Hello America Stereo Cassette

  Hello America Stereo Cassette is a record label for writers established February 5th, 2021. We release cassettes of poetry, short fiction, and memoir. The releases are curated by Adam Gnade and the label is based out of the Ruby Teeth Homestead in rural Kansas. www.helloamerica.bandcamp.com

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See ya later, Tumblr

We’ve decided to stop using tumblr because holy shit it’s a ghost town here. Find us on Twitter and Instgram. 

Also, here https://helloamerica.bandcamp.com/

And here https://helloamericalit.com/

Later.

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RELEASE DAY!

Paint-by-Numbers is a collection of new, unpublished short stories by Chicago-based Dmitry Samarov about painting, painters, and living as an artist when so many artists are absolute pieces of shit.

Dmitry's books have been a favorite for a while and we're very happy to be releasing this audio book of his newest work.

Dmitry doesn't use social media go here, sign up for his newsletter, and enjoy the mystery.

Get a tape here https://helloamerica.bandcamp.com/

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Hear a poem by Jessie Lynn McMains off our Spring Collection compilation. https://helloamerica.bandcamp.com/track/jessie-lynn-mcmains-no-one-s-little-girl 

If you like it, make sure to pick up a copy of their poetry tape Self-Portrait with Ghosts and Trains. It's one of the best things we've released.

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Listen to the poem "Pure Fantasy," the first track off our latest release, Journey's End Motel, a collection of writing by Nicole Morning with backing drones and noise by Michael Alan Goldberg.

https://helloamerica.bandcamp.com/track/pure-fantasy

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When Dmitry Samarov writes about art what you get is more memoir and short story than “arts writing.” This is not some douchebag critic’s pretentious, academic, boring assessment of What Art Means. Paint-by-Numbers is one guy’s look at art as he knows it, paintings he’s done, gallery experiences, shitheads he’s witnessed shitheading around. It’s funny and it’s real and it’s deeply personal. This is a work of honesty and humanity. A Moveable Feast meets the letters of Van Gogh. -Adam Gnade 

Pre-order available now. 

Out June 3rd.

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We love Jonas Cannon. We've got three short pieces of fiction of his on our Spring Collection compilation.

Here's one: 

https://helloamerica.bandcamp.com/track/jonas-cannon-1-excerpt-from-the-upcoming-audio-book-especially-now

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Listen/purchase: Dramos - My Father by Hello America Stereo Cassette

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Listen/purchase: Mugabi Byenkya - Dick by Hello America Stereo Cassette

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Listen/purchase: Rin Hart - A Nostalgic Association in the Name of Love for Home by Hello America Stereo Cassette

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This package deal features all 13 of the tapes released so far by Hello America Stereo Cassette. You will get the following: HASC001 Phone-Dream by Jared Thomas Friend (Feb, 2021) HASC002 Put Me on a Dog Leash and Make Me Eat Taco Bell Off the Floor by Nathaniel Kennon Perkins (April, 2021) HASC003 Soft Animal by Nicole Morning (May, 2021) HASC004 Honey Slides by Adam Gnade & Youthmovies (June, 2021) HASC005 Self-Portrait with Ghosts and Trains by Jessie Lynn McMains (July, 2021) HASC006 Prairie Girl Collective by Madison N. Taylor, Kayla McCutcheon, Danielle Richardson & Natahna Bargen-Lema (Aug, 2021) HASC007 The Only Living Girl in Chicago by Mallory Smart (Sept, 2021) HASC008 Northern Sketches by Gary Bunting (Oct, 2021) HASC009 The World of Today and the World of Tomorrow by Adam Gnade (Dec, 2021) HASC010 My Mind is Not a Billboard​/​/​/​What's Your Favorite TV Show by Sam Pink (Jan, 2022) HASC011 A Little Bit by Erik Tinsley (Feb, 2022) HASC012 All of You by Ryan Schulte (Mar, 2022) HASC013 Journey's End Motel by Nicole Morning and Michael Alan Goldberg (April, 2022)

https://helloamerica.bandcamp.com/merch/package-deal-complete-discography

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We have a pack available of our five latest audio books.

This pack gets you fiction from Adam Gnade, Erik Tinsley, and Ryan Schulte, and poems by Sam Pink and Nicole Morning (with Michael Alan Goldberg). Get current. Up the cassette punx.

https://helloamerica.bandcamp.com/merch/our-five-latest-books-on-tape

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The second half of our new double-album compilation came two minutes ago.

https://helloamerica.bandcamp.com/album/spring-collection-2022-part-2-of-2

This half, part two, features fiction, memoir, and poetry by: 

Trace Ramsey 

Chase Griffin 

Laurence Lillvik 

Adam Gnade 

Rin Hart 

Jessie Lynn McMains 

Mugabi Byenkya 

Erik Tinsley 

Gary Bunting 

Elliott Stewart 

Nicole Morning 

Samina Parveen 

Zac Smith 

Kevin Chesser 

Nicole Tallman 

J. Richard Kron 

Thad DeVassie 

Nina B 

Eileen Ramos

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Hear a short piece of autobiographical fiction backed by music called "The Carter Family" from our most recent compilation by Adam Gnade. It also shows up on this cassette.

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Today we're giving you a three-piece mega interview starting with Gary Bunting, whose excellent tape of poems, Northern Sketches, we were beyond proud to release last year. After Gary we've got Kristina Golec and Ted Jackins who have both contributed to past comps. Check everyone out today.

https://helloamericalit.com/f/interview-triptych---gary-bunting-kristina-golec-ted-jackins

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Bart Schaneman is a special one for us. Longtime friend. Like half-of-a-lifetime friend. Great goddamn writer. Excellent human. Author of some of our favorite works of modern Western literature, including his recently reissued debut novel, The Green and The Gold, from Trident Press. Buy that book. I mean, read the interview, sure. Do that. But buy the book immediately after. Then buy The Silence is the Noise, also out via Trident.

https://helloamericalit.com/f/read-this-interview-with-bart-schaneman-then-go-buy-his-books

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Rin Hart was a stranger to us until a couple months ago. The work they submitted instantly resonated to such a degree we immediately offered to do a full-length cassette with them. Rin's story "Slaughter" is beautiful, heavy, and important. It's a powerful piece of work. You should go listen to it as soon as you're done reading their interview.

www.helloamericalit.com

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Meet JOURNEY'S END MOTEL.

Writing/talking by Nicole Morning

Musical accompaniment by Michael Alan Goldberg.

Up for preorder NOW.

Out THIS FRIDAY.