billy Brimblecom, Jr. is a drummer from Kansas City, Missouri.
Jim Suptic is an American musician and entrepreneur, best known for being the guitarist for the rock band The Get Up Kids.
"Shorty" is a song by American rock band The Get Up Kids. The single was self-funded, and was a major catalyst for the band's early success, gaining the attention of several record labels including the band's future label Doghouse Records.
Stay Down is the fifth studio album by the American, Chicago-based pop punk group, Smoking Popes. Released on Curb Appeal Records on August 5, 2008, it was the band's first studio album since their 2005 reunion and their first album of original material since 1997's Destination Failure. It's the only Smoking Popes album to feature drummer Ryan Chavez, who joined the band in 2006.
There Are Rules is the fifth studio album by American rock band The Get Up Kids, the band's first studio album release since 2004's Guilt Show. After their initial reunion, the band decided to challenge themselves to write and record an album in only two weeks without using any digital technology. Ultimately, due to conflicting schedules, they dropped the two-week deadline and recorded over several months in 2009 and 2010. Much of the album was recorded in the same sessions as their first post-reunion release, Simple Science, the song "Keith Case" being featured on both.
Okie Baroque is an EP by American indie rock band Blackpool Lights. After touring to support their 2006 debut album This Town's Disaster, the band dissolved in 2008 for unknown reasons. In early 2010 after the reunion of lead singer Jim Suptic's other band The Get Up Kids, it was announced on Twitter that Blackpool Lights had reunited and was recording new material. The album was released online on November 30, 2010.
"Automatic" is the first single from The Get Up Kids' album There Are Rules. After the band's breakup in 2005, "Automatic" was the first single released by the band since their reformation in 2008.
