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 | Fueled By Ramen Records Official Website: http://www.fueledbyramen.com/ About:
"Vinnie, the drummer for Less Than Jake, and college freshman John Janick started FBR in 1996 when John moved to Gainesville, FL to attend school. The unlikely pair had met at a Less Than Jake show a year earlier and decided to combine their talents and contacts to form Fueled By Ramen. FBR was officially born when John and Vinnie released the now infamous take-out sampler in August of 1996. The cassette tape contained songs from various artists and was packaged like Chinese take-out.
Fueled By Ramen's first offices were John's dorm room and Vinnie's apartment. First releases include a number of rare, e-bay worthy seven inches, flexi discs and limited press run cds from bands like Less Than Jake, Bigwig, The Hippos and The Impossibles. In the winter of 1998, John went on tour with LTJ and sold all the Fueled By Ramen releases to date. High sales and an enormous response from fans prompted John and Vinnie to move FBR operations out of their homes and into a "real" office at the beginning of 1999. Since then, Fueled By Ramen has grown and has released over 50 albums during its six-year existence. " (excerpts from fueledbyramen.com) Artists with releases on this label:
Foundation, Impossibles, The Stereo, Recover, Swank, Jersey, Limp, Mid Carson July, Less Than Jake, Whippersnapper, Cadillac Blindside, Yellowcard, The Pietasters, Slowreader, Kissing Chaos, Punchline, Blueline Medic, Fall Out Boy, Teen Idols, August Premier, The A.K.A.s, Roy, The Academy Is..., Days Away, Paramore, Forgive Durden, This Providence, Cute Is What We Aim For Recent ReviewsRecent NewsCute Is What We Aim For: "Practice Makes Perfect" Cute Is What We Aim For have posted the second new song from their upcoming sophomore full length. The record is titled Rotation and is due out June 24, 2008. It is the follow-up to The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch which was released in 2006. You can find "Practice Makes Perfect" on their myspace page.…Cute Is What We Aim For: "Doctor" Cute Is What We Aim For have posted a new song from their upcoming sophomore full length. The record is titled Rotation and is due out June 24, 2008. It is the follow-up to The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch which was released in 2006. You can find "Doctor" on their myspace page.…Phantom Planet: "Raise the Dead" Fueled by Ramen act Phantom Planet have posted a full album stream of their debut for the label. The record is titled Raise the Dead and it follows up 2004's Epic released Phantom Planet. Aside from their recorded output, the band is notable for once featuring actor Jason Schwartzman on drums. The band's song "California" was also the theme song for popular Fox television series The O.C.. You can check out the stream on…Paramore: "That's What You Get" Paramore has posted the new video from their breakthrough album, Riot!. You can find the video here.…Paramore address break up, pregnancy rumours After revealing very little in a post addressing their recent tour cancellation, popular act Paramore have directly addressed the wealth of rumours which sprang from the incident. In an MTV interview, the band explained: We've been posting blogs to our LiveJournal and talking to our fans that way for years now, and it's always been something that's been really fun for us. But now it's crazy, because I'll post something, and it's all over the…Punchline leaves Fueled By Ramen Pittsburgh pop punk act Punchline has left Fueled By Ramen Records. The band announced: After many years with Fueled By Ramen, it's time for us to move .. fulfilling the obligations of our contract with FBR, we decided that we wanted to look for a new home. Armed with a new record that's already recorded we are excited to move forward and on to something fresh. Thanks to the people at FBR that continued to support and help us. It means a lot! One door closes and a new one opens. The band put out…The Hush Sound: "Honey" The Hush Sound have posted the first new song from their upcoming follow up to Like Vines. You can find "Honey" on their purevolume page.…Forgive Durden overhauls lineup, records new album Forgive Durden frontman Thomas Dutton has posted a lengthy blog entry discussing the status of future of the band. The band has apparently undergone a significant lineup shift with 3/4-ths of the band departing. Nonetheless, Thomas is working on the follow up to their 2006 album, Wonderland. Among the comments he made: When we returned home [from tour] we had a band meeting. Thomas told me he was quitting. He wasn’t happy doing this with us (translation: me) anymore. Jesse was quitting, too. He…Fueled by Ramen signs Phantom Planet Fueled by Ramen has signed Los Angeles-based Phantom Planet. The band will release their label debut for FBR in spring of 2008, it follows up 2004's Epic released Phantom Planet. Aside from their recorded output, the band is notable for once featuring actor Jason Schwartzman on drums. The band's song "California" was also the theme song for popular Fox television series The…Paramore performs acoustic session in Boston Paramore recently performed an all-acoustic show at the First Act Guitar Studio in Boston, MA on November 24th. The band performed three songs in support of their breakthrough album, Riot!. You can check out videos of the performance here.… |
