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| Fueled By Ramen Records Official Website: http://www.fueledbyramen.com/ About:
"Vinnie, the drummer for Less Than Jake, and college freshman John Janick started FBR in 1996 when John moved to Gainesville, FL to attend school. The unlikely pair had met at a Less Than Jake show a year earlier and decided to combine their talents and contacts to form Fueled By Ramen. FBR was officially born when John and Vinnie released the now infamous take-out sampler in August of 1996. The cassette tape contained songs from various artists and was packaged like Chinese take-out.
Fueled By Ramen's first offices were John's dorm room and Vinnie's apartment. First releases include a number of rare, e-bay worthy seven inches, flexi discs and limited press run cds from bands like Less Than Jake, Bigwig, The Hippos and The Impossibles. In the winter of 1998, John went on tour with LTJ and sold all the Fueled By Ramen releases to date. High sales and an enormous response from fans prompted John and Vinnie to move FBR operations out of their homes and into a "real" office at the beginning of 1999. Since then, Fueled By Ramen has grown and has released over 50 albums during its six-year existence. " (excerpts from fueledbyramen.com) Artists with releases on this label:
Foundation, Impossibles, The Stereo, Recover, Swank, Jersey, Limp, Mid Carson July, Less Than Jake, Whippersnapper, Cadillac Blindside, Yellowcard, The Pietasters, Slowreader, Kissing Chaos, Punchline, Blueline Medic, Fall Out Boy, Teen Idols, August Premier, The A.K.A.s, Roy, The Academy Is..., Days Away, Paramore, Forgive Durden, This Providence, Cute Is What We Aim For Recent ReviewsRecent NewsParamore: "Decode" Paramore have launched a stream of their new track, "Decode." The song comes from the soundtrack to the upcoming film Twilight. Frontwoman Hayley Williams commented on the film: Twilight is the first series of books I've ever read. I didn't get into the Harry Potter series even though I love the movies. Twilight really caught my attention and held it. I'm really excited to see the book adapted to film and excited that our band gets to be a part of the phenomenon. I chose the title "Decode" because the song is about the building tension,…Forgive Durden: "Life is Looking Up" The recently overhauled Forgive Durden have announced their sophomore full length and also posted a new song. The record is titled Razia’s Shadow: A Musical and is due out October 28, 2008. Frontman Thomas Dutton explained the…Cute Is What We Aim For / Secondhand Serenade / Rocket to the Moon Cute Is What We Aim For and Secondhand Serenade will be touring together this fall. Support will be provided by A Rocket to the Moon and Automatic…Paramore writing, plans studio time in January Paramore recently spoke to Billboard about their forthcoming full length and follow up to their breakthrough album, Riot!. According to songwriter and guitarist Josh Farro: [We have] anywhere from seven to 10 songs ... they're not complete, but they're really good ideas I think we have a good chance of using. It's mainly just music that I've written and Hayley (Williams, Paramore's singer) has some lyrics and melodies. She's kind of just waiting on me to finish my musical ideas before I can give them to her. It's a…The Academy Is…: "His Girl Friday" The Academy Is... have unveiled the song "His Girl Friday" from their new record Fast Times At Barrington High. You can check the song out at FriendsOrEnemies.com. The new record, produced by Sam Hollander and Dave Katz, is due out August 19th. It follows up 2007's…The Academy Is... announce title, release date The Academy Is... have set a title and release date for their next album. The record is titled Fast Times At Barrington High and is due out August 19, 2008. The album was produced by Sam Hollander and Dave Katz and follow 2007's…Design house suggests Cute Is What We Aim For plagiarized art Design house Alphabet Arm has posted some images suggesting that popular FBR act Cute Is What We Aim For used one of their designs for their new album cover. According to the designers: At the beginning of last year, Cute Is What We Aim For’s management contacted us about doing some merch designs for the band. They informed us the band liked our work, namely a design we did for Counting Crows back in 2004 or 2005 (That…Cute It What We Aim For: "Rotation" Cute Is What We Aim For have launched a stream of their new record. The record is titled Rotation and is due out June 24, 2008. It is the follow-up to The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch which was…Cute is What We Aim: "Safe Ride" Cute Is What We Aim For have posted the third new song from their upcoming sophomore full length. The record is titled Rotation and is due out June 24, 2008. It is the follow-up to The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch which was released in 2006. You can find "Safe Ride" on their purevolume…Paramore / Jack's Mannequin / Phantom Planet Paramore have announced a headlining tour that will feature support from Jack's Mannequin, Paper Route and Phantom Planet. Speaking of Paramore, the band recently dropped by the Walmart Soundcheck for what is like the internet version of an in-store performance. You can check out the video here.… |
