We just wanted to let everyone know that the Farewell, Dreamer tanks will be restocked very soon! Keep an eye out at districtkillsrecords.storenvy.com! 

I don’t have the slightest clue as to how Tumblr works.

Here at District Kills Records, we try to be very friendly, and very accommodating, we’re a part of the music community, and we want anyone in the music community to be able to reach us if they need to. As a result of that, Wes and I make our e-mail addresses, phone numbers, personal facebook profiles, and so on, very accessible, and very public. It’s not hard to track down our information for a reason, we want you all to get in touch with us, we want to be your friends that you don’t hesitate to get in touch with if you need help with anything.

However, there is a line that has to be drawn at some point. If you are in a band that hopes to work with DKR someday, the best thing you can do is fill out the submission form on our website, it covers everything we need to know initially, and we’ll be in touch with you, we will respond to every submission. If you don’t hear back after awhile, we sincerely apologize, but that happens sometimes, we get a lot of submissions. So if you don’t hear back from us in about a month, send one of us an e-mail personally, and we will certainly get back to you. Incessantly calling and e-mailing us, however, is not the best way to go about it.

If you are in a band, and you want us to sign you, taking our phone numbers, and calling us when we’re trying to sleep, especially when you haven’t filled out a submission form, is NOT a way into our hearts. Follow our procedures, and you’ll be in much better favor with us. It takes a lot of work to be in a successful band, and some of that work includes having a sense of common courtesy, and the ability to follow directions, and if you circumvent those qualities in order to aggressively pursue having your band signed, we do not think that is an admirable quality.

Our numbers are not hard to find, if you have ever sent us an e-mail, or found us on Facebook, you have it. And we’re not going to change our habits, we’re not going to take our numbers down, or try and hide them. But we do ask for a bit of courtesy and common sense from your part.

And to further prove that, if you don’t have Wes or my contact information, here it is:

Mike Hogan

Mike@DistrictKills.com

301-706-2896

Wes Doyle

Wes@DistrictKills.com

401-743-4238

Hey, everybody, Hogan here, I have some slightly unfortunate news, nothing catastrophic, just a drawback, and I wanted to take a second and bring it to everybody’s attention…

There has been a slight delay with the production of the Farewell Dreamer CDs, there was a little bit of a mix up with the company that does the packaging of our albums, and we had to correct that mistake, so it delayed everything a little bit. So the album will be going out as soon as we get it in, and once I get some more information on that, I’ll be posting another blog letting you all know when you can expect to be able to get the CD online, and at the Farewell Dreamer shows. The shirts, on the other hand, are in, so if you’re interested in those, you can definitely pick one of those up.

Now, at this point, we should have gotten in touch personally with everybody that pre-ordered the album, but if you haven’t, please send me an e-mail immediately at Mike@DistrictKills.com and we’ll figure out what went wrong, and why you didn’t get an e-mail from either Wes or I.

That being said, since there has been some delay, the pre-order package is still active, so if you want it, and you haven’t gotten around to it yet, head over to www.districtkillsrecords.com click “Store” and you can check out all the packages we offer for the new FD album.

I also wanted to take a chance in this little update to let you know that we have a ton of very huge updates and changes coming to DK very very soon, we can’t wait to tell you all about it. In the mean time though, we’ll be putting the finishing touches on it over the next few months, so there isn’t much to tell you at the moment, but we’re quite excited about the developments so far. But be sure to get on that little Facebook contest, once we get to 2,000 fans, we’ll be giving you a clue about our next artist, and that will give you a clue about the future of DK as well, so I think you all will want to help out with that, if nothing else, you’re really going to dig the new artist!

I was just naked 5 seconds ago. Time to ramble here. Everyone, happy festival of lights. For those of you who don’t know what this mean, I’m about to tell you so sit down and grab a Twix. On Feb 20th, 2005, we played our first show. We were known as ATP (The letters didn’t stand for anything but I used to tell people it stood for “A Tiny Penis.”) Anyways, We played a four song set that actually changed my life. The songs sucked, but we were awesome live. The energy and emotion was there. It was the first time I ever played my guitar in front of people. The line up wasn’t the same line up most of you are familiar with. The line up with Jeremy, Me, Joe Milano (Bass), Rick McLaughlin (Drums), and Mike Saltriagga (Vocals). We were a shitty high school band who knew how to put on a good show. Still proud of that. Every year we try to get whoever was involved in ATP/Avenida and on this glorious holiday that only means something to us. It was the start of amazing friendships that still burn brighter than most today.

That was six years ago. It’s been a long ride. We really didn’t take our band seriously until 2009, so until then we were just having fun playing music in our youth and that’s what it’s about. Most bands today are so focused on being rockstars or in it for money or girls. Fuck that. We are in this because we love music. We have always kept our integrity. We are also friends, best friends, family. I consider myself lucky to have the ability to do what I do and to do it with the people who I am doing it with.

