Scat Records is an independent label that was spawned in Cleveland in 1989 and is presently located in St. Louis, Missouri. Scat does not specialize in any particular kind of music, beyond the good kind. I like artists with vision, natural talent and expressive ability playing in a basically rock context. Timeless rock albums are the goal. Wholesale inquiries should be directed to my distributor, Revolver USA. Other matters can be addressed to scatrecords (at) gmail (dot) com.

This site is a good place to buy, hear or read about Finn's Motel, Yellow #5, Electric Eels, Mirrors, Styrenes, the Mice, Prisonshake, Guided By Voices, Cobra Verde, Speaking Canaries, Nothing Painted Blue, My Dad Is Dead, Pufftube and many others. Single LPs and CDs are generally $10 or $12 and shipping starts at $2.75. Click the store link at left to enter the secure online shop. Mastercard/Visa, paypal, and payments by mail are all welcome. All the non-analog parts of the Scat catalog are also available at iTunes, Amazon, eMusic and others if you rock that way.

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May 28, 2009

The shopping cart is once again working correctly. If you've been trying to make a purchase unsuccessfully, please try again. If you notice something not working, please email scatrecords at gmail.

March 3, 2009

Low stock:
* NOTHING PAINTED BLUE Emotional Discipline CD link
* THE MICE For Almost Ever Scooter CD link
* SPIKE IN VAIN Disease Is Relative LP link

I'll print more Mice CDs in a few months, but this will likely be it for Emotional Discipline. I should have a pretty good idea of the release date for Bill Fox's Shelter from the Smoke 2LP/CD in a few weeks.

November 6, 2008

The new Cobra Verde disc is out now!

Next release will be the first Bill Fox reissue, but I don't know when - money is tight.

October 1, 2008

Cobra Verde's Haven't Slept All Year is now available for preorder. See link at right, and note the free mp3.

September 24, 2008

Prisonshake stuff online:

• Interview with Annie Zaleski at The Riverfront Times
• Interview with Michael Galluci at Cleveland Scene
• Interview with John Soeder at The Plain Dealer
• Q&A at Mike Gasper's We Have the Technology (scroll down to 8/26)
• Q&A at John Kenyon's Things I'd Rather Be Doing
• Album reviews at Dusted, I Rock Cleveland, Next Best Records, The Agit Reader, Organizing Grievances, StL Mag Blog
• Show review at I Rock Cleveland
• Several posts, including some mp3s and scans of old 45s at the very excellent blog, One Base on an Overthrow, done by the guy who used to publish Brushback.
• If you read Japanese, a review at Kyuta's blog

Some other things in the works, too - more to come. If I missed something, let me know.

If traveling to St. Louis this weekend, take a look at the blog for directions - there's a big construction project you'll want to avoid.

August 26, 2008

The new album by Prisonshake is out today.

I really like that sentence.

August 6, 2008

I've been so preoccupied with various streaming players that I forgot to put up a free mp3, so at right you'll find a link to Crush Me, a roughmix of which I posted years ago, perhaps under a different title, as this one's had a few. A few recent pics have also been added to the band page. Scroll down to the bottom for those.

Cobra Verde's new album Haven't Slept All Year will be out Oct 28.

July 24, 2008

Pre-order for the new Prisonshake is now up. Price is $12 for 2CD or $17 for 2LP. Vinyl buyers will also be able to buy CDs in generic sleeves for mobile listening. Each format has the same tip-on gatefold jacket, the CD one is just small, but definitely nicer than a standard jewel box package. The vinyl does have a more extensive and larger format booklet. I will also have gigs to announce in Cleveland, Chicago and St. Louis. There is likely to be a trip further east next spring, but this will be it for shows this year

Bill Fox's Shelter from the Smoke is going to be an early '09 release. I couldn't get the art together in time for the deadline, and I can devote more time to the release if we hold off just a little while. I do have a master in hand and it is as I previously described.

Cobra Verde's new album, Haven't Slept All Year, which requires very little time from me because it is a co-release with Scamcity, is likely to come out in November.

May 7, 2008

The Spike in Vain LPs are back in stock finally, I just got the last couple boxes so these are the very last of them. Also, if you were ever thinking of buying My Dad Is Dead's "Out of Sight..." LP or the Hotel Cleveland III 2x10" - do so now, there is but one copy left of each.

May 2, 2008

There's now a Prisonshake myspace & blog about the new album, links at right.That little preview flash player is gone; when traffic was heavy on it the player either wouldn't work or the server would crash, so enough of that. I've had to push the release date back a month because the pressing plant is so backed up.

Bill Fox's Shelter from the Smoke will hopefully see a September release, and Bill has initially agreed to include all the songs from both versions of the album as well as the Bird of the World 45.

There may be a new Cobra Verde album before the year is out as well.

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last updated May 28, 2009.