6/1/2008 TOTAL INSANITY:
THE BELLRAYS "Hard, Sweet and Sticky", THE ARCHITECTS "Vice", and SIRHAN SIRHAN "Blood" AVAILABLE NOW!

Get yours now at the Anodyne Store.

5/15/2008 Architects Get 3½ Stars From Spin

Architects, 'Vice' (Anodyne)
Midwestern punks take their badass riffage on the lam.
BY CHUCK EDDY 05.15.08 12:04 PM

These meat-and-potatoes Missourians spend their third album returning to the scene of the crime: murders on the Jersey Shore, outlaws in Oklahoma, Salinas jailbirds' daughters on the lam, MILFs seducing future MFAs in Orange County. They wear black and carry guns like Dad did, but so do the crooked cops. Their riffs aim for Angus Young as their shouting shoots for BTO and the Clash and Hüsker Dü. And if the vocals are mixed too low to keep the choruses consistently rousing, energy and emotion buoy the barrage regardless. Click here to visit the Spin.com review.

3/27/2008 Sirhan Sirhan/Prize Country split 7"

We will be releasing a split 7" featuring Sirhan Sirhan and Prize Country(Portland, OR) to celebrate their upcoming tour together. These will be available at the shows only for the time being but will also be a free addition to the Sirhan Sirhan pre-order package available in early May. Check the tour page for dates near you..

2/21/2008 Anodyne at SXSW 2008

Hello All - Just a heads up on our plans for SXSW this year. We will be hosting a day party at Room 710 - 710 Red River St. on Thursday, March 13th starting at 1:00pm. Still working out the time slots but we will be featuring: THE LIFE AND TIMES, ARCHITECTS, ROMAN NUMERALS, SIRHAN SIRHAN, THE VALLEY ARENA and intermittent performances by BACON SHOE. oh, and of course, Free Admission, Free Beer, and merch giveaways! See you in Austin..

1/2/2008 Happy New Year!!

Lots of exciting stuff brewing here at Anodyne HQ for your 08 listening pleasure. New releases from: The BellRays, Sirhan Sirhan, Architects, and more. Also, keep an eye out for the vinyl version of Meat Puppets - "Rise to Your Knees" Which will include a pin code to access the Hearers - "Flowers & Flames EP absolutely free!! Release dates and more coming soon..

10/27/2007 The Valley Arena Sesso.Vita Available on iTunes Today

10/9/2007 Anodyne Welcomes The Valley Arena

Thus, the unstoppable Anodyne Records Juggernaut of Independent Rock and Roll marches on, led this fall by the newly appointed Generalissimos of Indie-Sexy, THE VALLEY ARENA. Who, on November 13th will unleash their super-weapon titled "Sesso.Vita" upon an unsuspecting world and then march their sexy army from hamlet to dell turning our own libidinous urges against us in a display of heretofore unimaginable psychic jujitsu, leaving charred earth and moist undies in their terrible wake. Long Live the Rebellion and LONG LIVE THE VALLEY ARENA.

9/18/2007 Anodyne at CMJ

We will be co-hosting a split label showcase at CMJ this year with Sidecho Records on Wed. Oct 17th at the Lion's Den - 214 Sullivan St.(Between Bleecker and West 3rd St.), NYC. We will feature the Meat Puppets (11:00PM) and the Valley Arena (8:00PM) Tickets are available here.

(only 150 tix available to the public so act fast!) - otherwise, CMJ badge is required.

The following evening, Thurs. Oct 18th, Meat Puppets and Roman Numerals will be performing across the way at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ This is not a CMJ sanctioned event. Tickets available here.

On Sat. Oct 20th, Roman Numerals will perform at Fat Baby - 112 Rivington St., NYC at 8:00PM as part of a multi-label showcase featuring the Matches, the Spores and more. $10.00 w/ out CMJ badge.

Hope to see you somewhere!

9/17/2007 The Hearers are slated to release digital e.p.

The Hearers will release their new e.p. titled "Flowers and Flames" via your favorite virtual store on November 20, 2007. There is talk of a very limited run of special edition discs to be pressed as well. Stay tuned for more details and show dates..

7/17/2007 Meat Puppets - 'Rise to Your Knees' is now available!

