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Pulling the Plug

To whom it may concern: After 5 years of booking shows and releasing music, I am pulling the plug on this project known as Start Something NJ. It’s been a privilege releasing the music of friends and I can’t believe Amanda and I started this thing in way back in November 2010! Where did the time seriously go? I’m not going to write a long eulogy, but I would just like to thank all the bands I’ve had the pleasure of working with, friends involved with this project, and every single person who has ever supported this pseudo-label over the years. It is both awesome and a bit surreal that I have addressed and sent orders to folks from Germany and Japan out of my bedroom in a small town in the middle of New Jersey most have never heard of. The internet will do that; globalization and all that jazz. 

So yeah, I will obviously continue to book shows and will eventually release more music at some point. Really, I just want to say thanks and not leave you hanging.

Oh, and one more thing: please check out Flemington DIY, a non-profit art space started last year in my hometown. Everyone I know and love is involved with this space and it is still unreal to me that this place exists.  Continue to create and approach every day and every one with a smile. 

Thanks.

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a DIY music collective

new distro items: - Jazz Hands "Party" EP CD & Cassette  - Wringer / The Headies split 7" - Monday Appreciation Society LP - My America Is Watching Tigers Die "Stone Age" CD

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Hey! This month is our 4 year anniversary, can you believe it?! Good times!!!! Updating the webstore real soon!

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by Andrew Sacher NJ punks Casual formed in early 2013 with a former member of the now-defunct NONA, and following split 7"s with the Beach Slang-related Crybaby and the Spraynard-related Martin, they're now set to release their debut LP in...

Casual LP to be released via Dead Broke Rekerds and Square of Opposition early next year! Stream "Spent" now!!!

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We got some awesome new distro items:

Jon E. Erkkilä  Handmade cassettes with the 2014 album "Southside of the Cloud Kingdom" and the 2013 album "The Room of My Life" on side A and all new "Rain on the Other Side" on side B. Spraypainted tapes, full page insert, sixty (!) minutes of music. /50

Delay "Circle Change"  Columbus, Ohio's DIY mainstays have recorded their sixth full length. "Circle Change" finds them adding some 90's indie and some big brooding rock songs to their repertoire of melodic pop-punk songs. Salinas Records.

Delay "Plain Language"

Delay "Rushing Ceremony" Scoop 'em up here. 

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"JULY CALENDAR…. AS GOOD AS IT GETS.JPG"

after a few weeks of working a lot/doing shows a lot/losing my first two drafts of the calendar with all of my handwritten words/lil drawings - i finished this guy. i’ll print them out tomorrow when i can (jesse…) and bring em to tata’s, hidden grounds, and spina records. if you’d like one let me know, i’m gonna print out a few to give out to the houses and to leave at places. mary kate - it’s your turn ;)

(it’s formatted to be way small on here but i promise u u can read the text otherwise) 

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Spazzy, noisey, poppy punks from NJ, PA, and DE. NOW ON VINYL! Casual 1. Sour Blanket 2. Leave Me a Loan 3. On a Mission Martin 1. Treehouse of Horror 2. Treehouse of Horror II 3. Treehouse of Horror III By the Hammer of Thor Records Start Something NJ

NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!

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suburbia 4/12/14

photos from suburbia by emmanuel v. cruz ii

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We are so pleased to announce our grand opening in coordination with Flemington’s car show! We will be opening our doors and will be featuring lots of local artists and vendors! Come grab some refreshments, buy some art, and check out the new community art space Ninety Main!!  Artists/Vendors featured include: Mike Brown - https://www.facebook.com/therealcornelius Lauren Lamatina Todd Purse - http://toddstuffs.tumblr.com/ Marissa Paternoster Rachel Razza - http://rachelrazza.weebly.com/ Ann Colandro - http://anncalandro.webs.com/ Katie Barrett Start Something NJ - www.startsomethingnjnj.org and more!

Serenaded by Chris Sailer on his keyboards.  If you would like to set up a table or have a piece featured, email us at flemingtonDIY@gmail.com for details!!! All ages and all mediums! NINETY MAIN 90 Main St. Flemington, NJ

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NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ

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Come check out the new community art space & lend a hand!

WE DID IT! In anticipation of the May 31st grand opening of Flemington’s new community art space, we invite you to come participate in our first official clean-up day, this Sunday, May 25 starting at 11am! We encourage helpers to bring garbage bags, vacuums, paper towels and other cleaning...

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A Community Art Space Project

We have been working hard on this project for a while now and it's finally coming to light. So excited to announce NINETY MAIN as Flemington's new all-ages art space. Follow the site and keep your eyes open!!

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NEW BRUNSWICK PUNK ROCK

listen up pigs, it’s finally here. online, for you: BANANAZZZ.

this movie contains all sorts of LIES about me but if you look past them, you can learn shitloads about being a creative genius. directed by kate sweeney, some girl.

- craig

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Stranger Cells release "Cave"

<a href="http://strangercells.bandcamp.com/album/cave" data-mce-href="http://strangercells.bandcamp.com/album/cave">Cave by Stranger Cells</a>

Fuzzy rockers Stranger Cells have released their supersonic follow up to last year's Everything Is Static EP with Cave. Featuring 5 new songs, these tracks will pull you in a trance then quickly snap you back with aggressive dynamics and full-out walls of fuzz. Download this for free and look out for shows this summer!

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Casual  // "Doing Business" // Filmed by Joe Scala of Choke Artist Promotions

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This Sunday, 4/6, in New Brunswick! www.facebook.com/events/501135576665395/

LVL UP (NY) http://lvlup.bandcamp.com/

BIG UPS (NY) http://bigups.bandcamp.com/

EX WIFE http://exwife.bandcamp.com/

CASUAL http://casualnj.bandcamp.com/

COOLER RANCH 7PM $5 FOR TOURING BUBS

And check out www.nbshows.org for all your New Brunswick show listings!

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Sunday Funday

Yesterday, I went to a Sunday matinee show in New Brunswick, NJ.  It was strange stepping out of the basement and into the daylight between bands.   Circuit City - 3.24.14

SCREAMING FEMALES//THOU//3JANE//RAZORHEADS

SCREAMING FEMALES (NJ)

THOU (BATON ROUGE, LA)

3JANE (NJ)

RAZORHEADS (NJ)