Hello everyone,

I'd like to take a second to introduce myself.  I've been a member of this
list for several months now and I thought I should let you know a little
about my pop record label.

The label is called Rub Wrongways Records.  We're located in Northampton,
Massachusetts in the U.S.  Our current artists include: School for the Dead,
The Fawns, Bourgeois Heroes, Henning Ohlenbusch, Sitting Next To Brian, The
Aloha Steamtrain, and more.  We are a cooperative label of sorts, with bands
all sharing members.  All the bands are songwriter and pop-based with jangly
guitars and harmonies and melodies.  I think our music would fit in
perfectly here.

Northampton is a small college town with a disproportionally great music
scene.  In the area we've got J Mascis, Lloyd Cole, Mark Mulcahy, Kim Gorden
and Thurston Moore as well as the guest musicians on our most recent release
by School for the Dead, "A Telephone Built For Two" - F. Alex Johnson of the
Young At Heart Chorus on pedal steel and Chris Collingwood of Fountains of
Wayne on back-up vocals.  (A few members of School for the Dead were also in
The Gay Potatoes with Collingwood, Cole, and Philip Price of Winterpills).

Name dropping aside, Rub Wrongways is a teeny tiny independent label and we
do what we can in-a-grass-roots-kind-of-way to get the great music of our
artists heard.

I see that a number of you here have radio shows and write reviews and have
music blogs.  I'd love to send anyone here a few CDs if you'd like.  The
rest of you are lovers of good pop music and I'd encourage you to check out
our artists or to email me with any questions.

A good place to start listening, if you are curious, is at
http://rockumentary.net where there is a School for the Dead Music Player
that'll stream all of their music.  There are also free mp3 downloads of
tracks from each album at http://www.rubwrongways.com as well as a streaming
player.

Thanks for reading, everyone.  I hope you dig some of our music and I'm
looking forwarded to reading more here on the list.

If anyone has any questions or comments or ideas or would like me to send
them some music etc, please email me at rub@rubwrongways.com

Thank you.