Rise to Your Knees is available for order from the Anodyne Store, iTunes or whatever your favorite digital store may be. Or you can always do it the old fashioned way and buy it at your favorite record store:) Click here to visit the Anodyne Store.

6/17/2007 Meat Puppets Preorder and iTunes

Rise to Your Knees is now available for preorder from the Anodyne Store or for immediate download via iTunes! Click here to visit the Anodyne Store.

6/8/2007 JUNE 17th - Meat Puppets Pre-order and iTunes

Pre-order will begin for 'Rise to Your Knees' on June 17th. Included in the pre-ordered package, along with the CD, will be a signed poster of the band, buttons, stickers and other random Pups memorabilia. Items will ship on July 11th. June 17th also marks the official iTunes release of the record for those of you who just can't wait. All orders can be placed right here at our store.

3/7/2007 Anodyne Welcomes Meat Puppets

The brothers Kirkwood (Along with new drummer Ted Marcus) have reunited for a new record and we are thrilled to have this opportunity to release it. The release date is scheduled for July 17, 2007. Extensive touring to follow. Meat Puppets will be making several appearences at this year's South by Southwest music festival in Austin, TX. Check their band page for tour dates and more info as it comes in... Click here.

2/16/2007 Anodyne Records day party at SXSW

We will be hosting a day party during South by Southwest week in Austin, TX this year. The event will take place at the Parish Room - 214 E 6th St.(Above Jazz)on Thursday, March 15th from 1-6 pm. Free Admission.

Here is the official line up:

• MEAT PUPPETS -(4:30-5:30)
• ARCHITECTS - (3:15-4:00)
• THE HEARERS - (2:30-3:00)
• THE VALLEY ARENA -(1:45-2:15)
• PEACHCAKE(SideCho Records) - (1:00-1:30)

1/18/2007 We're off to MIDEM

We will be making our first trek to the MIDEM music conference in Cannes, France this Saturday. More details soon...

1/16/2007 Shiner - Making Love E.P. Re-issue

We are happy to announce that we will be re-releasing Shiner's Making Love E.P. Some updates to the original include an updated package design - Standard digipak w/ new cd artwork and Proper level adjustments! Due to an error in mastering of the original, some of you may have received a low level version. This problem has been corrected. The official street date is 03/13/07. We will begin accepting pre-orders on 02/26/07.

1/14/2007 Video Page Online

Our video page is now up. Check out the Roman Numerals' "The Rule of V" and the Architects' "Don't Call it a Ghetto." More videos coming soon. Click here to visit the video page.

10/6/2006 Anodyne Receives Props from The Pitch

A local label is often nothing more than a clever name that some unsigned band slapped on the back of its self-released CD. Not so Anodyne. For years, it was hard to tell just what Anodyne was doing outside of the immediate area, but now this little imprint has made its mark, thanks not only to owner John Hulston's organized ambition but also to one major factor: distro. Click here to read more.

Our ultimate party: We're headed out to visit a friend in Brooklyn. We take a few shots of Grand Marnier, and in our jacket pocket is this CD from a Kansas City band that was repeating on our iPod the whole flight over Click here to read more.

The Architects don't stop. Because nobody can stop them -- not indifferent music-industry lackeys and not a teenage American market enamored of black bangs and screamo. The Architects will still play a limited Warped Tour run, open for Rancid, headline at tiny KC venues and hold four-hour rehearsals several times a week so that every show they put on is an exercise in jackhammering the shit out of rock and roll's front porch and trampling its rose bed. Click here to read more.

9/27/2006 Architects photos available

We've got some photos posted over on the Architects band page. More pics from other bands, mp3's, and videos coming soon. Click here to see the pictures.

9/5/2006 Roman Numerals CD Release

The Roman Numerals self-titled debut will hit the streets on September 5th, 2006. We're pretty excited about this one and you should be too! There will be some regional release shows prior to the street date. Here they are:

• Aug. 18th - Hi-Pointe - St.Louis, MO


• Aug. 19th - recordBar - Kansas City, MO


• Aug. 26th - Opolis - Norman, OK


• Sept. 1st - O'leavers - Omaha, NE


• Sept. 2nd - Club Underground - Minneapolis, MN

9/5/2006 New Website Layout

Welcome to our new site!