Big Yellow Hand Records: News

Yes, you heard right... this exceptional band is currently shopping for a label significantly larger than mine to help get their career on the right path. Hailing from Sycamore, Illinois, a small town just outside the college town of DeKalb, this all-girl three-piece band is poised for big success. Eighteen-year-old Taylor Ochoa, guitar and vocals, eighteen-year-old Angel Pfrommer (yes, she is my daughter), vocals and percussion, and fifteen-year-old drummer Logan Ochoa have been playing gigs at The House in DeKalb where they have intimdated headliners with their sheer talent, songwriting gifts and angelic harmonies and mesmerizing stage presence. The music is written by all three girls and the lyrics come from Taylor and Angel. Hey, I do not get excted over many new bands, but this one has something special... dig in and have a few listens. If you are a record label, check outThe Patience here! Let's get these local rock stars on the map, I believe in them!

That's right, they recognize the skills and had to include us on the roster of megatalented artists that have come before us. Towards the end of October, check out the contest page at AP. Muuahahahahaha!

Yeah, we know how fussy you guys are when it comes to genre labels so we have started Crackshot Records, our brand spanking new rock label. So now, we are wide open for submissions in the following catagories:
indy, garage, powerpop, electro, pop punk, alternative, lo-fi, surf, pretty much anything but metal, RnB, Rap, Hip Hop, country, and any genre covered by BYH. Check our Submission Guidelines on the About Us page for more info.

Oh yes! This just in! Big Yellow Hand Records has just been picked up as THE industrial label for Experimental Division Nashville Records. WHAT DOES IT MEAN, you may ask... well, we are now the official Industrial Division of XDN, so send us your goth, industrial, darkwave, experimental, dark electro, noir soundtrack and creepiest tunes. We will provide:
Online distro (iTunes, Napster, Yahoo, etc.)
production assistance and project direction
album graphics and web banners
internet buzz
tour support
artist development
Coming soon: Limited national retail outlet distro
and the one-on-one attention your music deserves. Read submission policies on the "About Us" page for guidelines. Also notify us of your favorite unsigned artist in the above-mentioned or similar genres and help get them on the map. We'll be listening and waiting!

Get ready for Jimmy Craps Corn, the new Dookies studio album available everywhere this September. You have been warned.

The first-ever BYH compilation, "Fistful Of Doom" is being assembled for distro when I get enough hot tracks to fill it! I've been all over the web and I gotta say, not much has impressed me! If you have a great industrial electronic, darkwave, goth, evil techno, or dark club hit, drop me an e-mail or sign the guestbook. Make sure to add a link to the song in any case. Read the "About Us" page for submission policies before sending anything. Bring it on, muthahs!

Well, so you had your chance... and you BLEW IT! However I would like to thank all who participated! Cogratulations to Dimon for his winning remix of Steaming Dookies' club track "Passout". We'll get those prizes out ASAP. Check out some of the best entries on our Music Page. Special thanks to sceneremix.com and Dustin Michael of XDN Records. Check him out at www.experimentaldivision.com ! Thanks again to all who entered, it was a tough choice! Stay tuned for our first-ever remix contest on Sony Records' acidplanet.com , brought to you by Big Yellow Hand and XDN Records, Nashville!

Announcing Big Yellow Hand Records' new online community
Chicago Vampires! A new forum and meeting place for all Dookie-Heads and children of the night! If you are a goth, darkwave, industrial, techno-punk, dark club or progressive electronic artist or band, this is the hangout for you! Loop exchange, song critiques, artist promotion, touring support, gig swap board, and much more! Stop in, have a nice cup of Type O Positive, and chill with us, the dark creatures of the night!

FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES! Our first-ever collection of construction loops aptly titled Sonic Doom is here! Chock full of cutting edge razor sharp riffs, beats, bleeps, glitches, tones from hell, and more! Only 29.99 for over 600 loops! If you like our music, now you can make your own using our best sounds ever! Created by Chicago's industrial techno-punk new-school innovators Steaming Dookies exclusively for this collection! All new, all DOOM!

This is old news to long-time Dookie-heads, but for new fans and visitors from cyberspace, here's da poop! Big Yellow Hand Studios produced the Grand Prize Winning song for Sony / Acid Pro Software contest featuring a remix of The Project's original composition "The Truth" (ours was titled "The Awful Truth"). It made its' radio debut on WRVU 91.1 Nashville. Hear it at www.ProjectThe.com or listen to it here and hear why Dustin Michael of The Project referred to The Awful Truth as "the most consistently ruthless remix". Dustin and partner Robert Bond declared it the best out of the hundreds of entries they received. Big thanks again!

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