What does the future hold for Avenida? We took about half a year off. We needed it. It was natural. Doing things natural is key for me. Well whats natural now is that we are getting back into auditioning for new members and writing new music. We are so close to coming back stronger than we ever have. It’s going to be an exciting new chapter. Until next time, happy festival of lights.

Jon // Avenida

PS: Here is a video of our band during that first show weekend. I apologize in advance. It shows you have far we have come though, and I think that’s awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHXlxF-jw8w&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fresults%3Fsearch_query%3Din%2Bevery%2Bcorner%2Bavenida%26aq%3Df&has_verified=1

 First off, I want to extend a huge thank you to anyone that has pre-ordered the Farewell Dreamer album so far, and for those that would like to check out the pre-order package, head over to the online store, it’s online right now. Second, for those of you that haven’t seen it, Farewell Dreamer’s new music video for “Instinct” off their EP is on the homepage of the DKR website. The response we’ve received has been fantastic, and it really means the world to everyone from Farewell Dreamer and District Kills.

For all of you that are wondering, the official album release will be on March 1^st, so you still have time to get those pre-orders in before the album ships out. But we will make a limited number of pre-release copies, and t-shirts available at Farewell Dreamer’s upcoming shows, starting around the end of the month, so if you would rather buy the in person, be sure and catch the band later this month. In the mean time, I hope you all enjoy the music video, if you dig it, be sure and spread the word to your friends, and come check out Farewell Dreamer on an abbreviated version of Modern Tourfare this weekend with From Atlantis, and featuring other amazing bands like jUNT, Forget Tomorrow, Pathways, As Time Will Tell, and so on, it’s going to be a great little run of shows. Check out Farewell Dreamer’s MySpace/Facebook for more information.. Thanks again everybody!

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districtkillsrecords.storenvy.com

Sup kids? Jon here. I don’t even think the others know how to use this thing yet but I will teach them in due time. We had a great night at the bar tonight. The three of us plus a bunch of close friends were there. We had the bar playing some of our favorite bands. Speaking of favorite bands, I will be spending the weekend with mine; Story of the Year. Jeremy and I are heading to St. Louis in about 12 hours to catch them play Page Avenue live in it’s entirety. Excited as fuck. I have seem them play 40 times and have a nice friendship with those dude snow. Dream come true.  It’s crazy how music can do such a thing! Anyways, we have auditions coming up with is also exciting. Brb I have to piss. So I took off my pants after I pissed and I realized I still had the tags on them. FML. I got new pants a few days ago. It happens. Where was I, let me read what I wrote so far…oh auditions! Yes I am excited. I have been writing a lot lately. It’s cool because I really value the way I play my instrument and I notice such a difference from August til now. It’s badass. I am pantless right now by the way. My main guitar, Wrathchild is in the shop right now. It’s a dark cherry red Paul Reed Smith custom 22 loaded with screaming EMGs. It sounds like a beast. My other main guitar, which I fell in love with again, is a black PRS custom 24 with a neon green border. We call it N.B. I am rambling here folks. Anyways, I am gonna go to sleep now. Oh wait, I thought of more to say. Our close friend Paul Adler (Wolves) is tracking his Jazz Funeral record right now up in Boston. It is going to be epic. I am playing a guitar solo on the song Haven. Bitchin. Have a nice day. Don’t drink and drive, drink and get laid.

Jon // Avenida

PS: Anyone interested in a Vox AC30?

PPS: Cock.

PPPS: I didn’t drink tonight. 

Hello everyone in the tumblr world. This is new for me so sorry if I suck at it. For those of you who know us and have stuck with us, thank you times a thousand. For those of you first getting to know us, we welcome you with open arms. We are a band who believes in passionate rock music that comes straight from inside. We are entering a new time for music, and I won’t lie to you, I am really curious to see where the next few years go because the last few years for music have been a weird period. However, I can tell you that the fire in our hearts is so bright that we promise you that we will deliver solid songs that are full of emotion, meaning, and pride. None of this auto-tune, cookie cut version of the previous big band, but just music that comes straight from the heart. Avenida has gone through a bunch of changes in the last few months. We are in the process of revamping for the future. After taking a few months off, we are ready to shift into high gear. It’s going to be nothing short of amazing. This is just the beginning. We look forward to taking the stage again soon and reviving passionate rock.

For those of you who have never heard us before, check out our Take Control EP on iTunes. If you like it, buy it. If not, thanks for your time. If you want a physical copy, just email Avenidarock@gmail.com with the subject “Take Control CD” and we will take it from there.

Jon//Avenida