March is full of all sorts of things. There’s St. Patricks Day, of course, and the beginning of spring, amongst ‘em. And, after the unusually harsh and seemingly unending winter we weather-pussies here in the Northwest have endured, we’ll seize any opportunity to drink green beer.

Speaking of opportunities to drink anything and everything, for days on end, and to have the same conversation 4,000 times in 4 days…

Sub Pop will be heading to the lovely shire that is Austin, Texas…

The virile, restless young men who make up the Oxford Collapse recently “made it” with Daytrotter. And now you, dear friends, can enjoy the fruits of their congress. Sidle up next to Daytrotter and treat yourself to an appetizer with their Oxford Collapse interview, and then fill yourself with the five songs they recorded at Daytrotter’s Futureappletree Studio One.

By way of some minor explanation, the very, very abbreviated version of the Daytrotter raison d’etre:
“We’re giving you exclusive, re-worked, alternate versions…

On August 5th, Brooklyn’s Oxford Collapse are giving the world BITS, their latest record, and here at Sub Pop, we couldn’t be more motivated to sell you this record! Don’t believe us? How about this: if you pre-order BITS by August 5th, we will throw in, at no extra charge, a very special, very limited photograph taken by Oxford Collapse while on tour. We say very limited because we had doubles printed so the band could have a copy too…

We’re teaming up with our friends at Hardly Art and Suicide Squeeze for our CMJ showcase this year! It will take place at Piano’s (158 Ludlow at Stanton, NYC) on Friday, October 24th. The show starts at 8:00 and is $12 at the door, or free with a CMJ badge. Here’s the full schedule:

Upstairs room:
8:00-8:30 Pretty & Nice
8:45-9:15 The Coathangers

Downstairs room:
8:30-9:00 Cotton Jones
9:15-9:45 Death Vessel
10:00-10:30 The Dutchess and the Duke
10:45-11:15 sBACH
11:30-12:00 Oxford Collapse
12:15-12:45 The Ruby Suns

You guys should…

It’s with a heavy heart that we bid farewell to Oxford Collapse. The band has announced that their last two shows will be July 17 and 18 in Hoboken and NYC respectively. After releasing two albums on Kanine (Some WIlderness in 2004 and A Good Ground in 2005), the boys from Brooklyn released their first album on Sub Pop, Remember The Night Parties, in 2006 and followed it up in 2008 with Bits. I will particularly miss their fondness for…