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This coming Monday in Boston. Please stop by.

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Ay catch @ornamentsny on the road in about a week! They'll be at #sxsw for a few day. Nicest dudes, nicest tunes.

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All sales go to Hope Alliance Crisis Center. Release date is March 1st. Thanks to @fleshandbonedesign for the hookup as always.

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Let's just hope that is enough.

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Can't wait to process this order. @fastchrismakesshitpizza hope you're ready to be pretty.

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Just a few hours left to get the special $12 pre-order price on @actorobserver vinyl release. Goes up to $15 tomorrow. Grab it while you can, ya goons. http://headsuprecords.bigcartel.com (Ty @fleshandbonedesign for all design work)

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Happy birthday to @iorio_ornaments from @ornamentsny. Buy an Ornaments cassette today and get a free surprise with your order.

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Hope Alliance benefit shirts designed by @fleshandbonedesign are still available. Swing by and grab one. 100% of profits go to charity. http://headsuprecords.bigcartel.com

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Actor|Observer pre-orders are now live! Special deals for the first two weeks only. - The Longer Now vinyl at a special price of $12. - All three bundle options are only available until 02/08/2016. They will be pulled after. Go snag one now from our webstore!

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@actorobserver Bundle 4. EVERYTHING. The Longer Now 12", Do No Harm 12", all three A|O releases on CD, and a People Like You longsleeve. Pre-orders go live around this time tomorrow.

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@actorobserver Bundle 1. The Longer Now 12", Do No Harm 12", ALL @actorobserver releases on CD. Available Monday! Design by @fleshandbonedesign

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@actorobserver pre-orders go up Monday. Three bundles TBA over the weekend. Design done by the wonderful homie @fleshandbonedesign.

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Excited to announce we’ll be co-releasing Lost Boy’s 2013 EP ‘Growing Pains’ remastered on cassette. Check the music video of the single above, with a review written by Dave Vitola below.

Lost Boy are an emo/punk band hailing from Augusta, Georgia. The “Garden City Punx” are guaranteed to lodge their catchy straight-to-the-point jams deep into the most angsty part of your brain. The band is gearing up to release a re-master of their 2013 demo, Growing Pains, via Genius Factory Records and Heads Up Records. 

Growing Pains kicks off with the anthemic “Plaza Place.” This track is destined for sing-along driven pile-ons, with raspy vocals backed by incredibly catchy harmonies. This song boasts a gazy guitar line that is very reminiscent of Title Fight, but quickly explodes into something that pulls the emo teenager inside us all right back into the early 2000s. “Plaza Place” sucks us into this record in the same way that “You Know How I Do” kicks off Taking Back Sunday’s classic, Tell all Your Friends; We instantly know we’re going to devour every song to come. 

The guitar work on this album does an excellent job of not abusing the now cliché “twinkly” trope that we are all too familiar with, and instead opts for an almost shreddy feel at times. “DreamEater” is a prime example, opening with a fast and pleasing guitar line similar to something we might have heard on an early Brand New record. Juxtaposed against this welcomed shreddiness is a gang vocal pattern that will definitely make you want to listen to this song over and over again. 

“Little Rock” is one of the standout tracks on this release, and seemingly a kind of climax in the lyrical subject matter. This song has a loose and bouncy feel initially, making the gruff vocals inspire a very Algernon-like sound. The jangly chorus-tinged guitars lead us up to the one-minute mark, where the catchiest and most heartfelt sing-along moment leaps out from the song. “My heart packed its shit and made its way out west,” is a lyric that we’d rather scream along to in a VFW hall someplace than listen to in the solitude of our headphones. 

The album closes with “Glenn Ave,” a two-minute crowd pleaser about moving on. We’re given plenty of hooks in this one, along with an interesting melody on what sounds like some sort of toy xylophone (hey, cool). There are definite You Blew It! vibes at work, here. As short as this song is, it has one of the more verse-chorus-verse type of set ups on this record, leaving us with a very accessible parting morsel. 

Lost Boy’s Growing Pains is a must have for fans of older emo bands. Their new video for “Plaza Place” shows us beautiful scenery against grimy graffiti covered walls, evoking the same somber-yet welcoming aesthetic as their record. The re-mastered cassette of Growing Pains will be up for pre-order via Heads Up Records and Genius Factory Records sometime in February.

By Dave Vitola

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Excited to announce we'll be releasing Actor|Observer's full length 'The Longer Now' on 12" vinyl. Pre-orders go live next Monday!

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Sexual violence and domestic abuse are two very real issues that get ignored far too frequently. Pick up a shirt, 100% of profits go to Hope Alliance Crisis Center(www.hopealliancetx.org). http://headsuprecords.bigcartel.com

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Pre-orders available now. 100% of profits will be donated to Hope Alliance. Make a change. http://headsuprecords.bigcartel.com

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Please spread this around as much as possible.

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Pre-orders available now. 100% of profits will be donated to Hope Alliance. Make a change. http://headsuprecords.bigcartel.com