Nerves Tribute on Volar Records/I Hate Rock N Roll featuring Shark Toys

Happy New Year! We welcome 2011 with an awesome tribute album to the Nerves with a cassette/vinyl release put out by our friends Volar Records/I Hate Rock N Roll featuring Felter Skelter artist, Shark Toys. Cassettes are limited 200. Vinyl coming soon.

Order here:
http://volarrecords.blogspot.com/



From Volar Records' blog:

CASSETTES AVAILABLE for Under the Covers Vol. 2: A Tribute to Paul Collins, Peter Case, and Jack Lee

Limited to only 200 sale copies EVER.

Here's the tracklist:

A1--Grass Widow--Walking Out on Love
A2--Reading Rainbow--Stand Back and Take a Good Look
A3--White Wires--Letter to G
A4--Hunx and His Punx--When U Find Out
A5--The Mantles--A Million Miles Away
A6--White Fence--Gimme Some Time
A7--Audacity--Why Am I Lonely
A8--Personal and the Pizzas--Any Day Now
A9--Davila 666--Hanging on the Telephone

B1--Le Face--Paper Dolls
B2--Tijuana Panthers--One Way Ticket
B3--So Cow--Working Too Hard
B4--Neverever--Now
B5--The Moonhearts--I Need Your Love
B6--Shark Toys--I Don't Fit In
B7--Ratas del Vaticano--Are You Famous
B8--The Forgery Series--You Won't Be Happy
B9--Cowabunga Babes--Many Roads to Follow

LPs in 2-3 weeks.

Shark Toys in Top Ten at KDVS

KDVS (based in Sacramento, CA) is one of our favorite radio stations in the United States, and home to such great shows as Art for Spastics and Phoning It In. They seem to like us too as they placed us in their top 10 most played albums for last week!

Top 10:
1. Dum Dum Girls - "I Will Be" (Sub Pop)
2. Enumclaw - "Opening of the Dawn" (Honeymoon Music)
3. Slippery Slopes - "Sad Tugs" (Florida's Dying)
4. Beach House - "Teen Dream" (Sub Pop)
5. Uzi Rash - "Fuck the Pope Lite" (The Church & the Commune)
6. Shark Toys - "Stayed Up" (Felter Skelter)
7. Unnatural Helpers - "Sunshine/Pretty Girls" (Hardly Art)
8. Sam Goldberg - "Current" (Weird Forest)
9. John Bellows - "Clean Your Clock" (Moniker)
10. Terrible Twos - "Lemon Session Singles Club #3" (Lemon Session)

Impose Magazine Review of Shark Toys 7"

"We end on a high note this week with Californian troupe Shark Toys' 4-song Stayed Up EP on the upstart Felter Skelter Records. Produced by Greg Ashley at The Creamery, there's a rambunctious, ramshackle exuberance in the Toys' brand of pop - it's deceptively simple and comes smeared with bubbling psych undertones and hints of '80s UK synth-wave. Of the four songs here, "Library" may very well be the best in show; a certifiable slacker anthem built upon an insistent strum and eerie keyboard patterns. Elsewhere, second standout "What to Do" is a prime slice of rumbling anti-pop with a deadpan vocal harrumph and sunburst melodies fighting through layers of skittering guitar grit. Probably best to go and git you some at the label's site before they disappear forever into the murky waters from whence they came." - Jason Jackowiak (Impose Magazine)

Read the entire article here:
http://www.imposemagazine.com/features/native-cats-florida-shark-toys

So Tough So Cute Mixtape

The awesome London/Sweden musicblog/DJ night, So Tough So Cute, has included the title track of Shark Toys' debut 7" for their new e-mixtape. It also includes a bunch of other bands we love (Fresh and Onlys, Christmas Island, Times New Viking, Tronics, Chain and the Gang, etc.) and I recommend you download it right now!

http://sotoughsocute.blogspot.com/2010/02/mixtape-let-me-tell-you-about-punk-rock.html

Shark Toys at Noise Pop

Shark Toys are playing their first show since the release of the 7" at Benders Bar in San Francisco for a free happy hour show for Noise Pop on February 25th. Going to be awesome!

(from ASCAP's facebook)

ASCAP is uniting the 101, with our awesome Noise Pop Happy Hour show!

5pm: Shark Toys (LA) http://www.myspace.com/sharktoys

6pm: The Old-Fashioned Way (SF) http://www.myspace.com/oldfashionedway

7pm: Social Studies (SF) http://www.myspace.com/socialstudies101

this show is FREEEEE and 21+. Invite your pals! There will be drink specials, and some fun, free ASCAP swag. And who doesn't like that?

Shark Toys 7" Out Now!

Felter Skelter Records (FSR001)
Shark Toys 7" Stayed Up EP

A-Side:
Stayed Up
Library

B-Side:
What to Do
Rainfall

About Shark Toys:
Shark Toys are a Southern California based band that began in the bedroom of Danny (vocals, guitar) and Rina (keys, guitar) in the summer of 2008. The band initially recorded only on single-track cassette tape and as a two piece but have since expanded to a four-piece. In January '09 enlisted the help of Greg Ashley (Gris Gris, Mirrors, Dutchess and the Duke) who played drums on and produced their debut EP (this record!). Since their inception they have toured the West Coast once and have shared the stage with Mika Miko, Crocodiles, Gris Gris, Calvin Johnson, Ty Segall, Fresh & Onlys, the Spits, Silver Apples, the Homosexuals, and others, and they played at the 2009 Part Time Punks Festival with the Raincoats, Section 25, Abe Vigoda, and others. Shark Toys are playing in San Francisco for the Noise Pop festival later this month and plan to tour the US and hopefully Europe this coming summer and fall.
www.myspace.com/sharktoys





500 pressed / 100 gold hand #'d sleeves

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$8 ppd elsewhere

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Shark Toys 7"

First release on Felter Skelter Records (FSR001) will be the debut 7" EP from Southern California's Shark Toys. The records should arrive in January 2010. More details soon.