Vinnie talks Less Than Jake labels, songs; endorses Slapstick

Vinnie from Less than Jake has updated his blog with some news about the band's upcoming plans, as well as talking cryptically about the unsigned ska/punk act's label possibilities and hinting at self-releasing. He also takes a moment to endorse Slapstick.

Lots of people assume [the label] is Fat or SideOneDummy, hell I even heard someone saying we'd go to Fueled By Ramen.

The music business has always been a weird place to me, hell back in the 80's labels owned the band hook, line and sinker. The magazine. Put good looking guys on covers of the magazine to sell more copies, bands dressed up in make up and teased hair. It was style over substance Bottom line these days of dwindling record sales is to take a large percentage of a bands publishing, merchandise, ownership of future projects of members individually and all without adding anything substantial to the pot itself except distribution. The question really is do young bands care about being "owned" in all these ways ? In my past experience, the answer is no.

He also adds some updates on recording plans:

Chris came up with a few songs so far and he played them for me, I've been writing lyrics a bunch and just stocking up on ideas for songs. I'm anxious to start work on a new record after tour is done.

Finally, he adds a shout out to the Lawrence Arms / Falcon / Sundowner tour, specifically making reference to the tour's plans to showcase some material from Slapstick:

I've read that the [bands] are going to be playing some old Slapstick songs on an upcoming tour, I'd be really stoked to hear that, considering that we shared the stage a bunch early on, hell our first tour ever out of Gainesville had lots of shows with them. I'm shocked that kids over at punknews.org are even remotely stoked to hear some good old fashion mid 90's ska punk. I remember getting a demo cassette tape from Matt, Slapstick's old guitar player and it was like I had found another person in a sea of shit. Loved those songs then and still now.