NEWS & SHOWS
04/02/10 BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Globetrotting. Reconfiguring. Spring, spring, spring.
Soon.
For now, request that your favorite book store stock The Bum Joke Book by Michael Petruzzo & Bronwen Lam.
02/02/10 BIG MAN LITTLE MAN
Jason Urick & Ecstatic Sunshine are touring right now, les biches:
Jan 22 at SMART PROJECT SPACE in AMSTERDAM
Jan 23 at WORM in ROTTERDAM
Jan 24 at CZIRP CZIRP in KARLSRUHE
Jan 25 at ESPACE B in PARIS
Jan 26 at STIMULTANIA in STRASBOURG
Jan 27 at DAMPFZENTRALE in BERN
Jan 29 at TANNED TIN FESTIVAL in CASTELION
Jan 31 at CTM FESTIVAN @ WMF in BERLIN
Feb 1 at DIRTY DEAL CAFE in RIGA
Feb 2 at SEMIFINAL in HELSINKI
Feb 4 at LANDMARK in BERGEN
Feb 5 at KOLONI in GOTEBORG
Feb 6 at LANDET in STOCKHOLM
Feb 8 at GALERIE ELGENHEIM in WEIMAR
See em.
R E L E A S E S
SOON
OUT NOW
| WFWF011 | JASON URICK / JASON WILLETT - FRIENDSHIP/TRIP 03 |
| WFWF007 | CEX - DANNIBAL |
| WFWF010 | DUSTIN WONG - SEASONS |
| WFWF009 | ECSTATIC SUNSHINE / LUCKY DRAGONS - FRIENDSHIP / TRIP 02 |
| WFWF008 | CAR CLUTCH / SANDCATS - FRIENDSHIP / TRIP 01 |
| WFWF006 | ECSTATIC SUNSHINE - LIVING |
| WFWF004 | VIDEO HIPPOS - UNBEAST THE LEASH |
| WFWF003 | DAN DEACON - SPIDERMAN OF THE RINGS |
| WFWF002 | THANK YOU - WORLD CITY |
| WFWF001 | SANTA DADS - ANIMA MUNDI |
Three or four years ago, we started working together as peers, but more so as friends. We did it because it was fun. But also, we were desperately trying to defend our ideals: we knew they were being destroyed with various levels of intent by our bosses, our professors, and even some of our peers. Our intentions were vague, sometimes misguided, but with a retrospective view it is clear that our collaborations and projects have always been in the spirit of Revolution.
We organized trust falls over the office of our corrupt department chair (DEAD OR ALIVE), dispersed baseball bats to protesting students (GAME DAY), and made out in the hallways outside of the president’s office listening to Loveless and eating weed brownies. We tied bags of bees to the radio antennas of every Lexus and BMW we could find in Bolton Hill (HANG LOOSE). We padlocked the doors to the Maryland Institute College of Art while masquerading as homeless (BACK DOOR). Our work at the time believed in the Prank and the Party. By spreading feelings of positivity, hope, and excitement through shows and festivals, we helped blossom what is now called “The Young Baltimore Music Scene”.
Today, we work together in even more various forms and manifestations. Wildfire facilitates performances and releases music and artwork by the most forward looking bands and performers in the country, and we do it with a sense of care and hospitality that is rarely found outside of Europe. We make t-shirts and posters with the intention of advertising ideas and feelings, rather than brands or products or even sounds (I AM MY TSHIRT). We operate a fine dining speakeasy for friends and family (DIY BOURGEOIS). Today we believe in creating a parallel social structure, one that mirrors and even simulates the “everyday”, but disregards it, or at the very least, warps what is expected. Our world is curated, for friends, by friends, and also always for ourselves.
WILDFIRE WILDFIRE is an independent records publisher that takes its cues from 60s zine culture and its artworld crossover and parallels that with an early diy ethos.
We release music that is important to us for its relationship to and from our generation of experimentation.
ALWAYS,
Devon Deimler, Matthew Papich
