Secret Pennies Records

Tough Stuff is leaving for tour in just a few days--here are the dates!

May 25. San Luis Obisbo, CA @ 2007 Broad St.
May 27. Fresno, CA @ Escape to Milf Mountain House
May 28. Arcata, CA @ Blondie's Cafe
May 29. Redding, CA @ Going Local?
May 30 - Portland, OR @ Hotbox House
May 31 - Langley, BC @ the Twin Towers
June 1 - Vancouver, BC @ Zoo Zhop
June 2 - Longview, WA @ Chinese Gardens
June 3 - ?
June 4 - Idaho falls, ID @ Wax House
June 5 - Missoula, MT @ the VFW
June 6 - Minneapolis, MN @ the Shack (Dinkytown)
June 7 - Des Moines, IA @ house show w/ Elliot Burke
June 8 - Kalamazoo, MI @ the Courtyard (house)
June 9 - Akron, OH @ Blueberry House (21 N.Highland Ave)
June 10 - Knoxville, TN @ The Poison Lawn
June 11 - ?
June 12 - Decatur, AL @ Excalibur
June 13 - Russelville, AR @ house show
June 14 - Oklahoma City @ Happy Birthday House
June 15 - Midland, TX @ Pine Box
June 16 - El Paso, TX @ TBA
June 17 - Tucson, AZ @ TLMS
June 18 - San Diego, CA @ Che Cafe

More info on specific dates here. Get in touch if you can help with any missing dates! Go check them out if they're coming anywhere near you... Tough Stuff likes to have a good time.

The Taxpayers just put up two new songs from their upcoming album (on Useless State and Plan-It-X) and you should definitely listen to them right now. Then you should probably preorder the album to get some cool stuff and help them get ready for their summer tour with Ramshackle Glory! This is all in your best interest.

Tough Stuff is also leaving for their US tour at the end of May, and Hi Ho Silver, Away! will be heading up the coast for the Gathering of the Goofpunx in June. Dates to be posted here soon!

Well, the College EP release show was awesome.

For proof, check out more of these awesome photos taken by Daniel Torres!

Records are going fast (especially the green ones... who woulda thought?), so pick one up if you still need one!

What could be coming next...

The video for "High"!

Check out these new buttons we got! Two new Secret Pennies designs, one for Hi Ho Silver, Away!, and one for Tough Stuff. Write to us if you want any, or put a note on your order!

Speaking of which, here's what the Tough Stuff records and our carpet look like:

All the preorders went out this morning, but we'll keep sending out those matching buttons with them until we run out. The release show is tomorrow night at VLHS in Pomona!

As promised, here it is!

These will ship on or slightly before April 20, and they'll all come with neat matching Tough Stuff buttons. Unless we run out. But if we run out we'll probably just make more. DIY or die.

Here's a track from the upcoming Tough Stuff 7"! It's called "Smile" and I'm pretty stoked on it.

(And there's the artwork too, which I'm also pretty stoked on.) As mentioned earlier, the release show is planned for April 20 at VLHS in Pomona, and preorders will be up in our store by the end of the month. More information to come!

Here's a Tough Stuff test press!

We'll be getting 400 in black and 100 in this cool green/white blend. The College EP release show is at VLHS (Pomona) on April 20 with Summer Vacation, Walter Mitty & His Makeshift Orchestra, Leer, and Kids. This show's going to be ridiculous; I highly recommend getting yourself over there if you're anywhere near Southern California. But if you're not, never fear--preorders will be up at the end of this month!

In the meantime, we'll be putting up a song or two in the near future, and a silly music video for "High" is almost finished!

Depending on how central mail is to your life, you may or may not have heard about the recent increase in USPS shipping rates. Prices went up dramatically last week, with international rates being the hardest hit. We and other DIY labels all over the country have been revising our shipping accordingly, which, frankly, sucks. I hate having to charge more than a record costs just to ship it internationally, but rates for mailing some kinds of packages overseas have almost doubled.

We're still working out the best way to handle the new prices in our webstore; for now we've approximated them the best we can. If you do end up with a shipping charge that seems unreasonably high, you may have stumbled into a mathematical wormhole. If we find that your order ships for less than what you paid, we'll refund you the difference right away. We just want to cover our costs while still keeping prices as low and fair as possible. Thanks for your support, and please don't hesitate to email us if you have any questions or concerns about shipping (or anything else)!

Also, support international DIY distros whenever possible! They're our only hope! We're working on putting together a complete list of international distros that carry SPR releases, but I can say now that Japanese friends can usually pick up our releases from Eager Beaver Records. Support DIY everywhere!

2013 is off to a good start! Today was Tough Stuff's first day in the studio recording for "College".

See what they did there?? I can't wait for this record; all the new stuff I've heard sounds amazing. The EP will be out this spring! More news coming soon about releases and other fun things ahead of us.